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Stage
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By JOHN FLEMING, Times Performing Arts Critic
© St. Petersburg Times
published March 27, 2003
Three plays get local productions
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Colleen McDonnell and Diana Rogers play daughter and mother, respectively, in the Jobsite Theater production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Set in an isolated village in western Ireland, Martin McDonagh's play explores their tormented relationship in darkly comic fashion. Directed by Paul Potenza, the cast also includes Ned Averill-Snell and David Jenkins. It opens at 8 p.m. today and runs through April 13 in the Shimberg Playhouse of the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. Tickets: $15.50, $21.50. (813) 229-7827 or call toll-free 1-800-955-1045 or www.tbpac.org.
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Another dark comedy in a remote location is Desperados by Tampa playwright Ray Zacek. It premieres in a Stageworks production directed by Richard Coppinger. Zacek sets his play in southern Arizona at the Desertaire Motel, an "untypical tourist destination, so far off the beaten path you may never find your way home," a news release says. The cast includes Petrus Antonius (head on woman's shoulder), Shannon Foley and Carl Donovan. The play opens at 8 p.m. Friday and continues through April 13 at Gorilla Theatre. Tickets: $7-$19. (813) 258-6757.
And get ready for serial productions of The Heiress, which won Olivia de Havilland an Oscar in the 1949 film version of Ruth and Augustus Goetz's adaptation of the Henry James novel Washington Square. The University of Tampa production, directed by Gary Luter, opens at 8 tonight and runs through Sunday at the Falk Theater, 428 W Kennedy Blvd. Tickets: $5, $10. (813) 253-6243. Upcoming productions of The Heiress are April 3-14 at Tarpon Springs Performing Arts Center and April 9-27 by the FSU/Asolo Conservatory in Sarasota.
-- JOHN FLEMING, Times performing arts critic
Verdi's original Macbeth
Todd Thomas stars in the title role of Macbeth at Sarasota Opera, where a rare staging of the original version of Verdi's opera is on the agenda. Since the beginning of the season in early February, Thomas and the rest of the cast have been performing the standard version of the opera, which Verdi revised in 1865. The original version, from 1847, differs by about one-third from the revision, according to conductor Victor DeRenzi. Operagoers can compare and contrast the original Macbeth at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Wednesday (the last performance of the season) and the revised version at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $17-$79.50. (941) 366-8450 or toll-free 1-888-673-7212.
-- JOHN FLEMING, Times performing arts critic
Guest organist at SPC
Karl Paukert will play the new Heissler tracker pipe organ at St. Petersburg College's Music Center, 6605 Fifth Ave. N, St. Petersburg. Paukert, a Czech-born organist who is curator of musical arts at the Cleveland Museum of Art, will perform works of Bach, Janacek and Franck. Contemporary music on the program includes Behold a Pale Horse, a thundering piece by Stephen Montague. Paukert's recital, at 8 p.m. Friday, is free.
-- JOHN FLEMING, Times performing arts critic
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