Adventures of a Fan Turned Producer
StageScene LA has given Julie Ben-Victor (Julie Austin Felder) the honor of Outstanding Performance by a Featured Actress (Drama) for her role in The Miracle Worker. Congratulations to Julie!
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Sorry this is so last minute, but I only found out about this yesterday. For those of you in the LA area, Paul Ben-Victor will be performing Thursday, September 10 (tomorrow), in a stage reading of Last I Heard, Dave Rodriguez’s latest feature screenplay. Also appearing in the reading is Paul’s wife Julie Ben-Victor.
Synopsis: Mafia capo Joseph ‘MR. JOE’ Scoleri (Paul BenVictor), comes home to Queens, NY after serving almost 20 years in federal prison. He tries to re-connect with his daughter RITA (Kathrine Narducci) and establish a relationship with his neighbor BOBBY (Erik Palladino), who was a young boy when he went away, and is now married with a young son. He realizes through those relationships and other situations, that nothing is the same as it was before he went away.
The reading is from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at the Hayworth Theatre. The address is:
Hayworth Theatre
2511 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
The admission price is a simple RSVP. Can’t beat that price! Send your RSVP to daver1988@gmail.com or you can RSVP on this Facebook event page. This performance is one night only, so don’t hesitate if you want to attend!
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Paul’s financee, Julie Austin Felder, is currently playing the role of Helen Keller’s mother, Kate Keller, in the stage production of The Miracle Worker. The play is getting great reviews and so is Julie!
LA Splash says: “…with the wonderful Julie Austin Felder playing mother, Kate Heller…both giving impassioned performances of parents realizing the greatest of fears, the sickness of their beloved child, Helen Keller.”
Socal writes about Julie: “…Both actors delved profoundly into their character and the peculiarities of the age lingos and accents and succeed in making the Kellers fully believable. Him, stern, patriarchal… and paternalistic, her, concerned, emotionally involved and… maternalistic.
Lynne Bronstein at Stage Happenings says: “Julie Austin Felder also is outstanding as Kate Keller, maintaining a balance between soft-heartedness and underlying strength.”
The Miracle Worker can be seen every Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday at 2:00 p.m. from now through June 28 at the Edgemar Center for the Arts. The Center is located at 2437 Main Street, Santa Monica, California 90405. Tickets are $25.
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I just found out that Paul Ben-Victor is part of a staged reading of Sin, a Cardinal Deposed. This is a play that apparently started March 5, but according to the theatre website has three more showings. The thing that’s tricky about this reading is that it has an alternating cast and I couldn’t find any cast information about upcoming shows, so you take your chances as to whether Paul is actually performing the night you attend.
Synopsis:
In Suffolk Superior Court, lawyer Orson Krieger treads a fine line between respect and contempt.
He relentlessly pursues answers from the elusive Cardinal Bernard Law, the Archbishop of Boston, for his failure to protect the victims of sexual abuse at the hands of priests in his archdiocese.
Every question, every answer, every word of this play was taken from two hearings and one trial.
All the characters are real.
A review of the staged reading can be found at Blog Critics Magazine.
The reading is held every Thursday at 8:00 p.m. at the Hayworth Theatre, and runs from Thursday, March 26, to Thursday, April 9. Tickets are normally $20, but this week’s performance is a special benefit for SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) and the ticket price is $50.
The Hayworth Theatre
2509 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90057
Website: http://thehayworth.com
Reservations
(323) 960-4442
Order Tickets Online
Sexy Laundry, the play starring Paul Ben-Victor and Frances Fisher, extends its highly successful run yet again. The play now runs through April 26, 2008 at The Hayworth Theater in Los Angeles. Shows run from Thursday to Saturday at 8:00 p.m. and some of the shows are completely sold out. To buy tickets visit Brown Paper Tickets.
The critics continue to give the show rave reviews:
“Fisher and Ben-Victor are masterful in their roles, they have us in stitches one minute and teary eyed the next. Blumsack’s dynamic direction allows the characters to live and breathe.”
-LA Weekly“Played for all it’s worth.”
-LA Times“Captivating”….. Likened to an intertwining of Martha and George (“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf?”) “Intuitive staging by Gary Blumsack”
-Variety“The cast is superb.”
-City Beat“Hilarious…. Moving…. Fisher and Ben-Victor make a dream team”
-LA Scene
Here’s a little video I found giving us a glimpse of Paul in action.
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