Off Square Theatre Company - Jackson Hole Wyoming

Always...Patsy Cline Returns!

2010-06-25T13:09:00.000-07:00

Always…Patsy Cline is more than a tribute to a legendary country singer, the show is based on a true story about Cline’s friendship with a fan from Houston named Louise Seger with correspondence between them that continued until Cline’s death. This production includes many of Patsy’s unforgettable hits such as Crazy, I Fall to Pieces, and Walking After Midnight…27 songs in all. The show’s title was inspired by Cline’s letters to Seger, which were consistently signed, “Love ALWAYS…Patsy Cline.”

Always...Patsy Cline: July 10, 11, 13, 15, 17, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, or 31

Center for the Arts
Center Theater
8 PM Nightly
No Shows on Mondays

Center Box Office
307-733-4900
www.offsquare.org

Petticoat Rules Opens July 8th in the Center for the Arts!

2010-06-25T11:49:00.000-07:00

Petticoat Rules is a true musical history of our hometown Jackson Hole, with a live orchestra, dance, much humor, and poignant true stories of our forbearers. It takes you back to the early days and the colorful characters that pioneered our beautiful valley – and specifically those five intrepid women who were the first elected female politicians during a time when women didn’t even have the right to vote.

Petticoat Rules: July 8, 9, 14, 18, 20, 22, 24, 28, or 30

Center for the Arts
Center Theatre
8 PM Nightly
No shows on Mondays

Petticoat Rules runs in rotating repertory with Always...Patsy Cline throughout the month of July.

2010-04-15T15:02:00.000-07:00

Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov May 5 - 15

"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's this day-to-day living that wears you out." by Anton Chekhov

A tragicomedy masterpiece of thwarted desire. A family estate is brought to the brink of ruin following the arrival of an ailing professor and his exquisitely beautiful wife. Uncle Vanya is a captivating exploration of the human condition, and a wickedly comic romance immersed in unrequited love and extraordinary tenderness.

Presented in the Mary K. Weiss Black Box.

8 PM* Evenings ( Except on May 7 & May 15)

3 PM Sunday Matinee May 9

2 PM Saturday Matinee May 15

Directed by Paul Mroczka

Adapted by Libby Appel

Translation by Allison Horsley

Underwritten by Russian Club of Jackson Hole

Elizabeth Masek

Dennis and Mary Lou Brydon

Steve and June Wolfson

*Special 7 PM show times on May 7 & May 15 *7:00 p.m.

Show time followed by talk backs and Russian treats! (hosted by the Russian Club of Jackson Hole).

The Russian Club of JH is a special project of the Community Foundation of JH.

TICKETS
Adults $25 Student/Senior $20 Children $15

Man of La Mancha Reviews!!

2010-02-08T12:22:00.000-08:00

Rave Reviews for Man of La Mancha!

I saw Man of La Mancha last evening, and it was brilliant! Everything about it, from the acting to the voices to the stage set was truly great.
Karen Terra

All that I can say is that I have seen Man of La Mancha with all star casts previously, and this production was better. The orchestra, too, deserves great credit. Congratulations on a wonderful show.
Stan Trachtenberg

...this sets a new standard for theatre on that stage - everything was first class - we were blown away - it was as if we hadn't seen it before - literally emotionally spent - and it's a musical - after speaking with the crowd, including some of our board and donors, all of whom were equally affected, we wandered out in a daze. It dawned upon me as we were driving home, that aside from standing up and bravoing our brains out, we never personally spoke with the cast. Tracy, could you pass this on to the magnificent actors - every one of them. Wow!
David Kornblum and Nancy McCarthy

I was blown away. Man of La Mancha was sensational. A few of the underwriters were there tonight and I believe that they and all the audience were in awe of the set, choreography, costumes, music, songs and onstage talent. Congratulations to John and all who make the production possible.
Charlie Ross

TERRY IS A BETTER DON QUIXOTE THAN PETER O'TOOLE!! AND THERE IS NO CONTEST BETWEEN SOPHIA LOREN AND KATIE DEAL...DEAL WINS, HANDS DOWN!
Great job, everyone!
Jade Walsh

Just came home from the Friday performance.... Fabulous!!
It was just beautifully cast and I did not see a performance that was was not well done. Musically blended they were dynamite.
Technically I would hold this with the best regional theaters (say the Guthrie, Williamstown or Paper Mill) and I think that set would be right at home on Broadway. Most dramatic and atmospheric lighting I have seen here to date. Loved the glow shining through the stones -- wonderfully effect.
Susan Brooks

TICKETS ARE SELLING FAST!

2010-01-12T17:06:00.000-08:00

CHICAGO’S FAMED SECOND CITY COMES TO JACKSON!

On Saturday, January 16, Chicago’s legendary comedy theatre The Second City will appear at the Center for the Arts at 8 PM. This special performance will feature some of the best sketches, songs, and improvisations from The Second City’s fifty year history. The Second City is truly a Chicago landmark and a national treasure. ONE NIGHT ONLY! Buy tickets online CLICK HERE.

