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Dinner before the show? We recommend The Café Cimino
August 22, 23,29, 30, Sept. 5, 6, 2008
ART
presented by the Landmark Players on the La Dolce Vita stage
Comedy by Yasmina Reza. How much would you pay for a white painting? Would it matter who the painter was? Would it be art? One of Marc's best friends, Serge, has just bought a very expensive painting. It's about five feet by four, all white with white diagonal lines. To Marc, the painting is a joke, but Serge insists Marc doesn't have the proper standard to judge the work. Another friend, Ivan, though burdened by his own problems, allows himself to be pulled into this disagreement. Eager to please, Ivan tells Serge he likes the painting. Lines are drawn and these old friends square off over the canvas, using it as an excuse to relentlessly batter one another over various failures. As their arguments become less theoretical and more personal, they border on destroying their friendships. At the breaking point, Serge hands Marc a felt tip pen and dares him: "Go on." This is where the friendship is finally tested, and the aftermath of action, and its reaction, affirms the power of those bonds.
By special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
October 23, 24, 25
AN EVENING OF ONE-ACTS
presented by the Landmark Players on the Landmark Studio stage.
Scheduled: ART by Yasmina Reza (festival cutting) and WHY THE LORD COME TO SAND MOUNTAIN by Romulus Linney.
November 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22
MASTER CLASS
presented by the Landmark Players on the La Dolce Vita stage.
Drama by Terrence McNally. Maria Callas is teaching a master class in front of an audience (us). She's glamorous, commanding, larger than life--and drop-dead funny. An accompanist sits at the piano. Callas' first "victim" is Sophie, a ridiculous, overly-perky soprano, dressed all in pink. Sophie chooses to sing one of the most difficult arias, the sleepwalking scene from La Sonnambula--an aria that Callas made famous. Before the girl sings a note, Callas stops her--she clearly can't stand hearing music massacred. And now what has started out as a class has become a platform for Callas. She glories in her own career, dabbles in opera dish and flat-out seduces the audience.The next two sessions repeat the same dynamic, and Callas enters her memories. In the end, Callas brings the class to a close with a beautiful speech about the sacrifices we must make in the name of art.
By special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
December 5, 6, 12, 13, 2008
GIFTS OF THE MAGI
presented by the Landmark Players
on the Landmark Studio stage.
Musical by Randy Counts. Lyrics by Mark St. Germain and Randy Counts.
It is Christmas in New York, but for two young lovers, Jim and Della, the prospects are bleak, as both are out of work and penniless. But as those familiar with the famous O. Henry story are aware, their dilemma is solved when both part with their most precious possessions, (she her beautiful long hair, he his heirloom pocket watch) in order to buy presents for each outer thereby creating, at least for a magical moment, an aura of warmth and giving in the cold, impersonal winter city.
February 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21
THIEF RIVER
presented by the Landmark Players on the La Dolce Vita stage.
Drama by Lee Blessing. The story of two men and their fifty-three-year relationship. Ray marries and remains closeted in the small town where they grew up. Gil moves to the city to seek his freedom. Throughout their lives they struggle with their feelings for each other in a society that doesn't know how to make room for them, while their bond--shaped by a dark and violent event in their youth--forever draws them together.
Presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
March 6, 7, 13, 14, 2009
RICHARD COREY
presented by the Braxton High School Theater Department on the Landmark Studio stage.
An adaptation of narrative poem written by Edwin Arlington Robinson, first published in 1897.
The poem describes a fictional character who is wealthy, well educated, mannerly, and admired by the people in his town. At the end of the poem, however, he commits suicide.
April 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 2009
THE FABRIC OF WOMEN'S LIVES
presented by the Landmark Players on the La Dolce Vita stage.
May 1, 2, 8, 9, 2009
OUR LADY OF THE TORTILLA
presented by the Landmark Players on the Landmark Studio stage.
By Luis Steiro. The Cruz family is volatile even in the best of times. On this particular day, Nelson, the youngest son, enters the house in a panic to hide the more obvious religious relics from the sight of his "gringo" girlfriend, who is visiting for the weekend. Nelson's mother, Dahlia, is obsessed with retrieving her husband from his new girlfriend; and Eddie, her elder son, shows up in a van with his failed life and pregnant girlfriend. But the "real" pandemonium is caused by sweet, long-suffering Dolores, Dahlia's old-maid sister, when she sees the face of the Holy Virgin in a tortilla. This miracle brings hordes of believers and reporters to camp out on the Cruz's lawn to await further miracles. As the family struggles with beliefs and conflicts, old and new, the endurance of family love is revealed to be the real miracle.
July 17, 18, 24, 25, 2009
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
presented by the Landmark Players on the Landmark Studio stage.
Pulitzer Prize-winning comedic play by Moss Hart and George Kaufman. A girl from a family of freethinkers falls for the son of a conservative banker.
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