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RED DOG MINE
presents
Perseverance Theatre’s production of
The Winter Bear
A PLAY BY ANNE HANLEY
Inspired by the life of Koyukon Athabascan elder Sidney Huntington
Sunday, April 15 and Monday April 16 at 7:00 pm
Young Company to perform Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology
Tales from the Nine Worlds: Selections from Neil Gaiman’s NORSE MYTHOLOGY
Adapted and directed by Julie York Coppens
Odin and Thor, Loki and Idun — the colorful gods and goddesses of Asgard, and the motley creatures they like to mess with, have always held a special fascination for master storyteller Neil Gaiman (Neverwhere, Coraline, American Gods). His latest book, just released in paperback, reveals why. (It also reveals what the Marvel Comics movies got wrong.)
By some miraculous stroke of Thor’s hammer, Juneau’s own Perseverance Theatre will be among the first to attempt a stage adaptation of Gaiman’s NORSE MYTHOLOGY, and we’re going to do it with a cast of 8- to 15-year-olds in a black box studio that might make a cozy kennel for Fenrir the wolf, nevermind nine mythic worlds and the great tree Yggdrasil at the center of them all. We suspect Loki had a hand in this plan…
This spring, join Perseverance Theatre’s Young Company on a dark, perilous, often hilarious adventure through a few of Norse mythology’s greatest hits, plus one or two episodes you’ve probably never heard before, all told with Gaiman’s incomparable imagination and humor. Gods and monsters, dwarfs and Frost Giants: here’s your chance to step into some larger-than-life roles, honing your theatrical super-powers and hammering your fears, while taking an audience on a truly epic journey.
Rehearses: 4-6 p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, starting April 10
Performs: May 18-21 in the Phoenix Theatre
Cost: $275 (scholarships available)
To register: Go to www.ptalaska.org/young-company, or call 907-463-8497
Love Poetry Slam
Perseverance Theatre and 49th State Brewing Co. Present
Poetry Slam – The Love Sessions
Wednesday April 18th, 2018 – Door at 6pm, Slam at 7pm.
at the 49th State Brewing Co. @ 3rd and G.
Master of Ceremony – Trey Parker
Guest Judges
Shyanne Beatty – Alaska Native Heritage Center
Don Megga – radio host
Daryl Schaff – theatre personality
Loren Dixon – radio host
Jackie Purcell – KTUU Channel 2 News
Cash prizes for the top three poets.
To participate, contact Shirley Mae Springer Staten – Shirleymae@gci.net
Get the poster – Poetry8x11poster
Spring Break Camps 2018
Spring Break Onstage – Classes for Young Theatre Artists
March 19-23 in Juneau
March 12-16 in Anchorage
Creative Dramatics, ages 6-10
9:30am – 11:30am
Develop new acting skills in this lively class with theatre exercises and creative play.
Improvisation, ages 9-14
9:30am – 11:30am
Learn the basics of theatre improvisation and the art of thinking quickly on your feet.
Performance Intensive, ages 10-18
12pm – 5pm
Students will rehearse and perform a play and/or scenes in one week. The public is invited to the performance Friday, March 23rd.
Anchorage SPRING BREAK ONSTAGE, ages 10-18
10:00am – 5:00pm (Friday 7:30 Performance)
Create your own original work of theatre completely from scratch.
In Juneau tuition is $175 for Creative Dramatics or Improvisation and $200 for the Performance Intensive
In Anchorage tuition is $225.
Register online or contact Enrique at 364-2421 ext. 239 or enrique@ptalaska.org for more information.
2018 Travel Raffle
Prize List for the 34th Annual Travel Raffle
This travel raffle is a fundraiser to benefit Perseverance Theatre. The drawing will be held Monday, June 11, 2018 at Perseverance Theatre in Douglas, Alaska. You need not be present to win. The chances of winning a prize are approximately 1:160, based on the sale of 4000 tickets.
Tickets are $10 each. Permit No 34.
