This Sunday, January 17, 2010!!
EVENT: A staged reading of David Hare’s Berlin/Wall, produced by Upstream Theater and directed by Bonnie Taylor, Ph.D. and member AEA.
WHEN: will be performed on Sunday, January 17, 2:00 p.m. No admission fee.
WHERE: Rialto Ballroom in the Centene Center for Arts & Education, 3547 Olive (1/2 block east of Grand). Reception following. I am hoping you can include this event information in the online calendar of upcoming events as well as in Friday’s “Go!” and Saturday’s calendar—any help you can give at this late date would be very much appreciated.
WHO: Christopher Limber, member Actors’ Equity and Education Director for Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, will read “Berlin,” and Joan Lipkin, playwright and Artistic Director of That Uppity Theatre Company and the DisAbility Project, will read “Wall.” Composers and musicians Dan and Ted Rubright of the Wire Pilots will provide live music.
BERLIN/WALL: In two short monologues, David Hare shares his musings on famous modern walls: one missing in Berlin and another dividing Israel. Observing the mindsets, attitudes, and values of local residents, Hare reports, questions, and discovers the impact of walls—absent and present—and wonders about the future of freedom. (Berlin/Wall is a sequel to Hare’s 1999 play, Via Dolorosa that was staged by the New Jewish Theatre in 2007.)
DAVID HARE: Born in Sussex in 1947, Hare is one of Britain’s most internationally performed playwrights. He has written more than twenty stage plays, among them Plenty, The Secret Rapture, Racing Demon, The Absence of War, Skylight, The Permanent Way, and Stuff Happens. Hare also directs and writes screenplays. Screenplays include The Hours and The Reader.
WHY BERLIN/WALL NOW: Adhering to its mission of bringing international work to St. Louis theater and of “moving audiences to think,” Upstream Theater believes British playwright David Hare’s play is timely as the world commemorates the twenty-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, November 9, 2009, and anticipates the completion of the Israeli Security Fence in late 2010. By scheduling the reading on Martin Luther King weekend, the reading will provide food for thought regarding our own history (walls) of racism in the United States.
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Sorry for the late notification:
Friday, December 4, 2009 Dan Rubright Band w Lydia Ruffin at
The Brickhouse and Pub, Wildwood, Missouri show is cancelled.
Upcoming performances at the Brickhouse to be announced. Check for updates.
Brickhouse Pub and Grill 636-273-4300.
8:00 P.M. Saturday, December 5, 2009
Christmas Cafe CD Release Party!
The Chapel 6238 Alexander Drive St. Louis, MO 63105
Doors open at 7:30
$10.00 tickets. no reservations.
Dan Rubright Band featuring vocalist, Lydia Ruffin with Ted Rubright, percussion, Vince Varvel, guitars and Eric Stiller, bass performing original songs, and new arrangements of traditional Christmas melodies and more…
This is a wonderful intimate venue and this will be an extra special holiday celebration! Come early though, space is limited. Cash or check only.for more information visit: www.thechapelvenue.com
1-3:00 P.M. Sunday, December 6, 2009
Whole Foods Market, Town and Country Missouri
In-Store Performance Featuring: Lydia Ruffin and Dan Rubright, acoustic duo.
1-3:00 P.M. Sunday, December December 13, 2009
Whole Foods Market (South of 40/64 and Brentwood Blvd.)
In-Store Performance Featuring: Lydia Ruffin, Dan Rubright with percussionist Ted Rubright
4:00 P.M. Sunday, December 20, 2009
Special Holiday Concert!
Kirkwood Presbyterian Church, (Lindbergh Rd. and Adams)
Dan Rubright Band with vocalist, Connie Fairchild Torretta.
aslo featuring Storyteller, Lynn Rubright.
Free admission, light refreshments.