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ARTworks features a newly expanded Black Box Theater which seats 120. ALL tickets to ARTworks Theater performances are $17 per person, $12 for students (13+), $7 for children (12 and under) and $12 for groups of 10 or more (Unless Otherwise Noted). Click Here to find out how to purchase tickets!
The 2012 Theater Season:
Season Tickets Available ~ an $82 value for $55!!!! On Sale NOW through February 10, 2012 ~
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Misspent Youth Productions, "The Exonerated"; A staged Reading, February 2012 |
The Palmetto Theater Xperiment, "Pillowman"; A staged Reading, February 2012 |
Misspent Youth Productions, "Catholic School Girls"; March 2012 |
The Palmetto Theater Xperiment, "Picasso At The Lapin Agile"; May/June 2012 |
Auditions for September & November Performances; Wednesday June 13th & Thursday June 14th; 7pm |
Misspent Youth Productions, "W;t"; September 2012 |
The Palmetto Theater Xperiment, "The Misanthrope"; November 2012
Special Added Performances:
"The Exonerated" by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen ~
A Staged Reading Produced by Misspent Youth Productions
Directed by Stephen Murray
Production Dates:
February 10 & 11 at 7:30pm; all seats $7
Culled from interviews, letters, transcripts, case files and the public record, "The Exonerated" tells the true stories of six wrongfully convicted survivors of death row in their own words. 
In this ninety-minute intermissionless play, we meet Kerry, a sensitive Texan brutalized on death row for twenty-two years before being exonerated by DNA evidence; we meet Gary, a Midwestern organic farmer condemned for the murder of his own parents and later exonerated when two motorcycle-gang members confess. We meet Robert, an African-American horse groomer who spent seven years on death row for the murder of a white woman before evidence emerges that the victim was found clutching hair from a Caucasian attacker. We hear from David, a shy man with aspirations to the ministry, bullied into confessing at eighteen to a robbery/murder he had nothing to do with, scarred from a youth spent in prison and struggling to regain his faith; and from Sunny, a bright-spirited hippie who, along with her husband, spent seventeen years in prison for the murder of two police officers while another man confessed and was ignored by the courts. And we meet Delbert, a poet who serves as the play's center, convicted of a rape/murder in the Deep South of the 1970s and later freed when evidence surfaced showing that he was not even in the town when the crime occurred. Moving between first-person monologues and scenes set in courtrooms and prisons, the six interwoven stories paint a picture of an American criminal justice system gone horribly wrong and of six brave souls who persevered to survive it.
"The Pillowman" by Martin McDonagh ~
A Staged Reading Produced by The Palmetto Theater Xperiment
Directed by Matthew Donnelly
Production Dates:
February 17 & 18 at 7:30pm; all seats $7
With echoes of Stoppard, Kafka, and the Brothers Grimm, "The Pillowman" centers on a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state who is being interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a series of child murders. The result is an urgent work of theatrical bravura and an unflinching examination of the very nature and purpose of art.
Rare, Rich & Racy: Mark Twain's Final Tour ~
starring Professor Stan Gill
Production Dates:
Saturday February 25 at 7pm, and Sunday the 26th at 3pm
As precursor the B.I.G. Story Fest in March, ARTworks presents Professor Stan Gill in a portrayal of America's most magnificent humorist, author Mark Twain. The man will take the stage on Saturday February 25 at 7pm, and Sunday the 26th at 3pm. Tickets are $17 per person, $12 for students (13+), $7 for children (12 and under) and $12 for groups of 10 or more.
At the turn of the Twentieth Century Mark Twain toured the globe in a speaking tour. He was the most recognizable figure in the world. In his seventies, he entertained with his hilarious, bold and poignant comments on the human condition. These controversial events gave his public new insight into America's most beloved author and humorist, as does his newly released autobiography.
Actor, lyricist and director of SPROUT Theater in Charleston, Stan Gill began his portrayal of Mr. Twain in 1971; in 2011 the performance broke attendance records at Piccolo Spoleto. Whether he is talking about jumping frogs or Adam & Eve... Huckleberry Finn or Ancestor Satan. Gill's portrayal will have you laughing and crying and laughing again.
"He steps into the spotlight as Twain saying, "I was born modest, but it wore off." The actor can afford to carry a little of the author's immodesty. His Twain is pitch-perfect through the entirety of the talk, musing on topics as varied as quitting smoking and the diaries of Adam and Eve." - the Charleston Post & Courier
"Catholic School Girls" by Casey Kurrti ~
Produced by the Misspent Youth Productions and Directed by Gail Westerfield
Production Dates:
March 22 - 24 at 7:30pm; March 25th at 3pm; March 29 - 31 at 7:30pm; April 1st at 3pm
Thur March 22 and Thur March 29 are "Pay What You Can" Performances ($5 minimum)
This satire of Catholic school life in the 1960's uses four actresses to play the nuns and the first through eighth grade girls at St. George's School in Yonkers. As they experience bonds of friendship, reprimands from authority figures and pressures from home and they react to the Beatles, the Addams Family, the Supremes and the election of a Catholic president, an amusing portrait of girls maturing to the threshold of adolescence delightfully emerges. Between classroom scenes monologues give free rein to the students' decidedly secular ambitions.
"Picasso At The Lapin Agile" by Steve Martin ~
Produced by the Palmetto Theater Xperiment and Directed by J.W. Rone
Production Dates:
May 31 - June 2 at 7:30pm; June 3rd at 3pm; June 7 - 9 at 7:30pm; June 10th at 3pm
Thur May 31 and Thur Jun. 7 are "Pay What You Can" Performances ($5 minimum)
This long running Off-Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. In his first comedy for the stage, the popular actor and screenwriter plays fast and loose with fact, fame and fortune as these two geniuses muse on the century's achievements and prospects as well as other fanciful topics with infectious dizziness. Bystanders, including Picasso' agent, the bartender and his mistress, Picasso's date, an elderly philosopher, Charles Dabernow Schmendimen and an idiot inventor introduce additional flourishes of humor. The final surprise patron to join the merriment at the Lapin Agile is a charismatic dark haired singer time warped in from a later era.
"W;T" by Margaret Edson ~
Produced by Misspent Youth Productions and Directed by Gail Westerfield
Audition Dates: June 13th & 14th at 7pm
Production Dates:
September 6 - 8th at 7:30pm; September 9th at 3pm; September 13 - 15th at 7:30pm; September 16th at 3pm
Thur Sept. 6 and Thur Sept. 15 are "Pay What You Can" Performances ($5 minimum)
Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the brilliant and difficult metaphysical sonnets of John Donne, has been diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer. Her approach to the study of Donne: aggressively probing, intensely rational. But during the course of her illness and her stint as a prize patient in an experimental chemotherapy program at a major teaching hospital Vivian comes to reassess her life and her work with a profundity and humor that are transformative both for her and the audience.
"The Misanthrope" by Molière ~
Produced by Palmetto Theater Xperiment and Directed by J.W. Rone
Audition Dates: June 13th & 14th at 7pm
Production Dates:
November 8 - 10th at 7:30pm; November 11th at 3pm; November 15 - 17th at 7:30pm; November 18th at 3pm
Thur Nov. 8 and Thur Nov. 15 are "Pay What You Can" Performances ($5 minimum)
What's worse than being the only (self-proclaimed) honest man in a world of liars, gossips, and fools? Being head-over-heels in love with the chief offender among them. "The Misanthrope" follows the hilariously thorny love-life of the irascible Alceste and the coquettish Célimène, who put the concept of "opposites attract" to the ultimate test.
