THEATRE WITHOUT COMPROMISE Dedicated to new, exciting, and innovative theatrical works of the highest quality, we provide a space where writers, performers, and an audience can come together in a spirit of community and collaboration to expand our understanding of what is possible in the theatre. We also offer educational programs and support for artist development for Southwestern Virginia. By working in concert with other arts organizations, we will strive to make Roanoke a nationally recognized ignition point for new play development.
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STUDIO ROANOKE
30 Campbell Avenue, SW
Roanoke VA 24011
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life...love...sex...death...and other works in progress
Written and performed by Stevie Jay July 10 and 11 ONLY! STEVIE JAY'S MULTI-CHAKRA EXTRAVAGANZA IS UPON US! Exploding with hysterical monologues, soulful skits, embarrassing observations, and intermittent go-go dancing, Stevie Jay paints a picture of real life on Earth with personal, uncensored stories about relationships, sex, working out at the gym, working out sexual relationships at the gym, and "the endless struggle to remain spiritually-oriented and irresistibly-gorgeous at all times."
http://www.steviejay3.com/
"Stevie Jay presents an evening of dangerous hilarity—pushing the envelope in unexpected directions—through uncharted territory, leaving his audiences with a lot to think about. Everybody should be hearing about Stevie Jay...and soon! ” Ray Faiola, CBS, New York
"It began as an experiment," Stevie said, "to create a cosmic variety show that would touch people deeply while distracting them with naughtiness. Audience members tell me how liberating it is to laugh at the excruciating experience of being human. I am so happy when I hear these things. It makes me feel that much closer to realizing my life-long dream of becoming a couples counselor."
"I figure there are about five basic human emotions, and the rest are just variations. We all know what it's like to be in love, and we all know what it's like to be hurt. So my formula for success is to make sure I am baring my soul at all times. And then if that doesn't work, I know I can always just whip off my shirt and bare my chest. That's a sure-fire winner every time!"
Runs July 10 & 11 at 8PM Sharp
Talk back after the performance with Stevie Jay
$10 General Admission Call 540-343-3054 to reserve tickets.Click to download the poster!
The Muses are Heard: Writing History and Memory
Written and performed by Carl Hancock Rux July 17 and 18 ONLY!
Join Studio Roanoke’s special guest Carl Hancock Rux as he presents an exploration of identity in a promising, yet uncertain age of race, sex and class. The reading will include excerpts of plays and performance pieces including The No Black Male Show, the OBIE award winning play Talk, as well as work from Rux’s novel Asphalt and his collection of poetry, Pagan Operetta. (Photo by: felicia megginson)
Carl Hancock Rux is a published poet, essayist, novelist and playwright. His plays and performance works for theater have been produced and or commissioned throughout the United States and internationally at venues including The Joseph Papp Public Theater, the Robert E. Fischer Center for the Performing Arts, PS 122, the Kitchen, HERE Arts Center, New Victory Theater, Lincoln center (Serious Fun & Outdoors Festival), Aaron Davis Hall, the BAM Harvey Theater (Next Wave Festival), REDCAT (Los Angeles), Mass MOCA (Mass.), the Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas (Seattle, Washington), Theater X (Milwaulkee, Wisconsin), University of Ghana at Legon (West Africa), Ebenezor Experimental Theater Festival (Sweden) Maison des Arts (Creteil, France), and the Victoria Theater (Singapore) among others. Plays include include "Geneva Cottrell, Waiting for the Dog to Die", "Mycenaean", "Chapter & Verse", "The No Black Male Show", "Smoke, Lilies & Jade", "Singing In the Womb of Angels", "Yanga", "Song of Sad Young Men" and the libretto for two operas: "'The Blackamoor Angel" and "Makandal". As a radio journalist he has been a guest commentator on WNYC and for XM radio's The Bob Edward's Show as well as co-wrote and hosted National Public Radio's "Walt Whitman: Songs of Myself", winner of the New York Press Club Journalism Award for Entertainment News. As a recording artist he has recorded three cd's: "Rux Revue" (Sony 550), "Apothecary Rx (Giant Step) and "Good Bread Alley"( Thirsty Ear). Rux is the subject of "Carl Hancock Rux , Coming of Age," (Larry Clamage/Richard Maniscalco for Voices of America) recipient of the CINE Golden Eagle award for television documentary. Carl Hancock Rux has written for (and performed with) several dance companies including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Urban Bush Women, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co., Jane Comfort & Co., and created the title role in the Robert Wilson/Bernice Johnson Reagon opera 'The Temptation of Saint Anthony" which had its world premiere at the Paris Opera (Garnier). Mr. Rux is the recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts Prize, and the Bessie Schomburg Award, the Village Voice Literary Prize, Fresh Poet Award, National Endowment for the Arts/Theater Communication Group Playwright in Residence fellowship, NEA Leadership Initiatives Meet the Composer Grant, the Kitchen Theater Artist Award, Rockefeller Map grant, Creative Capital Artist grant, New York Foundation for the Arts Gregory Millard fellowship, NYFA Prize, Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) Arts & Artists in Progress Award and was shortlisted for the United Artist Fellowship. He is the author of the Village Voice Literary prize winning collection of poetry "Pagan Operetta"(Fly By Night Press/Autonomedia), the novel "Asphalt" (Simon & Schuster) and the OBIE award winning play "Talk" (TCG).
