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Sara Richardson — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:16:38 GMT

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Fletcher and Zenobia Save the Circus

Sara Richardson — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:33:33 GMT

[i]Fletcher and Zenobia Save the Circus[/i] has been one of my very favorite books since I was eight years old. I loved its strange, vibrant illustrations, actually drawn by Victoria Chess and not Mr. Edward Gorey himself. I loved the jokes, the very recognizable but larger than life characters, the tangents, the epic run-ons, and the weird first sentence. It was unlike any other book on the shelf, the absolute misfit of all the children's books, so funny, so weird, so magical. In making this playful adaptation, we tried to communicate visually some of the verbal tricks that run throughout the short (63page), rare and out-of-print book of Mr. Gorey's. We kept essentially all of the original dialogue. Mostly we wanted to keep the spirit of the story and the absurdity of the humor alive... and mostly, the spirit of childhood- with its wildly tangential imaginations, little dramas, hierarchies, plays in the backyard and never-ending gymnastic routines on tire swings (complete with accompaniment and announcer). We saw the story as a clown show, brought to life by five charming misfits. Hope you'll come and see the whimsical, ridiculously absurd and magical world of Fletcher and Zenobia Save the Circus. "Wherefore, on!" Adapted with the amazing cast (Noah Bremer, Hans Hauge, Kimberly Richardson, Dario Tangelson and Emily Zimmer) from the book of the same title by Mr. Edward Gorey. Opens Friday, 8/5, and runs Fridays - Sundays through 8/12 (Friday 7p, Sat 4p &7p, Sun 2:30p & 5:30p) [url=http://www.fringefestival.org/2011/show/?id=1547]www.fringefestival.org[/url] [url=http://www.liveactionset.org/]www.liveactionset.org[/url]

The Art of Seduction

Sara Richardson — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:28:28 GMT

New piece for the Southern Theater's Brouhaha Comedy Festival! Co-created & directed with Kimberly Richardson. Also featuring Zachary Humes! Brouhaha Comedy Festival- this January 19th-23rd in Minneapolis! Photo by Jesse Roessler.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Sara Richardson — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:57:11 GMT

Directed by Jon Ferguson, [i]Sleepy Hollow [/i]will be playing at the Jon Hassler Theater Thursdays through Sundays in November. I highly recommend this one! Very funny! More info: [url=http://www.jonhasslertheater.org/2010-season.html]http://www.jonhasslertheater.org/2010-season.html[/url]

Bury My Heart At Dumbass Cowboy

Sara Richardson — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:06:11 GMT

Jon Ferguson Theater Featuring Noah Bremer, Jason Ballweber, Lisa Rafaela Clair, Kimberly Richardson, Sara Richardson and Amy Stockhaus. Created by Jon Ferguson and the company. Award winning theater-maker and director Jon Ferguson presents a romantically tragical clown-western. One grand ol' slice of American violence, presented in wide-screen vista-vision, in the epic and sprawling style of 1940's and 50's Hollywood westerns. A cactus, a sunset and a story called yarn. Be warned: Some folks are gonna die!

The Nosdrahcir Sisters

Sara Richardson — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:37:36 GMT

[b]THE NOSDRAHCIR SISTERS ARE BACK![/b] After very successful runs at the NY Clown Theatre Festival and the Minnesota Fringe, [i]The Nosdrahcir Sisters[/i] are back. This January 23rd-25th at The Southern Theater, [i]The Nosdrahcir Sisters[/i] will share an evening with the super fabulous [url=http://www.threestickstheatre.org/]3Sticks[/url] and their amazing show from this year's Fringe Festival, [i]The Gypsy and the General[/i]. For more info, go to [url=http://http//www.southerntheater.org//]www.southerntheater.org/.[/url] -------------- Created and performed by Kimberly and Sara Richardson (NAHZ-drah-ker) The imaginative lives of two quiet ladies. Teacups triumph, aliens say beep and mermaids shop in the produce aisle. A mishmash of clown, movement and object theatre, where everything is funny, even the sad. [i]The Nosdrahcir Sisters[/i] premiered at the 2008 Minnesota Fringe Festival in a nearly sold-out run before continuing on to the 2008 NY Clown Theatre Festival in Brooklyn.

