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The State Theatre of Ithaca is host to over 60 events each year, including concerts, theatrical productions, Broadway tours, dance performances, lectures, readings, and community performances.

State's Schedule:
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Archive Link to for the season of 2007 - 2008. Ithaca Entertainment.

September 2008
04
NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” Live
11
Steve Earle w/ Allison Moorer
12
The Rachel Maddow Radio Show
13
Golden Dragon Chinese Acrobats
16
Podcar Conference
20
Daniel Tosh
27
Citizen Cope
October 2008
03
Second City
04
Andrew Bird
16
Ailey II
18
Billy Bragg
19
Haunted Illusions
20
Crosby and Nash
25
Ithaca Ballet: Snow White
26
Ithaca Ballet: Snow White
November 2008
01
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
08
Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
09
Cassandra Wilson
15
Rootabaga Boogie Presents:
Taraf de Haidoucks
December 2008
05
Soweto Gospel Choir
08
State Theatre's 80th Birthday Celebration
12
Ithaca Ballet: The Nutcracker
13
Ithaca Ballet: The Nutcracker
14
Ithaca Ballet: The Nutcracker
January 2009
23
Light In Winter Festival: Jeff McBride
24
Light In Winter Festival: Push Physical Theatre
February 2009
12
5 Browns
13
Josh Blue
21
Galumpha
26
Ithaca Ballet: Contemporary
March 2009
27
African Childrens Choir – Journey of Hope
28
DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE – featuring The Blind Boys of Alabama and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band
April 2009
03
Flatlanders
04
Kathleen Madigan
05
Blues Journey - A Kennedy Center Production
19
Habib Koite and Bamada w/ the Sim Redmond Band
25
Ithaca Ballet: Cinderella
26
Ithaca Ballet: Cinderella

Night Life ( NightLife ), RMC Theater ~ Theatre Guide.[ WebSite Archive Site Theatres Theaters Ithaca  2006  -  2007.

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Hangar Theatre Announces 2007 Mainstage Season



This summer, five professional productions—a hit Broadway drama, two beloved musicals, a world-premiere plucked from the history books, and a comedic send-up of the classics—will make up the Hangar Theatre’s 2007 Mainstage Season. From June 6th to September 2nd, the Hangar will present Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Hair, Bleeding Kansas, All the Great Books (abridged), and a recent hit Broadway drama still to be announced.

According to Artistic Director, Kevin Moriarty, it’s a season unlike any in the theatre’s 33-year history. “For the first time we’re presenting two large, classic musicals in one season, as well as a world premiere drama, an incredibly silly, witty and engaging comedy, and a recent hit Broadway play that we can’t announce until February 1,” enthuses Moriarty.

The season kicks off on June 6th with the regional premiere of a recent Broadway play from an award-winning playwright. “We’re excited to be the first theater in the region to share this exciting play, fresh from its Broadway run, with our audience,” explains Moriarty. “Unfortunately, we can’t announce the title until February 1. All I can say is that this script features beautiful writing, complicated and compelling characters, and a surprising story. I’m certain our audience will be fully engaged by this wonderful play.”

From June 21st to July 7th, the Hangar asks families to be their guest, as it presents the enchanting Broadway musical classic, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Associate Artistic Director Wendy Dann will direct this magical musical, based on the award-winning animated film. “The timeless story of young Belle—a voracious reader who yearns for adventure—and the lonely Beast who must learn to find beauty beyond appearances has delighted children for years. Young audiences will rejoice in seeing their favorite characters live on stage, while adult audiences will take pleasure in the Hangar’s ability to approach each musical from a fresh perspective,” says Dann. “The Hangar’s history of reinterpreting classic musicals like Cats continues with Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.” With captivating characters and award-winning songs by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast will have the young and the young at heart humming along both in and out of the theatre.

Beginning July 12th, the Hangar lets the sunshine in with a three-week run of the one and only “American Tribal Love Rock Musical.” Even though the award winning musical was originally produced on Broadway in 1968, Moriarty thinks the time has never been better for the Hangar to let down its Hair. “Written at a time when the nation was fighting an unpopular war oversees while battles over family values, sexuality, equal rights and patriotism raged at home, Hair is one of the most unique, celebrated, and important works in musical theatre history,” he explains. “I’m thrilled to engage a new generation of audiences with this vibrant, joyful, confrontational rock musical, which promises to be more surprising, bracing and energetic than any show I’ve directed.” With a script from James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot, Hair continues to provide an irreverent stab at the status quo almost forty years later.

