July/August Theater Events
13th Annual Hormel New Works Festival – Presented by Phoenix Theatre, 100 E. McDowell Road, Phoenix. The festival will run from July 9-August 1 and will feature staged readings of new plays. The Festival was founded to introduce Phoenix audiences to the new works of emerging and established playwrights. In this invitational festival, the audience, performers and writer all take part in the play development process. The writer creates the script, the actors translate the page to the stage, and audience members exchange immediate and uncensored reaction to the play, providing all with insight into further development of the product. Tickets: $10.00 per reading. Purchase your own ticket(s) by calling the Box Office, (602) 254-2151. Various SFA Theater Committee members will host a pre-show dinner for 7:30 PM shows on Saturday, 7/10 and 7/17, (dinner at about 5:00 p.m.) and a pre-show lunch on Sunday, 7/25 prior to a 3:00 p.m. matinee. See individual dates in this Newsletter. Call the host/ess listed below one (1) week in advance of each performance for dinner reservations. www.phoenixtheatre.com
Jul 25, Sun., 3 p.m. “Burning in the Night” by Dale Wasserman; directed by Daniel L. Schay - Burning in the Night is the last play by legendary playwright Dale Wasserman (Man of La Mancha, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest). Semi-autobiographical, it is the story of one man's journey from runaway-teen to rail-riding hobo to globe-trotting writer for television, stage and screen. Throughout his fascinating life, he pursued the impossible dream of absolute freedom; only to discover it’s a delusion, fraught with debilitating limitations. Adapted by Richard Warren, this engaging play is wrapped with period folk music performed by an itinerant country band à la Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? See information above under July/August Theater Events. Pre-show dining at 1:00 p.m., Arcadia Farms Café in the Phoenix Art Museum, 100 E. McDowell Rd. For lunch reservations, call Howard Shapiro, 480-962-9321, or email: howardmesa2@yahoo.com.
