About the Auditions:  Please carefully review the information below!

• Audition Dates:  Sunday, May 13 at 7pm and Monday, May 14 at 7pm.
• Actors are asked to arrive at the start time of 7pm (or as close to that as possible). 
• Actors will be given the option of presenting a 1-2 minute comedic or dramatic monologue; this is optional and not required.
• After the monologues, the directors will give short descriptions of the plays and roles available. 
• Various sides will be distributed to the actors, who will be asked to do cold readings.
• Auditioners are required to attend only one audition night.

 The Hovey Summer Shorts performances are Fridays and Saturdays, July 13-21, 2012 at 8pm.

 Questions?  Please contact the Producer, Mike Haddad at haddadibus@yahoo.com. 

 **Performances dates to be announced soon.

(Photo Credit:  Reid Gilman)

3/23/2012 Update:

Tomorrow night’s performance is sold out.  There are plenty of tickets available for tonight’s performance.  Call 781-893-9171 or email Reservations@hoveyplayers.com.  Tonight’s show is at 8pm. 

Directed by Tatiana Ivan
Produced by Nicole Sparks

Professor John Oldman is packing up his home and moving elsewhere. During an impromptu farewell party at his remote cabin, his most trusted colleagues demand answers to his sudden departure. As night falls, Oldman makes an extraordinary announcement. Is it all a thought experiment? Or is he telling the truth? As his friends confront their own notions of history, religion and humanity, a final revelation may shatter their beliefs forever.

Performance Dates:
March 9, 10, 16, 17, 22, 23 & 24, at 8pm, March 18 at 2pm.

Tickets are $18 General Admission and $15 Seniors and Students.

The Cast includes Evin Anderson, Will Dalley, Ginny Carpenter, Kate Forrestall, Robin Gabrielli, Mark Jenkins, David Mularski, Libby Schap, Jackie Dobson, and Patrick Mularski. 

Performances will be at the Abbott Memorial Theater, 9 Spring Street, Joel’s Way, Waltham, MA, next to the Waltham Public Library.  Reservations can be made by calling (781) 893-9171 or you may email reservations@hoveyplayers.com.

Join us on Opening Night where we will be serving dishes donated by Waltham’s Baan Thai Restaurant immediately following the performance.  Wine and snacks will also be served. 

Hovey Players is proud to continue its successful Hovey Gives Back program, whereby audiences are encouraged to donate their spare change to support a worthy charitable organization. Hovey Players will then provide a matching contribution. For the 2011-2012 Season, Hovey is supporting the Waltham Boys & Girls Club (www.walthambgc.org/).

Directed by David Fisher
Produced by Kristin Hughes

From America’s favorite playwright comes the Broadway hit about a staff of insane but genius 1950’s comedy writers as they produce television’s #1 weekly variety program, The Max Prince Show. Based upon his own time as a staff writer for Sid Caesar’s Your Show Of Shows, Neil Simon recreates the mayhem, neuroses, nonstop gags, and constant one-upmanship of a team of brilliantly funny social misfits trying to create comedy in the era of the Red Scare and network interference.  It’s 30 Rock meets the Golden Age of television!

Performance Dates & Times:

Friday, May 11, 8pm

Saturday, May 12, 8pm

Friday, May 18, 8pm

Saturday, May 19, 8pm

Sunday, May 20, 2pm (Matinee)

Thursday, May 24, 8pm

Friday, May 25, 8pm

Saturday, May 26, 8pm

Tickets:  $18 General Admission / $15 Seniors & Students

Call  781-893-9171 or Email  Reservations@hoveyplayers.com

The Cast:

Lucas Brickman:  Patrick Mularski
Milt Fields:  Glenn Wakeley
Val Skolsky:  Andrew Boncoddo
Brian Doyle:  Gordon Ellis
Kenny Franks:  Mark Mason
Carol Wyman:  Allison McCann
Max Prince:  Bill Stambaugh
Ira Stone:  Jason Rutledge
Helen:  Rebecca Mae Davis

Performances will be at the Abbott Memorial Theater, Joel’s Way, 9 Spring Way, Waltham, across the street from the Waltham Public Library.  Join us on Opening Night where we will be serving food donated by Waltham’s Baan Thai Restaurant following the performance.  Wine and snacks will also be served. 

