In our lobby throughout the production of Closer, we are proud to feature the artwork of Rams Brisueño.

Rams is a Baltimore artist with work exhibited in area galleries, Artscapes, cafes and in private collections. His work explores color and texture; myth and forms; and text and memory. By organically letting the work breathe and allowing a sense of whimsy and fantasy, his work comes together—order within chaos—with a sense of compositional unity through space, shape, and color. And he really likes to paint.

“Above all else, it is about leaving a mark that I existed: I was here. I was hungry. I was defeated. I was happy. I was sad. I was in love. I was afraid. I was hopeful. I had an idea and I had a good purpose and that’s why I made works of art.” Felix Gonzalez-Torres.

Mobtown’s production of Sylvia by A.R. Gurney.

Questions?  Please contact publicity@mobtownplayers.com.

Documents

• Press Release
• Fact Sheet
• Program

Helpful Links

• A.R. Gurney (Wikipedia)
• A.R. Gurney’s website
• Sylvia (Wikipedia)

Photographs

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Questions?  Please contact publicity@mobtownplayers.com.

So, anyone heading out to the 3:00 PM Sylvia matinee and fighting past the Mayor’s Christmas Parade today….

Special Note regarding the Sunday 12/6 3pm performance: Parts of Falls Rd and The Avenue on 36th Street will be closed from 1pm to 5pm for The Mayor’s Annual Christmas Parade.

Please allow extra time to get to the theatre. The following may be a useful alternate route:

From I83 exit East towards W Cold Spring Ln & Grandview Ave Baltimore, MD 21209

1. Head south on Grandview Ave toward W Old Cold Spring Ln – 0.3 mi
2. Turn right at Roland Heights Ave – 217 ft
3. Turn left at Buchanan Ave – 472 ft
4. Turn left at Medfield which turns into Edgehill Ave – 0.2 mi
5. Take the 3rd right onto W 41st St – 0.1 mi
6. Take the 1st left onto Buena Vista Ave – 0.3 mi
7. Take the 2nd right onto Union Ave – 0.1 mi
8. Take the 2nd left onto Clipper Mill Rd Destination will be on the right
- 256 ft

Arrive at: Mobtown Players Inc 3600 Clipper Mill Road Baltimore, MD
21211-1948

What’s that? This would be great with a Google Maps link? Well, okay….

So, what’s this supposed to be, besides a place for the presskit and audition announcements.

I have always been very interested in putting out there glimpses of the creative process. Just how does a show come together? What are the elements?

It’s not just a bunch of people getting together and memorizing lines. It’s a project, multi-threaded and with lots of people contributing their efforts and skills to the common effort. It’s really quite amazing when you get down to it – and when it works well a whole team of strangers come together to form a community that just really clicks – and there aren’t too many things in the world that are better than that.

It was always my intent to let people in on the experience. There’s a certain thrill at the first read through when you get the script cuts, or when the designers come back with their first sketches, or when you see the poster art for the first time, or when the set starts to get built.

Previously, it was a damned bear to try to craft pages for that stuff, though. Go home, fire up FrontPage, load some pictures, type some words, connect to the server and upload the new or edited page…. But WordPress’ blogging software makes this easy.

I can still come home and hop on the ‘Net and type out a quick blog post. But I can also – right from rehearsal with my cell phone – snap a picture of the set and upload it to the blog. I can use my iPhone to type a quick post at a break after the first run through. I can email links to the costume designs. I can post a series of links to source material. Lots of possibilities. I really hope the directors and their teams take advantage of it

Auditions are meant to work pretty much the same way as the presskit. A director wants to post an audition announcement, they submit a post to Blog-O-Rific! and categorize it as “Auditions” (and probably the show).

There is a handcrafted link to the Auditions category page, so voila – follow that link and you get to see the most recent Audition announcement.

And the best part? The producer and director should be able to craft this and either email it use an iPhone to submit it. They wouldn’t even need to come to the WordPress Admin area.

Though, that means I have to get the email posting service up, and figure out how to control the security on the accounts…..