Circle Announces 2010 Audition Dates

Circle Theater has officially announced it’s audition dates for the Summer 2010 season. The dates and times follow. Stay tuned to Spotlight on the Grand for more information about this exciting season.

Saturday, March 6 and Sunday, March 7:
10:00am – 1:00pm
-Annie children’s auditions
2:00pm – 6:00pm
- Rent

Friday, March 12:
7:00pm – 9:00pm
- Steel Magnolias
- Alice in Wonderland: And Back Again Magic Circle auditions
- Annie adult auditions
- Funny Money
- Little Shop of Horrors

Saturday, March 13:
10:00am – 12:00pm
- Steel Magnolias
- Alice in Wonderland: And Back Again Magic Circle auditions
- Funny Money
10:00am – 2:00pm
- Annie adult auditions
- Little Shop of Horrors

All auditions take place at the Art and Music Center on the campus of Aquinas College at the listed time. If interested, call (616) 632-1984 for an appointment. For more information about when the shows perform, visit the Spotlight on the Grand Production Calendar. Callbacks for Annie and Little Shop of Horrors will be Sunday, March 14.

Spotlight News Round-Up: Happy After Holidays

Okay, so I took a bit of a unplanned blogging hiatus at the end of November and am trying to get back into the swing of things.

With doing Cinderella at Civic and the busy holiday taking up my time at work and elsewhere, I had little chance to focus my free time on this site (mostly because what free time I had was used up by sleeping, eating, and getting to destinations).

I hope this post makes up for some of that time off with a round-up of recent local theater developments.

• Master Arts Theater had to change its winter youth show and postponed the dates accordingly. They will now present Charlotte’s Web on March 18-27 with auditions being pushed back to January 9 and 11.
• In other Master Arts news, you can have your cake (or whatever they serve for dessert) and eat it too with a production of Sandra Fenichel Asher’s A Woman Called Truth on January 22 at 7 pm and January 23 at 2 pm. MAT is calling this “Dessert Theater” and it will take place in their annual dinner theater spot.  Tickets are $18.
• Aspiring playwrights can have their work critiqued by the Grand Rapids theater elite–and maybe even the chance to see it performed–with Actor’s Theater’s annual “Living on the Edge” 10-minute play series now accepting submissions (scroll down for more info). You have until February 8 to ruminate on this year’s theme: Making Art/Making Money. All submissions are to be emailed to Kyle Amanda Dutkiewicz at kdutkiew@grcc.edu.
• Circle Theater is accepting summer interns for 2010. It appears this is one of those rare opportunities where you don’t have to be a college student to apply. And they pay too!
• Pigeon Creek Shakespeare company has added audition dates for their spring and summer shows, Hamlet, The Tempest, and Henry V. Come out January 23 and 24 at 1:00 pm to Dog Story Theater.

Pigeon Creek Opens Pericles December 3

The Grand Haven based Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company, a professional touring theater company, will present Pericles, Prince of Tyre at Dog Story Theater, 1115 Taylor NW in Grand Rapids, December 3-13 at 8:00 pm (Sunday matinees at 3:00 pm only).