Company News: December 2007
First and foremost, we are happy to announce the arrival of Isabella Breanna Moore, born November 21st –- four days after you saw her mama, Laura DeGiacomo, performing at the USO Show! Welcome Miss Isabella!
In the performing realm, we have lots of folks spreading holiday cheer on various Boston stages. Christine Hamel and Bill Gardiner are both featured in Miracle on 34th Street at Stoneham Theatre, running November 29- Dec. 23… Shelley Bolman and Bill Mootos are in A Christmas Story at Worcester Foothills Theatre Dec. 1 - Dec. 23. … Dale Place and Ellen Peterson are in The Mystery of Edwin Drood at SpeakEasy Stage Company, now thru December 15. Dale can also be seen at the end of the movie “Gone Baby Gone” as the TV newscaster. Just don't blink! Then he is off on vacation to Italy, so check back soon for travel photos!... And finally, coming up in January, you can see Kathy St. George in Adrfit in Macao at the Lyric Stage Jan. 4- Feb. 2.
Company News: September 2007
Christopher
Chew is starring as Don Quixote in Man
of La Mancha at Lyric Stage Company of Boston, which
also features Ellen Peterson as the Housekeeper..... Kortney
Adams can be seen, starting Oct 24th, in A
House With No Walls at New Repertory Theatre in
Watertown..... Cheryl McMahon has spent all summer in East
Haddam CT performing in the classic musical High
Button Shoes at Goodspeed Opera House,
where she will be til Sept. 16..... And Kathy St. George
returns to Menopause!
The Musical at Long Wharf
Theatre in New Haven for the final two weeks, starting September
11th.
Company
News: April 30, 2007
New
VTP Member Corey Jackson has directed the current rendition
of She Loves Me
for the Concord Players,
running now thru May 12th…. Shelley Bolman performs
in Agatha Christie’s And
Then There Were None at Stoneham
Theatre, May 10-27…… Bill Mootos is currently appearing
in Porcelain by Chay Yew at the Garage Theatre Group
in Teaneck,NJ, thru May 14th; followed by Jump/Rope by
John Kuntz, playing at Urban Stages in New York City, running
from June 8-24. And this summer he'll be revising his role as
Ross Collins in
Spinning Into Butter at New
Century Theatre in Northampton, MA from July 5-14….
Dale Place can be seen in the Nora
Theatre Company’s Buried
Child, by Sam Shepherd, running thru May 6th,
followed by King Lear in the role of Gloucester,
with North East Shakespeare
Ensemble in Lebanon NH…. And
finally Laura D. DeGiacomo’s choreography can be seen in
the youth summer programs of Wheelock Family Theatre and our
own Indian Hill/VTP collaboration for Fiddler on the Roof!
Village Theatre
Project has joined forces with Indian Hill Music School to
offer a summer 2007 musical theatre workshop and production
of the musical, Fiddler on the Roof that promises
to be the largest venture the theatre’s youth program
has taken to date, according to Village Theatre Project Artistic
Director Troy Siebels. “We’ve
had a lot of success in recent months particularly, with forty-six
kids in a great production of Children
of Eden in February;” recalled Siebels, “but
this summer we’re taking it to the next level.” Formed
in 2004 by Siebels and Co-Artistic Director Christopher
Chew, Village Theatre Project is the Nashoba Valley’s
only professional theatre company; an ensemble of twenty-three
actors, directors and designers performing in Groton and surrounding
towns. The theatre’s Young Company offers productions,
workshops and classes for ages 8-18; taught and directed by
members of the company’s professional ensemble.
Company
News: March 17, 2007
Shelley Bolman
performs in Agatha Christie’s And
Then There Were None at
Stoneham Theatre, May 10-27. Laura DeGiacomo’s
choreography will be seen in Littleton High School’s High
School Musical, March 30-April 1. Bill Mootos will
be appearing in Porcelain by Chay Yew at the Garage
Theatre Group in Teaneck,NJ in April and May, followed by the
play Jump Rope by John Kuntz at Urban Stages
in New York City. Gail Buckley designed costumes for
the SpeakEasy Stage production of Fat
Pig,
running now thru April 7. Kathy
St. George is appearing in the musical revue Celebration at
Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach, FL March 29 thru April 8.