GRAND PRIZE – Two round-trip tickets from Alaska Airlines, plus $2000 in cash, and a one-night stay at the Hotel Beacon in New York. Value: $5500
2nd Prize – Two tickets on Level One or Level Two Helicopter Tours from NorthStar Trekking (space available) and pair of season tickets to Perseverance Theatre’s 2018-2019 season. Value: $1270
3rd Prize – Bear watching for two from Alaska Charter Adventures and a Stikine River Tour from Alaska Waters in Wrangle. Value: $1062
4th Prize – Two round-trip tickets from Alaska Seaplanes, plus one night stay for two at the Historic Skagway Inn. Value: $785
5th Prize – Two pairs of tickets to any performing arts events in the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council in season 44, a pair of season tickets to the Juneau Symphony, and a pair of season tickets to Perseverance Theatre’s 2018-2019 season. Value: $780
6th Prize – $100 gift certificate to Douglas Café, $50 gift certificate to the Island Pub, $50 gift certificate to Louie’s Douglas Inn in Douglas and a pair of season tickets to Perseverance Theatre’s 2018-2019 season. Value: $632
7th Prize – Misty Fjords Flightseeing Tour for 2 from Spirit of Alaska Tours and a walk-on trip for two on the inter-island ferry in Ketchikan. Value: $603
8th Prize – A one night stay for two at the Oscar Gill House and a season subscription for two to Perseverance Theatre’s 2018-2019 Anchorage season. Value: $572
9th Prize – A pair of tickets for a zipline tour from Alaska Canopy Adventure and a one night stay for two plus breakfast at the Baranof Hotel in Juneau. Value: $497
10th Prize – A one night stay for two with breakfast at Alaska’s Capital Inn Bed & Breakfast in Juneau and a $75 gift certificate for Taku Smokeries. Value $464
11th Prize – A pair of season tickets to Perseverance Theatre’s 2018-2019 Season and a $15 gift certificate to Haines Brewing Company. Value: $447
12th Prize – One night stay for two at the Driftwood Hotel in Juneau and a one-week bike rental from Cycle Alaska. Value: $299
13th Prize – Two tickets to a performance at Portland Center Stage in Portland, Oregon and two tickets to any performance at Perseverance Theatre. Value: $260
14th Prize – Columbia Glacier Cruise for two from Stan Stephens Wildlife Cruises in Valdez. Value: $250
15th Prize – One night stay for two at the Oscar Gill House in Anchorage, a $50 gift certificate to Orso, and a $50 gift certificate to the Moose’s Tooth or Bear’s Tooth. Value: $240
16th Prize – A one hour theatre rental at the Gold Town Nickelodeon with popcorn in Juneau, two free yoga classes with Rainforest Yoga, and picnic supplies from Nugget Alaskan Outfitters. Value: $197
17th Prize – Two tickets to any performance in Perseverance Theatre’s 2018-2019 season and two free yoga classes from Rainforest Yoga. Value: $130
18th Prize – Two tickets to any show at Perseverance Theatre for the 2018-2019 season and a $30 gift certificate for Brown Boots Costume Company in Juneau. Value: $130
19th Prize – Two tickets to any performance in Perseverance Theatre’s 2018-2019 season. Value: $100
20th Prize – Two tickets to a regular feature film, plus popcorn and soda from the Goldtown Nickelodeon in Juneau and a Heritage Coffee gift basket. Value: $96
Thank you to the generous businesses that donated prizes! You can still help by volunteering to sell raffle tickets. For every book you sell, your name will be entered in a special drawing to win 2018-2019 season tickets to Perseverance Theatre. For more information visit ptalaska.org, or call the theatre at 907-364-2421 x228. You may also email Development Associate Frank Henry Kaash Katasse, frank@ptalaska.org.
The 5th Alaska One-Minute Play Festival
The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) and Perseverance Theatre present
THE 5th ANNUAL ALASKA ONE-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL
TWO PERFORMANCES ONLY: SUNDAY MARCH 4TH, & MONDAY MARCH 5th 2018
AT 8:00pm
AT:
THE ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
621 West 6th Ave
Anchorage, AK 99501
Tickets are $22.25 ($16 + 6.25 ticketing fees) and available for purchase online at
https://tickets.centertix.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=1895
907-263-ARTS, or by visiting the Centertix box office.