The Mainstage Season continues with a world premiere drama set on America’s great frontier. From August 1st to the 11th, Bleeding Kansas will take audiences back to 1856 and a hard-livin’, hard-drinkin’ time before Kansas became a state. As homesteading farmers fight the elements to start a new life, a violent battle over ideology explodes around them. Abolitionists and pro-slavery factions descend on the territory, and a fledgling nation takes a dangerous step towards civil war. Moriarty will direct the new script by Kathryn Walat, whose play Know Dog was presented in the Wedge in 2002 and whose play for young audiences, Androcles and the Lion was commissioned and produced the Hangar Theatre as a School Tour production in 2004. “Kate is one of the most dynamic and exciting emerging playwrights working in the American theatre,” Moriarty explains. He sites her compelling voice, witty sense of humor, and empathetic characters as hallmarks of her work. “In this fresh new play, Kate revisits a vital moment in American history to tell an original story about political conviction, moral belief, and love of country, all told with her unique sense of humor, dramatic action and sharp insight into real people,” Moriarty says. “Bleeding Kansas will be a play that will entertain our audiences and have them grappling with and talking about its characters and ideas long after they’ve left the theatre.”

On August 15th, the Hangar finishes up the summer by rummaging through the classics of literature with All the Great Books (abridged). From the creators of two past hit comedies at the Hangar—The Complete Works of Shakespeare (abridged) and The Complete History of America (abridged)—this three-man show is a goofy, prat-fall filled, whirlwind tour of 86 classic books. Moriarty thinks Books will be a perfect ending to a great summer: “Everyone loves a good laugh, and this wacky play, filled with witty puns, fast-paced humor, and audience interaction, will have our audience rolling in the aisles with its wild energy and sharp intelligence.” Equal parts Monty Python, “Whose Line Is It, Anyway?”, and Cliffs Notes, All the Great Books (abridged) will run for three weeks through September 2nd.

Subscription packages for the Hangar Theatre’s 2007 Mainstage Season are currently available by visiting the Hangar Business Office, by calling (607) 273-8588, or by downloading a subscription form at www.hangartheatre.org. Single tickets for the 2007 Season will go on sale on May 1st at the Ticket Center at Clinton House.


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE / Contact: Brett Bossard Hangar Theatre, Marketing Manager 607-273-8588 x402 brett@hangartheatre.org

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June / July 2008
Summer in the Kitchen -
the conversations continue...
SOUVENIR opens on the Main Stage
 
Directed by Sara Lampert Hoover

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If "music is the food of love," then Florence Foster Jenkins is the surprise dessert. SOUVENIR, a Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins by Stephen Temperley, is an enormously funny and moving tribute to a woman who followed her dreams - no matter how misguided.

Stephen Temperley's delightful memoir of another time is told through the biting wit of Ms. Jenkins' talented accompanist Cosme McMoon. Sitting at the piano late one night, he remembers how his life was changed by an amazing friendship with an unlikely partner. From Gershwin to Mozart, it was the love of music that carried the two of them on a crazy, not-so-melodic ride.

Rachel Lampert's THE SOUP COMES LAST
 
Directed by Margarett Perry

Rachel Lampert in SOUP
THE SOUP COMES LAST is writer/performer Rachel Lampert's hilarious and heart warming memoir of her 1997 trip to China to stage a production of WEST SIDE STORY with an all Chinese speaking cast. Her one-woman play is filled with tales of cross-cultural missteps, lost translations, and life changing events all driven by the dictum "the show must go on!" Love, humor, backstage dramas and the universal desire to reach one's dream are the ingredients of Lampert's Soup.

TWO WEEKS ONLY

Thursday July 3, 7:30
Friday July 4, 8:00
Saturday July 5, 8:00
Sunday July 6, 4:00
Wednesday July 9, 7:30
Thursday July 10, 7:30
Friday July 11, 8:00
Saturday July 12, 8:00
Sunday July 13, 4:00

08-09 Subscriptions Now Available!
 
Guarantee the seats you want
before single tickets go on sale August 1st!