Cheryl
McMahon, Julie Jirousek and Jane Siebels are in performance
now for Theresa
at Home at Boston
Playwrights’ Theatre, before bringing it to Groton
starting April 13!
Company News:
February 26, 2007
Christopher Chew as
Gaston in Beauty and the Beast at
Wheelock Family Theatre, thru March 4...Ellen Peterson in Grapes
of Wrath at Stoneham
Theatre March 1-18...Dale Place in Miss
Witherspoon at the Public
Theatre in Maine, March 16-25...Cheryl
McMahon, Julie Jirousek and Jane Siebels in rehearsal for Theresa
at Home at Boston Playwright’s
Theatre, before bringing it to Groton!
VTP’s
professional ensemble grows to 25 in 2007 with the addition
of three new members, Boston area performers Kortney Adams,
Bill Gardiner and Corey Jackson. Read More>
Village Theatre
Project, the Nashoba Valley ’s only professional theatre
company, proudly announces its upcoming Young Company production
of the popular musical comedy, “Children of Eden.”
From Stephen Schwartz (“Godspell” and “Pippin”)
and John Caird of “Les Misérables,” this joyous
and inspirational musical, freely based on the story of Genesis,
is a heartfelt and humorous examination of the age-old conflict
between parents and children... not to mention centuries of unresolved
family business! Performances will run February 21 through 25
at Groton-Dunstable Regional High School. Read More>
GROTON: Village
Theatre Project has announced auditions for its upcoming Young
Company production of the popular musical, “Children
of Eden.” Auditions will be held November 13 and
15, 6:00-9:00pm at Groton-Dunstable Regional High School. The
musical will begin rehearsal on December 4 and perform at the
High School’s black-box theatre February 22-25, 2007.
Read More>
Village Theatre announces "Beaux Arts Ball"
October 23, 2005
GROTON: Following a successful run of Rebecca Gilman’s prizewinning play at the Groton-Dunstable Performing Arts Center earlier this month; Village Theatre Project has announced its First Annual Beaux Arts Ball, to be held at the Groton Country Club on Saturday, November 18. The theatre ensemble is comprised of twenty-two professional actors, directors and others living and working in greater Boston and New York; eleven of whom will be featured at the upcoming gala. “We’ve got a great cast,” co-artistic director Troy Siebels remarks enthusiastically. “Five out of the six cast members from last spring’s farce ‘Better Off Dead’ will be included, and that was a huge hit with audiences.” Among those performing on November 18 will be “Boston’s musical leading man” Christopher Chew, comedienne Cheryl McMahon, Bill Mootos, Laura D. DeGiacomo and Shelley Bolman. Read More>
GROTON: Village Theatre Project’s upcoming production of Rebecca Gilman’s play, “Spinning Into Butter,” scheduled to open at the Groton-Dunstable Performing Arts Center on September 29, will feature Groton resident and Groton-Dunstable High School student Timothy Harrington along with the theatre’s professional cast. Troy Siebels, the company’s co-artistic director, was enthusiastic about Harrington appearing in the play, noting “he’s really stepped up to the plate. It’s a great role, and has a lot of humor in it – and Tim’s been great to work with in rehearsal." Read More>
Village
Theatre Project Completes Annual Retreat
Tuesday
July 18, 2006 ASHBY – Members of Village Theatre Project’s professional performing ensemble gathered in Ashby center this weekend for the new theatre company’s second annual Retreat. The yearly summer event is an intensive focused on the development of new plays, as well as on development of the Company members themselves through workshops and master class-like sessions.In July 2005, Village Theatre Project’s first Retreat brought together fifteen actors, directors and playwrights to work collaboratively through rehearsals on three promising new scripts. Read More>
New Theatre Celebrates Birthday
With Gala At Fruitlands
Tuesday May 30, 2006
HARVARD – Village Theatre Project will celebrate its first
birthday with a musical gala event at Fruitlands Museum in Harvard
on Thursday, June 8. The one-year-old theatre company is the Nashoba
Valley’s only professional theatre, and is based around an
ensemble of highly accomplished artists living mainly in Boston
and New York, and making a home for performances in Groton and Harvard.
