Produced by the Everyman Repertory Theatre for Lux Radio Theatre and the Camden Opera House’s SoundCheck series. Everyman Repertory Theatre presents ‘Miracle on 34th Street’ at 7:30pm on January 5, 2024.
This Lux Radio Theatre-style adaptation will be presented on the 11th Day of Christmas! Choose-your-own reserved seats are $10. Sponsored by our Community Arts Fund. One-hour show will be recorded for free viewing later on Camden Opera House’s YouTube Channel.
Cast includes Ryan Jackson as Kris Kringle, Jennifer Hodgson as Doris Walker, John Jurcheck as Fred Gailey, with Beverly Scott, Andrea Itkin, Dean Jorgensen, Dagney Ernest, W. Joseph Cote, Jan Zimmerman, Scott Anthony Smith, and Paul Hodgson.
The Everyman Repertory Theatre, in partnership with Camden Public Library – Camden, Maine is pleased to present a new series, “Forgotten Classics of the Stage” featuring rehearsed readings and lively discussions of famous but rarely performed plays.
The first event will take place on Sunday, November 26, at 2:00 PM in the Reading Room at the Camden Public Library and feature the 20th century play ‘Journey’s End.’
Journey’s End was first presented in 1928, written by the English playwright and screenwriter R.C. Sherriff. It is set towards the end of the First World War. The story takes place in an officers’ dugout in the trenches and was based on Sherriff’s letters home during his time as an officer. It played a clear role in informing and inspiring the Blackadder series of BBC comedies set during this period, though it has a more tragic bent.
The play was first performed at the Apollo Theatre in London on 9 December 1928, starring a young Laurence Olivier, and soon moved to other West End theatres for a two-year run. It was one of The Best Plays of 1928–1929 and quickly became internationally popular, with numerous productions and tours in English and other languages, as well as a film version, before falling from the repertoire.
“As soon as we announced it would be part of our Forgotten Classics of the Stage series, two of our cast members said they had seen productions in London on the 100th anniversary of the war’s end,” said Paul Hodgson, artistic director of the Everyman Repertory Theatre. “But then it immediately fell out of the repertoire again. It is a work of absolute genius, powerful, realistic, emotional, anti-war and brutally honest. It should be on the stage somewhere all the time.”
Cast includes Paul Hodgson, Jennifer Hodgson, John Jurcheck, Scott Anthony Smith, Joseph Cote, Ryan Jackson, and Jim Reitz.
Top L to R: Dean Jorgenson, Scott Anthony Smith, Robin Jones, John Jurcheck, W. Joseph Cote. Bottom L to R: Jennifer Hodgson, Paul Hodgson, Andrea Itkin, Jim Reitz, Liz McLeod.
The Everyman Repertory Radio Theatre will bring a radio dramatization of Dracula to the Strand Theatre stage on Tuesday, Oct. 31, at 7 p.m. This live show will feature a cast of ten actors and hundreds of sound effects.
The production stars the Everyman Repertory Radio Company, with Dean Jorgenson as Dracula, Scott Anthony Smith as Jonathan Harker, Robin Jones as Renfield, John Jurcheck as Dr. Seward, Joseph Coté as Van Helsing, and Jen Hodgson as Mina Harker. Other parts will be played by Andrea Itkin, Liz McLeod, Jim Reitz, and Paul Hodgson as well as other members of the cast.
Dracula is directed by Paul Hodson, with a soundtrack designed and performed by David Berez and Geoff Parker.
This radio version of Dracula is adapted by PG Hodson from the Mercury Radio Theatre and CBC radio adaptations of “Dracula.” The story is based on the novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897, in which a tale is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. At the opening, solicitor Jonathan Harker is on a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Harker escapes the castle after discovering that Dracula is a vampire, and the Count moves to England and first plagues the seaside town of Whitby in the North East of England. Dracula recruits other vampires, including Lucy Westenra, the ward of Dr. Seward, and coincidentally, friend of Mina Harker, Jonathan’s wife. On Lucy’s “death,” he recruits his colleague from Holland Abraham van Helsing, and this team pursues Dracula to London and back to Transylvania for a final battle between good and evil, on the way freeing Lucy from her undead state.
Running time is 90 minutes.
Tickets are $15/General Admission. Beer and wine will be available at concessions. To buy tickets, or for more information, visit www.rocklandstrand.com or call (207) 594-0070.
The Strand Theatre is located at 345 Main Street, Rockland.
Lux Radio Theatre-style presentation of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ as heard on NPR’s Maine Calling!
Everyman Repertory Theatre opened their 2023 season with this ‘radio’ adaptation as part of the Camden Opera House’s SoundCheck series on January 6th.
Featuring Dean Jorgenson, Scott Anthony Smith, Ryan Jackson, Dagney Ernest, Joseph Cote, Jim Reitz, Andrea Itkin, Jan Zimmermann, Beverly Scott, Robin Jones, Paul Hodgson and Jennifer Hodgson, with Geoff Parker on SOUNDFX, and the show was directed by Paul Hodgson.
“This year we are proud to be celebrating our tenth year of collaboration with Everyman Repertory Theatre, a theatre company based here in midcoast Maine. We’ve been to partnering with ERT in readings and plays surrounding issues in the art world.
