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DORSET â Dorset Theatre Festivalâs 44th season opens July 9 with a revival of Christopher Durangâs comedy âLaughing Wildâ outdoors at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester. Directed by the Festivalâs resident artist, Jade King Carroll, the play will star Dan Butler (âFrasierâ), who starred in the Festivalâs 2019 hit âSlow Food,â and five-time Festival performer and 2020 Drama Desk Award-winner Mary Bacon (âCoal Country,â Dorsetâs âMrs. Christieâ).
âLaughing Wildâ is a hilarious blast-from-the-1980s comedy by Christopher Durang, whom the New Yorker called âone of the funniest men in the world.â The play, in three parts, stars a man and a woman struggling to cope with life in modern America. Over the course of two monologues and a chance meeting inside of a dream, the characters take on everything from the supermarket to nu
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Shop Talk: Beyond the Scenes with Prop Artisans - The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts-An exploration of the eclectic world of theatre props with three veteran prop designers. click here
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GUN HILL - A sleepy little town in the US - Zoe, a black English teacher, riskily attempts to convince her troubled white student Joey to abandon his disturbing plans of going on a shooting spree at their high school. Will she succeed? GUN HILL by award-winning Romanian-American playwright Saviana Stanescu, a timely play about gun violence in the US, has a (free) virtual reading on Monday, May 17, 6 pm EDT, opening Origin Theatre s 2021 European Month of Culture NYC, produced in partnership with the Delegation of the European Union to the United States. click here