June 1, 2017 c Gallery & Box Office Hours Mon 11 - 3 Tues - Sat 10 - 3 Gallery only Sun Noon - 4 Upcoming Events MAINSTAGE Cowboys in Concert June 24 Page 2 URINETOWN 7/14-7/23 Page 5 Youth Summer Programming Page 5 PCA Auditions Page 6 STAGE TOO! Summer Repertory 7/6-8/13 Page 3 & 4 GALLERY It’s A Party!!! In Gallery 6/21 Page 2 WINGS EXHIBIT Thru 6/10 Page 6 & 7 Theatre Lobby Art LESLIE RAMSAY Thru 7/30 Page 7 Featured Artist Wall ARLENE MINUSKIN Thru 6/10 JIM HALL 6/12-7/22 Page 8 BEAUTY IN THE ABSTRACT 6/12-7/22 Artist’ Reception & 4th Friday Art Walk 6/23 5-8 pm Page 9 GIFT SHOP NEWS Page 9 Special Shopper Card Page 10 PCA News 6/8, 6/9, 6/10, 6/15, 6/16, 6/17 at 7:30 Tickets $22 6/11, 6/17, 6/18 at 2:00 Tickets $18 By Michael Frayn Directed by Don Langford Michael Frayn's Noises Off takes a fond look at the follies of theatre folk, whose susceptibility to out-of-control egos, memory loss, and passionate affairs turn every performance into a high- risk adventure. This play-within- a-play captures a touring theatre troupe’s production of Nothing On in three stages: dress re- hearsal, the opening performance, and a performance towards the end of a debilitating run. Brimming with slapstick comedy, Noises Off is a delightful backstage farce, complete with slam- ming doors, falling trousers, and -- of course -- flying sar- dines. Mainstage STAGE TOO! Seven Short Plays Free Staged Readings 6/3 7:00 The 6th Annual Female Playwrights Onstage pre- sents 7 of the 34 semi-finalist plays being pre- sented before audiences in 5 cities across the country. Support our local actors who will bring to life 7 new short plays based on the theme "Hot Mess" by Arizona playwrights Amber Bos- worth, Mikki Russ, Micki Shelton plus 4 from out of state. Prescott-area directors include Julie Harrington, Mary Timpany, Nancy Dunham, Micki Shelton, and Amber Bosworth. The winning plays selected from the five nation-wide readings will come to Prescott for full production July 6-8.
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June 1, 2017
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Gallery & Box Office Hours
Mon 11 - 3
Tues - Sat 10 - 3
Gallery only Sun Noon - 4
Upcoming Events
MAINSTAGE Cowboys in
Concert June 24 Page 2
URINETOWN 7/14-7/23 Page 5
Youth Summer Programming
Page 5
PCA Auditions Page 6
STAGE TOO! Summer Repertory 7/6-8/13 Page 3 & 4
GALLERY
It’s A Party!!! In Gallery 6/21 Page 2
WINGS EXHIBIT Thru 6/10 Page 6 & 7
Theatre Lobby Art LESLIE RAMSAY
Thru 7/30 Page 7
Featured Artist Wall ARLENE MINUSKIN
Thru 6/10 JIM HALL 6/12-7/22 Page 8
BEAUTY IN THE ABSTRACT
6/12-7/22 Artist’ Reception & 4th Friday Art Walk 6/23 5-8 pm Page 9
GIFT SHOP NEWS Page 9
Special Shopper Card Page 10
PCA News
Co Produced with Folk Sessions
6/8, 6/9, 6/10, 6/15, 6/16,
6/17 at 7:30 Tickets $22
6/11, 6/17, 6/18
at 2:00 Tickets $18
By Michael Frayn
Directed by Don Langford
Michael Frayn's Noises Off
takes a fond look at the follies of
theatre folk, whose susceptibility
to out-of-control egos, memory
loss, and passionate affairs turn
every performance into a high-
risk adventure. This play-within-
a-play captures a touring theatre
troupe’s production of Nothing On in three stages: dress re-
hearsal, the opening performance, and a performance towards
the end of a debilitating run. Brimming with slapstick comedy,
Noises Off is a delightful backstage farce, complete with slam-
ming doors, falling trousers, and -- of course -- flying sar-
mance which combines great original western music by Brenn along
with moving story telling by Andy in concert with each other is a
huge hit. Together they have created a synergistic performance
which keeps the audience totally engaged for the duration of the
time they are on stage. The combination of deep emotional and mov-
ing lyrics along with the humorous and light hearted side of life ex-
IT’S A PARTY
June 21 PCA Gallery 5:00-7:00
Join us in celebrating three of our own --
Amber Bosworth, Linda Miller, Marnie Uhl.
