By PAM HARBAUGH AUDITION: Melbourne Civic Theatre will hold auditions 7 p.m. Sunday and Monday for “The Fox on the Fairway,” a farce by Ken Ludwig. Needed are three men and three women ages 20 to 60. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. The comedy runs Aug. 7...
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VIDEO: MCT ‘Play Read Series’
At a rehearsal for MCT’s final playreading of the season, “Third,” by Wendy Wasserstein. By PAM HARBAUGH If you haven’t made it to one of Melbourne Civic Theatre’s most appealing and artistically stimulating playreadings, then you’ve missed some very cool and most artsy theater experiences. MCT had its final one of...
Play Read: ‘Third,’ by Wendy Wasserstein
In rehearsal for Playread Series presentation of “Third” at Melbourne Civic Theatre. By PAM HARBAUGH Melbourne Civic Theatre presents another in its acclaimed Playread Series at 2 p.m. Saturday (tomorrow, June 20) with the public reading of “Third.” “Third” was the final play written by the award-winning late playwright, Wendy Wassterstein....
nFOCUS: Alan Selby, scenic designer for ‘Picnic’ at MCT
By PAM HARBAUGH Anyone who’s ventured into Melbourne Civic Theatre to see the superb scenic design for “Picnic” knows that scenery sets a sublime mood for the excellent production, I sat down with Alan Selby for a chat about his work on “Picnic.” Here’s what he had to say. And, if...
Review: ‘Picnic’ at Melbourne Civic Theatre
“Picnic” at Melbourne Civic Theatre, photo by Pam Harbaugh. By PAM HARBAUGH It’s a hot day on the Kansas plains in 1952 when Helen Potts fans herself with her handkerchief and wishes out loud that a cyclone would come by to cool things off. She gets that cyclone, but it comes...
In Conversation with Peg Girard
MCT’s “Picnic.” Photo by Pam Harbaugh. By PAM HARBAUGH One of director Peg Girard’s favorite plays is the 1951 play “Picnic” written by William Inge. The writing and story content thrill her, she says. As does the glimpse into 1952 rural Kansas. It opens June 5 at Melbourne Civic Theatre and...
Theaters raise bar. Audiences benefit.
By PAM HARBAUGH I moved from New York City to Brevard in 1977. Always drawn to the theater, one of the very first things I did was to research the area’s community theaters. I found their offerings to be merry ones, but nonetheless thin. Lots of early Neil Simon. Lots of...