February 2007 Archives

Prince Gomolvilas needs actors!

posted by Melissa on Wed, Feb 28, 2007
in Making Theatre

And we, like all right-thinking people, want Prince to get what he wants.

Prince writes:

"ACTORS NEEDED. In the near future, I will be incorporating a new segment in my BAMBOO NATION podcast that feature actors performing fictional monologues written by me. So I need great actors with great voices (all ages, all types) who are interested in inhabiting great characters. No compensation, except for the occasional "Prince strokes one part of your body" deal that I sometimes do, but I will say on air
how great you are and mention your website if you have one, etc. Recording options: 1) Come to me in Glendale, California; 2) I come to you somewhere in the Los Angeles area or when I come to visit the East Coast in late March/early April or when I'm in San Francisco; or 3) you record yourself, and send me an MP3. Contact me if you're interested."

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What do you think the Impact tagline should be?

posted by Cheshire on Tue, Feb 27, 2007
in Fun with Impact

We've used "theatre that doesn't suck" and "kickass theatre since 1996," but we've never really polled our audience. So, no time like the present: we've created a poll on the Splatter Board. Let us know what you think! (Note: you'll need to register on the board to vote in the poll.)

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Joshua Huston going on in The Pillowman!

posted by Cheshire on Wed, Feb 21, 2007
in Local Theatre

It's a big week for friends of Impact: first it was Peter Nachtrieb's Glickman award, and now Joshua Huston, last seen as Travis in Colorado, is going on stage at Berkeley Rep!

Joshua has been understudying the role of Michal in Berkeley Rep's production of The Pillowman -- in fact, he was set to be in Cartoon before he was tapped to understudy. Understudying is usually a thankless proposition with just the slimmest hope of glory: most of the time understudies never get to go on stage, but during the entire run they have to be available at a moment's notice. Oh, and the pay's not so hot, either. (We're one to talk!)

Anyway, Joshua took the gamble and won -- yay, Joshua! He'll be performing Thursday, February 22, both matinee and evening performances, and possibly this Saturday as well. Impact fans, come out and support one of our own as he makes his way toward the big time!

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Get Your Ass Out to the Maybeck High One Acts

posted by Melissa on Tue, Feb 20, 2007
in

Maybeck High's Spring One Acts are coming up, and you best make plans to go see them. Maybeck High's drama department is home to a passel of brilliant, quirky, nutty kids led by the awesome John Diller, and they're not doing your standard ho-hum high school fare. In fact, three of the one acts are written by Wayne Rawley, playwright of Money & Run, and one of those one acts is being directed by one of Impact's beloved kickass interns, Read Tuddenham. You may have recently seen Read crouching in a corner holding a spot up to Trouble's face in Cartoon, but he's stealthy like ninja, so you may not have noticed. :-) Click for more details on the One Acts, yo.

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Peter Nachtrieb wins the Glickman Award!

posted by Melissa on Fri, Feb 16, 2007
in Local Theatre

Impact favorite Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, whose play Colorado recently had its world premiere at Impact Theatre, won the 2006 Glickman award for his play Hunter Gatherers. The Glickman is given annually in honor of the best play to have its world premiere the Bay Area that year. Previous winners include Liz Duffy Adams, John Fisher, and Tony Kushner. Go Peter!

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Now read this: Theater Dogs

posted by Cheshire on Mon, Feb 12, 2007
in Local Theatre

Chad Jones's blog, Theater Dogs, is a great way to spend your time if you're interested in Bay Area theatre. Chad knows what's happening in the area, he goes to everything, and he has a great perspective on things. The blog features not only local theatre news and reprints of his reviews, he also muses about whatever stage-oriented things he comes across.

Chad's covered a lot of Impact shows over the years, and he's a fair, generous writer even (or especially) when he's being critical. Personally my tastes tend to jibe with his, so I'll admit I'm biased. But if you're not reading his words on local theatre, you should be. Start now.

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Comments are working again

posted by Cheshire on Sun, Feb 11, 2007
in News

We instituted a comment-registration system on the blog to keep the spammers out. Unfortunately it was also keeping legitimate commenters out. I still don't know why it was happening, but I was able to find out what was breaking it. The problem was that TypeKey login was working ok, but if you put your name, email address or URL in any of the commenting boxes, it logged you off TypeKey and blocked your comment.

After many, many, many hours of trying to fix the problem, instead I finally simply eliminated the problem. You still log in with your TypeKey id, but I took out everything but the comment box.

Very sorry for the headaches. Commenting should work now.

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Impact playwrights invade the Pacific Northwest!

posted by Desdemona on Sat, Feb 10, 2007
in Current Shows

I was walking past the lobby of the UW School of Drama, and my eye caught postcards advertising not one, but TWO of Impact's favorite playwrights--Sheila Callaghan, and Prince Gomolvilas. They both have upcoming shows making their Northwest premiere in Seattle.

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Now on the Splatter Board: YOUR review of Cartoon

posted by Cheshire on Thu, Feb 8, 2007
in Reviews

Everyone's a critic, right? Well, prove it by letting us know what you thought of Cartoon on the Impact Splatter Board. Log in and praise or damn as you like.

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Legally Blonde the Musical: Guilty as Charged

posted by Cheshire on Wed, Feb 7, 2007
in Local Theatre

It's my own fault, really: I let myself get my hopes up. Until recently I wouldn't have been interested in going at all, especially not on poker night. But then, good friends of mine had seen it, and one of them (one of our esteemed company members, I might add) professes to not even like musicals, but even she had a good time. (The other friend likes pretty much every musical, so her opinion was a bit discounted.) Plus, I wouldn't have seen it had it not been for my dear wife, who also likes pretty much every musical. I've managed to get out of seeing A Chorus Line, Cats, and the stillborn Lennon, so even though I swore off Broadway nonsense after Movin' Out, tonight I found myself at Legally Blonde the Musical.

No, I didn't really like it. It wasn't as bad, say, as Miss Saigon (three hours of my life I'll never get back) or the semi-recent revival of Showboat (one of the few shows I've ever walked out on). I had hoped, though, that it would turn out to be more than terminally light entertainment, but in the end that's exactly what it was.

However, what I really couldn't stand about Legally Blonde, and this is something it has in common with the other two shows just mentioned (and probably all of the ones above), was...

...the audience.

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Shame on you, Billy Mays

posted by Diana on Fri, Feb 2, 2007
in Current Shows

Dear Inventor of Oxiclean:
Your invention claims to remove all kinds of stains from all kinds of things. This claim has been put to the test over the last few days, and my question is,why does it remove PAINT from carpet, but not FAKE BLOOD?
Sincerely, Diana
PS. If you're in the area, come see CARTOON. It's wicked awesome.

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Impact Oscar Night?

posted by Cheshire on Fri, Feb 2, 2007
in News

So...we're thinking about hosting an Impact Oscar Night at La Val's, Sunday, February 25. We haven't checked it out with La Val's to see whether we could take over the big screen TV upstairs, but since it's coming up soon, we thought we'd check it out with you and see what you think about the idea.

Basically it would be like your standard Oscar party, with an Oscar pool (prizes such as Impact 6-Packs, T-shirts, etc.). This isn't really a fundraiser so much as another way to have fun with Impact. We're thinking one of two ways we could do it:

1) $5 per person, or
2) $10 per person, including pizza and soda

What do you think? Comment and let us know!

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February pinup girl wallpapers now available

posted by Cheshire on Thu, Feb 1, 2007
in Downloads

Now for your downloading pleasure: the February 2007 Impact Pinup Girl calendar! This'll spice up your Valentine's Day for sure.

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