VANTAGE NewWorks/Vantage Theatre

Theatre From a Different Vantage Point

“Vantage is one of the few companies in San Diego that is brave enough to produce new theatrical works and should get a sustained standing ovation"-- SD Theatre Scene

VANTAGE THEATRE ANNOUNCES

a new collaboration with

MAINLY MOZART and THE TIMKEN MUSEUM

As part of the 25th Anniversary Season of Mainly Mozart, Vantage theatre will present

a staged reading of Robert Salerno's highly acclaimed

"Cadenza: Mozart's Last Year"

at The Timken Museum

Balboa Park, San Diego

May 25th at 7pm

Champagne Reception with the artists following the performance.

Price: $10-15

For Tickets call: 619-466-8742 or ORDER ON LINE: https://itkt.choicecrm.net/templates/MMOZ/

TICKETS EXTREMELY LIMITED. ORDER NOW!

"A thought-provoking contribution to one's personal 'field of dreams'..."

"Touching... and marvelously funny throughout..."

--San Diego Newspaper Group

"Critic's Pick"

--City Beat

"Salerno's otherworldly play made for a rare day to be savored for months to come..."

--Village News

"There’s a lot to commend here. Vantage is certainly to be commended for taking chances, with new work and provocative ideas."

--KUSI TV

"creative exuberance bursts through..."

--SD TheatreScene

Cadenza: Mozart's Last Year by Artist In Residence Robert Salerno, a new look at the most famous tragedy in music history. At the height of his creative powers, Mozart is stricken by a horrible fatal illness. Now, it is a race against time to complete the work that means everything to him. Ever the creative genius, he confronts death on his own terms, aided by several unusual characters and a trip into the eleventh dimension of Modern Physics.

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VANTAGE THEATRE
Presents

NEW WORKS IN PROGRESS

Staged Reading Series

My Soldiers
By Richard Kalinoski

What is the right thing to do? A young woman receives the Medal of Honor for her heroic actions but is haunted by the consequences.

Sunday, March 18, 2012 at 2pm
St. Paul’s Villas 2340 Fourth Avenue

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OUR PREVIOUS PRODUCTIONS:

Vantage Presents the Hit New York Show

“VITALLY IMPORTANT, WIDE-RANGING AND ULTIMATELY VERY MOVING”—L.A. Times

"Ms. Smith is a national treasure, and her performance demands to be seen."-- SanDiego.com

"You won’t want to miss the tour de force"-- Pat Launer, SD Metro

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VantageTheatre@gmail.com or call Group Sales: 858-454-2659

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About Anna Deveare Smith

Called “the most exciting individual in American Theatre” by Newsweek, Anna Deavere Smith is said to have created a new form of theater. She has won numerous awards, among them two Obies, two Tony nominations, a Drama Desk Award, the USA Susan V. Berresford Award from United States Artists, and a MacArthur fellowship. She was runner up for the Pulitzer Prize for her play Fires In the Mirror. Her work combines the journalistic technique of interviewing her subjects with the art of interpreting their words through performance.

In addition to her award-winning plays, Smith has published two books, Talk to Me: Travels in Media and Politics (2000)and Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind (2006). She is founding director of Anna Deavere Smith Works, a nonprofit that convenes artists whose work addresses the world's most pressing problems. Television and movie credits include "Nurse Jackie," "The West Wing," (as National Security Advisor Nancy McNally) "The American President," and others.

As a dramatist Smith was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for Fires in the Mirror which won her a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show. She was nominated for two Tony Awards in 1994 for Twilight: Los Angeles. One for Best Actress and another for Best Play. The play won her a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance and a Theatre World Award.

Smith was one of the 1996 recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship, often referred to as the "genius grant." She also won a 2006 Fletcher Foundation Fellowship for her contribution to civil rights issues as well as a 2008 Matrix Award from the New York Women in Communications, Inc.[ In 2009 she won a Fellow Award in Theater Arts from United States Artists. She has received honorary degrees from Juilliard, Arcadia University, Bates College, Smith College, Skidmore College, Macalester College, Occidental College, Pratt Institute, Holy Cross College, Haverford College, Wesleyan University, School of Visual Arts, Northwestern University, Colgate University, California State University Sacramento, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wheelock College, and the Cooper Union.

About Let Me Down Easy

For the past eight years, Smith has interviewed hundreds of Americans to create a virtuosic and moving show about the power and vulnerability of the body, the price of health, and the resilience of the human spirit. She speaks directly to our hopes and discomforts about life, death, whom we should take care of and who should (or should not) take care of us. This show is a bracing, poetic experience you won’t want to miss.