This is a short interview with the three child stars of our newest production, Over the Tavern, playing now through April 6th. For ticket information, call the box office at 1-800-841-4273 or go on-line at www.asf.net.
Shanley from props shows us the steps to casting an actor and sculpting a functional severed head to use in a stage production. Shakespeare really like to tear his characters up!
The first of three behind the scenes clips from yesterday's press junket, this is a clip of the Jet Scene right before "Jet Song" for those of your who know the play. The street gang, The Jets, are planning to fight another gang, The Sharks, who are encroaching on their territory.
Note: No actors or dancers were harmed in the making of this video.
As part of our upcoming season, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival is pleased to be producing "Bear County," a play that emerged from our Southern Writers' Project Festival from this year. Here, Mike talks about how he researched the life and times of Paul "Bear" Bryant for the play.
Here's the continuation of the earlier clip and it goes straight into the famous "Jet Song" from the show. Careful, it's a catchy tune and it's been stuck in my head for days after editing this.
Check out our website at www.asf.net for more information on tickets for this show.
With the opening of Rocket city a few weeks ago, I had an opportunity to sit down with director David Ellenstein and talk about "Rocket City," the Southern Writers Project, and how he felt about the show.
Our Southern Writers' Project is our effort to expand the cannon of American Theatre. We encourage stories about the South, from Southern writers, or about an African American story. Here is a short interview with Pat Cunningham Devoto, the author of "My Last Days as Roy Rogers," a story of the life during the Polio Epidemic in the early 1950s.
Come see our production of A Christmas Carol: The Musical at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival now playing through Dec. 24th!
Ticket information avaliable at www.asf.net or 1-800-841-4273.
Our Southern Writers' Project is our effort to expand the cannon of American Theatre. We encourage stories about the South, from Southern writers, or about an African American story. Here is a short interview with Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder, author of "Furniture of Home," a story of Bayou La Batre two years after Hurricane Katina.
Our Southern Writers' Project is our effort to expand the cannon of American Theatre. We encourage stories about the South, from Southern writers, or about an African American story. Here is a short interview with Mike Vigilant, the author of "Bear Country," a story of the life of Paul 'Bear' Bryant.
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