It’s a record breaking show!
Two sold out nights in the second weekend.
Order your tickets now before it’s too late…

BEST BET!!
“A magical date-show, or couples evening out. It’s a treat for anyone, so well done it’s irresistible, even to the most curmudgeonly among us.”
-Pat Launer, www.sdtheatrescene.com

“…they have managed to pull another rabbit out of the hat in the form of a
well-cast, well-directed and well-done show”
-Carol Davis, www.jewishsightseeing.com

Prelude to a Kiss
By Craig Lucas
Directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg

Featuring Joshua Everett Johnson*, Kristianne Kurner*, Charlie Riendeau, Carlos Darze, Don Evans, Kathryn Herbruck, Anyelid Meneses, Jack Missett*, Tim Parker and Li-Anne Rowswell

Now through Sunday, May 18^th
Thursdays & Fridays at 8 PM
Saturdays at 3 PM & 8 PM
Sundays at 2 PM

At New Village Arts Theatre
2787 B State Street, Carlsbad Village
Click here for a map and directions: www.NewVillageArts.org

TICKET PRICES:
$26 General Admission
$22 Senior/Student/Military
$20 Groups of 6 or more

BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW!!!
www.NewVillageArts.org or 760-433-3245

Prelude to a Kiss
By Craig Lucas
Directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg

Featuring Joshua Everett Johnson*, Kristianne Kurner*, Charlie Riendeau, Carlos Darze, Don Evans, Kathryn Herbruck, Anyelid Meneses, Jack Missett*, Tim Parker and Li-Anne Rowswell

Now through Sunday, May 18^th
Thursdays & Fridays at 8 PM
Saturdays at 3 PM & 8 PM
Sundays at 2 PM

At New Village Arts Theatre
2787 B State Street, Carlsbad Village
Click here for a map and directions: www.NewVillageArts.org

TICKET PRICES:
$26 General Admission
$22 Senior/Student/Military
$20 Groups of 6 or more

BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW!!!

www.NewVillageArts.org or 760-433-3245

Join us for an amazing night with some of San Diego’s finest actors:

Monday, April 28^th at 7 PM
A staged reading of Henrik Ibsen’s
AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
Part of ion theatre’s intimate ibsen series
Directed by Kristianne Kurner

Featuring: Manny Fernandes*, Jonah Gercke, James Hansen, Doug Jacobs^®, Joshua Everett Johnson*, Jeffrey Jones, Trina Kaplan^, Amanda Morrow*, Claudio Raygoza^, Walter Ritter^, Matt Scott^ & Kim Strassburger^

* NVA Ensemble Member
^ ion theatre resident artist
^®Member Actors Equity Association

Spurred by his maddening experiences with censorship, Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People to depict how society deliberately and ruthlessly ostracizes its truth-tellers. When Dr. Stockmann discovers that his city’s baths are contaminated, he immediately sets out to warn his fellow citizens. Terrified of losing the baths’ tourist dollars, the citizens refuse to accept Dr. Stockmann’s claims. Ibsen captures the courage of one man fighting the tyranny of the majority in a play that remains inescapably modern.

And be sure to check out ion theatre’s latest production:

LA GAVIOTA
By Claudio Raygoza
Directed by Glenn Paris
A world premiere play based on Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull

For all the details on this exciting production, please visit www.iontheatre.com

Sometimes, a kiss isn’t just a kiss…

In this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award nominated comedy by Craig Lucas, a whirlwind romance takes a startling turn at Rita and Peter’s wedding when an uninvited guest congratulates the bride with a kiss. With this one kiss the couple embarks on a mystical journey, traveling through puzzling identities and hidden longings to find the pure connection of love.