2010 Season Passes On Sale Now!

2009-12-02T19:31:00.000-08:00

Why Buy a SEASON PASS?

Epic. Triumphant. Provocative. Unforgettable.

Only the Off Square Theatre Company offers such a compelling range and diversity of plays. Experience top quality productions that intrigue you with fresh perspectives and delight you with fun & captivating performances.

Four Pass $80

Pick any four shows and SAVE 20%*.

Six Pass $112.50

A ticket to every show! Use all six tickets at once,
one to every show or any combination. 25% SAVINGS*.

Company Pass $390

Purchase four tickets to every show in the season.
35% SAVINGS --- BEST VALUE!*

Man of La Mancha
by Dale Wasserman, lyrics by Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh
February 3 – February 13

Uncle Vanya
by Anton Chekhov
May 5 – May 15

Petticoat Rules: The Jackson Hole Revue
by Mary Murfitt and Pam Drews Phillips
(in rotating repertory with Always...Patsy Cline)
July 8 – July 30

Always…Patsy Cline
By Ted Swindley Productions, Inc.
(in rotating repertory with Petticoat Rules: The Jackson Hole Revue)
July 10 – July 31

Twelfth Night: A Musical
by William Shakespeare
Musical adaptation by John R. Briggs
November 3 - November 13

SantaLand Diaries
by David Sedaris
December 16 – December 23

Special Engagements - Only season pass holders get deep discount and preferred seating for special engagements.

Hal Holbrook in Mark Twain Tonight!
January 10
Co-presentation with the Jackson Hole Center for the Arts

Second City
World famous Improv Group
January 16

The Wizard of Oz
By L. Frank Baum
March 17 – March 21

Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical
by composer Michael Silversher and author/illustrator Mo Willems
October 15

Call 307-733-4900 to order your pass today!

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

2009-10-14T10:45:00.000-07:00

Macbeth

OFF SQUARE THEATRE COMPANY’S FALL SHAKESPEARE PRODUCTION

Jackson, Wyoming, November 4 through 14: Off Square Theatre Company announces the opening of William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Macbeth, as this season’s fall production.

Off Square Theatre continues is fall tradition of producing Shakespeare. This season is William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Even though it is Shakespeare’s shortest tragedy, it is filled with many of the bard’s greatest observations. Returning to the stage are resident company members Judith Townsend, Caryn Flanagan, Bob Berky, Cord Reynolds, Kelly Bouma and Curt Haws. There is a cast of 18 professional actors costumes in 14^th century Scottish garb. There are five fully staged sword fights. Early reservations are encouraged.

Macbeth is the story of a Scottish lord and his wife and their ruthless ambition to achieve the crown of Scotland. After encountering three witches during a battle to preserve the kingdom, Macbeth is told that he will become king. Encouraged by his wife and the prophecy of the witches, he murders the rightful King of Scotland to gain the crown. In order to keep it, however, he finds himself caught up in a downward spiral of more murder and madness. The murdered king’s son, Malcolm, enlists the aid of the English army to re-capture his father’s throne. While in England, to offer his allegiance to Malcolm, Macbeth kills Macduff’s family, a fatal mistake. It is Macduff who ends Macbeth’s spree of ambitious murder. Both Macbeth and his wife pay for their crimes with their lives. Macbeth is considered one of the great plays of all time and is filled with suspense, intrigue and mystery.

Off Square Theatre’s Producing Artistic Director, John R. Briggs, directs Macbeth. Briggs has directed at regional theatres throughout the United States, including Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Asolo Theatre, Buffalo Studio Theatre, Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Florida Stage Company, and the Barter Theatre. Since coming to Off Square Theatre he has directed Peter Pan, Crazy Love, The God Committee, Eleemosynary, Romeo and Juliet, Deathtrap, The Jungle Book, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Scrooge, K2, Petticoat Rules, and Lettice and Love.

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Costumes are designed by Jen Blake and Terry Schwab. Fights are staged by new comer to Off Square Theatre, Michael Johnson, internationally renowned combat choreographer. Michael Tilley composed an original score. Michael comes from Boulder, Colorado, and is best remembered to local audiences as the music director of Off Square’s acclaimed productions of Always, Patsy Cline, Seussical The Musical and Petticoat Rules.

Macbeth previews Wednesday, November 4 and 5, then opens the 6^th at 8:00 pm, and continues through November 14. There is Sunday matinee November 8 at 3pm and a Saturday matinee November 14 at 2pm . All performances take place in the Center Theater in the Center for the Arts, 265 Cache Street, Jackson, Wyoming. To purchase tickets, call the Center Box Office, 307-733-4900 or go online at www.offsquare.org. Tickets are: Previews $10. All others $25 for adults, $20 for seniors/students and $15 for children under 11.