The Come and Go Reception, catered by our
own Ritz Girls, will honor Linda for her AACT
Fellow Award, Marnie for her PAL Woman of
the Year Award, and Amber for completing
her MA in Writing (check out one of her new
short plays at Stage Too on June 3!). Come
celebrate these three amazing PCA women
for their three remarkable accomplishments.
Amber Bosworth
Linda Miller
Marnie Uhl
Join us at our 1st Gala Committee meeting Wednesday Aug 2nd at 5:00PM and help PCA
plan this exciting annual event!
PCA News Page 3
STAGE TOO!
ALL TICKETS $17
Summer Series -
ALL THREE $46
Evenings 7:30
Matinees 2:00
General Seating
Same Time,
Next Year
By Bernard Slade
Directed by
Lyssa Romaine
July 9, 13, 14,22, 30
August 3, 4, 12
PLAZA SUITE
By Neil Simon
Directed by
Paul Epoch
July 6, 7, 15, 23, 27,
28, August 5, 13
BUS STOP
By William Inge
Directed by
Catherine Miller
Hahn
July 8, 16, 20, 21, 29 August 6, 10, 11
PCA News
1st Pl., 3D, The Fire Inside
Cindi Shaffer, Kiln Formed Glass
Prescott Center for the Arts 2nd Summer Repertory Season
The directors and crews are busy! The plays are cast and in rehearsal for the PCA 2017 Summer Repertory Season! Due to sell out crowds for all performances last season, Thursday night performances have been added this year -- opening July 6
th and running through August 13
th!
THE 2017 SUMMER SEASON OF PLAYS: Plaza Suite by Neil Simon (Performs July 6, 7, 15, 23, 27, 28, August 5 and 13.)
Bus Stop by William Inge (Performs July 8, 16, 20, 21, 29, August 6, 10, 11) Same Time, Next Year by Bernard Slade – (Performs July 9, 13, 14, 22, 30, Aug. 3, 4, 12)
(Two performances have been added for each play this summer )
Bus Stop by William Inge is one of four consecutive Broadway hits of the 1950’s which were rapidly made into equally successful films, making Inge the decade’s star dramatist. The action of this endearing romantic comedy takes place during a howl-ing snowstorm in a cheerful street-corner restaurant adjacent to a bus stop in a small town about thirty miles west of Kansas City. Not unlike Chaucer’s pilgrims to Canter-bury, these travelers (a nightclub chanteuse in a sparkling gown and a seedy fur-trimmed jacket, a twenty-one-year-old headstrong cowboy, his kindly mentor ranchman, a middle-age scholar com-ing to terms with himself) wait out the storm with the free spirited owner of the diner, the young wait-ress who gets her first taste of romance, the local man’s man Sheriff and the always ready for ac-tion bus driver. Together this unlikely band learns much from the themes in Inge’s visionary play regarding sex and love as the world of the 1960’s encroaches. (Directed by Catherine Miller Hahn) William Inge is a great comfort to all of us . . . he brings to the theatre a kind of warm-hearted com-passion, creative vigor, freshness of approach and appreciation of average humanity that is won-derfully touching and stimulating. The New York Post Same Time, Next Year by Bernard Slade is one of the most popular romantic come-dies of the century, running four years on Broadway. Cupid has set his sights on these two people as their paths cross in a small restaurant somewhere along the northern coast of California. A love affair between two people, Doris and George, married to oth-ers, rendezvous once a year. Twenty-five years of manners and morals are hilariously and touchingly played out by the lovers. (Directed by Lyssa Romaine)
Delicious wit, compassion, a sense of humor and a feel for nostalgia. The New York Times Genuinely funny and genuinely romantic. The New York Post Plaza Suite by Neil Simon Hilarity abounds in this portrait of three couples successive-ly occupying a suite at the Plaza. A suburban couple take the suite while their house is being painted and it turns out to be the one in which they honeymooned 23 (or was it 24?) years before and was yesterday the anniversary, or is it today? This wry tale of marriage in tatters is followed by the exploits of a Hollywood producer who, after three marriages, is looking for fresh fields. He calls a childhood sweetheart, now a suburban housewife, for a little sexual diversion. Over the years she has idolized him from afar and is now more than the match he bargained for. The last couple is a mother and father fighting about the best way to get their daughter out of the bathroom and down to the ballroom where guests await her or as Mother yells, "I want you to come out of that bathroom and get married!" (Directed by Paul Epoch)
A wonderfully happy and gratifying evening of sheer entertainment...Richly funny.- New York Post
