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WAITLIST: “The Sore Loser” An Original Comedy by Madeleine George @ Venice Theatre

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Dec 9 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

“The Sore Loser”
An Original Comedy by Hermitage Major Theater Award Winner
Madeleine George

Presented in partnership with Venice Theatre

The Hermitage Major Theater Award is made possible with generous support from Flora Major and the Kutya Major Foundation.

Monday, December 9 at 5pm

Venice Theatre (entrance at 140 Tampa Avenue West, Venice, FL 34285)

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Registration is required. $5 per person.

Following a successful presentation in New York, the Hermitage is excited to invite Gulf Coast audiences to experience the first regional showing of The Sore Loser, the new commission from Madeleine George, directed by Mack Brown. A Faustian comedy set in a bowling alley, this story promises to bring the competitor (and the laughs) out of us all. The Sore Loser is a comedy about power, domination, and the death of the patriarchy… as told through a small-town bowling tournament. Presented in partnership with Venice Theatre.

Madeleine George is the first recipient of the Hermitage Major Theater Award. Her plays include Hurricane Diane (Obie Award), The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence (Pulitzer Prize finalist; Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award), Seven Homeless Mammoths Wander New England (Susan Smith Blackburn finalist), Precious Little, and The Zero Hour (Jane Chambers Award, Lambda Literary Award finalist). Honors include the Hermitage Major Theater Award, the Lilly Award, the Princess Grace Award, and a Whiting Award. Madeleine’s translation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters premiered at Two River Theater in 2022, and her audio adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For was released by Audible Originals in 2023. Madeleine has written on shows for FX and HBO, and she’s been a writer/producer on all four seasons of the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated mystery-comedy Only Murders in the Building, starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez. Since 2006, she has worked with the Bard Prison Initiative at Bard College, where she currently serves as Director of Admissions.

WAITLIST: “The Sore Loser” An Original Comedy by Madeleine George @ Venice Theatre

Tickets

Dec 9 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

“The Sore Loser”
An Original Comedy by Hermitage Major Theater Award Winner
Madeleine George

Presented in partnership with Venice Theatre

The Hermitage Major Theater Award is made possible with generous support from Flora Major and the Kutya Major Foundation.

Monday, December 9 at 7:30pm

Venice Theatre (entrance at 140 Tampa Avenue West, Venice, FL 34285)

Register here.
Registration is required. $5 per person.

Dec

Fri

“Hermitage Cross Arts Collaborative: Opera and Theater” @ Sarasota Opera House

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Dec 13 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

“Hermitage Cross Arts Collaborative: Opera and Theater”
with 2024 Hermitage Cross Arts Recipients Anthony Barrese (Opera) and Raleigh Mosely II (WBTT)

Presented in partnership with Sarasota Opera and Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe

The Hermitage Cross Arts Collaborative is made possible with generous support from The Koski Family Foundation.

Friday, December 13 at 5pm

Sarasota Opera House (entrance at 61 N. Pineapple Ave., Sarasota, FL 34236)

Register here.
Registration is required. $5 per person.

The Hermitage Cross Arts Collaborative is an annual residency program focused on supporting the incredible talent of artists frequently featured on Sarasota stages. Now in its third year, we celebrate two artists who are injecting life into every note on the page. Anthony Barrese (Sarasota Opera) is a celebrated conductor who has worked at concert halls around the world. In his Cross Arts Residency at the Hermitage, he is pursuing his passion to meticulously transcribe lost operas so that they can be performed by today’s leading companies with new life. He is joined by a star of the Sarasota theater scene, Raleigh Mosely II (WBTT), a gifted singer and actor who is making a name for himself as a recording artist, writing and performing his own work. From very different angles, each of these artists makes music with a unique creative force. Hear selections and perceptions from these two talented musical artists.

Hermitage Cross Arts Collaborative recipient Anthony Barrese has earned accolades as both a composer and a conductor in North America and Italy. Mr. Barrese is the recipient of numerous composition awards including a N.E.C. Contemporary Ensemble Composition Competition Award for his madrigale “a 3 voci femminili,” and two B.M.I. Student Composers Awards. As a musicologist, Mr. Barrese rediscovered, prepared, and edited the critical edition of Franco Faccio’s opera Amleto, in conjunction with Casa Ricordi. As Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of Opera Southwest, he has performed Rossini’s Otello with the American staged premiere of the finale lieto, and in 2014 he led the new world premiere of Amleto, not heard anywhere since 1871. He also notably led productions of Wagner’s Lohengrin (2019), a new world premiere of Bottesini’s Alì Babà (2019), and a company premiere of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande (2021). As Music Director of Opera Delaware, he conducted the West Coast premiere of Amleto and the company premiere of Rossini’s Semiramide. Recently, he conducted new productions of Il barbiere di Siviglia and Le nozze di Figaro. In the 2023-24 season he will conduct new productions of Il barbiere di Siviglia (Florida Grand Opera) L’occasione fa il ladro and Bluebeard’s Castle (OSW), Haydn’s L’infedeltà delusa (Sarasota), Turandot (Opera Delware), and make a company debut with Opera Santa Barbara (Armienta’s Zorro).

Hermitage Cross Arts Collaborative artist Raleigh Mosely II has performed at various Hermitage programs and benefits. He made his Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe debut in the Summer 2017 production of Broadway in Black. Originally from Miami, he earned his BFA in musical theater from the University of Central Florida. His theater credits include Dreamgirls, In the Heights, HAIR, Ragtime, Broadbend, Arkansas, and The 25^th Annual…Spelling Bee.

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