Starring NVA Ensemble Members Joshua Everett Johnson
and Kristianne Kurner

And Carlos Darze, Don Evans, Kathryn Herbruck, Anyelid Meneses, Jack Missett*, Tim Parker, Charlie Riendeau and Li-Anne Rowswell

Two Pay-What-You-Can Previews!!
Thursday, April 17^th and Friday, April 18^th at 8 PM

Opens Saturday, April 19^th and runs through Sunday, May 18^th
Thursdays & Fridays at 8 PM
Saturdays at 3 PM & 8 PM
Sundays at 2 PM

At New Village Arts Theatre
2787 B State Street, Carlsbad Village
Click here for a map and directions: www.NewVillageArts.org

TICKET PRICES:
$26 General Admission
$22 Senior/Student/Military
$20 Groups of 6 or more

BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW!!!
www.NewVillageArts.org or 760-433-3245

Get swept away with the Mundy girls

Manny Fernandes & Amanda Sitton as Gerry & Chris. Photo by Brian Meagher.

BEST BET!
“Amanda Sitton is delectable as Michael’s romantic mother, who gets swept away every time merry Gerry shows up… Sitton’s expressive face lights up in a dreamy daze every time she dances with him. Lovely.”
-Pat Launer, www.sdtheatrescene.com

Tickets are selling fast and with only two weeks left to see Dancing at Lughnasa you don’t want to miss the play critics are raving about.
Book online now or call us for more information!

DANCING AT LUGHNASA
By Brian Friel
Directed by Esther Emery

Now through March 30
Thursdays & Fridays at 8 PM; Saturdays at 3 PM & 8 PM;
Sundays at 2 PM
For tickets and reservations:
www.NewVillageArts.org
(760) 433-3245

(L-R) Kristianne Kurner, Amanda Morrow, PJ Anbey and Amanda Sitton. Photo by Brian Meagher.

Coming Next from New Village Arts…

Craig Lucas’
PRELUDE TO A KISS
Directed by Delicia Turner-Sonnenberg

Featuring NVA Ensemble Members Joshua Everett Johnson and
Kristianne Kurner

April 19 - May 18

“Sometimes, a kiss isn’t just a kiss.” In this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award nominated comedy by Craig Lucas, a whirlwind romance takes a startling turn at Rita and Peter’s wedding when an uninvited guest congratulates the bride with a kiss. With this one kiss the couple embarks on a mystical journey, traveling through puzzling identities and hidden longings to find the pure connection of love.

“We have now cast a number of the roles in PRELUDE TO A KISS! Joshua Johnson and I are playing Peter & Rita, with Kathryn Herbruck as my mom, Tim Parker as Peter’s best friend, Li-Anne Rowswell as Aunt Dorothy and Leah and Don Evans as Tom and the Minister. We are still casting Dr Boyle and Uncle Fred. Delicia Turner-Sonnenberg is directing, with Esther Emery doing the set design. It’s such a beautiful play - a romantic comedy that isn’t too “precious” or “sweet”. Rehearsals start next week - no rest for us!” -Kristianne Kurner on the NVA Blog.
Read more from Kristianne here.

Read more about what’s happening behind the scenes with
PRELUDE TO A KISS and get more of the inside scoop on the blog.
Just visit us at www.NewVillageArts.com and click on Blog(http://newvillagearts.org/blog/)

Playwriting Seminar with
Jacqueline Goldfinger

This weekend workshop offers a quick yet through overview of playwriting techniques as well as an opportunity to discuss your own work. Learn by exploring the best examples of classical and contemporary playwriting.

Topics covered include:
Selecting Stories to Tell, Creating Characters,
Structuring Plot, Building Atmosphere and Tone, and
Crafting Compelling Stories.

SATURDAY MARCH 29^th and 30^th COST $75
Email Elaine at Elaine@NewVillageArts.org for more
information and to reserve your spot.

Jacqueline Goldfinger is a dramaturge and award-winning playwright from Tallahassee, Florida. She earned her M.F.A. from the University of Southern California (2004) and B.A. from Agnes Scott College (2000). Her work has been developed and produced at the Short + Sweet Festival (Sydney, Australia), New York International Fringe Festival (New York), Ion Theatre (San Diego), North Coast Repertory Theatre (Solana Beach), Drama Garage (Los Angeles), Resilience of the Spirit Festival (San Diego), Festival of New Screenplays (Los Angeles), Experimental Theatre at SDSU (San Diego), Playwrights Collective (San Diego), Florida Studio Theatre (Sarasota), Agnes Scott College (Atlanta), and the Young Playwrights Festival (Atlanta). Her adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” will be published by Playscripts in 2008. Her independent film, “Firefly,’ was produced and distributed by Meteor International. Her work has garnered numerous recognitions including: Winner, Playwrights Theatre’s nationwide Plays for the 21st Century Competition; Winner, Ohio Independent Film Festival Screenplay Competition; Winner, Film Industry Network Screenplay Competition; Semi-finalist, Lark New Play Development Center’s Playwrights Week; Semi-finalist, Stone New Play Award. In 2007, she was named a Tennessee Williams Scholar in Playwriting at the Sewanee Writers Conference (University of the South) and was commissioned by North Coast Repertory Theatre. For more information, go to: www.jacquelinegoldfinger.com