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PCA News
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THEATRE ADVENTURES Ages: 6-10 Dates: June 19-30 Time: 9:00—Noon
Cost is $160 ( discounts for siblings and scholarships)
Theatre Adventurers is a great theatrical program for youngsters (6 –
10) and is especially beneficial for those with little or no theatre experi-
ence. Youngsters will audition, rehearse and perform a one-act play
while learning theatre basics and having a LOT of fun doing it! Dates
will be June 19 to 30, 2017. The performance will commence at 11:30
on the last day of the session, followed by a pot luck lunch for families
and friends attending the performance. Cost is $160 with discounts for
siblings and scholarships available. Directed by Sandy Vernon
SUMMER STOCK JUNIOR
Ages: 10-14 Dates: July 5– July 29 Times: 9am—3 pm Mon - Fri
This energetic musical, based on the 1970s Emmy Award-winning cartoon
show, follows Tom, a young schoolteacher, who is nervous about his first
day of teaching. When he tries to relax by watching TV, various charac-
ters representing facets of his personality emerge from the set and show
him how to win his students over with imagination and music. Memorable
songs as “Just a Bill,” “Lolly, Lolly, Lolly,” and “Conjunction Junction”
bring his lesson plans vividly to life.
Due to a generous donor, aftercare until 5:00 is provided this year for no additional charge!
TEEN SUMMER STOCK ENSEMBLE Performance dates: July14 ,15, 21, 22 at 7:30
July 16, 23 at 2:00
Tickets: Adults $17 Youth $12
One of the most uproariously funny musicals in recent years!
In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage caused a 20-
year drought leading to a government-enforced ban on pri-
vate toilets. A hero emerges, and plans a revolution to lead
the citizen to freedom! Urinetown, the Musical catapults the comedic romp into new
millennium with its outrageous perspective, wickedly modern wit, and sustained ability
to produce unbridled laughter. Directed by Scott Neese
To register, Call 445-3286 or visit our website pca-az.net/Youth & Education
PCA News
1st Pl., 3D, The Fire Inside
Cindi Shaffer, Kiln Formed Glass
WINGS Thru—June 10
Artists were called upon to create art depicting anything with wings: birds, airplanes, fairies, insects, and mythological creatures are a few examples. A variety of mediums are represent-ed. Here are the judge’s picks:
Patty Heibel, Dragonfly , Acrylic, Mixed Media
1st PLACE, 2D: Frank Cuva, Eagle Feasting
Melanie Harman, Free Flight
PEOPLE’ S CHOICE: Ananda DiBenedetto, Libres et Gracieux
BEST OF SHOW: Jim Hall, Wing-Nut
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PCA AUDITIONS
Fiddler on the Roof Directed by Frank Malle Opening 17-18 Season Musical
Dancers and Singers, Actors of all ages. We don’t have scripts at this point, but we will send infor-
mation if/ when the director provides sides before the auditions.
2nd PLACE, 3D: Sukey Jones, Turkeytangles
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Wings Art Exhibit continued:
2nd PLACE, 2D: Arlene Minuskin, Asleep at Sunset 1st PLACE, 3D: Patty Heibel, Golden Eagle
MAINSTAGE THEATRE LOBBY ARTWORK
Next time you are attending a PCA mainstage event, stop in the lobby to view the work of this artist.
Leslie Sorg Ramsay, Thru 7/30 Leslie moved to Prescott in 2016 from the East Coast and is an active volunteer with Prescott Center for the Arts. On the East Coast, she was on the Board of the century old Arts Club of Washington (DC), President of the American Art League, and also active with numerous art galleries - exhibiting, curating and marketing. As Program Chair, she identified and arranged 80 musical per-formances for the Arts Club. She worked for decades in executive roles for The Salvation Army, The White House, and as Principal for one of largest executive search firms in the US. Since 2006, five of Leslie’s paintings have
been recognized for Awards of Excellence by
judges from national and Washington DC arts institutions. Her paintings often reflect tranquil land-
scapes and peaceful reflections of people, or restful poses of animals. She also enjoys creating ab-
stract paintings as her artistic eye
evolves and pushes her vision by ex-
perimenting with colors and shapes.
She credits her successes to the guid-
ance of portrait artist and teacher
Gladys Kazigian, and Dick Swartz, a
commercial artist with creations rang-
ing from the human figure, landscapes
and nature, animals, murals and water-
colors.
