Seeking Proposals for The Black Box Series

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Perseverance Theatre presents The Black Box Series in the Phoenix Theatre

Is there a play you have always wanted to do?

Perseverance Theatre is looking for groups or individuals with play ideas to begin the Black Box Series, taking place in The Phoenix space at Perseverance Theatre.

 

The Black Box Series is a pilot project exploring ways to support theatre artists who want to create. Artists must be prepared to do a majority of the producing themselves, with coaching and mentoring coming from Perseverance’s superb staff and company.

The Phoenix theatre will be available from September 23nd to October 22nd for both rehearsal and theatre projects to be performed over two weekends.

A spring production will be considered later in the year with dates and details TBA.
Proposals due by August 22.

For more information or to submit your proposal, please contact Enrique Bravo at enrique@ptalaska.org

Perseverance Theatre’s 2017-2018 Statewide Season

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World Premieres, Classics, Comedies, and two Alaskan playwrights featured in Perseverance Theatre’s 2017-2018 season.

Perseverance Theatre has crafted a statewide season of professional theatre designed to entertain and delight Alaskan audiences and feature new and classic works, favorite and exciting new actors.The season includes two new works by Alaskan playwrights: Dreaming Glacier Bay by Joel Bennett and William, Inc. by Lucas Rowley. Seven plays will be presented in Anchorage and Juneau.

Perseverance Theatre set to begin 39th season of professional theatre by and for Alaskans.

by Kristoffer Diaz
Directed by Shona Osterhout
JUNEAU: September 15 -October 7, 2017
ANCHORAGE: November 10 – 19, 2017
The Mace is brilliant, the best at his job. He’s so good that he’s paid well to lose. Mace is the ring name of Macedonio Guerra. He has to be better than all the champs in his pro-wrestling league so that he can make them look good. Even if he never gets credit for his skill, and his privileged bosses don’t care how good he is, he’s in love with what he does: taking a fall so the biggest champ, Chad Deity, always wins. But when he meets VP, his new friend whose charisma may be big enough to upend even Chad Deity, things start to get interesting. Audience members are ringside spectators to real pro-wrestling throw-downs and intimate, smart reflections from Mace as he’s revealed as the one spark of truth and honor in an industry based on mutual illusion and suspension of disbelief. The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity is a funny and quirky look at pro wrestling, geopolitics, and capitalism.

by Joel Bennett
Directed by Michael Haneyn
JUNEAU ONLY: October 27 – November 19, 2017
John Barrymore was the best known Hollywood actor of the 1930s with the largest yacht on the west coast. He could have travelled anywhere in the world, and he chose to visit an island in Southeast Alaska near Glacier Bay to spend time with a couple who had a fox farm and gold prospecting claim. What was his relationship with Muz Ibach–the woman choosing to live with her husband in the icy wilderness–and why did Barrymore return again and again to visit her? The play is a true story with a mystery at its heart.

by Arlitia Jones and Michael Haney based on the book by Charles Dickens
Directed By Tom Robenolt
ANCHORAGE ONLY: December 15 – 29, 2017
Witness Ebenezer Scrooge’s miraculous Christmas Eve transformation in Perseverance Theatre’s adaptation of Dickens’ famous book. Ebenezer Scrooge is a greedy businessman, with no place in his life for kindness, compassion, or charity, and destined to a lonely old age. But when four ghosts appear and warn him of a miserable afterlife, Scrooge is reminded of all the chances he had before to make different choices. Charles Dickens’ classic tale of redemption skillfully faithfully adapted by Arlitia Jones and Michael Evan Haney never ceases to please.

by Robert Harling
Directed by Carolyn Howarth
ANCHORAGE: September 29 – October 15, 2017
JUNEAU: December 1 – 31, 2017
Longtime friends in a small Southern town fill Truvy’s hair salon with laughter, gossip, and tears. Truvy’s new assistant Annelle, sociable M’Lynn, and her pretty daughter bride-to-be Shelby, as well as the hysterical bickering Ouiser and Clairee, support each other with love, laughter and beauty products. As hair is dried, dyed, and styled, women’s lives unfold and show the meaning of true friendship.

by Lucas Rowley
Directed by Randy Reinholz
JUNEAU: January 26 – February 17, 2018
ANCHORAGE: March 2 – 11, 2018
*A World Premiere*
William is an Alaska Native professional with a high-pressure job and demands at home too. To cope with his stress, he has formed a Native corporation inside his head, but the strategy backfires when his board of directors get out of control and start hijacking his real life. Though it costs him a relapse and lots of problems at home, he negotiates his politics to find the balance he needs. Getting there is both affirming and hilarious.