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Featuring Brand New One-Minute Plays by:
Heath E. Robertson, Geoff Kirsch, Shelly Wozniak, Mara Crossett, Tom Moran, Paul Rios, Daniels Calvin, Matt Jardin, Dawson Moore, Mollie Ramos, Michael Shaeffer, Matthew Kress, Josh Lowman, Kyra Meyer, Matt Collins, Richard Perry, Andréa Onstad, Jason Hodges, Frank Henry Kaash Katasse, John Parsi, Holly Stanton, Linda Billington, Nathan Hall, Heather LaVerne, Amy O’Neill Houck, Lucas Rowley, Vera Starbard, & Joshua Maxwell
Directed by Dawson Moore, John Pasri, Josh Lowman, MaryAlice Larmi, Naomia Felix, Paul Rios, & Warren Weinstein
Curated by 1MPF’s Dominic D’Andrea
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The One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) is the country’s largest grass-roots community-engaged theatre project, founded by Producing Artistic Director, Dominic D’Andrea. #1MPF is social barometer project, which investigates community zeitgeist and narratives through dialogue, consensus building, and a performance of minute-long moments generated by specific populations engaged in the work. #1MPF works in partnership with traditional theatres, cultural institutions, prisons, community centers, schools, universities, and social justice institutions sharing educational, community-focused, or public service missions across the country. The aim is to create locally sourced, radically inclusive community projects, rooted in the values and ideas of the participants. The work attempts to reflect the values, topics, trends, styles, ideas, and big conversations that bubble up to the surface in each community.
Partnerships have been created with theaters in over 35 cities including: New York, Trenton, New Brunswick, Newark, Montclair, Hoboken, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Providence, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Bethesda, Washington DC, Atlanta, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, St. Louis, Ferguson, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Anchorage, Seattle, Honolulu, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Dallas, Austin, Mexico City, and others, with partnering institutions like Primary Stages, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Trinity Rep, New Georges at New York City Center, Z-Space, Victory Gardens Theatre, Cornerstone Theatre Company, The Playwrights Foundation, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Actor’s Express, InterAct Theatre, Mixed Blood, Walking Shadow Theatre, Passage Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, Kitchen Dog Theatre, Salvage Vanguard & ScriptWorks, ACT, Perseverance Theatre, Round House Theatre, Honolulu Theatre For Youth, and others.
Notable #1MPF contributors have included: David Henry Hwang, Lynn Nottage, Neil LaBute, Tina Howe, Donald Margulies, Nilaja Sun, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Robert Schenkkan, Phillip Kan Gotanda, Kristoffer Diaz, Rajiv Joseph, Sam Hunter, Karen Hartman, Robert Askins, Colman Domingo, José Rivera, Craig Lucas, Mike Daisey, Greg Kotis, Michael John Garcés, & over to 1800 celebrated, emerging, and midcareer playwrights and at-large community members. For more information visit: www.oneminuteplayfestival.com
Perseverance Theatre’s mission is to create professional theatre by and for Alaskans. We value community engagement, cross-cultural collaboration, professional rigor, and regional voice.
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Give the Gift of Perseverance Theatre this Season
Give the gift of theatre this holiday season!
If you have a theatre-lover in your life we have wonderful, easy to give, and perfect last-minute gifts you can share! We now have TWO holiday gift cards you can print out if you’re buying your gift online and would like to have a festive way to share your gift of theatre. (Click on the images below to download.) Happy Holidays, and thank you!
- If your theatre-lover is in Anchorage, you can still give them a SUBSCRIPTION to the rest of our season!
- Juneau — give the gift of single tickets to any show. Or, give a FLEX subscription to three or more shows by calling the box office at 907-463-TIXS.
- Anchorage — single tickets are available too!
- Not sure what your theatre-lover would like to see most? Call us at 907-463-TIXS! You can buy a gift certificate that they can redeem for any show or subscription.
- Finally–you can give the gift that keeps on giving season after season–a donation in the name of your theatre-loving friend. THANK YOU!
