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    Resident Artist Apollo Dukakis shares his thoughts on The American Dream

    Long-time Resident Artist, and member of the RAF Reading Committee, Apollo Dukakis, dishes on what he has in store for audiences at our July Resident Artist Festival, and what he’s most looking forward to as an audience member! I am directing the reading of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Part One, Millennium Approaches. I think…

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    Six Characters in Search of an Author: Meet the Stepdaughter

    She wants revenge. She wants to get to the truth: her truth and nothing but her truth. These six characters live in a fixed reality more painfully human than one could imagine. They are wandering spirits looking for an end—and to be set free as they plead their cases to a jury of actors. On…

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    Six Characters in Search of an Author: Abby Craden is The Mother

    She is the embodiment of grief and sorrow in this fascinating play. Grief for what is lost and at times irretrievable in a lifetime. I am so intrigued by this play that takes on issues of human identity, the roles we play and masks we wear, the issues of who we are as people or…

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    ‘round Every Corner: YOU NEVER CAN TELL

    When we first heard that Shaw’s wonderfully warm comedy would be part of the spring season, we hoped that Ovation Award winner Deborah Strang would play the intrepid-yet-irascible Mrs. Clandon. Prayers answered! Here, Deborah shares her thoughts on this wonderful—but—seldom seen role. “Shaw tends to terrify me; for many of his plays, I never feel…

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    Arcadia, Tom Stoppard’s Deliciously Dark Farce

    “We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short.” —Septimus Hodge, Arcadia Directed by Stephen Rockwell, 2016’s first Resident Artist reading brings one of Stoppard’s brilliantly funny…

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    THE CREATIVE PROCESS: Spotlight on Deborah Strang

    “Deborah Strang outdoes herself in this performance, one of her very best I have seen.” -Daniel Lowenstein, Director, UCLA Center for the Liberal Arts and Free Institutions (CLAFI) Ms. Strang sheds light to the creative process of character development: Kate has watched her two sons and all of the neighborhood children grow up. They’ve played…

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    IT’S REIGNING MEN: Resident and Guest Artists Make “Noise” This Fall

    After hearing from the lovely returning ladies last month, it was time for the guys to shine! JEREMY RABB Following his terrific turn as Tiger Brown in The Threepenny Opera, Resident Artist Jeremy Rabb returns this fall in two pivotal but entirely different roles: Ferraillon in A Flea in Her Ear and Jim Bayliss in…

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    “IT’S NOT A COMEBACK—IT’S A RETURN!”

    Several of spring’s loveliest ladies return this fall—and we’re delighted that they will. Here, they reflect on their roles, and why working at A Noise Within means so much. JILL HILL, who thrilled audiences as Portia in Julius Caesar this spring, is reprising her role as the deliciously deceitful Lucienne Homenides de Histangua in A…

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    WORLD PREMIERE! New adaptation of Anouilh’s Antigone arrives on September 20.

    When Jean Anouilh presented his interpretation of Sophocles’ fifth-century B.C. play, shock waves rippled through the City of Light for the play’s unflinching portrayal of Nazi-occupied Paris. Today, this damning reflection of the Vichy Regime remains one of the most startling artistic reactions to man’s inhumanity to man. It is also a paean to one…

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    Our Favorite Moments

    Favorite moment? Mine was definitely the first time we had an audience for The Threepenny Opera. We were all in the theatre, calling out our lines from every direction, the audience leaned forward, the band started playing, we all took our seats on stage, Ken Booth’s moving lights starting dancing around the room and Abu stood…

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