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Call For Submissions - Women's Work 2012
In May, 2012, for the sixth year in a row, Tennessee Women’s Theater Project will present Women’s Work, our annual festival and celebration of works created by women. Each year we present the work of women playwrights, poets, musicians, essayists, painters, filmmakers, dancers and photographers from across Tennessee and across the country. This is our call for submissions for Women’s Work 2012.
Trying - Regional Premiere
Thanks to cast, crew and everyone who attended "Trying"
We're proud to present the regional premiere of Trying, by Joanna McClelland Glass. This autobiographical play tells the charming, bittersweet story of an unlikely pair “trying” to bridge enormous differences of youth and age, culture and class.
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". . . entertaining and thoughtful" – Martin Brady, Nashville Scene (scroll down to the second section)
"Full of surprising moments . . . a genuinely moving story." – Jef Ellis, BroadwayWorld.com
"Local theatre has been, is and will be richer for TWTP's singular contributions." – Evans Donnell, ArtNowNashville.com
"TWTP once again makes good on its promise to 'give voice to women through theater arts.'” – Amy Stumpfl, The Tennessean
Announcing our 2011-2012 Season!
Mark your calendar now - Tennessee Women's Theater Project presents another season of firsts: two regional premiere, the world premiere reading and tour of our first commissioned play, and the return of our groundbreaking Women's Work festival, bigger and better than ever. Here's the rundown:
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Trying, by Joanna McClelland Glass |
Opens Sept. 30, 2011 |
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The Disappearance of Janey Jones, |
Opens March 2, 2012 |
| Women's Work 2012 | Opens May 4, 2012 |
| Our First Commissioned Play | Details coming soon |
Women's Work 2011
Thanks to all the wonderful presenters and performers, and to our record-setting audiences for this year's Fifth Annual Women's Work festival. Here's a Facebook photo album of moments from the festival.
What's coming up in our 2011-12 season? Stay tuned . . .
Read Jeffrey Ellis's preview at BroadwayWorld.com
Warriors Don't Cry on tour
August 30 - In what may turn out to be the final performance of our tour, we entertained, enlightened and inspired around 300 students at Hillsboro High School. We thank Gina Kelley and Brad Brown of the Drama Department, a stellar student helper named Baylor (sorry, we never caught your last name!), and the two amazing sign-language interpreters who translated the show for their students down in front.
August 19 - Snow days and exams have pushed the last shows of our tour into the opening days of the 2011-12 school year. We're glad we got the chance to perform for some 200 students atNashville School of Arts this morning. Thanks to Drama teachers Kara Kindall and John Newsom, student assistant Cody Woodside and Principal boB Wilson of "The Greatest School on the Planet!"
March 25 - We had a memorable time last evening at Thurgood Marshall Middle School, including musical selections by the Marshall Mariners band and the school chorus before and after "Warriors Don't Cry." Thanks to Kevin Dye and Steven Ricker and their students for the music, and especially to Angela Gilmore, Teacher/ESEA Family Engagement Specialist, for putting together a great program!
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Impressionism
Tennessee Women’s Theater Project presents the regional premiere of Impressionism, a romantic comedy by Michael Jacobs.
Impressionism is set in a small art gallery where the owner, Katharine, and her assistant Thomas, hide out from a world that has shattered them both. The play depicts their halting steps toward trust with wit, empathy and laughter. The New Yorker magazine’s review of the Broadway production praised the play’s “brazen sweetness and openhearted humor.”
Right-click to download a printable pdf flier
Read Jeffrey Ellis's preview at BroadwayWorld.com
Read Fiona Soltes's preview in The Tennessean
Read Jim Reyland's preview in Nashville Arts Magazine
Performances:
7:30 pm – February 25, 26, March 3, 4, 5, 10, 11 & 12
2:30 pm – February 27, March 6 & 13
Tuesday matinees 10:30 am – March 1 & 8
Women's Work 2011
Since 2007, Tennessee Women’s Theater Project has presented Women’s Work, our annual festival and celebration of works created by women. Each year we present the work of women playwrights, poets, musicians, essayists, painters, filmmakers, dancers and photographers from across Tennessee and across the country. This is our call for submissions for Women’s Work 2011.
We urge you to share this page with any women artists you think might be interested. E-mail Maryanna Clarke or call 615-681-7220, for more information, or if you have any questions.
Auditions announced for Impressionism
Thursday, January 20: Thank you to the nearly 80 talented people who read with us Tuesday and Wednesday! We have postponed callbacks because of the impending bad weather, but we'll be back in touch shortly.
Tennessee Women's Theater Project announces auditions for our February-March production, the regional premiere of Michael Jacobs's Impressionism.
Roles available:
1 girl – to play a 6 year-old
1 woman – 20s-30s
2 women – 40s-50s
1 man – 20s-30s
2 men – 40s-50s
Read all the details, and contact us to reserve a reading time, at our audition page.
UTR closes - onward to Impressionism!
We have closed the final curtain on our U.S. premiere production of Unravelling the Ribbon. Here's a word of thanks to all -- on stage, backstage, in the audience and in the online world -- who helped make the show a pleasure to present!
Join us again at the Looby Theater when we present our next show, the regional premiere of Impressionism, by Michael Jacobs. This romantic comedy, set in an urban art gallery, earned approving reviews in its New York debut, and we're sure you'll love it too. Impressionism opens February 25. Stop back soon for more details!