Our 6-Play Main Stage Season will run from mid-August 2008 to mid-July 2009. We are thrilled to note that four of the plays will be receiving their first full stagings. There are two additional productions happening during the 2008-09 season. First is a limited two-week run of THE SOUP COMES LAST in July 2008 before our official season starts. The second is an encore performance of the popular musical TONY & THE SOPRANO, just in time for the Thanksgiving and December holiday season. Don't forget we are year-round with 170 performances on the Main Stage!

For more information about the season and a subscription form, follow the link below. We hope you'll join us again for more important conversations in our 18th Season.

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April 2008
Don't miss SCOOT, SIZZLE & SLIDE May 10th - 11th
 
It's the final weekend, with just three performances left!
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Rachel Lampert has gone back to her choreographer roots and teamed up with composer Sally Lamb to create an enchanting new dance play.  Twelve  dancers and four musicians take you on a journey through strange lands in this magical story without words. 

This is a beautifully realized, highly entertaining show for children and adults, for those who love dance and those who think they don't understand it. Once again, as we've seen in previous kids' shows at The Kitchen, here's theater at its most magical.
Barbara Adams, Ithaca Journal

A great way to spend Mother's Day!

Final performances May 10 & 11 on Saturday at 1PM & 3PM and Sunday at 1PM.

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March 2008 With Spring come exciting KTC events
We hope you will join us!
OLD TIMES opens on the Main Stage
 
Directed by Margarett Perry
Old Times Cast

Kate (Camilla Schade) and her husband, Deeley (Greg Bostwick), live in an isolated farmhouse by the sea. The mundane harmony of their lives is disturbed when Kate's old friend Anna (Leigh Keeley) comes to stay. A night of reminiscing between the married couple and the old friend becomes a struggle to discover the truth in memory, desire in love, and to whom the past belongs. A battle for possession begins in which past and present merge with shattering consequences. March 20 through April 13.

Brian Dykstra's THE JESUS FACTOR
 
Four performances only!
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He's back! Due to popular demand, and following his successful run at Barrow Street Theatre (NYC), Brian Dykstra returns to the Kitchen to do four more performances of
THE JESUS FACTOR, his impassioned indictment of the religious right, directed by long-time collaborator Margarett Perry.

Sunday March 30, 7:30 PM
Monday March 31, 7:30 PM
Sunday April 6, 7:30 PM
Monday April 7, 7:30 PM

Lenelle Moïse's EXPATRIATE
 
On Kitchen Counter Culture
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A new musical drama by Lenelle Moïse exploring race, friendship, addiction, art and infamy. Claudie and Alphine are African-American performing artists and long-time sister-friends. Disillusioned by grief, homophobia and "the black glass ceiling," the two flee to Europe to realize their starved American dreams. In Paris, they quickly rise to fame and fortune. But Claudie and Alphine soon discover that for some black artists living abroad, stardom comes at a price. Will their friendship survive the pressures of their newfound success?

Directed by Tamilla Woodard.
Starring Karla Mosley and Lenelle Moïse
April 18, 19 & 20
Friday and Saturday at 8PM, Sunday at 4PM

Our Annual On-Line Auction runs through March 28th!
 
Check it out at www.ktcauction.com

The Auction provides a great way to support the Kitchen Theatre Company while getting some really great stuff.
Steppin' Out of the Kitchen Monday, April 28th
 
Our 2008 benefit gala at Za Za's Cucina

An incredible dinner at your table with wine, salad, and choice of entrée and dessert and entertainment directed by Rachel Lampert featuring members of the cast of BED NO BREAKFAST and other Kitchen veteran performers. Songs, Comedy and Surprises!

Call Jody at 272-0403 or email Jody@kitchentheatre.org for more information on this wonderful event.

SCOOT, SIZZLE & SLIDE April 26 - May 11
 
A collaboration of movement and music
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Rachel Lampert has gone back to her choreographer roots and teamed up with composer Sally Lamb to produce this wonderful piece. What do you get when you bring together a swingin' composer, a jumpin' choreographer, and a whirl of dancers? Something that's hard to put into words, but that certainly sizzles. This new movement piece will make you want to scoot, sizzle & slide along.




Composer Sally Lamb

 


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September 25, 2007 The Kitchen Theatre Company will kick off both the Family Fare and Kitchen Counter Culture series this weekend with laughter
Indian American Comedian Vijai Nathan
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