Sunday, June 26, 2011

CYRANO A-GO-GO mentioned in D Magazine Blog

McEntire performing CYRANO A-GO-GO

Audacity Offers a Companion to ‘Cyrano’

D Magazine's FrontRow Blog
Author: By Peter Simek
Post date: June 23rd, 2011 9:30am

Shakespeare Dallas kicked off its summer season with a play not by the Elizabethan playwright, but rather Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac. As Kris Noteboom writes on TheaterJones, Cyrano is also the favorite play of Audacity Theatre Labs’s Brad McEntire, and in conjunction with the Shakespeare Dallas run, McEnire is presenting his Cyrano A-Go-Go at the Green Zone. From the TJ piece:
Throughout the hour-and-15-minute piece, McEntire delivers more of the history from his favorite play whilst tying it in with events from his own life in an engaging, educational experience sure to enrich the impact of Cyrano.
During the oration, McEntire recounts the nerve-wracked opening night and the subsequent two hour standing ovation, the conundrum of being the brother-like guy friend, and the impact of the play on his pursuit of theater.
The whole of the piece is well-organized, jumping from past to present, from fiction to fact, between his life and Cyrano’s with great aplomb. There’s never a dull moment, and the experience will not only augment your appreciation for Rostand’s masterpiece, but the theater and arts in general, with an interesting bit of history thrown in.

Sunday, June 19, 2011

CYRANO A-GO-GO has begun!


McEntire has opened his new solo show, an "oration" on Cyrano de Bergerac and how the piece has impacted his life. Info on this "free" show here.

Also, a swell essay by McEntire has recently run on TheaterJones.com about the opening night of Cyrano in 1897. Check it out here.
Nice mention of CYRANO A-GO-GO on Neighborsgo.com. Check it out here.

Thursday, June 2, 2011

CHOP at the Houston Fringe

We at ATL are happy to announce CHOP has been accepted into the 2011 Houston Fringe Festival. Brad McEntire's one-man show about a man finding love and identity in the most unlikeliest of places has appeared at the New Orleans Fringe Festival, Phoenix Fringe, Out of the Loop Fringe in Addison, Texas, the College of Santa Fe, the Portland Mini-Fringe. Now we are pleased as punch the piece will have a chance in front of Houston audiences.

Playing August 11-13, 2011 at SuperHappyFunLand! More info coming soon!