by Edmond Rostand. Translated and adapted by David Grimm
Directed by Eleanor Holdridge
JUNEAU: March 16 – April 14, 2018
ANCHORAGE: April 27 – May 6, 2018
*A World Premiere of this new adaptation.*
Cyrano de Bergerac–soldier, poet, and musician, is clever, charming, and disarming, but he’s ashamed of his appearance and believes he’ll never win the love of the beautiful Roxanne. To ensure her happiness, he helps his fellow soldier Christian to woo her. Panache–Cyrano’s word for living life with flair, honor, and eloquence–prevents Cyrano from ever telling Roxanne the truth about Christian and his own deep love for her, until it is too late. Panache undoubtedly killed Cyrano, but without it, he would not have found a life worth living in the first place.

by Jacqueline Goldfinger
Directed by Art Rotch
ANCHORAGE: January 12 – 21, 2018
JUNEAU: May 1 – 19, 2018
* An NNPN Rolling World Premiere *
After running out of a cloud of smoke and sirens with a large, slightly bloody bundle, a woman hides the package under the floorboards of her cabin, changes her clothes, and hides with the lights off until the sirens fade off in the distance. When the coast is clear, she sings songs with her father, packs for a long trip, and burns the cabin down to leave no evidence behind. Based in part on the myth of Electra, The Arsonists is the story of a woman who comes of age in the family arson business before an unexpected accident sends her out on her own.

Treadwell Gold: A World Premiere

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Treadwell Gold
June 22 – July 3
On the Mainstage in Juneau

In 1916, no one knew the booming town of Treadwell–home to the largest gold mine in world–was on the brink of its ultimate destruction. In one momentous year, as infrastructure crumbles, fires rage, and war looms, young engineer George Barnett arrives in the territory of Alaska with “guts and genius,” not expecting to fall in love or carry the safety of the miners and the town on his shoulders. Treadwell Gold is inspired by the book of historical nonfiction by Sheila Kelly and based on real people and events. Treadwell Gold takes us to a time when science and engineering were looked to with faith that progress was always an option and engineering could always make our lives better.
PERFORMANCES:
Pay-as-you-can preview: Thursday, June 22, 7:30 pm
Opening Night: Friday, June 23, 7:30 pm
Saturday, June 24, 7:30 pm
Sunday, June 25, 4 pm
Thursday, June 29, 7:30 pm
Friday, June 30, 7:30 pm
Saturday, July 1, 7:30 pm
Sunday July 2, 4 pm
Special Closing Performance, Monday, July 3, 7:30 pm
Are you looking for the subscriber, military, student, or senior price? Add your seats to the cart, and you’ll see a drop-down with the pricing options. Please feel free to call the box office at 463-TIXS with questions. Thank you!

Your Support Makes Theatre Happen!

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Creating Theatre by and for Alaskans
isn’t possible without YOU!

Perseverance Theatre Sustainers make convenient ongoing contributions that are automatically drafted each month. It’s an easy and efficient way to support the theatre you love through secure, automatic monthly payments from your credit or debit card. This means we’ll deduct your designated contribution from your account until you decide to let us know you’d like to stop or change it. After the New Year we will send you one official thank you letter for the full value of your tax deductible contributions throughout the year for your taxes.

The Cyanide Ball – An inspiration for TREADWELL GOLD

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Hanna, “Goddess of Liberty,” recites “Turning Rock into Gold.”

In one of our favorite moments in Treadwell Gold, the character of Hanna–in her role as the Independence Day Goddess of Liberty–recites a poem, “Turning Rock into Gold.” The source of the poem, courtesy of Sheila Kelly’s book came from the dance program from the 1910 “Cyanide Ball,” a dance in celebration of the technology that made mining in Treadwell possible. Here is the illustrated version of the poem as printed in the dance program in 1910. It’s the 1910 version of an infographic. In rhyming quatrains, of course.

See Treadwell Gold only through July 3 at Perseverance Theatre in Juneau. Tickets are available online, and by calling 907-463-TIXS.

See Treadwell Gold only through July 3 at Perseverance Theatre in Juneau. Tickets are available online, and by calling 907-463-TIXS.