For additional information on Macbeth, contact John R. Briggs or visit www.offsquare.org.

ABOUT Off Square Theatre Company – Established in 1998, Off Square Theatre is Wyoming’s only professional theatre company. Off Square moved into the Center for the Arts in 2007 as the Center’s Resident Theatre Company. Off Square produces plays and musicals throughout the calendar year in the Center Theatre and the Black Box Studio Theatre in the Center for the Arts. Off Square also provides educational theatre training classes to students and adults, summer theatre camps, and is the sponsor of the Off Square Players, a conservatory-type theatre-training program for students 12 to 18.

2009-10-12T20:35:00.000-07:00

October 30: Bloody Marys, Masquerades, and Macbeth!
PARTY at the Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary, 6 – 9 PM. A lively
evening of costumes and merrymaking to launch Off Square Theatre
Company’s production of Macbeth which opens November 4 and runs
through November 14. Costume contest, broadsword-fighting and special
appearances from the Macbeth cast. Kids welcome! Don’t miss it!

November 4–14: MACBETH, presented by Off Square Theatre Company.
The classic Shakespearean drama of a King’s bloody rise to power in 14th
century Scotland. Center for the Arts, 8 PM Evenings; Matinees: November
8, 3 PM & November 14, 2 PM. FOR TICKETS: 307.733.4900 or
purchase online at www.offsquare.org.

OTHER FESTIVITIES:
October 7 – 24: Reuse/Recycle Halloween Costume Drive
Drop off locations: Off Square Theatre Office (240 S. Glenwood in the Center for
the Arts) or Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary (130 S. Jackson St., one block
from Jackson Hole Cinema on Pearl Street).

Oct 15 - 31 - Off Square Costume Exhibition at Lyndsay McCandless Contemporary

Oct 17 & 24 - Costume and makeup demonstration by costume
designer Jen Blake. Buy a recycled costume! Adults & Kids welcome.

Performed Around the World on October 12: The Laramie Project-10 Years Later

2009-10-02T16:24:00.000-07:00

(Jackson, WY) On Monday, October 12, 2009 all 50 states and other nations will partake in a historic event, raising awareness for the need to accept diversity and combat hate-related crimes, by presenting The Laramie Project-10 Years Later. The performance in Jackson will be at 7:00pm in the Center for the Arts Theater and will be free.

Dancers’ Workshop, in participation with Off Square Theatre Company, will present the Jackson production with Bob Berky directing. The production has been generously underwritten by August Spier and Jackie and Michael Lessac, with community members coming forward to participate as readers.

In 1998 Matthew Shepherd, an openly gay student, was beaten and left to die on a fencepost in Laramie, WY by two men who lured him from a bar earlier that evening. A month later Moises Kaufman and other writers from the Tectonic Theater Project in New York City came to Laramie to interview residents and see how a small town grapples with such a crime. The interviews became a play that was performed in thousands of theaters and was made into an HBO movie. Now, ten years later, Tectonic Theater Project has returned to Laramie to explore how Matthew Shepherd’s death has altered the community and interview the same residents, including Aaron McKinney, one of Shepherd’s murderers, who is serving a life sentence for the crime. These interviews have been created into an addendum to the original play. The 80-minute production will be performed globally on October 12, 2009.

For more information please contact Bob Berky at bberky@wyoming.com or Alissa Davies at marketing@dwjh.org or 733.6398.

Macbeth

2009-09-22T20:11:00.000-07:00

Off Square Theatre Company presents William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The production runs November 4-14 at 7:30 pm with matinee performances on November 8 at 3 pm and November 14 at 2:00 pm. All performances will be held in the Center of the Arts, where Off Square Theatre is the professional resident theatre company. Producing Artistic Director, John R. Briggs, will direct the productions, which will include professional acting company members Judith Townsend, Terry Schwab, Caryn Flanagan and Kelly Bouma. Michael Johnson, who created the sword fights in Off Square Theatre’s acclaimed production of Romeo and Juliet, returns to choreograph the fights in Macbeth.

2009-05-24T14:00:00.000-07:00

Off Square Theatre presents it’s youth company, the Off Square Players, in Broadway Babes—a musical revue-- for two (2) performances on Sunday and Monday May 17 & 18 @ 7:30 pm in OST’s Black Box Theatre (upstairs in the Center for the Arts).
Broadway Babes will feature great classic songs from the broadway stage as well as characterizations from four plays.
General seating. Seating is limited. Suggested Donation of $5.00 for adults & $3.00 for children 12 and under.

Welcome to the new Blog Site for Off Square

2009-05-24T13:31:00.000-07:00

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Off Square Theatre Company is a vibrant, year-round professional theatre company located in Jackson, Wyoming. Based in the Jackson Hole Center for Arts, Off Square produces and presents quality theatre and theatre education to enrich the cultural life of our diverse community.