"American Buffalo"
Continues American Voices Series

Master Class To Be Offered

The Wang Center for the Performing Arts continues American Voices: Drama, Dialogue, Downtown with a reading of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo” on Monday, February 2, at 7:00 p.m. 

Audience members who attend the reading are invited to attend a free acting master class presented by Suskind Young At Arts, the Wang Center’s education wing. To be held on Tuesday, February 3, at 6:00 p.m., the class will be conducted by Maler and the play’s actors. The master class will be filled on a first-come, first served basis and is open to participants of all acting abilities 16 years of age and older. Registration will be held during intermission of the “American Buffalo” reading.

American Voices, a play reading series that showcases classic American works on Monday nights at The Shubert Theatre this winter, has already featured readings of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf” and “Fences.” A reading of Sam Shepard's "True West" will complete the winter program on March 15.  Each performance take place in the new, intimate-seating configuration at The Shubert Theatre.  A short question and answer session follows each reading.

The reading of “American Buffalo,” Mamet’s 1975 drama about three small-time burglars, will feature Frederick Weller as Teach, Ted Reinstein as Don Dubrow and Pedro Pascal as Bob. Set in a junk shop, “American Buffalo” tells the story of the shop’s owner, an employee and friend who are plotting a robbery. The ambitions they pursue and the scams they dream up only serve to steer them away from their vision of the American Dream and ultimately lead them to betray their consciences and those they love.

Frederick Weller was last seen on Broadway in Richard Greenberg’s award winning “Take Me Out.” He also appeared in both the London and New York productions of Neil LaBute’s “The Shape of Things.”

Ted Reinstein, reporter and producer for WCVB-TV’s news magazine, “Chronicle,” has been seen on stage in Boston productions of “Glengarry Glen Ross,” “Speed The Plow,” “The Deal,” “Death of a Salesman” and “North Shore Fish.”

Pedro Pascal’s theatre credits include Kenneth Lonergan’s “Lobby Hero” at WHAT and Edwin Sherin’s world premiere adaptation of “Ghosts” at the Shakespeare Theatre with Jane Alexander.

Director Steven Maler is the founding Artistic Director of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and Resident Director at The Wang Center for the Performing Arts.

Tickets for American Voices: Drama, Dialogue, Downtown are on sale at The Shubert Theatre box office, 265 Tremont Street, Boston, online at www.wangcenter.org, or by calling Telecharge.com at 1-800-447-7400.

-- OnStage Boston

1/27/04

 

 
 
 
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