Yankee Tavern Opens Tonight

Making your way in the world today takes everything you got, taking a break from all your worries sure would help a lot …

Ladies and gentlemen, Yankee Tavern, the coolest bar you’ll ever see on a stage opens tonight, Wednesday November 18.

Bring your friends, bring your neighbors, bring your bar buddies and expand your own conspiratorial theories as Adam and Janet prepare for their wedding with good friend, and slightly kooky, Ray, and the mysterious Palmer lurking over their shoulder.

See you between the scenes!

Yankee Tavern: On Location

Blogging from the iPhone … gotta love technology.

Previews for Yankee Tavern begin this week and then one more week of rehearsal to tweak what needs tweaking with an opening night just over a week away.

I’m currently watching Kimberly Watson-Brooks as Janet and Chip Decker as the enigmatic Palmer have a showdown in the stage-turned-bar. Why is Palmer harassing Janet? Why is Janet so freaked out by him? And more importantly, why is Janet wielding a gun?

All these questions and far, far more will be addressed and, with any luck, answered when the show opens and audiences turn out for a show that unflinchingly tackles a world where 9/11 was not just some random attack; but a highly orchestrated initiative involving, and ultimately indicting, the highest levels of power in our country and abroad.

Stay tuned for more this week and next, including an interview with actor Matt Cosper.

See you between the scenes!

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Featured in the photo are Assistant Stage Manager Jes Dugger, Kimberly Watson-Brooks as Janet, director Dennis Delamar, Stage Manager Carrie Cranford and Technical Director Mike Snow.

Welcome to Yankee Tavern: A First Look at the Cast

The second show in the Actor’s Theatre’s 2009-2010 season is a post-9/11 thriller that will, in the words of director Dennis Delamar, “get you on the edge of your seat”.

Between the Scenes is here to offer you the first shots of the cast in action.

This first image is of Matt Cosper and Kimberly Watson-Brooks who play engaged couple Adam and Janet.  Adam’s father owned the Yankee Tavern before he died.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This second image features Matt and Kim as well as Tom Scott, who plays the quirky conspiracy-theorist Ray.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In this picture are Tom as well as Director Dennis Delamar, Videographer James Capozzi and  Actor’s Theatre’s own Artistic Director Chip Decker who rounds out the cast as the enigmatic Palmer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to photographer George Hendricks for the great pictures and to Phil’s Tavern on 5th for letting our team shoot there.

Stay tuned for more from the Yankee Tavern!

And the Winner is …. Rachel Sergeant!

There were some awesome entries in the Name the Blog Contest and a heated debate by our panel of judges lead to an even more heated debate over whether we should pick one or have a rotating list of titles, we finally settled on ‘Between the Scenes’ offered by Rachel Sergeant.

Thanks again to everyone who entered and we hope to see you all at the upcoming production of ‘Yankee Tavern’.

Name That Blog Contest

Second post, first contest!

The rules are simple: Name the Blog.  I could come up with something witty and clever, but I thought I’d let you, the reader and fan of all things ATC give a go at it first.

A New Season, A New Blog(ger)

A formal salutations to all former and future Actor’s Theatre fans, patrons and critics.  In an effort to further their reach, ATC has enlisted my help in advancing their internet presence as well as their secondary goal of taking over the theatre world, both locally and abroad.

I am Nathan Rouse, your guide and eyes on the journey we’re beginning together right here, right now as you read these very words.  If you like theatre and if you like Charlotte and if you like witticisms, snarky or otherwise, then you’ve come to the right place.

So greetings and don’t mind the dust and detritus that you’ll find strewn about the place.  This new ATC blog is getting some tweaking and some new primer and paint put on the place so mind you don’t step on any nails as I do a little remodeling around here.

Actor’s Theatre has just begun their 21st season with the corporate comedy Big Boys which just wrapped this past weekend.  About to go into rehearsals is Yankee Tavern and you can find more info on it over at the official ATC website.  Over the course of the rehearsal process you’ll be invited behind the scenes as we meet the cast, get a little rehearsal footage in here and maybe a guest article or two, we’ll see.  If we’re lucky, maybe director Dennis Delamar himself will grant us a little time and conversation.

I think that covers the bases.  So, again, mind the newness and the remodels that are underway and enjoy yourselves as we trek through the zany world of … the Theatre!