All 37 Plays in 97 Minutes! An irreverent, fast-paced romp through the Bard’s plays, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) is a high-speed roller-coaster type condensation of all of Shakespeare’s plays, and is not recommended for people with heart ailments, bladder problems, inner-ear disorders and/or people inclined to motion sickness!

Cumming Playhouse, Off Broadway Professional Company, and North Fulton Drama Club are pleased to announce that Thursday January 8th and Thursday January 15th are Industry Nights! If you work for a theater or are currently rehearsing a show, come out on either Thursday and you will be admitted for the student price of $10.

For more information, call NFDC at 404-444-4605 or contact us at nfdramaclub at gmail dot com.

In collaboration with Off-Broadway Productions,
North Fulton Drama Club is presenting
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [Abridged]
by The Reduced Shakespeare Company.

Directed by Jim Dailey, this comedy will feature NFDC alums Stephen Banks (Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Zip Rampy (Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Thomas L. Strickland (Love’s Labour’s Lost, Romeo & Juliet).

Two Weeks at Cumming Playhouse
January 8-11, 15-18.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday evening (8pm), Sunday matinee for two weekends.

The Cumming Playhouse
101 School Street
Cumming, Georgia 30040 (Google Map)
770.781.9178 Telephone
770.781.5130 Fax
Tickets: $15.00
Tickets will soon be available by phone, at the box office or online.

Check out the event on Facebook!

Two Weeks at Kudzu Playhouse in Roswell
January 23-24, 30-31.
Friday, Saturday evening (8pm), two weekends.

Kudzu Playhouse
10743 Alpharetta Highway
Roswell, GA 30076 (Google Map)
(770) 594-1020 Telephone
(770) 594-1318 Fax
Tickets: $15.00
Tickets will be available by phone, at the box office or online.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Lawrenceville, Ga., (May 12, 2008) – Eight community theatres form all over North Georgia representing 100 years of performance will descend upon Aurora Theatre to participate in the 1st Annual Gwinnett County Community Theatre Festival. This two-week festival will feature a wide variety of ad vocational theatre offerings from Shakespeare to Southern Comedy and even a play in Spanish. Although the participants may vary from beginner to folks who hold advanced degrees in theatre, they all participate for the same reason – a pure love of theatre. All performances will be held in the intimate grandeur of Aurora Theatre the last two weekends in June with shows running in both the Metro Waterproofing Strickland Family Stage and the Discovery Point Studio concurrently. The Gwinnett County Community Theatre Festival offers participants the chance to perform in a world class venue and work alongside professional arts administrators and technicians. All of the groups involved are non-profit and proceeds from the festival will help to fund their future programming. For those who are not able to get their fill of live theatre, we suggest a Festival Pass that offers unlimited admissions to any one patron for one low price. The festival will bestow two awards; Festival Favorite for the group that sells the most tickets and Best Poster for artistic poster design.

“It’s like a pot-luck dinner, only on stage.” Anthony Rodriguez goes on to explain, “We are thrilled to be able to offer such an amazing line up our first year. We are confident that this festival will become one of the best arts events in the state, some might say that it already is.”

Participating in this year’s festival:

• County Seat Players – Gwinnett County’s longest running community theatre
• Lionheart Theatre Company – the resident company of the Norcross Cultural Arts Center
• New Dawn Theatre – performing in Duluth at Red Clay Theater Arts Center
• New London Theatre – just opened a storefront theatre in their hometown of Snellville
• North Fulton Drama Club – known for Shakespeare al fresco in Roswell
• Compañia Teatral Interludio – one of Georgia’s only Spanish Language theatrical performance groups
• Town & Gown Players – the oldest community theatre in Georgia producing continuously since 1953. The company has made its home in the Athens Community Theater since 1968
• Winder-Barrow Community Theatre – now residing in the new Colleen O. Williams Theater in Winder

