Alumni Ben Tallen
and Justin Alexander
appear in Starting Gate Production's Light Up the Sky!,
a classic Moss Hart comedy unveiling the crazy realities backstage of
1940's Broadway.
Mounds Theater
January 8th - February 7th, 2010
CLICK,
CLACK, MOO
It's udderly fabulous! Alumni Ethan Angelica is appearing in
TheatreWork's touring production of Click, Clack, Moo,
based on the Caldecott Award-winning book by Doreen Cronin with
illustrations by Betsy Lewin.
January 18th
- June 23rd, 2010
A CANDID WORLD
Alumni Ellen Fenster directs a new play by Dawn Brodey as part of the Lights Up series
at the Illusion Theater. John Adams said, "Let me search for the clue
which led great Shakespeare into the labyrinth of human nature. Let me
examine how men think." Set in a restricted theater in New York, 1776,
A Candid World tells the story of a family, a slave, and a country who
are all trying to navigate the struggles which accompany independence.
Illusion Theater January 19th - January 24th, 2010
TEN REASONS WHY I'D BE A BAD PORN STAR
Alumni Molly Avery directs a new one-woman show by May Lee-Yang as part of the Lights Up series
at the Illusion Theater. May Lee-Yang employs comedic storytelling,
on-site sex toy demonstrations, and some cultural competency training
as she explores marriage, porn, romance novel fantasies, and how to
talk about sex in the Hmong culture (a definite no-no). All
performances will include giveaways and prizes.
Illusion Theater
January 20th - January 23rd, 2010
COMPLETE
READINGS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The American
Shakespeare Repertory, founded by South High alumni Justin Alexander and
Sarah Holmberg,
is proud to present the Complete
Readings of William Shakespeare
- every play, poem, and sonnet (including a selection of the
apocrypha!) in a series of staged readings spread over the next 18-24
months. Alumni Martha
Heyl, Jordon
Johnson, and Hannah
Steblay also star, along with current South High students Emma Mayer, Kelsey McMahon, Helena Mestenhauser,
and Lucy Pipkin.
Richard III -
Theatre in the Round
January 20th, 2010
Edward III
- Theatre in the Round
January 27th, 2010
Rape of
Lucrece - Lowry Lab Theater
February 17th, 2010
Romeo
& Juliet
February 24th, 2010
MOJO
Alumna Sarah Holmberg
serves as the stage manager for Walking Shadow Theater's regional
premiere of Mojo:
Rock 'n roll meets the Reservoir
Dogs in Soho 1958.
Red Eye
Theater
February 12th - February 27th, 2010
MINNEAPOLIS NEW BREED
SuperGroup -- a local theater group made up for alumni Sam Johnson, Erin Search-Wells, Byrd Shuler, and Jeff Wells -- is performing as part of Jon Ferguson's Minneapolis New Breed
at the Southern Theater. Three new works, presented by three innovative
local performance groups that blur the lines between dance, performance
art and theater. Not easily defined, Lamb Lays with Lion, Mad King
Thomas and SuperGroup challenge the norm and stand testament to the
vibrancy of Minneapolis’ next wave of experimental performance,
revealing a new breed on the local and national stage.
Why is it that each time you remember the past, you forget and invent a
little more of it? Alumna Emily
Gunyou Halaas stars in Fissures,
an original play written by Dominic Orlando and directed by Dominique
Serrand premiering at the 34th Humana Festival of New American Plays at
the Actors Theater of Louisville.
Bingham
Theater - Louisville, KY
February 26th - March 28th, 2010
HAMLET
Alumnus Justin Alexander
appears as Horatio in Cromulent Shakespeare's production of Hamlet.
Cedar
Riverside People's Center Theater
March 12th - March 28th, 2010
THE SPANISH TRAGEDY
Alumni Sarah Holmberg is designing props for Theatre Pro Rata's production of Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy. Penned a decade before Hamlet,
Kyd's sensational story is said to be its greatest influence. Noted as
the first true revenge tragedy, this gripping cat-and-mouse game is a
wronged father's quest for justice for his murdered son complete with
ghosts, vengeance, violence, an innocent woman driven to madness, and a
play-within-a-play used to trap a murderer.
