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Pulitzers Play Little Rock: CTLR’s production of RENT

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CTLR RentJonathan Larson’s through-sung updated La Boheme was an instant success from its first Off Broadway preview.  Unfortunately with his death that day, Larson never enjoyed the success.  After a long Broadway run, the rights were made available for other productions.

Though not the first to present Rent in Little Rock, the Community Theatre of Little Rock closed out its 58th season in 2014 with a production of this winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize in Drama.

The cast included Michael Goodbar, Ryan Whitfield, Charles Holloway, Jeremiah Herman, Angel Monroe, Brittany Sparkles, Kelsey Padilla, Jess Carson, David Weatherly, Courtney Williams, Douglas Hammon, Elijah Ash, Manny Urban, Brian Christopher Roberson, Robert Warner, Claudia Moskova-Cremeens, Ashley McPhearson, Vivian Murray-Colyer, Nichole Henry, Allison Bode, Courtney Speyer, Makayla Ealy, and Beth Ross.

The production was directed by Frank O. Butler.  Matthew Tatus was the Music Director, while the producers were Liz Clark and Jerry Woods.

2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama being given. To pay tribute to 100 years of the Pulitzer for Drama, each day this month a different Little Rock production of a Pulitzer Prize winning play will be highlighted.  Many of these titles have been produced numerous times.  This look will veer from high school to national tours in an attempt to give a glimpse into Little Rock’s breadth and depth of theatrical history.

Final Weekend of JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE at Weekend Theater

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Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at Little Rock's The Weekend TheaterThis weekend affords the final three times to see August Wilson’s powerful award winning play Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at the Weekend Theater.  The show is playing tonight, Saturday night, and a Sunday afternoon matinee has been added as well!

Directed by Meredith Bagby Fettes, this post-Civil War era play depicts the migration of African-Americans, from the rural South to the urban North, as they meet in a 1911 Pittsburgh boardinghouse. Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, by the author of The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars and Fences, is an installment in the author’s series chronicling black life in each decade of this century.

The play uses realistic language and dialogue representative of the day, with each denizen of the boardinghouse owning a specific rhythm and speech pattern and carrying a different relationship to a past of slavery as well as to an urban present.

The characters include the proprietors, an eccentric clairvoyant with a penchant for old country voodoo, a young homeboy up from the South and a mysterious stranger who is searching for his wife. The Weekend Theater production cast includes seasoned alums, as well is newcomers to the stage.

The cast includes Margaret Pierson-Bates Herald, Jeremiah Herman, Charles Holloway, Diondre’ Wright, London Jones, Shanika Thompson, Paul Person, Drew Ellis, Pamela Reed, Candrice Jones and Ebon Jones

Curtain time is 7:30 pm. The Box Office (and the theater) opens one (1) hour prior to curtain. The House opens 30 minutes prior to curtain.

There will be a brief talk-back with the cast after each Saturday performance. This plays contains some simulated violence and adult language.