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Tag Archives: Weekend Theater
Being Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim turns 83 today. (Though somewhere in the world there is probably still an 80th birthday event.) An appropriate way to mark his birthday is to focus on a show he wrote about a man celebrating his 35th birthday. … Continue reading
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Tagged A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Craig Wilson, Duane Jackson, Erin Murphey Martinez, Gabriel Washam, George Furth, Hannah M. Sawyer, Harold Prince, Jay Clark, Jeremiah Herman, Jessica Lauren Hendricks, Julie Atkins, Kate East, Kathryn Pryor, Moriah Patterson, Patti Peglow-Airoldi, Ralph Hyman, Stephen Sondheim, Tony Awards, Weekend Theater
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A Degree of Success
The entry below was provided with the permission of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Office of Communications. Much appreciation to Joan Duffy for her assistance on this. While we often think abstractly about the transformative power of theatre, … Continue reading
Z…My Name Is Zelda
After all the New York awards hoopla of the past couple of weeks, it is nice to take time to relax and think about theatre as storytelling and not spectacle. In downtown Little Rock, the Weekend Theater opens the musical … Continue reading
Laramie in Little Rock
The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later. Hardly an exciting title. It sounds pedantic and pedestrian. In the hands of lesser writers, it could have been. But Moises Kaufman working with Andy Paris, Leigh Fondakowski, Greg Pierotti and Stephen Belber craft an … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Douglas, Andy Paris, David Anderson, Duane Jackson, Greg Pierotti, Jeremy Estill, Johnnie Brannon, Julie Atkins, Laramie WY, Leigh Fondakowski, Little Rock (city), Matthew Shepard, Moises Kaufman, Regi Ott, Roben Sullivant, Sally Graham, Stephen Belber, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, Weekend Theater
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Weekend in Wyoming: The Laramie Project-Ten Years Later
The Weekend Theatre strives to produce plays which have themes of social significance. Some of these make you laugh, others make you cry, others make you tap your toes. All make you think. In the wake of the 1998 murder … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Douglas, Canvas Community Church, David Anderson, Duane Jackson, Jeremy Estill, Johnnie Brannon, Julie Atkins, Laramie WY, Mathew Shepard, Moises Kaufman, New Beginnings Church of Central Arkansas, Open Door Community Church, Quapaw Quarter United Methodist Church, Regi Ott, Roben Sullivant, Sally Graham, The Laramie Project, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, Weekend Theater
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Bountiful Theatre
Though the main stage of the Arkansas Repertory Theatre has been dark in November, that doesn’t mean that there have not been plenty of theatrical offerings in the Rock. It has, in fact, been a veritable cornucopia (to use a … Continue reading
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Tagged Allison Pace, Arkansas Arts Center Children's Theatre, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Bradley Anderson, Community Theatre of Little Rock, Evan Tanner, Fool for Love, Heather D. Smith, It's a Wonderful Life, Jerry Rice, Josh Rice, Karen Q. Clark, Keith Smith, Much Ado About Nothing, Nicole Capri, Old State House, Precipice Theatre, Rachel Haislip, Ricco Ardemagni, Sam Shepard, Terry Harrison, THEA Foundation, Weekend Theater, Will Nicholson, William Shakespeare
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Corner of the Stage
Thirty-nine years ago today, the Stephen Schwartz-Roger O. Hirson musical Pippin opened on Broadway at the Imperial Theatre. Though Schwartz had already scored Off Broadway’s Godspell and a song for Butterflies Are Free, this show marked his first complete Broadway … Continue reading
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Tagged A Little Night Music, Ann Reinking, Ben Harney, Ben Vereen, Betty Buckley, Bob Fosse, Butterflies Are Free, Byron Taylor, Charlie Askew, Craig Wilson, Dean Pitchford, Dorothy Stickney, Douglas Hammon, Eric Berry, Evan Tanner, Fay Sappington, Footloose, Godspell, Irene, Irene Ryan, Jeannie Cross, Jesus Christ Superstar, Jill Clayburgh, John C. Thompson, John Rubinstein, Joy Franz, Jules Fisher, Julie Atkins, Justin A. Pike, Leland Palmer, Malcolm Glover, Michael Rupert, Pamela Crane, Patricia Zipprodt, Patti German, Pippin, Priscilla Lopez, Roger O. Hirson, Samuel E. Wright, Sandahl Bergman, Stephen Schwartz, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Boy Friend, The Rothschilds, Theatre World Awards, Tony Awards, Tony Walton, Trevor Arnett, Walking Happy, Weekend Theater, Your Own Thing
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PIPPIN’s Magic Just for You
The musical fable Pippin is currently on stage at the Weekend Theatre. From the opening blacklit body parts to the “spectacular” finale, there is plenty of “magic to do” on stage. Presumably based on the life of Charlemagne and his … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Fosse, Byron Taylor, Charlie Askew, Craig Wilson, Debi Manire, Douglas Hammon, Evan Tanner, James Heppler, Jeannie Cross, John C. Thompson, Julie Atkins, Justin A. Pike, Leroy, Malcolm Glover, Pamela Crane, Patti German, Pippin, Roger O. Hirson, Sarah Scott Blakey, Stephen Schwartz, Trevor Arnett, Weekend Theater
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