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July 2003 - Table of Contents & Preview
The below list is not linked.  It is only the Table of Contents for our print version.
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COVER STORY
Newton Country Players' Award-Winning Captains Sails Into Gloucester
by Duncan Hall

Professional Theatre:
bulletHarvey Disappears from Shubert Engagement Before Broadway (MA)
bulletFun for the Entire Famiily with Cmplte Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) (MA)
bulletSalem Theatre Company Announces Cast of First Show (MA)
bulletEugene O'Neill Theater Center Announces Summer 2003 Season (CT)
bulletTurtle Lane Playhouse Opens 25th Season with Award-winner (MA)
bulletThe Rocky Horror Show Live! Returns to Do the Time Warp Again (NH)
bulletWorld Premiere Play at Westport (CT)
bulletPenobscot Theatre Cancels 3 of 4 Summer Shows (ME)
bulletPerishable Theatre Announces Summer Session (RI)
bulletShakespeare's Intriguing Comedy Opens Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Season (NY)
bulletMolasses Tank Productions Goes Happily Absurd with Ionesco, Not Ionesco (MA)
bulletBarrington Stage Announces 2003 Casts (MA)
bulletBroadway Today: Brad Oscar by Jim DeBlasi
bulletBuilding Audiences: A Workshop in Public Relations & Audience Development for the Performing Arts (MA)
bulletGeorge Gershwin Alone Returns, Along with Romantique World Premiere at A.R.T. (MA)
bulletGloria Stanton Performs Benefit for Theatre in the Pines (MA)
bulletRegional Premiere of Michael Healey's The Drawer Boy at StageWorks (NY)

Colleges/Universities/Schools/Training

bulletJohn Heard Leads Cast in Powerhouse Season Opener (NY)

Community Theatre

bulletTCAN Players are Having a BABY! (MA)
bulletVokes Players Present The Devil's Disciple (MA)
bulletHovey Summer Shorts Sings! (MA)
bulletTheatre Company of Saugus Hosts Trivia Contest (MA)
bulletFootlighters Announce Cast for I'm Not Rappaport (MA)

Children's/Youth/Family Theatre

bulletOddfellows Announces New Summer Shakespeare Academy (CT)
bulletRegina A.Quick Center for the Arts Presents Missoula Children's Theatre Adaptation of Beauty & the Beast (CT)
bulletThe Little Red Wagon's on the Road (Touring)
bulletImprovBoston: Family Fun for All Ages! (MA)
bulletTADA! Presents World Premiere of a New Musical Version of a Classic Tale (NY)
bulletSummer Drama & Puppet Classes for Chidlren at Payomet (MA)

Film/Video/Tech

bulletScreen Reels: WhaleRider & Together by Cecille Markell
bulletCut...Print: Film Threat's GORI Distribution Deal, the FCC Vote for Media Monopoly & COMCAST's "Video on Demand" N.E. Rollout by Angel Connell
bulletBoston POPS Announces 2003 Evening at Pops on PBS (MA)
bulletRIIFF Announces 2003 Event: Seymour Cassel & Kenneth Branagh to be In Attendance (RI)
bulletBF-VF Announces July Meeth the Director (MA)

Music

bulletJVC Jazz Festival Bosts Stellar Line-up (RI)
bullet17th Annual Green River Festival at Greenfield Community College (MA)
bulletNashua Symphony Choral Society Continues "Summer Sings" (NH)
bulletJoao Gilberto in Concert at the Wang (MA)
bulletJohn Thade Releases Song for the Heart (TOURING)
bulletBates Midsummer Lakeside Concert Series Offers Jazz, Classical & World Music (ME)
bulletSummer Theatre Returns to the Historic Rochester Opera House (NH)
bulletJames Spooner Trust July 4th Concert Features Plymouth Philharmonic & Plymouth High Marching Band (MA)
bulletBoston Symphony Orchestra Announces 2003 Tanglewood Season Program Update (MA)
bulletRandy Armstrong's 10th Album No Regrets Released by Domo Records (NH)
bulletWords for the Soul: Pete Yorn's 'Talent Show' by M. William Phelps
bulletMohawk Trail Concerts Recalls its Origins in Season 34 (MA)
bulletHartford Symphony Orchestra Will "Celebrate America" at Annual Independence Day Concert, July 4 (CT)

Dance

bulletWindhover Center for the Performing Arts Announces Summer Dance Concert (MA)
bulletFestival Ballet Providence Receives NEA Access Grant (RI)
bulletJulia de Burgos Sings & Dances Into HERE Arts Center (NY)
bulletWesleyan Center for the Arts Begins Summer 2003 (CT)

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Reviewed In This Issue

bulletPericles (American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge)
bulletThe Sound of a Voice (American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge)
bulletThe Great Gorgonzola & His New Assistant (Actors Workshop, Boston)
bulletThe Long Christmas Ride Home (Trinity Repertory Theatre, Providence)
bulletEnchanted April (Belasco Theatre, NYC)
bulletThe Night of the Iguana (Hartford Stage, Hartford)
bulletSalome (NYC)
bulletThe Black Monk (Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven)
bullet2 Vaudevillians Find Buried Treasure (Blue Pumpkin Productions, Worcester)
bulletBat Boy (SpeakEasy Stage Company, Boston)

Monthly & Regular Features...

bulletNEED Theatre Listings
bulletNEED Audition Listings
bulletNEED Music Listings
bulletNEED Dance Listings
bulletOpportunity Knocks
bulletQuick Takes by Jules Becker
bulletBroadway Today by Jim DeBlasi
bulletBehind the Scenes by Chuckie Finn
bulletTwo on the Aisle by Shirley Esthimer
bulletEncores & Off by E.Kyle Minor
bulletComing Attractions
bulletAppleSource by Gary Stevens
bulletScreen Reels by Cecille Markell
bulletCut...Print by Angel Connell
bulletWords for the Soul by M. William Phelps

 

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