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Starting Gate Productions presents... "Starting Gate Productions offers a crisp and lively staging that rewards theater insiders and tickles mainstream audiences, as well." Domonic Papatola, Pioneer Press "Starting Gate Productions delivers a strong reading - one that not only finds the laughs on the surface,but gets into the hearts of the characters and what the theater means, to the actors and the audience." Ed Huyck, Talkin' Broadway "There is still enough that is funny, incisive and outrageous in the play and especially in this strong production to consider the evening a success" William Randall Beard, Star Tribune
One of this century’s most successful and prolific “female” playwrights brings together three mismatched actresses for a Texas production of Chekhov’s “The Three Sisters,” where life reflects art in this award-winning, uproarious comedy.
November 9 - December 2, 2007Fridays - Saturdays at 7:30pmSunday Matinees at 2:00pm Pay What You Can Night - Monday, November 19, 2007 at 7:30pm Audio Described Performance - Sunday, November 25, 2007 All Performances are at the Mounds Theatre in the Dayton's Bluff neighborhood just east of downtown Saint Paul. Tickets are $18 general, $16 students and seniors. $10 for high school students. Call for tickets 651-645-3503 Directed by: Leah Cooper Stage Manager: Rose Johnson Featuring the Talents of: Zoe Benston, Muriel Bonertz, Bethany Ford, Emma Gochberg, Leigha Horton, Tamala Kendrick, and Mo Perry. Press SectionPromotional Photos Photo featuring Zoe Benston, Emma Gochberg, and Bethany Ford Download the photo in High Res JPEG format below or on the picture. Right Click and select Save As: Photo by John Autey About the PlayHumana Festival favorite, Anton in Show Business, opens November 9, 2007 Jane Martin's Anton in Show Business, a hit at the 24th Humana Festival of New American Plays and the winner of the 2000 American Theatre Critics/Steinberg New Play Award, takes the audience backstage in a fast-paced and remorseless look into the world of theatre. An all-female cast performs multiple roles (including men) in this meta-theatrical comedy about a self-centered television actress, a jaded New Yorker and an enthusiastic ingénue brought together for an illfated production of Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters in San Antonio, Texas. Anton skewers incompetent producers, idiot directors, surgically beautified actors, crass sponsors, self-important critics, and even such sacred topics as multiculturalism as it satirizes, celebrates, and challenges the importance of theatre as an art form today. Anton in Show Business receives its Twin Cities premiere at Mounds Theatre, produced by Starting Gate Productions, directed by Leah Cooper, and starring Zoe Benston, Bethany Ford, and Emma Gochberg as the “three sisters.” The production also features the comedic talents of Muriel Bonertz, Leigha Horton, Tamala Kendrick, and Mo Perry. This is Leah Cooper’s first directing project since leaving the Minnesota Fringe Festival. About the mysterious playwright, “Jane Martin” In the 25-year history of the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, playwright Jane Martin has secured an enviable position. More plays by Martin have been introduced at the prestigious festival than by any other playwright. But who is this person who has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize? Where does she live and work? And, most curious of all, is she really a woman? For more than 20 years, ATL has kept the playwright's identity secret. The elusive playwright is generally believed to be Jon Jory, the man who, after a long and successful reign, recently stepped down as producing director of the Actors Theater of Louisville . "Ms. Martin" first came to national attention for Talking With, a collection of monologues premiering in the 1982 Humana Festival. Ms. Martin's Keely and Du, which premiered in the 1993 Humana Festival, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in drama and won the American Theatre Critics Association Award for Best New Play in 1996. Ms. Martin's work has been translated into Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Russian and several other languages. National press quotes about the script "A smart, acerbic crowd pleaser.... Simultaneously a love letter and a poison pen letter to the American theatre." Variety. "Funny, smart, wry and poignant." Miami Herald. "Consciously an example of the problem it addresses, often with aching hilarity, that the world of theatre is growing ever more estranged from the straightforward business of telling stories." N.Y. Times. “Hilarious, smart and even a little warped.” Houston Press “Jane Martin’s very best play to date.” Chicago Sun Times |
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