Sponsorships for Shakespeare’s The Tempest are now available on the website. Visit www.NewVillageArts.org to see how you can buy your own island, go native and help NVA not go down with the ship. Packages are limited so please pop on over to explore your options before all the best packages are claimed.

There’s no better way to get ready for St. Patrick’s Day than to spend some time with the Mundy girls…

“…an especially eye-catching turn by Grace Delaney as the good-natured, cheeky sister Maggie. It also has Friel’s lyrical language, gentle humor and intuitive sense of place…affecting moments, nicely turned laughs and
striking visuals”

- Jim Hebert, San Diego Union-Tribune, www.signonsandiego.com

“Characters fall in love through dance. They connect through dance; they celebrate identity and culture through it. When the five Mundy sisters break out in spontaneous frenzied movement, brought on by the traditional Irish music issuing forth from the radio, it’s an expression of their pent-up sexual desire and hope in the face of daunting circumstances… Fluidly directed by Esther Emery, the play resides in moments of wordlessness - a squeal of delight, a severe look, a tentative touch.”

- Jennifer Chung, www.sandiego.com

“…under Esther Emery’s sensitive direction New Village Arts captured the play’s atmosphere — the intrusion of pagan energy into traditional stolidity: a combination of longing and partial release”

-Jeff Smith, San Diego Reader, www.sdreader.com

“a moving, poetic and tender-sweet performance by Joshua Everett Johnson…New Village Arts’ executive artistic director Kristianne Kurner leads the cast with a steely, razor-edged performance as Kate, the family breadwinner who has just lost her last hope for love and is about to lose her job as well. Balancing Kurner’s fierceness is Grace Delaney in a playful, bawdy performance as Maggie. Amanda Sitton plays Christine with a quiet, dreamy yearning. Amanda Morrow is closed-up tight as the frustrated Agnes, who secretly longs for her sister’s beau. And PJ Anbey is slow and childlike as the gullible Rose…Manny Fernandes plays the huckster Gerry with a happy optimism…And Charlie Riendeau is wry and meditative as the defrocked Father Jack.”

-Pam Kragen, North County Times, www.nctimes.com

Tickets are going fast - be sure to order now

Grace Delaney, Amanda Sitton, Kristianne Kurner & Charlie Riendeau. Photo by Brian Meagher

DANCING AT LUGHNASA
By Brian Friel
Directed by Esther Emery

Now through March 30
Thursdays & Fridays at 8 PM; Saturdays at 3 PM & 8 PM;
Sundays at 2 PM
For tickets and reservations:
www.NewVillageArts.org
(760) 433-3245

NVA’s Playreading Series continues this Sunday
(March 16^th at 7:30 PM) with

Brian Friel’s
MOLLY SWEENEY
Directed by Amanda Sitton
Featuring NVA Ensemble Members Joshua Everett Johnson, Kristianne Kurner & Jack Missett

About Molly Sweeney, by Vincent Canby in the New York Times:

Brian Friel has been recognized as Ireland’s greatest living playwright almost since the first production of “Philadelphia, Here I Come!” in Dublin in 1964. In succeeding years he has dazzled us with plays that speak in a language of unequaled poetic beauty and intensity. It makes no difference that some of the plays have been box office hits and some of them flops. The talent has been consistent. Such dramas as “Translations,” “Dancing at Lughnasa” and “Wonderful Tennessee,” among others, have given him a privileged place in our theater.

The production of his latest work, “Molly Sweeney,” confirms that Mr. Friel still writes like a dream.

