Stories on Stage presents Small Victories May 6, 2012

Stories on Stage presents Small Victories

There is a bright trove of unexpected joy to be found at the center of life's quietest satisfactions.

Denver, CO – Stories on Stage presents Small Victories featuring the all-star lineup of Kathleen Chalfant, William Denis, and Robert Gossett on Sunday, May 6 at 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. at Su Teatro @ the Denver Civic Theater, located at 721 Santa Fe Drive. Single tickets are $25. Student tickets are $15; tickets for groups of 10 or more are $20 per person and LoDough (scholarship) tickets are also available. Tickets are available by calling 303-494-0523 or online at www.storiesonstage.org

The Stories

“The Verger” by W. Somerset Maugham, read by William Denis



Born in Paris, of Irish ancestry, Somerset Maugham was to lead a fascinating life and would become famous for his mastery of short evocative stories that were often set in the more obscure and remote areas of the British Empire. Suffering from a bad stammer, he received a classic public school education at King's school in Canterbury, Kent. Rather more unconventionally he studied at Heidelburg University where he read philosophy and literature. He then studied in London, eventually qualifying as a surgeon at St Thomas's hospital. He conducted his year's medical practice in the slums of the East End. It was here that he found material for his first, rather lurid, novel Liza of Lambeth in 1897 and much of the material for his critically acclaimed autobiographical novel Of Human Bondage although this wasn't to be published until 1915.

William Denis has been a company member at Denver Center for the Performing Arts for 8 years. Regional theatre performances include: The Winters Tale, Pericles, Our Town, Christmas Carol,Iphegenia at Aulis, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Comedy of Errors, End of the World, Run for Your Wife, Heartbreak House, Twelfth Night, Importance of Being Earnest, Dial M for Murder,Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Opera Comique, and Waiting for Godot. In film, he has appeared inThings to Do in Denver When You're Dead. Mr. Denis has a PhD in Theoretical Chemistry.

“A Few Good Men” by David Nicholson, read by Robert Gossett



“A Few Good Men” by David Nicholson is featured in the book Best African American Fiction 2010. From Africa to Philadelphia, from the era of segregation to the age of Obama, the times and places, people and events in Best African American Fiction 2010 reveal inconvenient truths through incomparable fiction.



Robert Gossett currently stars in the hit series The Closer and has been seen in episodes ofBones, ER, NYPD Blue, Charmed and Touched by an Angel. Off-Broadway credits include Fences, A Raisin in the Sun and The Last Minstrel Show just to name a few; film credits include Arlington Road, White Man's Burden, The Net and Batman Returns.



“Immortalizing John Parker” by Robin Black, read by Kathleen Chalfant

Robin Black’s stories and essays have appeared in numerous publications including The Southern Review, The New York Times Magazine. One Story, The Georgia Review, Colorado Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Freight Stories, Indiana Review, and The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. I(Norton, 2007). She is also the winner of the 2005 Pirate’s Alley Faulkner-Wisdom Writing Competition in the short story category. Her work has been noticed four times for Special Mention by the Pushcart Prizes and also deemed Notable in The Best American Essays, 2008, The Best Nonrequired Reading, 2009 and Best American Short Stories, 2010.

Award-winning actress Kathy Chalfant has worked on and off-Broadway (Angels in America, Wit), in film (Duplicity, Kinsey) and television (Rescue Me and Mercy). Ms. Chalfant received Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations for Angels in America and the Drama Desk, OBIE and Outer Critics Awards for Wit.

Celebrating their 11th Season, Stories on Stage has great actors bring stories to life by combining literature with theater.

Small Victories is sponsored by Diana & Mike Kinsey and in part by the Citizens of the Scientific and Cultural District (SCFD), Colorado Creative Industries, Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado and the Ralph and Florence Burgess Trust.

Stories on Stage presents Small Victories - There is a bright trove of unexpected joy to be found at the center of life's quietest satisfactions. Sunday, May 6 @ 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Su Teatro @ the Denver Civic Theater, 721 Santa Fe Drive. $25 Adult; $15 Student - 303-494-0523 or online at www.storiesonstage.org