DOWNLOAD THE HOLIDAY GIFT CARD TO GO WITH YOUR GIFT OF THEATRE
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Dreaming Glacier Bay – A new play by Joel Bennett – Opens Oct 27
Dreaming Glacier Bay by Joel Bennett
A True Story With Mystery at its Heart
A True Story With Mystery at its Heart
JUNEAU, AK — What draws 1920s movie star John Barrymore to sail his ship into the wilderness of Glacier Bay? Who is the couple he keeps returning to visit, and how are their lives intertwined? Dreaming Glacier Bay is a new play based on true events by Juneau playwright Joel Bennett. — See Dreaming Glacier Bay October 24 to November 18 at Perseverance Theatre.Playwright Joel Bennett is a Juneau-based photographer and filmmaker. His still photographs have appeared in a variety of U.S. and foreign magazines and books, including Life, Vanity Fair, Audubon, Defenders, Sierra, BBC Wildlife and Radio Times. He was the recipient of the Environmentalist of the Year award for 1993 by the Alaska Conservation Foundation. In 2001, he was designated Alaska filmmaker of the year.
Michael Evan Haney directs the play. He has most recently worked with Perseverance Theatre directing and adapting A Christmas Carol. Peter DeLaurier plays the role of John Barrymore. The cast also features Alaskan actors Shelley Virginia and Mike Peterson as Muz and Joe Ibach, and Cate Ross as Dolores Barrymore.
Dreaming Glacier Bay features scenic design by Dana Moran Williams, Lighting design by Art Rotch, and costuming by Juneau designer Shelly Wright. Lucy Peckham is creating the sound design.
Tickets to Dreaming Glacier Bay are available at the Perseverance Theatre box office, the JACC, Hearthside Books, by calling 463-TIXS, and at ptalaska.org.
PHOTOS: Email amy@ptalaska.org for photo availability or to schedule a photoshoot.
The Complete Works of Shakespeare: Abridged
The Black Box Series Presents:
The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged)
Play by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield
Directed by Joseph Biagini
With Bryan Crowder, DeAndre King, Genevieve Wiley, Rochelle Smallwood, and Evgeniya Golofeeva
PAY-AS-YOU-CAN at Perseverance Theatre, Shows October 19th-22nd, 7:30pm Thur-Sat, 4pm Sunday Matinee
Synopsis: All 37 plays in 97 minutes! Madcap actors weave their wicked way through all of Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, and tragedies in one wild ride that will leave you breathless and helpless with laughter. An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard’s plays, THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) was London’s longest-running comedy.
Celebrating Indigenous People’s Day
Dear Theatre Friends,
Earlier this year, Gov. Walker signed a law recognizing the second Monday of October as Indigenous People’s Day. This was a holiday formerly recognized as Columbus Day, which Perseverance Theatre has not taken as a recognized holiday because we felt it was not respectful to the indigenous people of our land to do so. In light of the state’s formal recognition and re-dedication of the holiday, Perseverance will begin celebrating Indigenous People’s Day as a paid holiday, and will seek new steps we as theatre makers can take to celebrate and support the Native people of Alaska, especially as storytellers and generative artists, but also as employees, audience and board members, and throughout our organization.
With seasons in both Juneau and Anchorage, Perseverance stages performances on both Tlingit and Dena’ina land, and has traveled into countless others accross Alaska and when touring in the lower 48 states. And in nearly 40 years of business, we have worked with, for, and have celebrated Alaska Native and American Indian people and cultures. We’ve made mistakes as well as celebrated successes, and we are eager to take the next steps in our journey together to build an Alaskan theatre.
In the past several years, Perseverance recognized a need for the voice of Alaska Native people to have a larger role in our theatre, and that it needed to be in the leadership itself. We are committed to producing Alaska Native-written, directed, and performed art every season and making space to include these productions side by side with classics and other works. We pursue partnering with statewide Native organizations, and learning what more we can do to be allies and artistic supporters of Alaska Native cultures and people.
In the future, we hope to do even better. In addition to our Tlingit/Dena’ina Resident playwright, we have new plans already, including a group of four commissioned Native playwrights who are each working on new plays we hope to produce in future seasons, and supporting each other in an exploration of Alaska Native writing. But as a theatre company, we also recognize we have much more to learn about many things, including our home in Alaska and its stories, from people who have been here for over 10,000 years. We seek to be good stewards of this land, and its people. We celebrate the diverse cultures and people of Alaska, and hope to continue learning together with all of you, our community.
Art Rotch, Artistic Director