Set in Mr. Friel’s imaginary town of Ballybeg, in the northwest of Donegal, “Molly Sweeney” is the melancholy tale of a 41-year-old woman who, blind since the age of 10 months, suddenly regains her sight after an operation. Molly agrees to the operation not because she has ever felt deprived by her blindness. She does it to please her eccentric but adoring husband, Frank, and Mr. Rice, the once-renowned, now alcoholic surgeon who dreams of restoring himself by restoring Molly.

Coming Next from New Village Arts…

Craig Lucas’
PRELUDE TO A KISS
Directed by Delicia Turner-Sonnenberg

Featuring NVA Ensemble Members Joshua Everett Johnson and
Kristianne Kurner

April 19 - May 18

“Sometimes, a kiss isn’t just a kiss.” In this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award nominated comedy by Craig Lucas, a whirlwind romance takes a startling turn at Rita and Peter’s wedding when an uninvited guest congratulates the bride with a kiss. With this one kiss the couple embarks on a mystical journey, traveling through puzzling identities and hidden longings to find the pure connection of love.

Sponsorships for Shakespeare’s The Tempest are now available on the website. Visit www.NewVillageArts.org to see how you can buy your own island, go native and help NVA not go down with the ship. Packages are limited so please pop on over to explore your options before all the best packages are claimed.

Join NVA this week for two preview performances of the Tony and Olivier Award-winning DANCING AT LUGHNASA. See it before the
sold-out crowds!

Pictured Amanda Morrow (Agnes) and PJ Anbey (Rose). Photo Credit: Adam Brick

Previews (Tickets only $15):
Thursday, March 6 at 8 PM & Friday, March 7 at 8 PM

DANCING AT LUGHNASA
By Brian Friel
Directed by Esther Emery

March 8 - 30
SOLD OUT MARCH 8 & 9
Thursdays & Fridays at 8 PM
Saturdays at 3 PM & 8 PM
Sundays at 2 PM
Tickets: $26 General Admission, $22 Senior/Student/Military,
$20 Groups of 6 or more

For reservations:
www.NewVillageArts.org
760-433-3245

at New Village Arts Theatre
2787 B State Street
Carlsbad Village
Click here for directions to the theatre

Featuring PJ Anbey, Grace Delaney, Manny Fernandes*, Joshua Everett Johnson*, Kristianne Kurner*, Amanda Morrow*, Charlie Riendeau & Amanda Sitton*

*NVA Ensemble Member

Make your plans now for the second production in
New Village Arts’ Playreading Series!

Molly Sweeney
By Brian Friel (author of Dancing at Lughnasa)
Directed by Amanda Sitton
Featuring Joshua Everett Johnson, Kristianne Kurner & Jack Missett

Sunday, March 16 at 7:30 PM
Free to NVA Season Pass Holders
Everyone Else only $5
No reservations accepted - first come, first seated

“Molly Sweeney has brought out the best in Brian Friel . . . An entrancing drama . . . rich with rapturous poetry” - New York Times

Coming Next from New Village Arts…

Craig Lucas’
PRELUDE TO A KISS
Directed by Delicia Turner-Sonnenberg

Featuring NVA Ensemble Members Joshua Everett Johnson and
Kristianne Kurner

April 19 - May 18

“Sometimes, a kiss isn’t just a kiss.” In this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award nominated comedy by Craig Lucas, a whirlwind romance takes a startling turn at Rita and Peter’s wedding when an uninvited guest congratulates the bride with a kiss. With this one kiss the couple embarks on a mystical journey, traveling through puzzling identities and hidden longings to find the pure connection of love.

You are invited to join New Village Arts for a special event musical reading!

Lead by NVA Ensemble member Dana Case, join the cast of the fun new musical created by Greg Evans and based on his famous comic strip, LUANN.

Performed by the cast of the upcoming full production at Palomar College, this is an opportunity for a sneak peek into this new musical!

Monday, February 25
7:30 PM
at New Village Arts Theatre
2787 B State Street, Carlsbad Village

No reservations accepted – first come, first served.