Runs July 17 & 18 at 8PM Sharp
$10 General Admission Call 540-343-3054 to reserve tickets.Click to download the poster!
Exposed! Annual Festival of Student Play Readings from the Playwright's Lab at Hollins University
Coming at the end of July, we will present readings of 12 brand new plays by candidates in the MFA playwriting program at Hollins University. Plays will be performed in two hour blocks beginning at 6PM on Friday, July 24 and running through July 26th. Final reading each evening will be at 8PM. Readings are free and open to the public, but a suggested donation of $5 per event would help offset costs. Each reading will have a short, moderated discussion with the playwright and a panel of guest respondants. Respondants this year will include Robert Harris Moss (Founder of Playwrights Horizons), Bonnie Metzgar (Artistic Director of AboutFace Theatre), Jason Grote (Playwright), Larry Pontius (Playwright/Dramatists Guild) and Craig Pospisil (Playwright/Dramatists Play Service).
The Reading Schedule is as follows: July 24 @ 6PM:The Cold Earth, by Samantha Macher July 24 @ 8PM:The White Side of the Moon, by Sunny daSilva
July 25 @ 1PM:Stairs, by Steven V. Rice July 25 @ 3PM:The Piper Played, by MBDUMONDE July 25 @ 5PM:Feedback Loop, by Adam Hahn July 25 @ 8PM:Radium City, by Robert Plowman
July 26 @ 1PM:Fighting with Lions: a Greek Dramedy, by Nikki Adkins July 26 @ 3PM:They Hear the Distant Thunder, by David Schwingle July 26 @ 5PM:Airborn, by Sean Engard July 26 @ 8PM:Twelve Stations of the Cross, by Kenley S. Smith
No Shame Theatre Starting April 3rd, the popular late-night venue for short experiments in live performance comes to Studio Roanoke. Scripts taken at 10PM Doors open at 10:30 Show starts at 11PM $5 at the door
Red Moon Rising in the East
Written by Dwayne Yancey
Featuring Bill Armstrong
Do you know the man in the picture? Do you know that he changed your life - and the lives of every American in the 20th Century? His name is Sergei Korolev and you'll meet him in this extraordinary new play by Virginia playwright Dwayne Yancey, in this one man tour-de-force about Korolev, the father of the Russian Space program. It's a masterful blending of science, history, politics and humanity, witty and intelligent.
LIMITED RUN! August 7 & 8, 2009 at 8PM sharp
2PM matinee on Saturday
General admission, all seats $15
$12 for seniors and students
Shade of the Trees
Written by Kenley S. Smith
Directed by Pat Wilhelms
In Civil War-era Virginia, a 12-year-old girl aids a young runaway slave and finds that she must choose between loyalty to her new friend and her perceived duty to her society.
August 25-August 30, 2009
8PM sharp
Additional matinees on Saturday and Sunday at 2PM
General admission, all seats $15
$12 for seniors and students
Contains mature content and themes
Studio Roanoke is a federally registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization and your donation is tax deductible within the charitable giving regulations of the Internal Revenue Service. A copy of our IRS approval letter is available upon request.
Starting April 3rd, the popular late-night venue for short experiments in live performance comes to Studio Roanoke.