Festival Schedule

June 20 at 8:00 & June 21 at 1:30

• Discovery Point Studio: New London Theatre presenting the Best of the New London 1 Act Festival
• Strickland Family Stage: County Seat Players presenting A Bad Year for Tomatoes by John Patrick

June 21 at 8:00 & June at 22 1:30

• Discovery Point Studio: Winder Barrow Community Theatre presenting Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling
• Strickland Family Stage: North Fulton Drama Club presenting A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

June 27 at 8:00 & June 28 at 1:30

• Discovery Point Studio: Teatro Interludio La Cuota del 25%
• Strickland Family Stage: New Dawn Theatre presenting Dearly Departed by David Bottrell and Jessie Jones

June 28 at 8:00 & June 29 at 1:30

• Discovery Point Studio: Town & Gown Players presenting Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet
• Strickland Family Stage: Lionheart Theatre presenting Radio TBS (Trailer Park Broadcasting Scandals) by Mark L. Smith

Ticket Prices

• $15 Adults
• $12 Seniors and Students

Festival Pass – with the festival pass you may attend as many performances at the festival as you like for one low price.

• $40 Adult Festival Pass
• $30 Seniors and Students Festival Pass

Reservations

678.226.6222 or www.auroratheatre.com

Aurora Theatre
128 Pike Street
Lawrenceville, GA 30045
678-226-6222

Aurora Theatre, Inc. is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation and is a member of the Atlanta Coalition of Performing Arts, Theatre Communications Group, the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce, Lawrenceville Tourism and Trade Association, Suwanee Business Alliance and Duluth Merchants Association.

You’ll have to listen to find out, wontcha?

Here’s the direct link.

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Originally uploaded by northfultondramaclub.

… a Flickr photo pool, that is.

In our continuing effort to expand our presence throughout the virtual world, we’ve made it easier for friendly photographers to put any and all NFDC photos in one convenient location. What belongs there? Photos from rehearsals, performances and (yes) even our occasional after-show activities.

So if you have Flickr’d NFDC photos, share them. Or if you don’t and just want to look around, go right ahead!

Alyssa, Nikki and Thomas spent the morning on the campus of Emory University, leading a discussion called “Chronicalling Creativity” at PodCamp Atlanta. Podcasting has proven very beneficial to our production efforts, not only as a kind of marketing tool, but moreover as a means of establishing a benchmark for our progress. And as a way of sharing our creative process. And as a way of building community. (And so on and so forth.)

As you might expect, we made a podcast out of our discussion about podcasting. We expect to have that posted for your listening pleasure on Georgia Podcast Network in the next week or so.

In other news …

NFDC is on Flickr. While our own Gallery has served us well, it just doesn’t have the kind of interaction we can get from Flickr. Over the next week or so, we’ll be transitioning over. And when we have more free time … ha! … we’ll be incorporating the Flickr photos into the NFDC blog. It’ll be fancy, we assure you.

But in the meantime, go check out some new photos from the Much Ado rehearsals. And if you’re a Flickr member, come be our friend!

NFDC is on Facebook. It seems we just can’t get enough Internet around here. We know that several of our former castfolks are on Facebook. And we suspect that still others are, too. So why not give them all a group to call their own?

If you’re on Facebook already, the NFDC group awaits you. If you’re not on Facebook, you can register!

Keep us posted Sean, and maybe you will have another unruly throng of NFDC admirer’s come to your next show!

At least until the new phone books arrive. You might never use them again, but as soon as they land on your stoop with a satisfying thud, you’re out there to retrieve them. Ignoring the yellow pages, the blue pages and the local business insert, you flip madly until you find just what you’re seeking. And suddenly, there it is.

Your own name. Now that’s a stage you can see!

Similarly (though just barely), North Fulton Drama Club has reached a new stage of our own. For the next couple of weeks, we’re listed under the upcoming auditions section of the Atlanta Coalition of Performing Arts website. Just find the non-musical listings and scroll until you find us.