Artists' Repertory Theatre (ART) is community theatre group based in Fresno, California. Founded in 2005, the group's maiden performance took place in 2006, with the critically acclaimed Love's Fire. [1] In 2009, ART produced the Fresno premier of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Rabbit Hole, by David Lindsay-Abaire, [2] and caused a local stir with the Fresno premier Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show . [3] [4] [5]
According to the Fresno Bee, ART is one of few theatre groups in Fresno with an "established reputation for quality." [6]
Because many ART Board members are affiliated with the summer Woodward Shakespeare Festival, the ART performance season runs from fall to spring. [7]
Fall 2009: All in the Timing Director's Cut, including all seven All in the Timing plays previously performed by ART, and one new play, all by David Ives.
Rogue Festival 2010: Parallel Lives , by Kathy Najimy & Mo Gaffney.
Fall 2008: The Rocky Horror Show , by Richard O'Brien.
Winter 2009: Rabbit Hole , by David Lindsay-Abaire.
Rogue Festival 2009: All in the Timing Too, three one-act plays by David Ives, including Mere Mortals, The Universal Language, and Sure Thing.
Spring 2009: The Fantasticks , music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones.
Winter 2008: Vagina Monologues , by Eve Ensler.
Rogue Festival 2008: All in the Timing , four one-act plays by David Ives, including Words, Words, Words, The Philadelphia, Phillip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread, and Variations on the Death of Trotsky.
Spring 2008: Glengarry Glen Ross , by David Mamet.
Winter 2007: The Tempest , by William Shakespeare.
Spring 2007: Arcadia , by Tom Stoppard.
Rogue Festival 2006:Love's Fire, ART's maiden performance, consisting of three one-act plays: 140, by Marsha Norman; Terminating, by Tony Kushner; and Bitter Sauce, by Eric Bogosian.
Spring 2006: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , adapted for the stage by Dale Wasserman, based on the novel by Ken Kesey.
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