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So, The Lily's Revenge is quite the eye popping, fun spectacle, I think.  I really have never been in or seen anything quite like it.  So I suggest you see it if you can, since it's only blooming for another week!

www.amrep.org

But there's all these other things going on you should see too:

The Company We Keep, at BPT: an edgy new play by a strong new playwright, Jaclyn Villano.  With Marianna Bassham, John Kooi, Jessica Webb...

...it also has Bill Mootos in it.  But you should STILL GO! 

http://www.bostonplaywrights.org/

Also, ASP is doing the Scottish Play in Medford, directed by the fabulous Paula Plum.  So you can get your spook on for Halloween.

www.actorsshakespeareproject.org

Apollinaire Theatre Company has extended Uncle Vanya thru Nov 11th, and it's a wonderful production with limited seats, so get them now if you missed it the first time!

http://www.apollinairetheatre.com/productions/productions.html

And my good friend Doug Lockwood has directed Escape From Happiness at Brandeis (this weekend only, so go TOMORROW!)

http://www.brandeis.edu/arts/btc/1213season/escapefromhappiness.html

So there's some fun things to do!  Enjoy!

Uncle Vanya Opens Tonight!

Erin Eva Butcher as Sonya

Uncle Vanya opens tonight at the Apollinaire Theatre in Chelsea!

It's been a very amazing process with a really great group of people!  One of my favorite plays, and my first time performing Chekhov.  I hope you can make it! The entire beautiful Odd Fellows Building is being used as the setting, with the audience following us from room to room.

Good news: they have extended the show already!  We now run until the 22nd of January.

FYI: due to the particular staging, the audience can't go over 30 people (which is one of the reasons the tickets are selling so fast!). 

So if you really want to go, please try to get tickets soon!

Follow the above link for all the info and tickets!

Uncle Vanya

Take that, Professor!

I'm assuming that if you are reading this blog, you might have some sort of interest in what I might be up to, so here is my next thing: my first time performing Chekhov, one of my favorite plays, one of my favorite characters, I'm very excited.
The Apollinaire is a theatre company in Chelsea, which I'm finding isn't that hard to get to, really: you just take the 111 Bus at Haymarket, and there you are! (I wish I could ride my bike there, but it's pretty impossible, what with the Tobin Bridge and all).

Apollinaire does really adventurous theatre: they staged "Wedding on the Eiffel Tower" by Jean Cocteau (outdoors yet!), which was my introduction to what they do and exciting to see (that play is never done, for many reasons - two being it's huge and completely nuts and requires an ostrich).

It's my first time working with them, and I'm their first Equity contract (so I'm a bit of a guinea pig).  Very honored that they thought of me for this beautiful role.

The staging should be interesting as well: The Apollinaire owns the four story building that houses their stage (on the second floor).  For Uncle Vanya, they are staging each Act in a different room in the building, and the audience follows the action around. 

To make this all work, the audience size is limited to 30, so please, if you want to see the show:  Get Tickets NOW! 

Here's the info: hope you can make it!