This painting captures the faces of the men so realistically that one can imagine meeting them. Enjoy The Builders by Will Davis!”
Vas Prabhu, Director of Education, Farnsworth Art Museum
Written by Paul Hodgson, Voiced by Scott Anthony Smith, Edited by David Troup
All are invited to the Everyman Repertory Theatre’s 2019 Fundraising Party The Next 10 Years. The donate-what-you-can event will be a celebration of the upcoming Everyman Repertory Theatre season. A cash bar will be on hand as will delicious treats from some of the top local chefs in Midcoast Maine. Live performances from a few of Everyman Rep’s company members over the past ten years will take place amid one of the most idyllic spots in the midcoast. Camp Bishopswood, originally built in the mid-30s, is nestled in the woods on the shores of Lake Megunticook in Hope.
Everyman Rep’s upcoming season will include a late July production of the Jed Feuer/Boyd Graham two-man musical The Big Bang, featuring John Burstein and David Troup, and a November production of Bertolt Brecht’s fascinating The Threepenny Opera, at the Rockport Opera House, directed by Everyman Rep Artistic Director Paul Hodgson.
“As the only professional non-profit theatre in the midcoast, we’re so grateful to the support of our local community,” commented Mr. Hodgson. “We live in such a beautiful environment, fast becoming a cultural hub – but there are very few big corporate sponsors available to a small theatre such as ours. We’re very dependent on the support of local theatre-lovers and theatre-goers year-in and year-out. We certainly hope everyone will come out, not only to support the theatre, but to have a fantastic time at one of the most beautiful spots in our area.”
Advance tickets for The Big Bang will be available at the party as will more information on the upcoming season. For more information about the event or Everyman Repertory Theatre call 207-236-1073 or visit www.everymanrep.org
Join Everyman Rep at the Farnsworth on Saturday, January 12 at 2pm for a series of short dramatic readings by playwright Don Nigro. The plays will include: Picasso, a monologue by Georges Braque about an argument he and Picasso had about finding a squirrel in one of his paintings; Dutch Interiors, a monologue by Vermeer about finding the Girl with a Pearl Earring in a tiny perspective box he has become obsessed with; The Daughters of Edward D. Boit, featuring the four girls in the painting of that name by John Singer Sargent; and Europe after the Rain, a WWII-era interrogation of artist Max Ernst by two FBI agents.
Actors include Dagney Ernest, Eliza Robinson, Eva Hopkins, Andrea Itkin, Robin Jones, Ryan Jackson, Paul Hodgson, David Troup and myself. The production is directed by Jennifer Hodgson and stage managed by Mary Ann Giasson.
Everyman Repertory Theatre will present the world premiere of “Hold Onto Your Hat!” The one-woman show, written and performed by Andrea Itkin of Camden, will open its statewide tour Saturday, Sept. 1, at 7:30 p.m. at the Marsh River Theatre, 24 Monroe Highway/Route 139.
The show is part memoir, part social commentary, written from the perspective of youth through old age — delivered all in rhyme and a bit of song with a lot of humor. “Andrea kept bringing in these poems to our Actors’ Studio last year and reading them, and we were all just blown away by how good they were; how funny, how sad, how, sometimes, angry,” said Everyman Rep’s artistic director Paul Hodgson. “We knew we had to help her get it on stage and in front of people.”
Itkin said that although she had written some plays and monologues, short stories and poems over the years, she had never attempted rhymes or songs before starting work on this show.
“It was initially inspired by Patti Smith’s memoir, ‘Just Kids,’ which got me thinking about that time of my life and experimenting with expressing experience in a new way,” she said.
“Hold Onto Your Hat!” is a multimedia production featuring photographs by Cig Harvey and Scott Anthony Smith; collages by Tammam Azzam; paintings by Natasha Mayers; a short film by Dylan Itkin; and original recordings by Mary Anne Driscoll and Curran Reynolds of Body Stuff. It is directed by Scott Anthony Smith.
Itkin has been writing and performing in Maine for over 35 years. Most recently, she was in the reading of “Lost and Guided” by Irene Kapustina; and has had roles in many Everyman productions including Givola in “The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui,” Nat in “Rabbit Hole” and Carrie Watts in “The Trip to Bountiful.”
Tickets are $20; $10 students, available online at everymanrep.org. The tour continues Sept. 20 through 23 at the Portland Ballet Studio Theater; Sept. 29 and 30 at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland; Oct. 5 at the UMaine Hutchinson Center in Belfast; Oct. 18 and 19 at The Theater Project in Brunswick; and Oct. 27 and 28 at the Michael Klahr Center in Augusta.
The Night Kitchen is a full length, original musical comedy. The cast comprises some of the very best acting talent you will see anywhere. Actors from New York City, England and around the state are joining forces to bring you this wonderful theatrical experience!
The musical explores the inner workings of the restaurant business, and the importance that food plays in people’s lives. It also provides loads of laughs and features imaginatively costumed characters from the kitchen coming alive and singing about their joys and sorrows – a frying pan who dreams of flambéing, a dish and spoon who fall in love, and the Pasta Nostra Clan plotting to take over the kitchen.
Scott Anthony Smith 