Our Next
Show!
"The Cemetery Club"
by Ivan Menchell
A comedy directed by
Marti McWilliams.
Show Dates: May 1-4 & 8-11, 2008
Purchase tickets online!
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
Purchase tickets online!
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
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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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