Stories on Stage presents Crazy in Love April 30, 2011

STORIES ON STAGE

CRAZY IN LOVE
DENVER, – Stories on Stage presents “Crazy in Love” featuring Jamie Horton, Karen Slack, Tamlyn Tomita and Stephen Weitz on Saturday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. at The Dairy Center in Boulder and Sunday, May 1 at 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. in Denver at the Stage Theatre at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. Single tickets are $25. Tickets for April 30 in Boulder are available by calling the Dairy Center at 303-444-7328; tickets for May 1 in Denver are available by calling 303-494-0523 or online at www.storiesonstage.org.
Love is the engine that keeps every man and woman around the world, be they young or old, black or white, gay or straight, dogs or cats, completely, hopelessly, stupidly, ga-ga over the particular object of their affection. Love makes us all crazy. Let Love Rule.
Sundered Hearts by P.G. Wodehouse, read by Jamie Horton
P.G. Wodehouse is best known for his creation of the quintessential British gentleman and valet “Jeeves.”He was first published in 1902 and enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years. Wodehouse was also a playwright and lyricist who was part author and writer of 15 plays and of 250 lyrics for some 30 musical comedies. His prolific writings continue to be widely read.
Jamie Horton returns to Denver once again to delight the Stories on Stage audience. A 23-year veteran of the Denver Center Theatre Company, Mr. Horton engaged Denver audiences as an actor in numerous shows including Orphans, The Dresser, Sylvia, Gross Indecency and Bernice/Butterfly; director of Inna Beginning, and The Scarlet Letter and writer: A Rumor of Angels, NBC’s St. Elsewhere and Top of the World. Mr. Horton had a twenty-year association with the National Theatre Conservatory’s MFA program as adjunct teacher and mentor. He is currently an Associate Professor of Theatre at Dartmouth College.
Magic Words by Jill McCorkle, read by Tamlyn Tomita
Jill McCorkle, a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, has the distinction of having published her first two novels on the same day in 1984. Since then, she has published three other novels and four collections of short stories. Five of her eight books have been named New York Times notable books and four of her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories and several have been collected in New Stories from the South.
Tamlyn Tomita theatre credits include A Distant Shore, Question 27, Question 28, The Square and Winter Crane for which she won a Drama-Logue Award. She has been seen in the films The Mikado Project, Two Sisters, The Day After Tomorrow, Robot Stories, Four Rooms (opposite Antonio Banderas), Living Out Loud, as Waverly in The Joy Luck Club and Kumiko in The Karate Kid, Part II. Her television credits include The Burning Zone, Santa Barbara, PBS’s Storytime, Hiroshima Maiden,o Heal a Nation, Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes with appearances in 24, CSI: Miami, Criminal Minds, The Mentalist, Heroes, Saving Grace, The Shield and Will and Grace.
Wintering by Anastasia Kolendo, read by Karen Slack
Anastasia Kolendo is a Research Associate at RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service in Austin, Texas.
"Wintering" was published in Best New American Voices 2009.
Karen Slack is one of the areas busiest actors appearing at Curious Theatre Company in Eurydice, Yankee Tavern, Nine Parts of Desire; Colorado Shakespeare Festival: King Lear and Othello; Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company: Morisot Reclining; Buntport Theater; Listen Productions; Theatreworks; The Denver Children’s Theatre and many others. Karen is a two time recipient of the Denver Post Ovation Award, Best Season by an Actress (2007, 2008).
The Zagat History of My Last Relationship by Noah Baumbach, read by Stephen Weitz
Noah Baumbach is a writer and director who emerged as one of the more talented and literate young directors of the 1990s. In addition to his other projects as a director, he keeps busy as a writer, penning a series of short stories for the New Yorker.
Stephen Weitz hails from Pennsylvania and studied theatre at Ithaca College and the MFA Professional Actor Training Program at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. He holds an MA in Theatre from CU-Boulder and is the co-founder and producing ensemble director of the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. Stephen has performed in King Lear, Richard III and Othello for the Denver Center Theatre Company; Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Copenhagen, Morisot Reclining and Doubt for BETC and Hamlet, Midsummer Night Dreamand Macbeth at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival to name a few.
For 10 years Stories on Stage has combined literature with theater to bring short stories to life and brought some of America's best actors to the Denver stage. The list of Broadway and film luminaries includes Eliot Gould, Robert Gossett, GW Bailey, Ed Asner, Bill Pullman, Edward Herrmann, John Rubinstein, Deanna Dunagan, Tovah Feldshuh, Malachy McCourt, Tony Plana and Kathy Chalfant.
Crazy in Love is sponsored by Keith C Schnip, the Citizens of the Scientific and Cultural District (SCFD),The Denver Foundation and Colorado Creative Industries.
Stories on Stage presents “Crazy in Love” - Love makes us all crazy. Let Love Rule. Saturday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. at The Dairy Center, 2590 Walnut St, Boulder, 80302 - Single tickets are $25. Tickets for April 30 in Boulder are available by calling the Dairy Center at 303-444-7328
Sunday, May 1 at 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. in Denver at the Stage Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, Speer and Arapahoe. Single tickets are $25. Tickets for May 1 in Denver are available by calling 303-494-0523 or online at www.storiesonstage.org.