2018 Winter Staged Reading Series
In conjunction with our main stage production of An Enemy of the People and in collaboration with TheatreFirst's T1 Presents Performance Series Actors Ensemble is proud to organize a staged reading series.
Staged Readings
Staged Reading - American Buffalo
A Special Staged Reading Presented by Actors Ensemble of Berkeley David Mamet’s American Buffalo Directed by Robert Estes Wednesday, November 17th, 8 p.m. Pay-What-You-Can Live Oak Theatre, Berkeley 1201 Shattuck Ave (at Berryman) in North Berkeley.
Staged Reading - Benefactors
By Michael Frayn
A staged Reading
Directed by Matthew Surrence
Tuesday - August 7, 2012 8 p.m.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Benefactorsby Michael Frayn, directed by Matthew Surrence –Tuesday August 7th at 8 p.m. The award-winning BENEFACTORS(1984) was written by Frayn in the period immediately after NOISES OFF, and features the idealistic architect David and his wife Jane, and the cynical Colin and his wife Sheila.
Staged Reading - Copenhagen
By Michael Frayn
A staged Reading
Directed by Bruce Coughran,
Assisted by Alecks Rundell
Tuesday - August 14, 2012 8 p.m.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
The Tony-Award winning COPENHAGEN (1998) represents the later stage of Frayn's career, and explores the historic meeting between the physicists Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr (accompanied by his wife Margrethe Bohr) in Copenhagen in 1941.
Staged Reading - Falstaff!
Adapted from Shakespeare
A staged Reading
Directed by Robert Estes
Tuesday - April 7th, 2015 8 p.m.
ONE NIGHT ONLY - Berkeley City Club
Staged Reading - Five Women Wearing The Same Dress
By Alan Ball
A staged Reading
Directed by Zara Benner
Tuesday - January 13th, 2015 8 p.m.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS - During an ostentatious wedding reception at a Knoxville, Tennessee, estate, five reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each with her own reason to avoid the proceedings below.
Staged Reading - Henry VI, Part 3
By William Shakespeare
Staged Reading
Directed by Alecks Rundell
Sunday - November 11, 2012 at 7 p.m.
ONE NIGHT ONLY -$5 - $10sliding scale
Staged Reading - Loose Knit
By Theresa Rebeck
A staged Reading
Directed by Yael Aranoff
Tuesday - April 24th, 2015 8 p.m.
ONE NIGHT ONLY - Berkeley City Club
Staged Reading - Madam Gufays Lovelutionaries
By Norah Foster
A staged Reading
Directed by Alan Barkan & Jerome Solberg
Sunday - August 12, 2012 7 p.m.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Actors Ensemble launches a new series featuring heretofore unproduced works with the goofy comedy MADAM GUFAYS LOVELUTIONARIES, written by new playwright Norah Foster. Mdme. Gufay's hilarious antics on behalf of free speech in the academic machine of UC Berkeley befuddles the higher-ups and her innocent eroticism wins over their hearts.
Staged Reading - Pseudolus
By Plautus
A staged Reading
Adapted and Directed by Anna Andersen
Tuesday - May 15th, 2012 8 p.m.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Actors Ensemble is proud to announce the third in our 2012 Spring Staged Reading Series, PSEUDOLUS, by the comic Roman playwright Plautus - his play THE MENAECHMI was the source for THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, also presented in our Spring Series, which in turn is the source for A HOT DAY IN EPHESUS, our 2012 Spring Musical.
Staged Reading - Richard II
By William Shakespeare
Staged Reading
Directed by Robert Estes
ONE NIGHT ONLY - $5 - $10 sliding scale
Sunday, November 18th, 2012
Staged Reading - The Comedy of Errors
By William Shakespeare
A staged Reading
Directed by Eileen Tull
Tuesday - May 1st, 2012 8 p.m.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
The Comedy of Errors is considered one of Shakespeare's earliest plays, possibly his first comedy and certainly his shortest play. The primary source of the play is the Menaechmi of Plautus, but Shakespeare also borrowed from Plautus's Amphitruo.
Staged Reading - The Final Trial of Richard III & The Queens of France
By Mary Schaller
Staged Reading
Directed by Carol Dechaine Reyes
Wednesday - November 14, 2012 at 8 p.m.
ONE NIGHT ONLY -$5 - $10sliding scale
Staged Reading - The Spottish Clay: Macbeth Is Dressed to Kill
Based on Shakespeare's Macbeth
Staged Reading
Adapted and Directed by Matthew Surrence
Tuesday - October 30, 2012 at 8 p.m.
ONE NIGHT ONLY -$5 - $10sliding scale
Staged Reading - The Time of Your Life
By William Saroyan
A staged Reading
Directed by Darryl Jones
Tuesday - January 20th, 2015 8 p.m.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Staged Reading - The Two Of Us
By Michael Frayn
A staged Reading
Directed by Vicki Siegel & Anna Andersen
Tuesday - July 31, 2012 8 p.m.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
THE TWO OF US(1970),each featuring two actors. Our production is co-directed by the playwright Vicki Siegel (A Hot Day in Ephesus) and the veteran director Anna Andersen (Pseudolus.)
Staged Reading - The Wife Of Bath/Marriage Of Sir Gawain
By Vicki Siegel
A staged Reading
Directed by Robert Estes
Tuesday - January 27th, 2015 8 p.m.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
THE WIFE OF BATH/MARRIAGE OF SIR GAWAIN - a new musical based on stories from the Canterbury Tales.
Staged Reading - A Protegee of the Mistress
by Alexander Ostrovsky
directed by Jeffrey Trescott
Monday, January 15th, 2018 at 8 p.m.
Live Oak Theatre, 1301 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA 94709
Staged Reading - A Trifecta of Oscar Wilde
By Oscar Wilde
Three Staged Readings
Directed by Robert Estes and Ken Bullock
August, 3th, 2010 - 8 p.m.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Staged Reading - Dear Liar
By Jerome Kilty
A Staged Reading
Directed by Alan Barkan
Tuesday - February. 15th, 2011 - 8 p.m.
ONE NIGHT ONLY
This epistolary drama features selections from correspondence between George Bernad Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the great actress and muse, for whom he wrote the part of Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, and with whom he had a 40-year unconsumated love affair.
