NEWS
ACTING TECHNIQUE OPEN HOUSE - AUGUST 18, 2010
Hi everyone!
On Wednesday night August 18, 2010, Ken Schatz Actor Training will offer an Acting Technique – Scene Study OPEN HOUSE in midtown Manhattan to prospective students.
This event is FREE with no strings attached – a chance for anyone who's been on the fence about taking an acting class to meet me and my current students, audit a full Scene Study class session, and ask lots of questions.
In these tough times, how often do you get to audit a professional class for free? Come check it out, and please forward the invitation to actors you know who might be interested!
This is an open invitation for actors – serious inquiries – only. RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED – interested actors, please call 718-625-8372 or e-mail me directly at info@kenschatz.com for details and directions. PLEASE NOTE that priority will be given to actors who have not attended an Open House before.
Also, for a limited time, Ken Schatz Actor Training is offering discount prices on all weekly classes: Scene Study is just $240 per month or $400 for eight weeks or $520 for twelve weeks! New referral discounts are available, too – just ask for details.
A description of our ongoing Scene Study class is here - the next session starts July 12. The August session (including the Open House on August 18) starts August 9 and the September session starts September 13, one week after Labor Day. Join us! Admission to classes is by audition – no audition is required for private coaching. The first hour of coaching is FREE for new students, and I'm always glad to answer any questions.
Thanks all, please post, forward, and tell all your actor friends. See you in class!
Ken
PS If you've worked with me or would like to, please join the official Ken Schatz Actor Training Facebook Group. Thanks! K
EXCEEDINGLY GOOD SONG NIGHT
An Open Singing Session in the Folk–Roots Tradition
Hosted Monthly by Ken Schatz
Sing and hear:
Folk Songs, Blues, Gospel, Old-Time, Appalachian, Sea Songs & Chanteys, Worksongs, Ballads, Railroad Songs, Prison Songs, Lullabies, Forebitters, Broadsides, Hymns, Vaudeville, Camp Songs, Farming, MIning & Factory Songs, Country, Bluegrass, Spirituals, Cowboy Songs, English, Irish & Scottish Songs, Labor & Union Songs, Drinking Songs, Children’s Songs, Field Hollers, Music Hall, Love Songs, Parodies, and more...
Next Date: Sunday August 1, 2010
7:00 – 10:00 pm
At Banjo Jim’s – A Neighborhood Bar
700 East 9th Street at Avenue C in New York City
No cover! – One Drink Minimum Per Set
Join us! Bring your voice, bring instruments, bring friends!
Singers and listeners are welcome. Each month, we have a loose theme to encourage people to learn new songs and remember ones they haven’t sung in a while. If you’d like to lead a song, look for a traditional / folk / roots song or two that somehow fits this month’s theme:
* HEROES & VILLAINS *
Boo! Hiss! Hurrah and well-done! Pro-and an-tagonists! Songs of good and bad deeds, of characters noble and rotten… Know any good folk songs with heroes and/or villains in them? Songs written by a hero of yours? Songs about sandwiches
?
Harmonies and Songs with Choruses especially appreciated!
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“Is that a folk song?”
“Must be. I never heard
no horses sing it.”
– Big Bill Broonzy
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“The important thing is:
are they good songs? Do they sing well? Is the poetry so good you can’t get it
out of your head? Are the words true, and do they need saying? Does the music
move you?”
– Pete Seeger
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SAVE THE DATES! Our next FIVE Song Nights:
August 1 (HEROES & VILLAINS)
September 12
October 10
November 14
December 12
More as they're confirmed...
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For more information,
e-mail Ken at info@kenschatz.com or call 718-625-8372.
He Played a Brave Part There
Hi everybody!
If you haven't already seen Ken play John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester, in Stephen Jeffreys' THE LIBERTINE, you have just one more week!
Backstage Critic's Pick: "As portrayed by Ken Schatz in this production by The Fools' Theatre, Wilmot has a vigorous wit and playful charm.... Schatz plays Wilmot with a humanity and humor that makes his undoing all the more tragic."
NY Theatre.com Reviewer's Pick: "Director Eric Tucker stages The Libertine with breathtaking flair.... The Fools' Theatre have created a startlingly theatrical and moving production.... Ken Schatz makes a commanding Rochester, skillfully embodying his descent into despair."
The Chernuchin Theatre (American Theatre of Actors) 314 West 54th Street between 8th & 9th Avenues, NYC. Come and see!
http://www.thefoolstheatre.com/live/
THE LIBERTINE
T H E L I B E R T I N E
by Stephen Jeffreys
May 14 – May 30 2010
The Chernuchin Theatre, 314 West 54th Street, NYC
Directed by Eric Tucker
Featuring: Ken Schatz*,
Rufus Collins*, Carey Urban*, Andrus Nichols,
Ted Lewis, Garth McCardle*, Peter Davenport*,
Ted Lewis, Garth McCardle*, Peter Davenport*,
Simon Pearl*, Vivienne Leheny*, Olivia Gilliatt,
Sarah Doudna, and Alison Krauss.
With Original Music by Alexander Sovronsky*.
