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The starting line
Gearing up for the Boston Theater Marathon

The Boston Theater Marathon

Here’s the line-up for this year’s Boston Theater Marathon, which will take place this Sunday, April 13, at the Boston Playwrights Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Avenue. Each group of 10-minute plays will run in a one-hour block and then be repeated in the other studio. For ticket information, see " Play by Play. "

Noon to 2 p.m. in Studio A: Jake Strautmann’s The Ornithologist’s Mother (Bridge Theatre Company); Alan Brody’s Eckstein & Sons (Underground Railway Theatre); Dana Yeaton’s The Ten Minute Dad (Pilgrim Theatre and Performance Collaborative); Robert Brustein’s Noise (American Repertory Theatre); Michael Hammond’s The Great Audience Rebellion (Shakespeare & Company). Studio B: Sarah Moon’s Animal Parade (industrial theatre); Shawn Sturnick’s A Closet Flung Wide Ope’ (Foothills Theatre); Kathleen Rogers’s Ballast (Wellesley Summer Theatre); Steven Maistros’s Man’s Best Friend (Provincetown Theatre Company); Israel Horovitz’s A Mother’s Love (Gloucester Stage/Barefoot Theatre Troupe).

2 to 4 p.m. in Studio A: Dean O’Donnell’s For the Team (Centastage Performance Group); Carl A. Rossi’s P-Town X-Mas ’99 (Boston Playwrights Theatre); Zachary L. Shrier’s So Fine Dining (Portland Stage Company); Lisa Seymour-Terry’s Heartbeat (New Repertory Theatre). Studio B: David Valdes Greenwood’s Dream of Jeannie By-the-Door (Out of the Blue Theater); Jesse Kellerman’s Smaller (Stoneham Theatre); Kirsten Greenidge’s Grip (Our Place Theatre Company); George Spelvin’s You Know Why You're Here (Rough & Tumble).

4 to 6 p.m. in Studio A: Jerry Bisantz’s Sex Education (Playwrights’ Platform); Tom Berry’s Claire Danes Poster (Boston Theatre Works); William Cunningham’s Intimate Apparel (Boston Conservatory); Ed Bullins’s The Doorway (Company One); Susanna Ralli’s Instant Karma (Perishable Theatre Company). Studio B: Bill Lattanzi’s A Raft Made of Grass (Brandeis Theatre); Paul Kahn’s Ethics of the Profession (Publick Theatre); Greg Lam’s Happy Daughter (Raven Theatrical); Patrick Cleary’s Hit Me (Speakeasy Stage); Norman Lasca’s Skateboards (Nora Theatre Company).

6 to 8 p.m. in Studio A: Sinan Ünel’s The Prophet’s Wife (Sandra Feinstein Gamm); Leslie Dillen’s Montana Shots (Theatre Cooperative); Paula J. Caplan’s The Test (New African Company); Margaret Broucek’s Your Better Butch Fashion (Lyric Stage). Studio B: Linda Button’s Holler Song (Emerson Stage); Glen Doyle’s Date Night (C. Walsh Theatre); Jon Lipsky’s Girl in the Basement (Vineyard Playhouse); Joshua Scher’s Flushed (Next Stages).

8 to 10 p.m. in Studio A: Richard Schotter’s The King of Rock ’N’ Roll (Jewish Theatre of New England); Theresa Rebeck’s The Actress (Huntington Theatre); Melanie Yergeau’s Samuel, How You’ve Changed (QE2 Players); Vladimir Zelevinsky’s And Then (MIT Theatre Arts). Studio B: Sara Adelman & Dan Ring’s Pop! The Musical (North Shore Music Theatre); Charles Evered’s Adopt a Sailor (Wheelock Family Theatre); John Kuntz’s Smurf (Coyote Theatre); John Edward O’Brien’s Ten-Minute Clinic (Zeitgeist Stage); Ronan Noone’s Amereka (Súgán Theatre).