FREE for NVA Season Pass Holders!
Everyone else only $5

Please mark your calendars for the rest of NVA’s 2008
Playreading Series:

Sunday, March 16: Molly Sweeney by Brian Friel
Directed by Amanda Sitton*
Featuring Kristianne Kurner* & Joshua Everett Johnson*

Monday, April 7: Frozen by Bryony Lavery
Directed by Stephen Elton, Artistic Associate at
North Coast Repertory Theatre
Featuring Ron Choularton*, JoAnne Glover & Terri Park

Monday, April 28: Enemy of the People by August Strindberg
Presented as part of ion theatre’s INTIMATE IBSEN series
Directed by Kristianne Kurner*

Monday, May 5: Dark at the Top of the Stairs by William Inge
Directed by Dana Case*

Monday, June 16: Woman Before a Glass by Lanie Robertson
Directed by Dana Case*
Featuring Sandra Ellis-Troy*

*Member of NVA’s Ensemble

Prepare to be swept away…

Dancing at Lughnasa

By Brian Friel
Directed by Esther Emery
Pictured: Manny Fernandes* as Gerry and Amanda Sitton* as Christina

Previews: March 6 & 7 at 8 PM ($15 Tickets)
Opens March 8 and runs through March 30
Thursdays & Fridays at 8 PM
Saturdays at 3 PM & 8 PM (8 PM only on March
Sundays at 2 PM (March 9 SOLD OUT!)

Tickets:
$26 General Admission
$22 Senior/Student/Military
$20 Groups of 6 or more

For Reservations:
760-433-3245
www.NewVillageArts.org

Love is in the air…

This is the last weekend for
THIS IS OUR YOUTH!!

This is going to be one of those shows that you’ll regret missing all year –
purchase your tickets now!
www.NewVillageArts.org

Don’t know what to do for Valentine’s Day yet? (For all you guys out there – that would be tomorrow)

Bring your date to THIS IS OUR YOUTH! Your ticket includes a complimentary glass of wine at intermission and a rose for your sweetheart when you leave. Or if you don’t have a sweetheart yet, join us that night and maybe you will find one! Stranger things have happened…

The great reviews keep coming in…

“These are splendid portrayals. Playing against her usual type, VanWormer is excruciatingly funny and oddly beautiful in her garish getup (costumes by Amanda Sitton). With breakneck speed, Johnson — though the character is manic, the actor’s mature technique is manifest — delivers an 11th-hour monologue worthy of Hamlet. Young Zohar further establishes himself as one of the city’s finest young actors.” – Charlene Baldridge, La Jolla Village News

“about as fine a set of performances as you’ll see” – Jean Lowerison, Gay & Lesbian Times

Thursdays and Fridays at 8 PM; Saturdays at
3 PM & 8 PM; Sundays at 2 PM

THIS IS OUR YOUTH
By Kenneth Lonergan
Directed by Francis Gercke
Featuring Joshua Everett Johnson, Rachael VanWormer and
Tom Zohar

Tickets $26 General Admission, $22 Senior/Student/Military,
$20 Groups of 6 or more

At New Village Arts Theatre
2787 B State Street, Carlsbad, CA 92008

BEST BET! - “compulsively watchable performance”
Pat Launer, www.sdtheatrescene.com

CRITIC’S PICK: Jeff Smith, San Diego Reader

Pictured (from bottom left): Amanda Morrow (Agnes), Grace Delaney (Maggie), Kristianne Kurner (Kate), Amanda Sitton (Christina) and PJ Anbey (Rose). Photo Credit: Brian Meagher. Also in the cast: Manny Fernandes (Gerry), Joshua Everett Johnson (Michael) and Charlie Riendeau (Father Jack).

Coming Next…
Brian Friel’s
Dancing at Lughnasa
Directed by Esther Emery

“As if language no longer existed, because words were no
longer necessary.”

Irish playwright Brian Friel’s Tony and Olivier Award-winning Dancing at Lughnasa has captured the hearts of audiences since its debut. A fascinating reflection of the joys and pains of family, Dancing follows the five Mundy sisters from the fictional town of Ballybeg in western Ireland as they awaken long buried desires dancing to the music of a Marconi radio.

Reserve your seats now by calling
(760) 433-3245!