Invisible Theatre News

A Conversation with Edith Head - Arts Theatre Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle product SUSAN Claassen stars as the legendary Hollywood designer in A Conversation With Edith Head , which runs from Tuesday, July 29 to Saturday, August 30, 2008, at the Arts Club at the Arts Theatre. Based on Edith Head and Paddy Calistro’s book Edith Head’s Hollywood , A Conversation With Edith Head is described as a glorious behind-the-scenes feast of great movie legends and delicious stories – stories gleaned from Head’s six decades of costume design. During that time, she worked on 1,131 motion pictures, dressed the greatest stars of Hollywood, received 35 Academy Award nominations and won an unprecedented eight Oscars. Head was, in fact, a Hollywood costume designer for more than 60 years. Of those, 44 were spent at Paramount Studios, where she worked with the most famous actors of the time – from Mae West and Clara Bow to Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepb...

IT's last show B-4 summer www.azstarnet.com ® Accent IT's last show B-4 summer Musical offers chance to dance in your seat, win prizes By Fayana Richards arizona daily star Tucson, Arizona Published: 05.02.2008 Lucky charms, superstitions and rituals are all a part of the subculture tapped into in "Bingo, a Winning New Musical," which Invisible Theatre opens next week. In nearly every bingo hall, there's the player with several trolls on her table, the one who doesn't want any talking, or the woman who prays before she begins, said director Susan Claassen in a phone interview. A relatively new musical, "Bingo" is about a group of friends who establish their friendship around the game, Claassen said. Eventually, the friends have a falling-out. But 15 years later, they come back together again. Vern, Patsy and Honey are from different walks of life, but "it really is a celebration of friends," said Claassen. "Underneath it all, this game...

Dixie's Tupperware Party to Launch National Tour in Fall 2008: Theater News on TheaterMania.com Dixie's Tupperware Party to Launch National Tour in Fall 2008 By: Dan Bacalzo · Apr 30, 2008 · Touring Productions The Drama Desk nominated solo show Dixie's Tupperware Party, written and performed by Kris Andersson, will launch a 20-city national tour at the Invisible Theatre in Tucson, A Z in the fall of 2008. Dixie's Tupperware Party stars Dixie Longate, as the fast-talking Tupperware Lady, who has packed up her catalogues, and left her children in an Alabama trailer park to journey across America. The show includes outrageous tales, free giveaways, and the most fabulous assortment of Tupperware ever sold on any stage! The play, which garnered a 2007/08 Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Solo Performance, was originally produced at the 2005 New York International Fringe Festival, and played Off Broadway's Ars Nova last spring.

Susan Claassen in A CONVERSATION WITH EDITH HEAD opens August 5, 2008 in London! Anthony Field and John C. Causebrook present A CONVERSATION WITH EDITH HEAD at the Arts Theatre Club in London's West End! Tickets now on sale! For tickets and info Click Here: Check out "A Conversation With Edith Head tour dates for 2008/2009"

Aisle seats: Arts picks for the week www.azstarnet.com ® : Comedy Comedian Judy Gold brings her hilarious one-woman show, '25 Questions for a Jewish Mother,' to the Berger Center for the Performing Arts this weekend. The show is based on Gold's interviews with Jewish mothers around the country, including her own. She also tosses in her own observations as a Jewish mother of two. Performances are at 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday at the Berger, 1200 W. Speedway. Tickets are $42 through Invisible Theatre, 882-9721.

Jewish mom Gold chats about show, stereotypes www.azstarnet.com ® : Accent Jewish mom Gold chats about show, stereotypes By Cathalena E. Burch Arizona Daily Star Tucson, Arizona Published: 03.21.2008 Preview "25 Questions for a Jewish Mother" Presented by: Invisible Theatre. Starring: Judy Gold. Written by: Judy Gold and Kate Moria Ryan. When: 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Where: Berger Center for the Performing Arts, 1200 W. Speedway. Tickets: $42 through Invisible Theatre, 882-9721. Online: Hear snippets from the show at http://www.25-questions.com/ . Comedian Judy Gold walks down a busy street in San Francisco, ear glued to a cell phone, mind on lunch. "I just want to order some food," she said, ducking into a cafe. Through the muffled sounds of her hand over the phone you can make out her order: sandwich, hold the bacon, bag of chips. Lunch on the run in a brown bag — one of the disappointments of being on the road with her one-woman show, "25 Question...

  From: CATHY JOHNSON [mailto:cathyj@flash.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 1:38 PM Subject: Invisible Theatre presents Judy Gold starring in 25 QUESTIONS FOR A JEWISH MOTHER   TICKETS NOW ON SALE!   JUDY GOLD IN 25 Questions For a JEWISH MOTHER A new comedy for anyone with a mother!   Written by Kate Moira Ryan with Judy Gold Directed by Karen Kohlhaas   Through the generous support of Sonora Investment Management   WHEN:                        March 29, 2008 at 8:00 PM                                     March 30, 2008 at 3:00 PM   WHERE:              ...