image: Grocery store

image: NY Clown Flier- Photo by Eric Melzer

image: Aliens

image: Clerk

image: Old Lady

image: Melon singing transition

image: Melon singing

image: Old Lady & Slob

image: Flashback

image: SciFi night

image: Alien aerobics

image: Hildegard

image: Dusty

image: Old Lady & Slob, disaster

image: Song

image: Big aerobic dance number

image: Big aerobic dance number, with clapping

The Good Doctor

Sara Richardson — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:38:43 GMT

The Good Doctor by Neil Simon Jon Hassler Theater, June 14-July 13 In the late 1800s, Anton Chekhov - the man who was to become one of Russia's greatest playwrights and storytellers - wrote a number of humorous newspaper articles which helped pay his way through medical school. In The Good Doctor, Neil Simon, Broadway's master of comedy, deftly weaves together eight of these early Chekhov plums into a comedic masterpiece replete with conniving con-artists, sly seducers, hapless government toadies, and a haranguing harridan of a peasant who knows how to get her way, especially when money is at stake. It's laugh-out-loud comedy as only Neil Simon can create!

image: The Seduction

image: The Seduction

image: The Audition

image: The Audition

image: The Audition

image: Too Late for Happiness

image: The Drowned Man

image: The Arrangement

image: The Arrangement

image: The Arrangement

Romeo and Juliet

Sara Richardson — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:05:28 GMT

This May, Four Humors Theater brings its unique blend of comic-tragedy to Shakespeare's masterpiece. With a new cutting of the text, director Jason Ballweber crafts a production that takes the time to celebrate the joy of a newfound love, without foreshadowing the impending loss. Featuring an ensemble of twenty-five up and coming actors from theaters such as Three Sticks, Live Action Set, Jeune Lune, and Children's Theater Company, Romeo and Juliet showcases the next generation of physically trained performers in the Twin Cities.

You're My Favorite Kind of Pretty

Sara Richardson — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:20:07 GMT

Named #1 Show of the Year by Twin Cities Daily Planet! [b]You’re My Favorite Kind of Pretty[/b] explores the thrilling, gut-wrenching, all-enveloping nature of romantic love. Highly physical and poetic, this world-premiere production brings together some of the Twin Cities most acclaimed artists to take a fresh look at the absurdity and transcendence of love. Directed by multi-award-winning physical theater director Jon Ferguson ([i]Or The White Whale, Please Don't Blow Up Mr. Boban[/i]), and collaboratively created with performers Jon Ferguson, Sara Richardson, and Jason Ballweber, two-time Jerome Fellow playwright Deborah Stein and visual artist Jennifer Davis, You're My Favorite Kind of Pretty renders our most beautiful and baffling experiences in one exceptional evening of theater. [b]You're My Favorite Kind of Pretty[/b] February/March 2008 - The Southern Theater, West Bank Minneapolis. Directed by Jon Ferguson Co-created with artist Jennifer Davis, stage designer Erica Zaffarano and actors Jon Ferguson, Sara Richardson and Jason Ballweber. February 28 & 29, March 2 & 6-9, 2008 Thurs.-Sat. at 8pm, Sun. at 7pm AD/ASL Fri., March 7 Post-show discussion Sat., March 8 [b]Tickets:$18[/b] [url=http://www.jonfergusontheater.com/projects.htm]www.jonfergusontheater.com[/url] "Ferguson has distinguished himself in the Twin Cities as a director who emphasizes and ably captures the unspoken textures of everyday experience.”– Quinton Skinner, Variety

image: You're My Favorite Kind of Pretty

The Seagull

Sara Richardson — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:32:55 GMT

Upcoming as a part of the first-ever Minneapolis Chekhov Festival! Written by Anton Chekhov Translated by Paul Schmidt Directed by Genevieve Bennett On October 21st, 1895, Chekhov wrote to a friend about The Seagull: "The comedy has four female roles, seven male roles, four acts, a landscape (a view of a lake), much conversation about literature, little action and five tons of love." All this on the tiny stage of Bryant Lake Bowl. Featuring a stellar cast and design team, lead by up-and-coming director, Genevieve Bennett, this production takes a fresh and lively look at one of Chekhov's most beautiful and timely stories. Performances Saturday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24 at 3 p.m. + some student matinees upon request.