The Boston Globe Jazz & Blues Fest

And here’s the line-up for the 2003 Boston Globe Jazz & Blues Festival:

June 15, noon to 6 p.m. Faneuil Hall Marketplace: Sweet Willy D & the Continental Walk, Phil Wilson’s Berklee Rainbow Band, Barrence Whitfield & the Savages, and Craig Ball’s White Heat Orchestra on Stage One, the Aardvark Orchestra, Cercie Miller & Friends, the James Montgomery Blues Band, and the Stan Strickland Experience on Stage Two.

June 16, 7:30 p.m., FleetBoston Pavilion: Buddy Guy and Los Lobos.

June 17, 4 p.m., Copley Square: the Steven Kirby Quintet and Joe Lovano and his Quartet; 8 p.m., FleetBoston Pavilion: Aretha Franklin.

June 18, 5:30 p.m., Copley Square: Robert Randolph and the Family Band.

June 19, 5:30 p.m., Copley Square: Roy Hargrove; 7:30 p.m., FleetBoston Pavilion: Medeski, Martin & Wood and the John Scofield Band.

June 20, 5:30 p.m., Copley Square: Jane Monheit.

June 22, Grand Finale at the MDC Hatch Memorial Shell: 2 p.m., opening act to be announced; 3:30 p.m., Arturo Sandoval; 5 p.m., Herbie Hancock with Terri Lynn Carrington, Scott Colley, and Gary Thomas.

The Faneuil Hall, Copley Square, and Hatch Shell shows are free. Tickets for Buddy Guy and Los Lobos are $30; tickets for Aretha Franklin are $40 to $50. Tickets for Medeski, Martin & Wood and the John Scofield Band are $30 and go on sale April 18 at 10 a.m. You can visit the FleetBoston Pavilion box office Monday through Friday from noon to 5 p.m. or the Orpheum Theatre box office Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Or call Ticketmaster at (617) 931-2000 or (508) 931-2000, or go on-line at www.ticketmaster.com.

The Boston Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

And here’s the line-up for the 19th annual Boston Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, at the Museum of Fine Arts:

May 1, 8 p.m. (Men’s Opening Night): Ky Mo Lab’s 9 Dead Gay Guys.

May 2, 8 p.m. (Women’s Opening Night): Dee Mosbacher’s Radical Harmonies.

May 3, 2 p.m.: Kathryn Xian & Brent Anbe’s Ke Kulana He Mahu: Remembering a Sense of Place (free screening); 3:45 p.m.: Karim Ainouz’s Madame Sata; 4 p.m.: Carole Bonstein’s Une Suisse rebelle/A Swiss Rebel: Annemarie Schwarzenbach 1908-1942 (free screening); 5:45 p.m.: Dalibor Matanic’s Fine Dead Girls; 7:30 p.m.: Duncan Roy’s AKA.

May 4, 5:30 p.m.: Jeff Erbach’s The Nature of Nicholas; 7:30 p.m.: Monica Stambrini’s Gasoline (repeats May 16, 6 p.m.);

May 7, 8 p.m.: Diego Lerman’s Tan de Repente/Suddenly.

May 8, 8 p.m.: Eloy de la Iglesia’s Bulgarian Lovers.

May 9, 8 p.m.: Laura Nix’s The Politics of Fur.

May 10, 12:30 p.m.: Joe Balass’s The Devil in the Holy Water (free screening); 1:45 p.m.: " Tranny Short Films " ; 3:40 p.m.: Ileana Pietrobruno’s Girl King.

May 11, 5:30 p.m.: Joseph Gai Ramaka’s Karmen Geï; 7:15 p.m.: Tony Ayres’s Walking on Water (repeats May 17, 4:15 p.m.).

May 14, 8 p.m.: " Women’s Short Films. "

May 15, 6 p.m.: Mahesh Dattani’s Mango. Souffle; 8 p.m.: " Men’s Short Films. "

May 16, 8 p.m.: Todd Stephens’s Gypsy 83 (repeats May 18, 12:30 p.m.).

May 17, 12:30 p.m.: Peter Barbosa & Garrett Lenoir’s I Exist: Voices from the Lesbian & Gay Middle Eastern Community; 2 p.m.: Nancy D. Kates & Bennett Singer’s Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin.

May 18, 2:30 p.m.: Eytan Fox’s Yossi & Jagger; 3:50 p.m.: Donatello Dubini’s Die Reise nach Kafiristan/The Journey to Kafiristan.

