Some icing on the cake of Theatre Odyssey’s best Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival yet: theatre and television critic Jay Handelman has followed up his recent piece on Theatre Odyssey, with a generous review of this year’s selected plays. As Jay mentioned in his article, it’s no easy feat to tell a story in 10 minutes, […]
HIGH SCHOOL REUNION Wins Best Play; THE COWARD is Runner-up
HIGH SCHOOL REUNION, Arthur Keyser’s comedy about the meeting of two 101-year-old former high school classmates attending their 83rd class reunion and concluding they shouldn’t part ways without planning the big one—the 85th— won Best Play honors at the Tenth Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. The centenarians were performed by Dan Higgs and John Forsyth, and […]
Play Festival Featured in The Observer
And the press just keeps rolling in! Theatre Odyssey’s Tenth Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival was featured Thursday, April 30th in the Observer, courtesy of Marty Fugate: “The short form is a tough form. Creators of short stories, short films and the author of the Gettysburg Address all agree on that. As a wise man once […]
Theatre Odyssey Featured in Ticket Sarasota and Suncoast View
We hope you will read Jay Handelman’s thoughtful piece about Theatre Odyssey if you missed it in the Herald Tribune. And take a look at the interview on ABC’s Suncoast View! Theatre Odyssey’s Tenth Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival begins Thursday, April 30, with performances also Friday and Saturday evenings and a Sunday matinee performance. There is […]
FESTIVAL JUDGES ANNOUNCED
Urbanite Theatre Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director Summer Wallace, Bradenton Herald Arts and Entertainment writer Marty Clear, and stage actor Jim Sorensen, who has appeared locally at Asolo Rep, Banyan Theater Company and freeFall Theatre, will adjudicate the eight new plays in Theatre Odyssey’s Tenth Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. They will choose a Best Play and […]
VIOLINIST TO ACCOMPANY FESTIVAL PLAYS
Jenny Armor, a 12-year-old music prodigy, will play violin interludes at Theatre Odyssey’s Tenth Annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. “Jenny comes to us thanks to the suggestion of our friends at Anna Maria Island Community Chorus and Orchestra,” said Tom Aposporos, Theatre Odyssey’s Board President. “She is trained in classical violin, and also plays bluegrass and […]
