Tickets: $15 Call 802-775-0903 (Paramount Box Office) Also sold at the door.
Featuring: Tim Rice, Robin Chesnut-Tangerman & Sean Burke
Directed by Peter Marsh
“A Taste of ART” - a dinner and theatre package. A fine 3 course meal at Roots (Wales Street, Rutland) (tax, tip and non-alcoholic beverage included), plus show tickets. $55 per person. Call 747-7414 for details. Reservations required.
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Coming Soon
Sixth Annual Nor’Eastern Play Writing Contest
This is the sixth year of premiered staged readings of three winning one-act plays in showcase at the Brick Box Theatre housed in the beautiful Paramount Theatre in downtown Rutland, Vermont. Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre is in its seventh season. The Nor’Eastern Showcase winners will receive an intense day and a half of work on each play and two nights lodging with our sponsor at the Holiday Inn: Rutland/Killington. The Nor’Eastern Showcase performance dates for this year are May 4 and 5, 2012. Each script goes through a rigorous screening process of three readers. The scripts with the highest scores are submitted to a second panel, and then the finalists are read by a single reader who selects the three scripts to be showcased.
This contest is open to playwrights of all ages and experience who are residents of Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
One-act plays must be able to be read in showcase in 30 to 45 minutes. Readers are instructed to disqualify plays that are, or appear to be, longer.
Submissions must be original, unpublished, one-act plays. Plays that have had staged readings may be submitted, however, plays that have received Vermont productions or readings may not.
Legal clearance of materials not in the public domain is the full responsibility of the playwright.
Individual playwrights may submit a maximum of two (2) entries per year.
The author will maintain all literary rights to his or her own material.
All submissions are judged blind. We require four (4) copies with four (4) cover pages: All four (4) with the title of the play, BUT ONLY ONE with the author’s name, address, e-mail & phone numbers.
If you would like your scripts returned, you MUST include as S.A.S. mailing envelope covering the FULL return mailing costs with your submission. If no S.A.S.E. is included, your scripts will be recycled.
Plays must be processed, page numbered, and securely bound in an ably bound soft cover, in standard professional play format. Write to Samuel French Inc., 45 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10010-2751 for their format guidelines, or copy them from www.vcu.edu/artweb/playwriting/format.html on line.
All submissions will be handled with care. However, Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre assumes no responsibility for lost or damaged scripts.
Submission fees: Following the guidelines of the Dramatists Guild of America there is no entry fee.
Scripts are not accepted on-line due to the costs of printing.
Mail four (4) copies of your script(s) to: Nor’Eastern Play Writing Contest, Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre, PO Box 580, Rutland, Vermont 05702-0580. Deadline for submissions is November 15, 2011, notification of winners will be March 5, 2012 and the staged readings in Showcase will be on May 4 & 5, 2012, with playwrights expected to be there also on May 3, 2012 for rehearsals.
Past Winners:
(2007) Ray Charles, Stamford, Connecticut, Wellington Café: Susan Shafer, New York, New York, Sadie and Ida: Nick Vigorito, Jr., Brooklyn, New York, The Window
(2008) Richard Goodman, Honolulu, Hawaii (by invitation), The Insanity Trial of Mary Todd Lincoln
(2009) Ben Aleshire, Wallingford, Vermont, Gauvain The Good Knight: Michael Nethercott, Guilford, Vermont, The Best Wine: Ron Radice, Andover, Massachusetts, Bricks
(2010) Constance Humphrey Egan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The Bad Habit: Jacqueline T. Lynch, Chicopee, Massachusetts, In Memory of Trixie Gazelle:
Alan L. Steinberg, Potsdam, New York, The Revision
(2011) Burnham Holmes, Poultney, Vermont, The Palm Leaf Dialogues: Lloyd Pace, Larchmont, New York, The Shuttle: Walt Vail, Pitman, New Jersey, Gerontia
Coming Plays
2011 - 2012 SEASON
Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre
OUR SEVENTH YEAR OF PRESENTING CONTEMPORARY PLAYWRIGHTS & NEW PLAYS TO SOUTHERN VERMONT REGIONAL AUDIENCES
Tickets may be purchased in advance at the Paramount Theatre Box Office, by calling 775-0903, or at the door. For more information please contact:
‘ART’by Yasmina Reza — November 10, 11 & 12 at 7:30 p.m. — Paramount Theatre’s Brick Box: Winner of the 1998 Tony Award for Best Play, the 1996 Olivier Award for Best Comedy. How much would you pay for a white painting? Would it matter who the painter was? Would it be art?Lines are drawn and three old friends square off over the canvas. Their arguments border on destroying their friendships. At the breaking point their friendship is finally tested.“…wildly funny, naughtily provocative…” —NY Post “…a nonstop cross-fire of crackling language, serious issues of life and art …” —Newsweek.
WOMEN IN THE ARTS – Feb. 25, 26 & 27 — Lemonade & Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn: —presented at the ChaffeeArtCenter
Lemonade by James Prideaux, was presented by New York’s famed Playwrights Unit. This perceptive and funny study of two frustrated and lonely middle-class matrons went on to Off-Broadway success, “The dialogue is bright, witty and to the point an evening of dark humor.” —WABC-TV.
Save Me a Place at Forest Lawn by Lorees Yerby, was produced Off-Broadway. It concerns two elderly female friends in a slice of life with resignation touched with wisdom and humor. They lunch at a cafeteria with little left except each other and the final repose of ForestLawnCemetery. “The dialogue is both true and good…the women blunder on, quite touchingly and humorously, with their somewhat simple ideas about life after death.” —NY Times.
VERMONT WRITERS … IN PLAY! – (A new play) adapted by Peter Marsh from the book, Vermont Writers: A State of Mind, by Yvonne Daley — April 13 — Paramount Theatre: Of the book it was said: “Consider this 21 books for the price of one.” (The Rutland Herald) Now the concept becomes a fully staged “love affair” with the words of Vermont’s writers from 1777 to the present. Six Actors and one musician make it clear why Vermont, though distant from the publishing centers, is home to some of America’s greatest writers.There is something special about this place that speaks to writers, and this production will make you listen, smile, cry, celebrate and understand just why we all should share in the joy of Vermont writers.
NOR’EASTERN SHOWCASE … This year’s three 2012 competition winners in readings and talk-backs – May 4 & 5 — Paramount Theatre Brick Box
SPECIAL DELIVERIES, a 30 CENTER SHOWCASE, Paramount Theater. A sing-through reading (Coming next Summer, 2012), An exciting new musical by Vermont author, Harrison Lebowitz. Reincarnation possibly explains how infants enter the world more knowledgeable than anyone would ever expect. In fact, infants may hit the ground running and in control of one particularly huge decision to make – “Do I want to stay with these strangers called parents?” They aren’t quite sure what they control or how to make a life-changing decision. Vermont Actors’ Repertory Theatre presents, with the Paramount Theatre’s, 30 Center Stage series, a showcased reading (and singing) of Special Deliveries, a ”mostly” new musical comedy by Vermont author, Harrison Lebowitz, with exiting new music by Kyle deTarnowsky, directed by Peter Marsh with Musical Direction by Mary Ellen Harlow.