Stories on Stage presents No Holds Barred May 16, 2010

STORIES ON STAGE

No Holds Barred

Always on Sunday Series

featuring Tony Award-winner John Rubinstein

DENVER, CO – Stories on Stage presents the season's finale of the Always on Sunday series. No Holds Barred features John Rubinstein, Jonathan Nichols, Kathy Brady and Randy Moore. Show times are 1:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 16 in the Stage Theatre at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. Single tickets are $25; tickets for groups of 10 or more are $20 per person and LoDough (scholarship) tickets are also available. Tickets are available by calling 303-494-0523 or online at www.storiesonstage.org.

SORRY FUGU by T.C. Boyle, read by John Rubinstein

Moments of culinary divinity.

T.C. Boyle is the author of twenty books of fiction, including, most recently, After the Plague (2001), Drop City (2003), The Inner Circle (2004), Tooth and Claw (2005), The Human Fly (2005), Talk Talk (2006), The Women (2009), Wild Child (2010) and When the Killing's Done (2011). His stories have appeared in most of the major American magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, The Paris Review, GQ, Antaeus, Granta and McSweeney's, and he has been the recipient of a number of literary awards.

John Rubinstein made his Broadway acting debut in 1972 and received a Theater World Award for creating the title role in the musical Pippin, directed by Bob Fosse. In 1980 he won the Tony, Drama Desk, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, and Drama-Logue Awards for his portrayal of James Leeds in Mark Medoff's Children of a Lesser God, directed by Gordon Davidson. Other Broadway appearances were in Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, which earned him a Drama Desk nomination; M. Butterfly and he starred in Getting Away with Murder. In 2005 he received the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Lead Actor in a Play, as well as nominations for both the Outer Critics’ and Drama League Awards, for his portrayal of George Simon in Elmer Rice's Counselor-at-Law. He originated the role of The Wizard in the Los Angeles production of the musical Wicked in 2007, performing the role for 18 months.

Rubinstein's feature films include 21 Grams, Red Dragon, Mercy, Another Stakeout, Someone to Watch Over Me, The Boys from Brazil, Rome and Jewel, Jekyll, Kid Cop, Getting Straight, Zachariah, The Trouble with Girls, and The Car. Since 1965 he has acted in over 200 television films and series episodes. He received an Emmy Award nomination for his portrayal of Jeff Maitland in the series Family, a role he played for five years, co-starred for two years with Jack Warden in the series Crazy Like a Fox, and was featured in the miniseries Perfect Murder, Perfect Town. In the series finale of Friends, he played the doctor who delivered Monica and Chandler's babies.

Rubinstein has composed, orchestrated, and conducted the musical scores for five feature films, including Jeremiah Johnson and The Candidate, as well as for over 150 television films and episodes. He spent six years as host for the radio program Carnegie Hall Tonight, broadcast on 180 stations in the United States and Canada, and two years as the keyboard player for the jazz-rock group Funzone. He has also recorded over sixty-five books on audio, including eighteen of the best-selling Alex Delaware novels by Jonathan Kellerman.

THE LEGEND OF PIG-EYE by Rick Bass, read by Jonathan Nichols

Everyone wants to be the best at something.

Rick Bass received the PEN/Nelson Algren Award in 1988 for his first short story, "The Watch." Rick won the James Jones Fellowship Award for his novel Where the Sea Used To Be. Bass's The Hermit’s Story was a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year in 2000 and The Lives of Rocks was a finalist for the Story Prize and was chosen as a Best Book of the Year in 2006 by the Rocky Mountain News. Bass’s stories have also been awarded the Pushcart Prize and the O. Henry Award and have been collected in The Best American Short Stories. His 2008 memoir Why I Came West was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. To date Rick Bass has written twenty-four books; his most recent is The Wild Marsh (2009).

As an active environmentalist he continues to be a member of the Sierra Club, the Montana Wilderness Association, the Cabinet Resources Group, Round River Conservation Studies, and the Yaak Valley Forest Council. He has published articles in magazines such as Field and Stream, Sports Afield, Gray’s Sporting Journal, Outdoor Life, and others.

Jonathan Nichols regional theatre credits include Anna and the Tropics (Coconut Grove Playhouse and South Coast Repertory), Beauty of the Father (Seattle Repertory World Premier), Measure for Measure (Lincoln Center Theater), La Fiaca, Necessities, Hamlet, As You Like It (Old Globe Theater). He was seen in the films Pay it Forward and Desert Saints along with television appearances in Cane (with Jimmy Smits), Without a Trace, The West Wing, Friends, Judging Amy, NYPD Blue and Becker. Jonathan trained at the Juilliard School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He is in great demand as a voice actor for major motion pictures.

A DOLLAR A DAY by Abbott & Costello, read by Kathy Brady and Randy Moore

These wage negotiations make derivatives look simple.

Abbot & Costello began performing together in vaudeville in the early 1930s, and in 1938 the pair made their radio debut. Their first successful film, Buck Privates (1941), was followed by more than 30 other slapstick comedies, with Abbott playing a bullying straight man to Costello's childlike buffoon. Their famous routine “Who's on First?” was first performed in the film The Naughty Nineties (1945). They continued to work together until their collaboration ended in 1957.

Kathy Brady is in her 23rd season with the Denver Center Theater Company. She performed in Trip to Bountiful, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Bernice/Butterfly, Picnic, The Miser, The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Winter’s Tale, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Rivals, A Christmas Carol, Appalachian Strings and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum just to name a few.

Randy Moore is now enjoying his 15th season at Denver Center Theatre Company. His credits include: Trip to Bountiful, A Christmas Carol, The Miser, The Winter’s Tale, A Flea in Her Ear. As a 30-year veteran of the Dallas Theater Center acting company Mr. Moore performed as Cyrano, Hamlet, Iago, Sherlock Holmes, and others.

Stories On Stage, an award winning performing arts organization features some of America's best actors from stage and screen today performing the words of many of the finest contemporary writers.

No Holds Barred is sponsored in part by the Citizens of the Scientific and Cultural District (SCFD) and The Denver Foundation.

Stories on Stage presents No Holds Barred - America's best actors from stage and screen performing the words of the finest contemporary writers. Sunday, May 16. Stage Theatre at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, Speer and Arapahoe. 1:30 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. Tickets $25 - Online at www.storiesonstage.org or by phone at 303-494-0523.