image: The Seagull- Trigorin, Arkadina

image: The Seagull- Masha

image: Chekhov Festival Logo

A Short Play About Globalization

Sara Richardson — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:02:02 GMT

We just had our first preview this evening & it went great. This is an awesome piece & I'm really excited about the work the Workhaus Collective is doing in general! I hope you'll come & see. ------ [b]This Saturday, September 8 at 8 PM, be the first to see the world premiere of Dominic Orlando's A SHORT PLAY ABOUT GLOBALIZATION[/b] [i]Hundreds of women and girls disappearing from factories on the US/Mexico Border, including Mark Frisbee's sister. In his quest to find her, he makes it onto American Idol...[/i] Stick around for Summit Saturday -- a beer party with the artists after the show- every Saturday! For the price of a movie, you will SEE Randy Reyes sing LIVE, SEE Sara Richardson change shape BEFORE YOUR VERY EYES and have a beer with them after the show...LIVE AND IN THE FLESH. [b]CALL NOW TO RESERVE TICKETS: 612-332-7481 x 20[/b] Find out why the City Pages calls the Workhaus Collective "dauntingly ambitious" and selected SHORT PLAY for their A-List this week! Can't make it this Saturday? Other performances are September 8-23, Friday & Saturday nights at 8:00 PM, Sunday nights at 7:00 PM. Tickets: $8-15 sliding scale Special Events: Friday 9/7 Preview at 8 PM Pay-what-you-can. Monday 9/17 Industry Night at 7 PM. Friday 9/14 Benefit Performance & Wine Reception after the show with artists and members of the collective. Tickets $40. Saturdays are Summit Saturdays ----------------------------------------------------------------------- A young FBI agent heads down to the Mexico to find his missing sister-- an undercover journalist investigating the mass disappearance of female workers at the industrial plants lining the US Border. What he finds instead is that changing the economic rules of human engagement may also change what it means to be human--as he goes from Federal Agent, to a faceless servant, to a winning contestant on AMERICAN IDOL. The Workhaus Collective begins their first season in residency at The Playwrights Center* with Dominic Orlando's "A Short Play About Globalization" starring RANDY REYES & SARA RICHARDSON Set Design by Adam Riggar Lighting Design by Mike Wangen Sound by Katharine Horowitz Costumes by Clare Brauch Props by Tory Stewart Stage Manager Kerri Eldred Assistant SM Sarah Radick (if you missed us in CITY PAGES, check it out [a href="http://citypages.com/databank/28/1394/article15783.asp"] here![/a]) More information at: [a href="www.myspace.com/playaboutglobalization"] www.myspace.com/playaboutglobalization[/a] [a href="www.workhauscollective.org"]www.workhauscollective.org[/a] [i]WORKHAUS IS A REACTION AND AN INTERACTION. We are fueled by our desire, as playwrights, to communicate directly with our audiences by making shows that are adventurous and event-driven: a full-bodied experience that can only happen in live theatre. The Workhaus Collective is: Co-Producing Directors Trista Baldwin, Dominic Orlando, and Deborah Stein, and members Janet Allard, Alan Berks, Kimberly Burke, Jeannine Coulombe, Carson Kreitzer, Cory Hinkle, and Victoria Stewart[/i]

image: Mark Frisbee- A Short Play about Globalization

Aftermath

Sara Richardson — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:09:00 GMT

Opened [b]June 8 & runs til June 17th[/b], Thurs- Sun, 7pm! [b] TICKETS: [/b] [a href="http://www.bedlamtheatre.org/display.php?event=106"] www.bedlamtheatre.org [/a] or by calling [b]612.341.1038[/b] This beautiful, poignant and surprisingly funny show (given the topic) is Katie Kaufman's very strong directorial debut. It has a fabulous cast- of which I'm very proud to be a part of- including Jason Bohon, Jon Ferguson, Marcus Quinones, and Kim Richardson. ____ When you've lost everything, you have nothing to lose. In this poignant tale of disaster and recovery, Mischka Productions explores the fantasy world created by survivors of a tsunami. They have no memory of their past lives or of the recent tragic events that brought them together. All they know now is each other and the fantasy world they have created; a world where anything is possible and life is a beautiful game. In this new world of spectacular and child-like imagination, their broken and desolate wasteland becomes a utopia. But what happens when memory and the nightmare of their past comes back to haunt them?

