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Our Next
Show!

"The Cemetery Club"

by Ivan Menchell



A comedy directed by
Marti McWilliams.

Show Dates: May 1-4 & 8-11, 2008

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Three Jewish widows meet once a month for tea before going to visit their husband's graves. Ida is sweet tempered and ready to begin a new life, Lucille is a feisty embodiment of the girl who just wants to have fun, and Doris is priggish and judgmental, particularly when Sam the butcher enters the scene. He meets the widows while visiting his wife's grave. Doris and Lucille squash the budding romance between Sam and Ida. They are guilt stricken when this nearly breaks Ida's heart. The Broadway production starred Eileen Heckart as Lucille.

"Funny, sweet tempered, moving."-Boston Globe

"Very touching and humorous. An evening of pure pleasure that will make you glad you went to the theatre."-Washington Journal Newspapers


           Updated: Saturday, December 15, 2007

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Our Next
Auditions!

"Lend Me a Tenor"

by Ken Ludwig.



A comedy directed by
Andrea Pierkowski.

Show Dates: July 17-20 & 24-27, 2008



Audition Dates: May 18 at 7:00 PM
                      and May 19 at 7:00 PM

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In this hilarious female version of 'The Odd Couple', Olive Madison, like her original male counterpart, is divorced and living in cheerful chaos in her New York apartment. At Olive's invitation, the suicidal Florence Ungar, newly separated from her husband, moves in and is soon finding comfort in cooking, cleaning and fussing until Olive is almost reduced to a nervous wreck. It becomes clear that the patterns of their disastrous marriages are already re-occurring.

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Volunteers Needed!

We need volunteers for acting, taking tickets, building sets, and many other jobs. The Pocket Theatre operates on volunteer effort and we need more help. Please help to keep theatre a strong part of the Hot Springs art community by joining in the fun and volunteering. Anyone interested in volunteering can contact
             Volunteer Coordinator
by email or by mail at
             The Pocket Theatre, Inc.
             P.O. Box 20577
             Hot Springs, AR
             71903-0577
or by phone at
             501-623-8585

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Pocket Theatre, Inc.

The Pocket Theatre is a non-profit, volunteer based, live production theatre located at the corner of Ramble and Ravine Streets just off of Park Avenue in downtown Hot Springs, Arkansas.

The Pocket Theatre is located at 170 Ravine Street in a building that was once the auditorium of the Ramble Elementary School. The building is a two story structure with a large auditorium, lobby, restrooms in the lobby and backstage, rehearsal hall, kitchen, workshop, storage rooms, and a fenced-in, paved parking lot!

We have been working to get our own building for over a decade and we are so happy to have finally realized our goal. We want to thank all the volunteers who have worked so hard to make this possible. From those who worked through the years to put us in a position to be able to afford a building. To the volunteers who put in a great deal of time and effort getting the building ready. We couldn't have done it without them.

Our mission statement is to provide quality productions at reasonable prices for the citizens of Hot Springs and surrounding communities and to work toward our own theatre facility. We want to build for the future by involving young people today.

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Next at the Pocket Black Box Theatre!

Mar. 6-9 and
Mar. 13-16

"Random Evening of One Acts"

by various authors.

Produced by Back Pocket Productions



Pocket Black Box Theatre!

Thanks to the hard work of two "strapping" young men, Christopher Powers and Joshua Williams, the Pocket Theatre now has two theatres in our building. The new theatre is The Pocket Black Box Theatre, a black box theatre located in the basement of our building at Ramble and Ravine and accessed through a back door located down a flight of steps at the rear of the building.

The purpose of the new theatre is to allow actors and directors an opportunity to explore challenging and meaningful productions that may not have the support or popularity to be considered for the main Pocket Theatre stage. It should be noted that some of these plays are modern dramas and comedies which are written from a very frank and modern viewpoint. Therefore the emotions expressed and language used can be raw and mature in nature.

In particular, Back Pocket Productions, also founded by Christopher Powers and Joshua Williams, seeks to produce plays that specifically appeal to young adults, with the hopes of getting more young people interested in theatre. With the production of their first four plays, ‘W.A.S.P.’ by Steve Martin, ‘Naomi in the Living Room’ by Christopher Durrang, ‘The Problem’ by A.R. Gurney Jr., and ‘Boy’s Life’ by Howard Korder, it has definitely given our young actors further experience, and based on the audiences, we have seen more young people drawn to the theatre.

We are proud of this new theatre and the contemporary art forms it promotes and we hope it continues to thrive and help the Pocket Theatre in its general growth as well.

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March
6 - 16 Back Pocket Theatre
Performances
"Random Evening of One Acts"
Rating ?
8:00 PM
23 Meeting
Production Committee
6:00 PM
April
27 Meeting
Production Committee
6:00 PM
May
1 - 11 Performances
"The Cemetery Club"
7:30 PM
2:30 PM - Sundays
18 - 19 Auditions
"Lend Me a Tenor"
2:00 PM - Sunday
7:00 PM - Monday
25 Meeting
Production Committee
6:00 PM
June
16 - 27 Children's Workshop
Children's Workshop
1:00 PM
22 Meeting
Production Committee
6:00 PM
28 - 29 Children's Workshop
Performances
Monsters Under the Bed
Happily Never After
July
17 - 27 Performances
"Lend Me a Tenor"
7:30 PM
2:30 PM - Sundays
27 Meeting
Production Committee
6:00 PM
August
3 - 4 Auditions
"Nunsense"
2:00 PM - Sunday
7:00 PM - Monday
24 Meeting
Production Committee
6:00 PM
September
28 Meeting
Production Committee
6:00 PM
October
9 - 19 Performances
"Nunsense"
7:30 PM
2:30 PM - Sundays
12 - 13 Auditions
"To Be Determined"
2:00 PM - Sunday
7:00 PM - Monday
26 Meeting
Production Committee
6:00 PM
November
23 Meeting
Production Committee
6:00 PM
December
28? Meeting
Production Committee
6:00 PM
*Doubtful due to holidays*