Rave Reviews for BOA offerings from Threshold and Playpen!

We couldn't be more excited about the positive reception for the two short plays Threshold and our sister company Playpen have contributed to the 9th Annual Bay One Acts Festival (BOA).

Audiences and critics have been unanimous in their praise and affection for the The Catcher in the Rye, Cancelled by Jon Brooks and Three Little Words by Tim Bauer, directed by Artistic Director Jessica Holt and Core Member Alex Curtis, respectively.

The SF Bay Times calls Catcher a "well-staged riotous parody" and the eight-member acting ensemble" don't miss a beat. Three Little Words is "truly hilarious and not to be missed."

Check out Linda Ayres-Frederick's comprehensive SF Bay Times review for a full recap:

http://www.sfbaytimes.com/?sec=article&article_id=12507

Congratulations all!

Photos: Clay Robeson

Threshold is Newly Fiscally Sponsored by CounterPulse!

Threshold is thrilled to announce that it has been accepted into the CounterPULSE Fiscal Sponsoship Program! We are so excited to be part of the CounterPulse family.

To learn more about CounterPulse, click here: http://www.counterpulse.org/

Look for more information about what this all means for us and our upcoming production of TERRORiSTKA soon!

Threshold Announces Cast Line-Up for Terroristka

Threshold is so pleased to announce our cast for Terroristka by Rebecca Bella, to play at Berkeley City Club May 3-16, 2010.

Zarema Sarah Rose Butler

Jailbird Kate Jopson
Mohamed Geof Libby
Rustan Alex Curtis*
Fatima Adrienne Krug
Lena Molly Holcomb
Official Shadow Andy Strong**

* Threshold Core Member
** Currently playing in the Threshold piece Catcher in the Rye adapted by Jon Brooks to open at BOA 9 at Boxcar Theatre, SF Feb 18 - Mar 13, 2010

This is an incredible group of people! Threshold is honored to work with them, many of whom are new to Threshold. The one thing that unites us all is a passionate commitment to this rich material.

Rehearsals begin in March!

More soon....

Three Little Words.

Threshold is thrilled to announce it's second contribution to this year's Bay One Acts Festival,

Three Little Words;

OR,
Romeo and Juliet,
the Entire Play,
with Four Actors,
in Three-Word Sentences,
Which Can't Be Done.

by Tim Bauer
Directed by Alex Curtis

Produced by Threshold's new sister company Playpen (Theater), founded by core member Alex Curtis, Three Little Words is a production of the Bard's classic tale with a few changes. Three Little Words is a witty, theatrical send up of star-crossed lovers and the actors who play them.

With a full cast of talented, funny actors, Playpen is proud to welcome its new cast:

Nick Dickson,
Jasen Talise,
Megan Briggs,
and Dave Dyson

With two Threshold directors taking stage, casts including Threshold actors Cooper Carlson (Exchange), Brittany Berg (Within the Wall of Sand), and Brant Rhotnem (Ayravana Flies), and even two plays by Threshold talents Sam Leichter (actor: Exchange, Footprints in the Applesauce) and Ben Fisher (playwright: Exchange, Footprints in the Applesauce), BOA 2010 will be a Thresh-Stravaganza not to be missed!

See you there!!!

February 18-March 14, 2010
Boxcar Theatre, San Francisco
www.threewisemonkeys.org

Threshold Audition Notice: Terroristka!

Audition Notice

TERRORiSTKA
by Rebecca Bella
Directed by Jessica Holt

Berkeley City Club, Berkeley
Previews: April 30 - May 2, 2010
Opens: May 3 - May 16, 2010

Auditions:
December 16th, 2009
6 pm to 10 pm
Off-Market Theatre, 2nd Floor Rehearsal Room, 965 Mission St. San Francisco

Roles: 3 F (20s), 2M (20s), 1 M (40s), 1F (40s-50s)
Small Stipend.

For more information and audition appointment, please email: thresholders@gmail.com
Please attach your headshot and resume in the email.
Please prepare a 1-minute dramatic monologue. Sides will be provided in advance.

Rebecca Bella's searing poem-play contemplates a young woman's passage from youthful innocence to volatile patriotism. The story unravels from both ends; as it does we see how young people become entangled in violence, and how they enable the conflicts that destroy their own lives.

A deeply felt play, TERRORiSTKA is both a lament for the lost, and a lullaby for the future.

Catcher in the Rye (Cancelled)

Threshold is thrilled to announce its next project:

The Catcher in the Rye (Cancelled)
By Jon Brooks
Directed by Jessica Holt



Produced in association with Three Wise Monkeys at
The 9th Annual Bay One Acts Festival (BOA)
February - March 2010
Boxcar Theatre, San Francisco

A hilarious parody of the perils of copyright infringement, fair use and dramatic license. It has the Threshold team tickled.

We were first introduced to the quirky world-view of playwright Jon Brooks last year when BOA and Bindlestiff produced his riotous "Afterlife," which re-examined some of our most deepy cherished beliefs about what the afterlife might look like. In Brook's imagined afterlife, men give birth to men, a Birdman squawks intermittently, and little orange balls randomly pelt those newly birthed men. A piece of pure anarchy, Threshold couldn't stop laughing.

With "Catcher in the Rye" those big, jaw-dropping laughs continue, as a motley crew of copyrighted, trademarked and patented characters goads the playwright as he attempts to apologize to his audience for a show they will never see.

Join us for a raucous, ribald rumination on the price of intellectual property and the cost of artistic freedom.

See you at BOA at Boxcar in February 2010.

Threshold's New Logo!

Hello Theatre Fans!

Threshold is pleased to unveil it's BRAND spankin' new logo. Props to Thresholder Alex Curtis for his artistry here. We love our new symbol and hope you do!

We have some big things brewing for Threshold that will all be revealed in the near, near future. BIG things. Very cool.

In the meantime, we have a LOGO! yay!

FOOTPRINTS IN THE APPLESAUCE: A World Premiere

a threshold project

the world premiere of
FOOTPRINTS IN THE APPLESAUCE
(a play about an elephant)
by Ben Fisher
directed by Pamela Davis

Tabitha is a bearded lady studying to be a criminal psychologist.
Rollo is a clown who just wants to be taken seriously. And Dudley...

Well, Dudley's dead.

Please join us this Sunday morning, July 26th at the San Francisco Theater Festival for this short comedy about love, death, the circus, and how to properly dispose of an elephant corpse in these trying economic times. Starring Sam Leichter and Maggie McCally.

11:50 am, July 26, 2009
Action Theater
2nd Floor, Metreon
101 4th Street, SF

Admission is so, so, SO free.

http://thethresholdproject.blogspot.com/

Find more festival information, including directions and parking info, here.

--- BONUS ---
Make a day of it at the The San Francisco Theater Festival!

THRESHOLD RECOMMENDS...

After Footprints in the Applesauce, head over to the Forum at 3:25pm for a Three Wise Monkeys comedy double feature, directed by our very own Jessica Holt. Maybe Tov, penned by Thresholder (and Footprints director) Pamela Davis, features our buddies Cooper Carlson (Exchange) and Joe Scheppers. Crish Barth's hilarious Save The Date shuffles the cards around again, as Pamela joins Cooper and Joe in the cast.

(For more information: http://3wmtheatre.blogspot.com/)

Or check out playwright Ben Fisher and see more of Footprints star Sam Leichter in Aristophanes' classic Greek comedy The Frogs, presented by AtmosTheatre at the Waterfall Stage.