image: Aftermath flier photo

image: Jason Bohon as Belvedere. Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

image: Kick the "can". Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

image: Jon Ferguson as Reinhold (with bucket). Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

image: Come on in- there's plenty of room! Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

image: Sara Richardson as Josephine (with pet shoe). Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

image: Marcus Quiniones with gas can friend. Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

image: Lydia... was that her name? Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

image: The dream- the storm. Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

image: The dream- in the water. Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

image: Remembering- Kim Richardson as Grace. Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

image: Saved. Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

image: Into the water together... Photo by Scott Pakudaitis.

What the Butler Saw

Sara Richardson — Tue, 15 May 2007 04:55:20 GMT

[b]May 10 - 27, 2007[/b] Minneapolis Theatre Garage [b]STARRING:[/b] Randal Berger*, Matt Guidry*, Erik Hoover, Joel Liestman*, Carolyn Pool* and Sara Richardson [b]DIRECTED BY:[/b] David Allen Baker, Jr.* What the Butler Saw is one of the most ludicrous comedies of all time. Joe Orton doesn't let anyone off the hook in this scathing send-up of that ubiquitous British export, the "bedroom farce." Slamming doors, flying undergarments, mistaken identity ... Welcome to Dr. Prentice's lunatic asylum, where everyone is mad, and none more so bthan the doctors. Libidos run rampant in this breakneck farce about licensed insanity. The plot of What the Butler Saw contains enough twists and turns, mishaps and changes of fortune, coincidences and lunatic logic to furnish three or four conventional comedies. Be prepared for an irreverent poke at stuffy institutions and our perceptions of madness. Hailed as a classic every bit as good as Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. [i]*member, Actors' Equity[/i] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [b]All Burning House Group productions will be performed at:[/b] [b]the Minneapolis Theater Garage[/b] 711 W. Franklin Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55405 [b](Preview Thursday, May 10 - $10)[/b] [b]Tickets: $18 regular / $16 seniors / $10 students[/b] [b]$2 off with Fringe Buttons[/b] [b]Groups of 15 or more: $16 ea.[/b] [b]For reservations call 612-623-9396[/b]

image: Geraldine is mistaken for a crazy person.

image: Geraldine meets Mrs. Prentice

image: Geraldine is mistaken for a boy by the police and Dr. Rance.

image: Having a tantrum.

image: Dr. Rance & Dr. Prentice look on.

image: Butler flier

Future Perfect- A Genetically Modified Musical

Sara Richardson — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:59:39 GMT

I am very excited to be working with Interact for the first time! It's great fun & should be a fabulously fun & touching show. This is also the first time I've done costumes for 40 (yes, 40) performers! ----- In a not-so-distant future, advances in genetic science have divided the nation. While President Eugene M. Bryo illegalizes disability and leads a genetically optimized society of devoted followers, those who embrace their imperfect DNA form a raucous underground faction and broadcast their message of radical acceptance over the air from pirate radio station KDIS. When Bryo gets wind of a rebel song, forces collide in musical grandeur and a humble KDIS jockey is propelled to greatness. This genetically modified musical is a futuristic fairy tale of epic proportions. Each performance of Future Perfect will be highlighted by a live guest appearance of a local celebrity who will be featured on Renegade radio station KDIS. The line up includes: nationally known actor and storyteller Kevin Kling (April 19 - 21), rock 'n roll legend Willie Murphy (April 26-28), Prairie Home Companion radio star Sue Scott (May 3 - 5), community activist and radio personality Ember Reichgott Junge (May 10 - 12), and spoken word artist J. Otis Powell! (May 17 - 19). Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts 212 Third Ave N, Suite 140 Minneapolis, MN 55401 Runs April 19 through May 19, Tickets $12-15 (10 w/group discount) www.ticketworks.com

Percussionist

Sara Richardson — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:13:01 GMT