TICKETS $18
www.thefoolstheatre.com
http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-libertine_166655/
TICKETS $18
www.thefoolstheatre.com
http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/the-libertine_166655/
NEW CLASS SCHEDULE - NEW YEAR'S SPECIAL!
Happy Holidays Everyone!
The new 2010 class schedule is posted – check out the brand new convenient dates and times! For a limited time, I'm offering discount prices on all weekly classes:
The next full-day Audition Workshops are in March, and the first Scene Study session of the New Year begins January 11. Join us! To audition for class and for more information, call 718-625-8372 or fill in the contact form at right to e-mail me at info@kenschatz.com.
I'm very proud of all my students and coaching clients, and I wish you all continued success in the New Year. Really amazing work. Thanks for a fantastic 2009, see everybody in January!
Ken
UNDER MILK WOOD
The Juilliard School Drama Division
Presents
A Third Year (Group 38) Performance Project
UNDER MILK WOOD
A PLAY FOR VOICES
Adapted and directed for the stage by Moni Yakim
Songs arranged by Ken Schatz
December 11, 13, and 15, 2007 at 8:00 pm
December 16, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Studio 301, Third Floor, The Juilliard School, 60 Lincoln Center Plaza
For info, see The Juilliard School Calendar of Events: The Juilliard School - Calendar of Events
"Praise the Lord! We are a musical nation..."
SNAPSHOTS
KEN SCHATZ ACTOR TRAINING
PRESENTS
AN ACTORS' SHOWCASE FOR INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS
SNAPSHOTS
ORIGINAL SHORT PERFORMANCE PIECES BASED ON THE LIVES OF EIGHT REMARKABLE WOMEN
Directed by Ken Schatz
Two performances only:
Wednesday, December 12 at 7:00 pm
Thursday, December 13 at 7:00 pm
Free admission, reservations required.
RSVP at info@kenschatz.com or call 718-625-8372.
Please join us for a reception in the lounge after the show.
The Producers Club, Crowne Theatre, 358 West 44th Street between 8th & 9th Avenues
With:
Stacy Price as Anne Sexton
Jaclynn Hart as Gilda Radner
Meara Levezow as Leni Riefenstahl
Louise Gassman as Lucille Ball
Monica Knight as Maria Callas
Christina Barrett as Mata Hari
Celia Rowlson-Hall as Patti Smith
Janice Amano as Yoko Ono
Headshot & resume packets available on request
Are You OK, Hal?
"Twain is portrayed masterfully by Ken Schatz..."
Check out nytheatre.com's super review of PARANG SABIL:
http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/A07rev_02.htm
Sug!
Hear Ken as the voice of Mark Twain in PARANG SABIL, the legendary ballad of the Tausug people of the southern Philippines. The New World Theater presents this stunning story of the struggle against U.S. military occupation and the massacre of indigenous Muslim people in 1906.
Kinding Sindaw's multimedia dance-theater production, conceived and
choreographed by Potri Ranka Manis and directed by Andrea Assaf, juxtaposes
Tausug dance, music, martial arts, and epic storytelling with Mark Twain's
satirical anti-imperialist writings. Part of the very first National Asian
American Theater Festival in New York.
At the Holden Theater, Amherst College, in Amherst, Massachusetts June 15 - 16, and at the Samuel Beckett Theatre in New York June 19 – 21.
For tickets and info, visit:
http://www.umass.edu/fac/calendar/nwt/events/ParangSabil.html
http://www.naatf.org/?page_id=224
“This story burst upon the world last Friday…”
Extra Innings
Well, the buzz has been good, tickets are hot, and it looks
like the run of KING LEAR at the Folger has been extended. Woo! This means Ken
will be in Washington through Sunday February 25 - a week later than originally
scheduled. Until then, he's available by phone or e-mail (including virtual
sessions), and will still be in New York one day a week - Mondays - for
in-person teaching and coaching. If you need coaching this month, please try to
book early, as the Mondays fill quickly. Thanks all!
Local Boy Makes Good Fool
Hometown papers! The Washington Post says :
"The other performances are merely serviceable - except for Ken Schatz's remarkable Fool... This Fool not only has all his wits about him but also seems to respond to Lear's on an instinctive level. It's as if he truly were a facet of the king's psyche."
'King Lear' Without the Tears? It Is Madness - washingtonpost.com
Bob Mondello in City Paper:
"Ken Schatz’s Fool is such an insinuating delight that your heart sinks when Lear..." (Spoiler Alert!)
Washington City Paper: : Train Rex
The Paper of Record!
Reviews are up!
The New York Times says Ken is "simply
superb":
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/10/07/theater/reviews/07lear.html?ref=arts
Here's another nice one:
http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/king4059.htm
Who's The Fool Now?
See Ken act!
He'll be reprising his role as The Fool in KING
LEAR with Tony Award-nominee Andre De Shields this fall/winter. At Classical
Theatre of Harlem September 29 - November 5, and at the Folger Shakespeare
Theatre in Washington, D.C. January 11 - February 18.
For tickets and info, visit:
www.classicaltheatreofharlem.org
"Then shall the realm of Albion come to great confusion..."