Gremlin Theater March 13th - March 28th, 2010
DEAD MAN'S CELLPHONE
Alumna Sarah Holmberg designs props and alumna Montana Johnson designs the sound for Park Square's Dead Man's Cellphone.
All Jean wants to do is stop the ringing cell phone of the man sitting
(quietly) next to her. Boldly choosing to answer it may end up being
the best thing that happens to her. In this quirky modern adventure,
Jean re-connects to her own spirit and learns - from a dead man - that
life is for the living.
Park Square Theatre April 9th - May 2nd, 2010
OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD
Alumni Ben Tallen appears in the last production from Starting Gate Productions.
In June 1789 in the penal colony that was later to become the city of
Sydney, a marine lieutenant decides to put on a play to celebrate the
king's birthday. He casts the play with the English convicts who
populate this distant Australian prison camp. A touching story about
justice and the redeeming power of theater.
Park Square Theatre April 9th - May 2nd, 2010
TRANSDIMENSIONAL
COURIERS UNION
Alumnus Justin Alexander
serves as the assistant director and alumna Sarah Holmberg as
stage manager for Walking Shadow Theatre's Transdimensional Couriers Union:
The Impulse Device is a miracle of technology; a touch can bring you
anywhere or anywhen. But in a world where reality can be made or unmade
in an instant, how do you create a cohesive life?
People's
Center Theatre
May 7th - May 22nd, 2010
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CASE OF THE JERSEY LILY
Alumna Sarah Holmberg will be designing the props for Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily
at Park Square Theatre. During a small matter of blackmail and missing
jewels, Watson pines for Lily Langtry, Holmes chases the infernal
Moriarty, and Oscar Wilde gets some of his best lines. The wit and
wisdom of Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle and even William Shakespeare
combine to offer up a delightful escapade that includes seduction and
secrets, lies and lilies, mistresses and mayhem.
Park Square Theatre June 4th - July 3rd, 2010
FULLY COMMITTED
Starring alumni Nathan Keepers. Fully Committed
is a devastatingly funny play about a day in the life of Sam
Peliczowski, an out-of-work actor who mans the red-hot reservation line
at Manhattan’s number-one restaurant. While juggling scheming
socialites, name-dropping wannabes, fickle celebrities and egomaniacal
bosses, can Sam manage to make it home for the holidays?
Jungle Theater November 5th - December 19th, 2010
INSTITUTIONS
This section is dedicated to
the South High Theater alumni who have become part of institutions for
theater, film, or the arts. As we all know, there's more to theater
than just the performers up on stage. This is our way of acknowledging
more than just the tip of the iceberg and recognizing the many
accomplishments and achievements of our South High Theater alumni. (In
general, the idea is that if you're contributing creatively to a
specific show -- acting, directing, editing, designing, stage managing,
writing, or the like -- the show will be spotlighted up above. But if
you're on the board or own the company or running the theater's box
office, this is the place for it.)
DAVENPORT THEATRICAL ENTERPRISES
Alumna Jane Caplow
is a Creative Development Associate at Davenport
Theatrical Enterprises, currently producing multiple Broadway
and Off-Broadway productions in New York.
TEATRO
DEL PUEBLO
Alumna Sheila Regan is the
Educational Coordinator for Teatro del Pueblo.
Based out of the West Side's Latino community, Teatro del Pueblo has a
mission to promote cultural pride in the Latino community, to develop
and support Latino talent, to educate the community at large about
Latino culture and to promote cultural diversity in the arts. Teatro
del Pueblo maintains several educational tours, including Echoes
from the New World, Manzi: The Adventures of Young
Cesar Chavez, Help Wanted, The Great Cheese Adventures in Mexico,
and Political Theater Matinees.
2009-2010 SOUTH HIGH THEATER
Rabbit Hole, directed by Justin Alexander (November 2009) Urinetown, directed by Ellen Fenster (December 2009) Our Town, directed by Ellen Fenster (Spring 2010) Private Lives, directed by senior Nick Day (Spring 2010) Of Mice and Men, directed by senior Sam Humeleker (Spring 2010) Student Written and Directed One Acts (Spring 2010)
All performances begin at 7:00 pm.
* Preview begins at 6:30 pm.
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