EMPIRE STAGE
1140 N. Flagler Drive
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33304
954-678-1496
PRESENTS as part of its
Summer Staged-Reading Series
“Shortz by Schwartz”
Directed by PAULA SACKETT
Written by Marla E. Schwartz
Sound & Lighting by Mick Sackett
Produced by Joseph Schwartz
Starring: Marj O’Neill-Butler*, Todd Caster, Bryan Hayes, Kevin Johnson, Tammy Smithand Jade D. Wheeler●.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
8 PM Sharp
SEATING IS LIMITED – ARRIVE EARLY
Admission is free!!!
(Donations to Empire Stage cheerfully accepted at box office window)
FREE WINE & BEER is offered to everyone!
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA)
● Equity Membership Candidate Program (AEA)
*****
DRIVING DIRECTIONS
Take I-95 from North or South of the Ft. Lauderdale area.
Get off I-95 at Sunrise Blvd. Go East onto Sunrise Blvd.
Once you see Andrews Ave., make sure to get into the far left lane (out of three lanes).
There isn’t a direct left turn onto Flagler (where the theater is located) so pass 8th Street and at 9th Street make a U-turn onto Sunrise Blvd. {If you find you’ve gone over the bridge at A1A – just make a U-turn as soon as possible and follow directions … this can happen because it comes upon one very quickly.}
Pass 8th Street, go a little further & right before the railroad tracks is N. Flagler, turn right onto N. Flagler.
Drive about a 1/4 mile down the road and Empire Stage is on the right hand side of the street.
There is limited parallel parking outside the building … but there is plenty of parking available in the grassy area across the street, expanding in either direction of the street.
Additional info…
The staged-reading SHORTZ BY SCHWARTZ includes five ten-minute plays written by playwright Marla E. Schwartz (whose play The Lunch Time Café, was a finalist for the Heideman Award, Actors Theatre of Louisville) is performed by six actors and directed by Paula Sackett, the former Artistic Director of the Studio Theatre of Wellington.
A ROBBED LIFE
Marj-O’Neill Butler* (MAE ROSE, MOTHER)
Tammy Smith (HELEN ROSE, DAUGHTER)
A lonely woman, the product of a difficult childhood and a lonely marriage has been mourning the loss of many people in her life and takes out her frustrations on her daughter.
AMERICA’S WORKING?
Todd Caster (ROBERT ROBERTS, EXECUTIVE)
Marj O’Neill-Butler* (DARLENE HUNTER, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY)
Jade D. Wheeler● (AMANDA ANDERSON, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT)
This play takes place in an office and with great humor and pathos shows how inept the company called AMERICA ’S WORKING is … at least to the underpaid administrative assistant who finally speaks her mind.
The first draft was written in 1998 and has since received a variety of productions and staged-readings, including productions at the Lone Star Ensemble in Los Angeles , CA ; Lynn University in Boca Raton and Lynn University ’s BOCA TO BROADWAY’s production at an Off-Broadway playhouse in NY.
HOLD ONTO YOUR DREAMS
Kevin Johnson (GOD)
Jade D. Wheeler● (JASMINE ORLANDO, reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer)
A young reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer is on the hunt for the scoop of her lifetime and when she meets God … she believes she has found it.
THE AGAPE PRINCIPLE
Todd Caster (VICTOR ADAMOPOULOS, Artist)
Bryan Hayes (BULL, retired Rock ‘n Roll singer)
Tammy Smith (ZAZA DOMINGO, reporter for The Miami Herald)
A reporter for The Miami Herald is set to interview a world-renowned Greek artist at a gallery in Miami ’s Design District when she runs into her ex – an aging, former rock’n roll star.
THE WILLENBOCKER’S FAMILY REUNION
Tammy Smith (BIANCA)
Bryan Hayes (MICHAEL)
Kevin Johnson (JASON)
Jade D. Wheeler● (SHANNON)
This is the 3rd script that the playwright has written for Lynn University’s 24-Hour Theatre Project. It’s about two sets of first cousins, siblings … one boy and one girl each … and their unusual relationships with one another.
ACTORS LISTED ABOVE
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA)
● Equity Membership Candidate Program (AEA)
PS: If the name Jade Wheeler sounds familiar, it’s because she was in GablStage’s outstanding production of RACE and will be see again at this superlative theater company in its upcoming production of RUINED! She’s a recent transplant from Washington , D.C. – and she’s simply amazing in every possible way!