Tickets for Men’s and Women’s Opening Nights are $12 and $15; tickets for regular screenings are $9, $8 for MFA members, seniors, and students. For reservations, call the MFA box office at (617) 369-3306.

Ran Blake’s summer thing

The New England Conservatory has announced that MacArthur-winning pianist/composer and long-time NEC prof Ran Blake’s annual week-long summer-school survey course will this year focus on Ornette Coleman. Blake, a singular jazz improviser, has long worked with a method of teaching he calls " earobics " — focusing, as you might expect, on ear training rather than on conventional music theory. His summer courses have covered a broad range of topics that reflect his own pan-stylistic approach: jazz legends like Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Horace Silver, Miles Davis, and Charles Mingus, but also pop, blues, gospel, and R&B greats like Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Al Green, and Mahalia Jackson. Blake’s relationship with Coleman includes common background as students at the legendary School of Jazz at Music Inn in Lenox in the ’50s. According to the NEC’s course description, the Ornette sessions will focus on particular recordings as well as Blake’s own anecdotal reflections on Coleman’s life and music. Blake has been chairman of NEC’s Third Stream/Contemporary Improvisation Department since 1973 and, as many will attest, has a couple of the best ears in town. The class will meet from 5:30 to 8:30 August 13 through 19 and is open to anyone with a general musical background. For further information, call (617) 585-1126 or go to www/NewEnglandConservatory.edu/summer for the entire NEC summer program.

Boston Lyric’s mask thing

Johann Strauss’s comic opera Die Fledermaus ( " The Bat " ), which Boston Lyric Opera will be staging as its final production this season, has the kind of masquerade-ball scene where audiences wish they could be part of the action. The Shubert stage isn’t big enough to hold an additional 1600 performers, but BLO is doing the next best thing by handing out " elaborate feathered party masks " for the audience to wear during the scene. And if you’re not sure what outfit will go with your new mask, you can drop in to the main branch of the Boston Public Library on Tuesday April 22, where from 7 to 8 p.m. BLO costume manager Andrew Poleszak will be offering a free " behind-the-scenes " look at the Fledermaus costumes. The evening will also feature selections from the opera performed by a member of the cast with piano accompaniment. That cast will include Barbara Shirvis as Rosalinde, Sarah Tannehill as Adele, Gary Lehman as Gabriel von Eisenstein, Philip Torre as Dr. Falke, Dorothy Byrne as Prince Orlovsky, Jon Osborn as Alfred, Dan Sullivan as Frank, Frank Kelley as Dr. Blind, and Shakespeare & Company’s Jonathan Epstein as Frosch; Beatrice Jona Affron, who was in the pit for the BLO production of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten back in 2000, will conduct.

The opera will be sung in English with English-language surtitles so you don’t miss any of the jokes. Performances are April 30 and May 2 at 7:30 p.m., May 4 at 3 p.m., May 6 and 9 at 7:30 p.m., May 11 at 3 p.m., and May 13 at 7:30 p.m. The Shubert Theatre is at 265 Tremont Street in the Theater District, and tickets are $32 to $152. Drop in to the Shubert box office (open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.) or call Tele-charge at (800) 447-7400 or visit www.telecharge.com. Opera previews, which are open to all ticketholders, are given one hour before the show at the Tremont Hotel, next door to the Shubert. For more information about Boston Lyric Opera, visit www.blo.org.

That HMV thing

A former general manager for HMV has written to state that high rent was not the primary reason for the closing of HMV’s Harvard Square outlet (see " State of the Art " in the April 4 Phoenix). " I know for a fact that they had a 15-year lease when they opened in 1991, so they are at least three years away from feeling the impact of rent increases. The fact is, that store is losing a fortune, simple as that. In part this is due to a change in HMV’s corporate philosophy, which moved away from a ultra-deep catalogue in favor of more stock turns. That negated the need for 20,000 square feet of space. Unfortunately, the days of these dinosaur stores are over, and, yes, Amazon is largely responsible for this, but some of the blame must go to record stores’ lack of foresight and insistence on trying to tell people what they want, rather than giving them what they do want. "

 

Issue Date: April 10 -17, 2003

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