Raffle Winners Announced for 33rd Annual Travel Raffle

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Grand Prize: Janice Hurley

2nd Prize: Heidemann

3rd Prize: Kathy Clawson

4th Prize: Sierra Jimerez

5th Prize: Timi Tullis

6th Prize: Liesl Bland

7th Prize: Laura Kurt

8th Prize: John Morgester

9th Prize: Carmen Katasse

10th Prize: Sharolyn Lange

11th Prize: Randall Burns

12th Prize: Beth Rose

13th Prize: Anne Fuller

14th Prize: Josh Benevides

15th Prize: David Marquez

16th Prize: Deb Hurlburt

17th Prize: R. Keihl

18th Prize: Barb Murray

19th Prize: Paula Terrel

20th Prize: Sean Lemaire

Development Director Position Now Open

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Perseverance Theatre Seeks a Full Time Development Director

Perseverance Theatre is seeking a full-time Development Director to join a growing company making professional theatre by and for Alaskans. The Development Director is part of the theatre’s senior staff leadership team, and is responsible for updating and implementing a development plan that accounts for approximately 50% of the theatre’s two million dollar annual operating budget. Perseverance is engaged in a long term effort to increase annual giving and sponsorships both overall and as a percentage of the annual budget. Focus on relationship building to cultivate major and new donors in both Juneau and Anchorage is the essence of the position. Perseverance has a well-established fund development plan, reputation for excellence in programming, committed board of directors, and growing base of annual donors to build in in guiding this work. In addition to annual giving, the development director will work closely with the Executive and Artistic Director to cultivate institutional donors and maintain Perseverance Theatre’s excellent track record as a model grantee with national, regional, and statewide agency and private foundation partners. The Development Director will manage a team of a grant-writing contractor, Development associate, and support from the theatre’s communications, outreach and administrative staff to achieve annual goals. The successful candidate will be an outstanding communicator both verbally and in writing, have excellent networking and relationship building skills, and have a passion for professional theatre by and for Alaskans. Knowledge of development, Microsoft office software, and donor database systems are vital. Perseverance Theatre is an Equal Opportunity Employer and strongly committed to a diverse workforce. Salary DOE in the mid-40s with paid leave, holidays and health care. Applications will close June 30. To apply, send a resume, cover letter, names and contact info for three references to Art@PTAlaska.org

Community Events in Anchorage During To Kill a Mockingbird

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To Kill a Mockingbird opens on April 28th in Anchorage, and runs through May 7. and we have many special events and opportunities for you to engage with the cast and members of the community about the play, the novel, and the connections this story has to life in Alaska in 2017.

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Here’s a calendar! (Facebook event links are included so you can easily add events to your calendar and get reminders).

Wednesday, April 26, 2017 —Food for Thought—A Box Lunch Conversation about Race and
Justice in Alaska 11:30 am to 1 pm, 49th State Brewing Co., $13.50 includes purchase of a box lunch Reflections on To Kill A Mockingbird, 1965 – 2017 How far have we come? What has changed in the law over the twenty-seven years? What remains the same? Join this provocative conversation and share your knowledge. Facilitated by Judge Sen Tan and  KSKA Talk Show Host Kathleen McCoy. RSVP: Shirleymae@gci.net, Community Engagement Coordinator, Perseverance Theatre.

Thursday, April 28 — pay-as-you-can preview of To Kill a Mockingbird in the Discovery Theatre at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30 pm. This is a non-ticketed preview performance of the play. Donations will be accepted at the theatre.

Saturday, April 29 A Novel Discussion — Perseverance Book Club Discussion of To Kill a Mockingbird, 3pm A.J. Loussac Public Library. Discuss Harper Lee’s novel that inspired the play, To Kill a Mockingbird. Facilitated by Marie Husa, Filipino Association, Wanda Green, Anchorage Equal Rights Commission.

Thursday, May 4 — A post-show discussion after the performance with actors and audience
members, facilitated by Perseverance Theatre Outreach Coordinator, Shirley Mae Springer Staten. Get Tickets to the May 4 performance.

May 5 — Community Panel Reacts to To Kill a Mockingbird — A post-show discussion after the performance of To Kill a Mockingbird with panelists: Judge Elaine Andrews; Hilary Morgan – CEO/YWCA; Kelvin McGee, President /NAACP; Judge Herman Walker; Dr. Marie Williams, UAA Alaska Studies; and staff of the ACLU. Get tickets to the May 5 performance.

May 7 — A casual discussion in the Carr Gottstein lobby before the performance – 3 pm Judge Pamela Washington; Jasmin Smith – Black Lives Matter Organizer. facilitated by Perseverance Theatre Outreach Coordinator, Shirley Mae Springer Staten. Get tickets to the may 7 performance.
For more information, please contact Shirley Mae Springer Staten,  Shirleymae@gci.net,
Community Engagement Coordinator, Perseverance Theatre.