Hovey Players is proud to continue its successful Hovey Gives Back program, whereby our audience is encouraged to donate its spare change to support a worthy charitable organization. Hovey Players will then provide a matching contribution. For the 2011-2012 Season, Hovey will be supporting The Waltham Boys & Girls Club (www.walthambgc.org/).

Best Play – Martin Sherman’s “Bent” – Kristin Hughes and Michelle Aguillon, Producers

Best Director  – Mark Usher

Best Actor – Evan Bernstein

Best Supporting Actor – Ian Schleifer

The IRNE Awards Ceremony will take place at the Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street, Boston, on Monday, April 23, 2012 at 7:30pm.  Doors open at 6:30pm with a cash bar and snacks.  Admission is free.  Information will be posted at Stage Source shortly so check back often at:  http://www.stagesource.org/programs-and-events/irne-awards/.

Hovey Players congratulates the Cast and Crew of “Bent”.  Many, many thanks for their contributions and hard work on this production. 

 

ANNOUNCEMENT BELOW WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED MARCH 2011. 

(Photos by Reid Gilman)

Hovey continues its 75th Season with “Bent”, directed by Mark Usher, produced by Kristin Hughes and Michelle Aguillon.

Martin Sherman’s powerful play,first performed in 1979, is about the lives of Berlin’s gay community, and their treatment at the hands of the Nazi regime. The focus of the play is Max, a hedonist who is estranged from his wealthy, button factory owning family because he openly pursues his sexual desires, rather than following advice of others and remaining discreet. Max earns his living by ‘making deals’ or scrounging, and frolics his way through cocaine-sniffing nights at gay clubs in the liberated Berlin of the 1930′s. When we meet him, it’s the ‘morning after’, and seems like any other, until the SS storm into his flat.  This starts the journey of Max and boyfriend Rudy fleeing from Berlin.  As the story unfolds we see how their lives change, the struggle to hide from the Nazi’s, and the ultimate test of human will, survival instinct and deep self discovery.

The Cast:

Evan Bernstien as Max

Ian Schleifer as Horst

Kevin Morin as Rudy

Will Todisco as Greta

Ed Siegal as Freddie

Stephen DeMarco as the Guard

Kurt Lusas as Captain/Officer

Sean McDonald as Wolf

Performances:

• March 11, 12, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26 at 8pm
• March 20 at 2pm

PRODUCTION TEAM:

Mark Usher  – Director

Heather Daley – Stage Manager

Kristin Hughes, Michelle Aguillon – Producers

Doug Cooper – Set Design

Doug Gordon – Lighting Design

Tom McCartney – Sound Design

Sharon Kivnik – Costumes

Katie Moore – Hair/Make-up

Kimmerie Jones – Properties

Join us on opening night, Friday, March 11, when we will serve complimentary refreshments and food generously donated by Waltham’s own Baan Thai Restaurant immediately following the performance.  

Tickets are $16 general admission, $14 seniors & students.  For reservations call (781) 893-9171 or write to Reservations@hoveyplayers.com.

A NIGHT WITH LOCAL AUTHORS PROMISES ROMANCE AT HOVEY PLAYERS

Celebrate the Spirit of Valentine’s Day with Local Romance Novelists

Hovey Players is sponsoring a very special author event, welcoming two local romance authors to its stage. Authors Jessie Olson of Worcester and Stephanie Haddad of Burlington will read selections from their novels, answer questions, and sign copies. The event will be held at the theater on Friday, February 17, beginning at 8:00 PM. Avid readers, lovers of romance, and aspiring writers are encouraged to attend.

 Jessie Olson, author of An Ever Fixéd Mark, lives in Worcester, MA. She has worked at various museums and historic sites, giving tours and exploring the neglected corners of the past. She enjoys theater, running, and themed dinner parties. An Ever Fixéd Mark is her first novel. For more information on Olson’s career and novels, visit Jessie Olson, Author (http://jessieolsonauthor.blogspot.com/).

 Stephanie Haddad, author of the novels A Previous Engagement and Love Unlisted, lives in Burlington, MA, where she is a busy work-from-home mother. She has been writing all her life but didn’t complete her first novel until 2008. From then on, she was hooked on happy endings and stories about love. Learn more about Haddad and her writing by visiting Stephanie Haddad Fiction (http://www.stephaniehaddad.com/fiction/).