FEATURED ARTIST WALL Arlene Minuskin, 5/1-6/10
Arlene’s photo, Backwards and in High Heels, was the judge’s choice for Best of Show for the World in Miniature exhibit. Arlene is active in the Prescott Center for the Arts, in both the performing and visual arts. She served as the Gallery’s Visual Arts Committee Chair, has curated art shows, and has performed in many PCA theatre productions. Most of her photography focuses on urban images, as city life has always been a fa-vorite subject for her. Her work has appeared in Prescott galleries and other local venues and in competitions for the Prescott Camera Club, Yavapai Digital Arts and Photo Club, and the Arizona Camera Club Council. “The camera’s eye demands that I stay alert to life going on around me – that I capture the unusual – that I capture the ordinary –
and that I never stop learning and telling a story .” Jim Hall, 6/12-7/22 Jim’s photo, Wing-Nut, was the judge’s choice for Best of Show in the exhibit, Wings. Jim has been taking photographs since his father handed him a camera as a young boy of eight. At El Segundo High School (CA), he was the staff photographer for the school’s newspapers and yearbooks. In 1970, Jim graduated with a BFA in Photography from Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. He then opened a commercial photography business in Los Ange-les with a high school classmate and long-time friend. It attracted some of the finest design-ers and art directors in the country. Jim was recognized as the best studio car photographer in the country from the mid-1980’s to mid-1990’s.
Since moving to Prescott three years ago, Jim has received many awards for his work locally: the Prescott Camera Club, Yavapai County Fair and PCA. His work has been displayed at the Phippen Museum, ‘Tis Gallery, and at the Arizona Camera Club Council competitions.
I grew up in an environment surrounded by photography and design and at a time when things were simple. Three basic concepts greatly influenced my photographic work: “KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid;” “Less is More;” and “Form Follows Function.”
Following are two examples of what you will see on Jim’s Featured Artist Wall
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FEATURED ARTIST WALL
Be sure to stop in the Gallery to see the Featured Artist displays for these two art-ists. Arlene Minuskin, Thru 6/10 Arlene’s photo, Backwards and in High Heels, was the judge’s choice for Best of Show for the World in Miniature exhibit. Ar-lene is active in the Prescott Center for the Arts, in both the performing and visual arts. She served as the Gallery’s Visual Arts Committee Chair, has curated art
shows, and has performed in many PCA theatre productions. Most of her photography focuses on urban images, as city life has always been a favorite subject for her. Her work has appeared in Prescott galleries and other local venues and in competitions for the Prescott Camera Club, Yavapai Digital Arts and Photo Club, and the Arizona Camera Club Council. “The camera’s eye demands that I stay alert to life going on around me – that I capture the unusual – that I capture the ordinary – and that I never stop learning and telling a story.” Jim Hall, 6/12-7/22 Jim’s photo, Wing-Nut, was the judge’s choice for Best of Show in the exhibit, Wings. Jim has been taking photo-graphs since his father handed him a camera as a young boy of eight. At El Segundo High School (CA), he was the staff photographer for the school’s newspapers and year-books. In 1970, Jim graduated with a BFA in Photography from Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. He then opened a commercial photography business in Los Angeles with a high school classmate and long-time friend. It attract-ed some of the finest designers and art directors in the country. Jim was recognized as the best studio car photog-rapher in the country from the mid-1980’s to mid-1990’s.
Since moving to Prescott three years ago, Jim has received many awards for his work locally: the Prescott Camera Club, Yavapai County Fair and PCA. His work has been displayed at the Phippen Museum, ‘Tis Gal-lery, and at the Arizona Camera Club Council competitions.
I grew up in an environment surrounded by photography and design and at a time when things were simple. Three basic concepts greatly influenced my photographic work: “KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid;” “Less is More;” and “Form Follows Function.”
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Flow
Lands Beyond
Storm Clearing
BEAUTY IN THE ABSTRACT 6/12-7/22
Artists’ Reception & 4th Fri. Art Walk 6/23 5-8 pm Light Refreshments
Artists will exhibit a wide variety of styles from Art Deco to Abstract Impressionism to Pop to Psychedelic to the uninhibited approach exemplified by Jackson Pollack, and more, in a variety of mediums.
Nicole Sorenson, Manhattan, Acrylic
GIFT SHOP We welcome new and return-ing artists and invite them to contact us to make an ap-pointment to bring in their work for review: [email protected].
