When Something Wonderful Ends--June 18, 2006
News of Sherry Kramer's When Something Wonderful Ends, which was read on Sunday, June 18th, will start this blog--which serves to publicize free readings of new plays at Ohio State, usually by playwrights whose work is archived in the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute.
It's appropriate to hold such readings at the Lawrence and Lee Institute, since both playwriting partners--authors of Inherit the Wind, Auntie Mame and its musical adaptation Mame, and The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, among many other plays, supported young playwrights throughout their long careers. Much more about these distinguished playwrights at the Institute's website, http://library.osu.edu/sites/tri/
Sherry Kramer's When Something Wonderful Ends, a play for one woman and one Barbie, masterfully combines the history and impact of American consumerism and American oil policies in the Middle East through the life of a woman, packing up her Barbie dolls and their outfits, for sale on ebay as she's closing out her parents' house four years after her mother's death; her father is now moving to assisted living. It was performed by veteran central Ohio community theatre performer Barbara Butler; bios of both playwright and performer are below.
Our next reading will be Carolyn Gage's operatic one act play, 'Til the Fat Lady Sings, which will be read on Saturday, August 19th by Tamara Regensburger and Cyrstal Stabenow of OSU Opera, directed by WOSU-FM's Christopher C. Purdy. More about that later. Here's information on Sherry Kramer and Barbara Butler.
Sherry Kramer
Sherry Kramer's work has been seen at theatres across America, including The Yale Repertory Theatre, Soho Rep, Ensemble Studio Theater, New York's Second Stage, Woolly Mammoth, The Theatre of the First Amendment, Seattle's Annex Theatre, Frontera at Hyde Park, Mixed Blood, and The Signature Theater in Arlington, VA. She is a recipient of N E A, New York Foundation for the Arts and McKnight Fellowships, the Weissberger Playwriting Award; a New York Drama League Award, and the Marvin Taylor Award (for WHAT A MAN WEIGHS), the L A Women in Theater New Play Award (for THE WALL OF WATER), and the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award (for DAVID'S REDHAIRED DEATH, which was produced by Ohio State’s Department of Theatre in the 2004-2005 season). Her other plays include THE RULING PASSION, PARTIAL OBJECTS, THE WORLD AT ABSOLUTE ZERO, ABOUT SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION, NANO AND NICKI IN BOCA RATON, THE RELEASE OF A LIVE PERFORMANCE, THE LAW MAKES EVENING FALL, and a music/theater adaptation of Bulgakov's THE MASTER AND MARGARITA with composer Margaret Pine. WHEN SOMETHING WONDERFUL ENDS will be produced in April, 2007, by the Playwrights Theatre in Madison, New Jersey.
Barbara Butler
Barbara Butler has appeared in numerous roles with the Dublin Senior Players over the past several years, including Kitty in DINNER AT EIGHT and Mrs. Melcher in WELCOME TO ACCEPTANCE. She has enjoyed a lengthy career as a choreographer, and studied with a pupil of famed modern dance giant Martha Graham. Barbara is an active volunteer at the Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute, and serves on Ohio State’s Program 60 Board of Trustees.
It's appropriate to hold such readings at the Lawrence and Lee Institute, since both playwriting partners--authors of Inherit the Wind, Auntie Mame and its musical adaptation Mame, and The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, among many other plays, supported young playwrights throughout their long careers. Much more about these distinguished playwrights at the Institute's website, http://library.osu.edu/sites/tri/
Sherry Kramer's When Something Wonderful Ends, a play for one woman and one Barbie, masterfully combines the history and impact of American consumerism and American oil policies in the Middle East through the life of a woman, packing up her Barbie dolls and their outfits, for sale on ebay as she's closing out her parents' house four years after her mother's death; her father is now moving to assisted living. It was performed by veteran central Ohio community theatre performer Barbara Butler; bios of both playwright and performer are below.
Our next reading will be Carolyn Gage's operatic one act play, 'Til the Fat Lady Sings, which will be read on Saturday, August 19th by Tamara Regensburger and Cyrstal Stabenow of OSU Opera, directed by WOSU-FM's Christopher C. Purdy. More about that later. Here's information on Sherry Kramer and Barbara Butler.
Sherry Kramer
Sherry Kramer's work has been seen at theatres across America, including The Yale Repertory Theatre, Soho Rep, Ensemble Studio Theater, New York's Second Stage, Woolly Mammoth, The Theatre of the First Amendment, Seattle's Annex Theatre, Frontera at Hyde Park, Mixed Blood, and The Signature Theater in Arlington, VA. She is a recipient of N E A, New York Foundation for the Arts and McKnight Fellowships, the Weissberger Playwriting Award; a New York Drama League Award, and the Marvin Taylor Award (for WHAT A MAN WEIGHS), the L A Women in Theater New Play Award (for THE WALL OF WATER), and the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award (for DAVID'S REDHAIRED DEATH, which was produced by Ohio State’s Department of Theatre in the 2004-2005 season). Her other plays include THE RULING PASSION, PARTIAL OBJECTS, THE WORLD AT ABSOLUTE ZERO, ABOUT SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION, NANO AND NICKI IN BOCA RATON, THE RELEASE OF A LIVE PERFORMANCE, THE LAW MAKES EVENING FALL, and a music/theater adaptation of Bulgakov's THE MASTER AND MARGARITA with composer Margaret Pine. WHEN SOMETHING WONDERFUL ENDS will be produced in April, 2007, by the Playwrights Theatre in Madison, New Jersey.
Barbara Butler
Barbara Butler has appeared in numerous roles with the Dublin Senior Players over the past several years, including Kitty in DINNER AT EIGHT and Mrs. Melcher in WELCOME TO ACCEPTANCE. She has enjoyed a lengthy career as a choreographer, and studied with a pupil of famed modern dance giant Martha Graham. Barbara is an active volunteer at the Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute, and serves on Ohio State’s Program 60 Board of Trustees.
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