Angels Rehearsal Photos

The rehearsals of Angels in America have been going on for three weeks already, but they've just moved into the theatre.  Cast member Rebecca Morris (Harper) took these photos, and Willie Repoley (Prior) edited them and shared them with us.  Enjoy the peek into Tony Kushner's masterpiece and our first play(s) of the Mainstage Season! 

Andrew Hampton Livingston as Joe Pitt, Michael MacCauley as Roy Cohn

Willie Repoley, Michael MacCauley, and Angie Flynn-McIver (Director)

Callan White as Ethel Rosenberg, Michael MacCauley as Roy

Callan White as Henry, Roy's doctor; Nathan Crocker as Belize

Dusty McKeelan as Louis, Andrew Hampton Livingston as Joe

Dusty McKeelan as Louis, Michael MacCauley as Roy, Andrew Hampton Livingston as Joe, Willie Reploey as Prior Walter

Dusty McKeelan as Louis, Nathan Crocker as Belize, and Willie Repoley as Prior

Michael MacCauley as Roy

Rebecca Morris as Harper Pitt, Callan White as Hannah Pitt

Vivian Smith as the Angel, Willie Repoley as Prior

Willie Repoley as Prior, Dusty McKeelan as Louis

Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches and Part Two: Perestroika run October 13 - November 13, in rotating repertory.  Tickets can be purchased online, in person, or over the phone (828.239.0263).  For more information on the play or the repertory schedule, check out our website: ncstage.org or call the box office (828.239.0263).

Tenth Anniversary Season Announcement!

We are excited to announce our 10th Anniversary Season to you, our audience.  We've got quite an excellent line up, if I do say so myself, so, without further ado, the NC Stage 2011-2012 Season!

Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches and Part Two: Perestroika -- in REP!

by Tony Kushner

Opening October 12, 2011 and running through November 13, 2011
"Kushner’s great work still has the power to shock, enlighten and delight." -- TimeOut NY

Love Child
by Daniel Jenkins and Robert Stanton

Opening February 15, 2012 and running through March 18, 2012
"BOTTOM LINE: It's like watching two guys with multiple personality disorder on uppers." -- Theatre is Easy

Circle Mirror Transformation

by Annie Baker

Opening March 28, 2012 and running through April 22, 2012

*a co-production with our Partner Company-in-Residence, Immediate Theatre Project!

"Everything is made clear: People know you better than you may think. Many truths are unspoken. Everything will be fine." -- NY Times

In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play

by Sarah Ruhl

Opening May 9, 2012 and running through June 10, 2012
"[A] spirited and stimulating (sorry) new comedy from one of the country’s brightest young playwrights." -- NY Times 

Special Events:

 - in August: Hedwig returns! Hedwig and the Angry Inch returns to NC Stage to kick off this celebratory season. Runs August 24 - September 25.

 - in November: Get in the holiday spirit with Live from WVL Radio Theatre: It's A Wonderful Life running November 16 - 27. 

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Are you excited yet? Itching to find your check book or credit card and give us a call or drop in to purchase your season subscription? Great! Here's the information you're looking for:

 - Just as in previous years, we have the FlexPass in two varieties: Prime Time ($98) and Thursday/Sunday ($75).   

The Flex Pass subscription model allows you to come to all Mainstage productions, but you're not "locked in" to a particular day of a run.  The Prime Time FlexPass allows you to come see a performance on whatever day of the run you so choose, while the Thursday/Sunday FlexPass now lets you choose from the Thursday evening performances or either Saturday or Sunday matinees.  Also, you get to reserve tickets anytime you like, so if you want to reserve your tickets now for a show in the Spring, feel free!  Plus, if you subscribe before September 1, you get Early Bird perks!

 - Also, new this year, our all access pass, the SUPER FlexPass! For $12 a month, you get to see anything you want, as many times as you like*.

The SUPER FlexPass is a monthly subscription (3-month minimum) to NC Stage that, while similar to the Prime Time FlexPass in that you get to choose whatever day you want to see a show, you get to see anything that goes on in the theatre*, not just our Mainstage productions.  Neat, right?  It's a pretty excellent deal. 

*You get to see each show with priority seating the first time, then each subsequent visit to the same production, rush seating (availability day-of) is enforced. This excludes fundraisers. 

 

  - For those students out there, you've got a great deal, too: the Student FlexPass for only $36! 

If you're a full-time student, you qualify to be a Student FlexPass Holder, which is most similar to our new SUPER FlexPass - you get into everything! Mainstage, Catalyst Series, Special Events... you're in.  A great thing to have on hand when money's tight during the school year.

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Fun for the kids, too!

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So what are your thoughts about the season? 

Let us know in the comments below. 

 

"We'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne."

And now for the reeeeeeally scary ghost! The ghost of Theatre Future!

Well, not really. The future looks good doesn’t it? At NC Stage we’re looking forward to beginning rehearsals for Boeing-Boeing in the immediate future. Scott Treadway and I have done three shows together over the past year and I directed him in one. But with all that time spent with Treadway over the last year, I’m still looking forward to spending even MORE time with him on Boeing-Boeing.

Later this spring, One Flea Spare will be directed by Angie and I know she’s been looking forward to that one for a while. What an amazing play! And then our Immediate Theatre Project friends, (the ITPeeps) will round out the year with what I’m sure will be an amazing production of the American classic, The Glass Menagerie.

As we wrap up this season, we’re also thinking ahead to future seasons. Next season will mark our 10th season of producing professional theatre in Asheville. It’s almost unbelievable to me that we’ve been doing this for 10 years.

So, what do we do to mark the occasion? Every one around the office is just itching to do part 2 of Angels In America, maybe along with part one performed in repertory… There are other plays on our short list for next season for next season that are pretty exciting to us, but we’re always interested to hear suggestions (feel free to post something in the comments if you have ideas).

As for the long-term future, there are a couple of big projects that Angie and I have been day-dreaming about, which we hope will turn into a reality, just as our daydream of a professional theatre in Asheville has become a reality. One of those daydreams involves another local arts organization, with whom we’ve recently worked, and a possible co-production of a profoundly amazing play. Another involves a collaboration with a funk band on a Shakespeare play. And yet another involves an adaptation of a novel that has a lot of meaning for Angie and me (we were both reading it when we started dating) and a lot of meaning for Western North Carolina. And it would involve music too. How can anything about Western North Carolina NOT involve music?

But of course, all these things are only possible with the support of our community. I hope you’ll take an opportunity before the tax year ends to support NC Stage’s work THIS year.

You can make an instand donation to NC Stage via the JustGive link, and help us make great theatre for Asheville and Western North Carolina for the next year and for years to come.

And don’t be a stranger. Share your hopes for the future on the blog. Visit the Facebook page and become a fan. Follow us on Twitter. But most of all, come see a play in 2011.

Happy New Year everyone! Be safe and keep telling your story!


Charlie