#workshop theater

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The world's greatest detective...is dead.  

Please join us August 8th, 9th or 10th at 8PM for a staged reading of Greg Oliver Bodine's new play, A REQUIEM FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES, on the Main Stage of the WorkShop Theater, 312 West 36th Street, 4th floor.  

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Join Us For a 3Day Staged Reading This August 8-9-10

We are a little less than a month away from the 3-Day staged reading of Greg Oliver Bodine's play, A REQUIEM FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES, and we're very excited to announce that we'll be in The Mainstage come Aug. 8-10.  We're blessed with a terrific director in Kathleen Brant, two amazing stage managers and an incredible cast of 12 actors in 40 roles -- comprised, almost exclusively of WorkShop Theater company members (4 of which are new!). 

If you're around in early August, please come and check out the play -- REQUIEM has been in development at WorkShop for more than a year, and the script has gone through some significant improvements (we believe) since our sold-out Sundays@Six Series reading on March 10.  In any case, we'd love to see your shining faces in the house next a month, and we look forward to hearing your thoughts on the play over a post-reading cocktail or frothy pint in the upstairs balcony of The Pig & Whistle (36 St. / 7th Ave) on Aug. 8, 9 & 10.  Reading reservations are highly recommended and can be made by visiting our page on the WorkShop Theater's site and clicking on the Ovationtix link.  In the meantime, have a wonderful summer!

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Sundays @ Six Reading of A REQUIEM FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES

Tonight at 6:00PM at the Dorothy Strelsin Theater, 312 West 36th Street, we take the first step in the WorkShop Theater's development process:  a reading of the full-length script of A REQUIEM FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES by Greg Oliver Bodine. 

Paul Singleton*, Michael Selkirk*, Annalisa Loeffler*, Jeffrey Swan Jones*, Katherine C. McDonald, Mike Smith Rivera*, Mick Bleyer*, Ryan Lee*, Kevin Stanfa*, Bruce Barton* and Walter Brandes*. 

Stage directions read by: Christine Verleny

Audience talkback moderated by: Eddie Antar

* Member AEA / † member SDC

Sunday, March 10 @ 6:00 pm

FREE and open to the public. Reservations not necessary. Arrive early -- seating is limited!

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This new, full-length play pits Sherlock Holmes against his greatest opponent -- the criminal mastermind, Professor Moriarty, in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse that ends in a climactic death struggle between the two men above the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. Three years later, Dr. Watson, bereft of Holmes and lacking his late friend's superior detection skills, is nonetheless recruited by ...Scotland Yard to assist with an investigation into the murder of a young, London aristocrat -- the Honorable Ronald Adair, who has been discovered fatally shot in the locked bedroom of his 427 Park Lane address. With no apparent motive for the killing and lingering questions about the murder weapon, Watson and the police are left baffled by the 'Park Lane Mystery,' until, just outside the crime scene, the good doctor bumps into a wizened, old book collector, who follows him home and unexpectedly sheds some valuable light on the case...not before, however, shedding his disguise!

[michaelselkirk]

I shall be appearing as Dr. Watson in Greg Oliver Bodine’s A REQUIEM FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES in a the first reading of this new full-length play on Sunday, March 10th at 6PM at the WorkShop Theater.  Our director is Kathleen Brant, and I’m thrilled to say the cast includes:  Paul Singleton, Annalisa Loeffler, Greg Oliver Bodine, Joseph Franchini, Mike Smith Rivera, Meredith Riley Stewart, Mick Bleyer, Bruce Barton, Kevin Stanfa, Ryan Lee, Walter Brandes and Christine Verleny.

[michaelselkirk]

First The Cold, Then The Heat

Closed out TO BUILD A FIRE in the one-act festival COLD SNAPS at WorkShop Theater.  I enjoyed the run as much as I could while suffering from a very nasty cold.  Fortunately Richard Kent Green, Thomas Cote and Greg Bodine made me look good.  

The cold is also why I have not been an enthusiastic blogger.  Honestly, there was nothing for this except to sleep.  And I slept.  And slept.  Last Sunday I spiked a fever and was in danger of canceling my Monday night gig.  Thank all the saints it didn't happen, because it was just a complete high for me...

I got to read the role of Robert de Baudricourt in Shaw's SAINT JOAN for Project Shaw at The Players, starring Nikki James from Book of Mormon, Richard Easton, Tony Sheldon, Roberta Maxwell and a bunch of other way more experienced actors than myself.  It was just a thrill from one minute to the next.  David Staller is an old pro at these things, and the crew, the cast, the audience--it was a peak experience.  

Happy Holidays, everybody.  I'm going to lay low and rest up, and but I hope everybody gets to enjoy themselves.  Looking forward to a happy and successful new year.  

[michaelselkirk]

The Show Must Something Something

I have a cold.  Sore throat, stuffy nose, hacking cough.  

But I'm opening in COLD SNAPS tonight at The WorkShop.  I am spending today asleep, storing up energy for my 14 minutes of intense survival in the Yukon.  

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Coming Up...

I am opening with Richard Kent Green in Greg Bodine's TO BUILD A FIRE in WorkShop Theater's COLD SNAPS, an evening of short plays on November 30th.  Just saw the run-thru last night--it's going to be an evening of thoughtful and fun pieces.  

On December 17th I am appearing at The Players in Project Shaw's reading of SAINT JOAN, Shaw's Pulitzer-prize winning masterpiece, along with a cast of much better known and experienced actors.  I am thoroughly intimidated.