The theatre group was launched with a Grand Opening cabaret-style
event last June at The Barn at Gibbet Hill in Groton, and has performed
“one-night-only” awareness building events over the
past year at Oak Hill Country Club in Fitchburg, at the Groton-Dunstable
Performing Arts Center, and at Lawrence Academy. The company’s
first fully staged production, the world premiere comic farce Better
Off Dead, played to standing ovations at the Groton-Dunstable
Performing Arts Center in April. Read More>
Theatre
Company’s Inaugural Production a Success
Monday,
April 24, 2006
GROTON – Saturday evening’s performance of the Village
Theatre Project’s inaugural play, the comic farce Better
Off Dead, played to a full house and a standing ovation at
the Groton-Dunstable Performing Arts Center. The new theatre company
is the Nashoba Valley’s only professional theatre, and is
based around an ensemble of highly accomplished artists living mainly
in Boston and New York, and making a home for performances in Groton
and Harvard. Read
More>
GROTON
– Village Theatre Project, a professional not-for-profit theatre
company based around an ensemble of highly accomplished artists,
is putting the finishing touches on it’s first full production,
the World Premiere comedy Better Off Dead, running from
April 20th to 30th at the Groton-Dunstable Performing Arts Center.
Read More>
GROTON: The Village
Theatre Project will welcome members and newcomers to its third
“on-tour” performance this year, to be held at the Williams
Arts Center at Lawrence Academy on Friday, March 17. “Only
one of us is Irish,” admits Artistic Director Christopher
Chew with a laugh, “but it’s really about celebrating
the start of spring with some great music and laughs.” The
professional theatre ensemble began performances in 2005 and has
used the “on-tour” series of one-night-only cabaret
style performances to introduce itself to new audiences throughout
the Nashoba Valley. Read More>
Village
Theatre Project to present World Premiere Comedy
February 22, 2006
The
Village Theatre Project will produce its first fully-staged professional
production at the Groton-Dunstable Performing Arts Center in April,
according to co-founder and co-Artistic Director Troy
Siebels. “Better Off Dead,” a contemporary
farce by Village Theatre Company member Shawn
Sturnick, was honed during the group’s summer 2005 Ashby
Retreat, a two-week intensive residency for the development of new
plays. Read More>
Village Theatre Project’s second “On-Tour”
event of its 2005-2006 season will be performed December 10, one
night only, at the Groton-Dunstable Performing Arts Center in
Groton. The performance, entitled “Home for the Holidays,”
will feature members of the new professional theatre’s Company
of Artists, a 20-member ensemble that includes many of Boston’s
most accomplished actors and singers, performing scenes and songs
in celebration of the holiday season. “Our first On-Tour
show, in Fitchburg in October, sold out completely,” said
Artistic Director Troy Siebels,
“and we expect the same this time around. Some of the material
will be familiar, and some will be a new and wild take on the
familiar. It will be a real crowd pleaser.” Performers will
include Boston favorites Christopher
Chew, who is currently performing in “Kiss of the
Spider Woman” at Speakeasy Stage Company and who, together
with Siebels, helms the
young theatre company; and Kathy
St. George, currently appearing in “Menopause…
the Musical” at the Stuart Street Playhouse. The performance
will begin at 7:30. Tickets are $40 per person, and may be obtained
by calling (978) 456-7898 or emailing info@villagetheatreproject.org.
Read More>
Village Theatre Project launched its series of
2005 - 2006 “On-Tour” performances on Saturday at
Oak Hill Country Club in Fitchburg, to a full house and an enthusiastic
audience. The one-night-only event, titled “The Harvest,”
featured members of the new professional theatre’s Company
of Artists, a 20-member ensemble that includes many of Boston’s
most accomplished actors and singers. Read
More>
Village Theatre
Project will launch its series of 2005 - 2006 “On-Tour”
performances on Saturday, October 29, at Oak Hill Country Club
in Fitchburg, according to Co-Artistic Director Troy
Siebels. The one-night-only performance, titled “The
Harvest,” will feature members of the new professional
theatre’s Company of Artists, a 20-member ensemble that
includes many of Boston’s most accomplished actors and singers.
Read More> |