The cost of tickets for this event is $5 per person, payable at the door. Hovey Players is located at 9 Spring Street in Waltham, MA. Please reserve tickets for this event in advance, as space is limited. Contact Nicole Sparks at Nicole@hoveyplayers.com with your name and the desired number of tickets.

Produced by Nicole Sparks

Presenting Closer by Patrick Marber, winner of the 1998 Olivier Award for Best Play and the 1999 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play. Closer focuses on a quartet of strangers who meet, fall in love, and become caught in a web of sexual desires and betrayal. Alice loves Dan – who wants Anna, who isn’t quite sure if she loves Larry.

In Closer, Patrick Marber has created a brilliant exploration into the brutal anatomy of modern romance, where a quartet of strangers meet, fall in love, and become caught up in a web of sexual desire and betrayal. Closer was hailed as one of the best plays of the late 90s. The London Observer noted, it “has wired itself into the cultural vocabulary in a way that few plays have ever done.”

Performances will be at the Abbott Memorial Theater, 9 Spring Street, next to the Waltham Public Library.

Performance are:

Friday, January 13 at 8pm (Opening Night!)
Saturday, January 14 at 8pm

Friday, January 20 at 8pm
Saturday, January 21 at 8pm
Sunday, January 22 at 2pm (Matinee)

Thursday, January 26 at 8pm
Friday, January 27 at 8pm
Saturday, January 28 at 8pm

Tickets: $18, General Admission and $16 Seniors and Students

Call: (781) 893-9171

Email: reservations@hoveyplayers.com.

The Cast includes Sara Jane Burns, Robin Gabrielli, Melissa Sine and Bill Stambaugh.

Set Design by Al Forgione, lighting design by Kristine Mackin, sound design by Tom McCartney, costumes by Kimmerie Jones, and stage managed by Cinda Lavely.

Join us Opening Night (Friday, January 13th) when we will be serving dishes prepared by Waltham’s own Baan Thai Restaurant immediately following the performance. Wine and snacks will also be served.

Hovey Players is proud to continue its successful Hovey Gives Back program, whereby its audience is encouraged to donate its spare change to support a worthy charitable organization. Hovey Players will then provide a matching contribution. For the 2011-2012 Season, Hovey’s charity is the Waltham Boys and Girls Club.

Directed by Kristin Hughes
Produced by Nicole Sparks

Audition Dates:
Sunday, November 6 at 7PM
Monday, November 7 at 7PM
Callbacks (if needed) Wednesday, November 9

Location: 
Hovey Players
9 Spring Street, Waltham, MA
next to the Library

Synopsis:
Closer focuses on a quartet of strangers who meet, fall in love, and become caught in a web of sexual desires and betrayal.. Alice loves Dan – who wants Anna, who isn’t quite sure if she loves Larry. In Closer, Patrick Marber has created a brilliant exploration into the brutal anatomy of modern romance, where a quartet of strangers meet, fall in love, and become caught up in a web of sexual desire and betrayal. Closer was hailed as one of the best plays of the late 90s. The London Observer noted, it “has wired itself into the cultural vocabulary in a way that few plays have ever done.”

Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. English accents will be used.  
 
The script contains explicit language and sexual situations; actors should be comfortable with both.

For more information, please contact the director, Kristin Hughes, at hughes@hoveyplayers.com.

Performance Dates:
January 13-14, 20-21, 26, 27 & 28, at 8pm, and Sunday, January 22 at 2pm.

Character descriptions: 
All age ranges are approximate and relative. Alice needs to be younger than Anna, Patrick, and Larry.

Alice (20s) – a stripper. A ‘lost soul’ with surprising strength and an unflinching view of relationships. 
Dan (30s) – a writer.  A romantic who thinks all is lost for love.  Always searching for ‘truth’, but not always happy with how that turns out for him.
Anna (30s) – a photographer.  Successful in her career, but far less successful in relationships.
Larry (30s) – a doctor.  Crude, forceful, and a little bit crass – with some traditional views on fidelity and commitment.

Celebrating over 75 years producing quality plays and musicals, Hovey Players seeks volunteers from all walks of experience for all productions. 

If you would like to be part of a future production, you may contact theater@hoveyplayers.com.  A volunteer will respond to your message. 

More information about our current season and Hovey’s history can be found at www.hoveyplayers.com.  Or you may stop by at Hovey Players, the Abbott Memorial Theater at Joel’s Way, 9 Spring Street in Waltham next to the Waltham Public Library.  We would love to meet you!