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MASQUE

a musical revel of Unsuspected Consequence (C) 2023
Book & Lyrics by Patrick Thomas McCarthy ... ptmc
Music & Orchestrations by Jerico DeAngelo
FIRST VIEW:
Sunday January 26th, 2025 @ 6pm

Music stand read/sing in NYC location TBA
Casting October 2024 CAST = 5W 6M

PANDERing

Sunday January 21st 2024 at 6pm

PS 109 215 East 99th St NYC (Q Train to 96th St, 96 Bus to 3rd Ave)

Script in Hand Staged Reading - Free Admission

Boston Apollo

Live Staged Reading

Sunday April 2 @ 3:30pm

Sunland, L.A. CA

By Invitation Only

with

Miles Anderson as John Singer Sargent

Bella Merlin as Isabella Gardner

Christopher Karbo as Will Kamp

Gabriel Croom as Thomas McKeller

Click Here for

BOSTON APOLLO on VIMEO...

https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/826764292

John Singer Sargent (1856 – 1925), the most successful portrait painter of his era, lays bare his thorny relationships with models Thomas McKeller, Wilhelm Kamp & patroness Mrs. Isabella Stewart Gardner while desperately seeking non-portraiture as his legacy.

HIDDEN on Vimeo Click Here

TEMPEST

by ptmc

STAGED READING

Sunday April 30th 4:30pm

AMDA Studios 244 West 54th St 12th Floor NYC

with

*Russell Jordan as Pero

*James A. Pierce III as Caliban

*Summer Ainsworth as Miranda

Kailah S. King as Ariel

Daniel Skinner as Nando

Logan Thomason as Stefano

Stage directions: *Kate Konigisor

Members Actors Equity Association AEA

Boston Apollo

Live Reading

Sunday January 29th

4:30pm

AMDA Studios

(formerly Shetler Studios)

244 West 54th St NYC

Studio 1202

with

James A. Pierce as Thomas McKeller

Russell Jordan as John Singer Sargent

Kate Konigisor as Isabella Gardner

Logan Thomason as Will Kamp

Strictly Limited Seating

BOSTON APOLLO on Vimeo - Click Here

Killington
Shakespeare
Retreat

Stand Up
Shakespeare
Sat. Sept. 3, 2022

WHO? "We Happy Few" 17 of us to be exact, 18 with Jamie Ward Show Host

WHAT? Killington Shakespeare Retreat "KSR" closes its 21st Chapter

WHEN? Aug. 31st to Sept. 8th, 2022

WHERE? Sunburst Lodge, Killington, VT & CalvinCoolidgeHistoricSite, PlymouthNotch, VT

WHY? So we can bathe in the Bard, & Bard Based activities like #StandUpShakespeare & #WaterBalloonShakespeare & #Willyman & #SonnetRelay & #CreativeGroupProjects & #Workshops & #BARD to the tune of YMCA

Boston Apollo

HIDDEN now BOSTON APOLLO

Scripts making the trip to Drama Scripts

and those still seeking a home in 2022

Some of my children are finding a new home in 2022, while many are still untethered and just waiting for the right apartment complex, bungalow or ranch home to come along.

Moving to Drama Scripts UK (I'll give you the link as soon as I have it)...

Temporarily... http://www.dramascripts.co.uk/index.html

12th NIGHTed

Bruce, the Blue Christmas Spruce

Confessions

CUSTODY

Pride River Crossing

REEKING of INDISCRETION: Madame X's Allerton

sExtOrtiOn

The LEARS: Fools of Fortune

VARIED LIVES

Waiting for the ultimate trailer park to present itself....

One Acts (Exotic Veneer, In Passing, Resume', SHOTS)

TYA Scripts: Goldilocks & the Three Bears, The Emperor's New Clothes, Who Pushed Humpty Dumpty?, Little Red, Wizard of Oz, The Lion...the Witch & the Closet, Charley & the Cocoa Factory

PALP - Performing Arts Legacy Project - ptmc Scripts

https://performingartslegacy.org/mccarthy/multimedia/

BROADWAY FLEA MARKET

Sunday October 3rd 2021

Broadway Cares Equity Fights A.I..D.S. BC/EFA

Dancers Over 40 ( DO40 ) raises $11,612 in record breaking effort....

OBS ZOOM Staged Reading

TheatreMakers Studio

Thursday May 27th, 2021

PRIDE RIVER CROSSING

A Spoon River for A New Century

by ptmc

Directed by Katherine Hammond

Warehouse of Theatre, Norfolk, VA

CAST

DARI CALDWELL

BRANDY CLARK

KRYSTAL GONZALEZ

LARRY LEWIS

LEE SMITH

TIM SUDDUTH

Produced by Special Arrangement with

SMITH SCRIPTS

TImes Square
"Live Word" Event

Patrick Thomas McCarthy

#ptmc #ptmcplaywriting

DramatistsGuild LiveWord event 3/23/21

Times Square Alliance

Leasing at SmithScripts

PHOTO: Lia Chang

Actors Shakespeare Co. (ASC)

Hosted Live ZOOM Webinar/Reading

PANDER...ing by ptmc

Sunday January 24, 2021

What if Shakespeare felt maker's remorse in presenting HENRY VI's Joan of Arc, & TROILUS & CRESSIDA's Pandarus, & enlists the patronage of Queen Elizabeth to assist him in giving both Pandarus & Joan d’Arc makeovers? Perhaps change history in the process? Achilles, Patroclus, Mistress Overdone, Anne Hathaway, Mrs. Aphra Behn, Edward DeVere and even a Gallant Stool join in the fray. And what’s that underlying thrum regarding authorship?

CAST in order of appearance

Michael Lewis as Pandarus – (1200 B.C.E.) from Troilus & Cressida

Joanne Lessner as Joan la Pucelle – (1412-1431 A.D.) from Henry VI

Steven Hauck as Will Shakespeare – (1564-1616 A.D.) the playwright

Kate Konigisor as Queen Elizabeth – (1533-1558-1603 A.D.) the Queen, Shakespeare’s patron

Nick Bombicino as Mistress Overdone (16th Century) from Measure for Measure

Jordan Tierney as Gallant Stool – (21st Century) planted cast member

C.K. Edwards as Achilles – (1200 B.C.E.) from Troilus & Cressida

Russell Jordan as Patroclus – (1200 B.C.E.) from Troilus & Cressida

Brian Linden as Edward de Vere – (1550-1604 A.D.) 17th Earl of Oxford

Anna Savant as Mrs. Aphra Behn – (1640-1689 A.D.) – playwright/novelist/poet/spy

Terry Amy as Anne Hathaway – (1556 – 1623 A.D.) Mrs. William Shakespeare

Thanks for following our work....

Patrick Thomas McCarthy ptmc ptmcplaywriting.com

VIMEO PROMO for PANDERing...

https://vimeo.com/504533859

In 2021, MIDNIGHT's DREAM, PANDER...ing & TEMPEST will all get the ZOOM treatment. Keep a lookout for announcements from TheatreMakers Studio and ptmcplaywriting for dates and streaming access.

Shakespeare with Benefits
Strikes a Chord on YouTube

https://bit.ly/SWBOnlineShow_New

DONATING TO OUR BENEFICIARIES: Instructions on YouTube channel

We are Shakespeare with Benefits and welcome to our online show! Our professional actors, all working from self-isolation, have come together to bring you our Bard-Based Variety Show – a fun mix of Shakespeare and skits and songs based on Shakespeare – to raise money for two organizations fighting COVID-19 and helping communities affected by the virus.

LEARN MORE about KSR Click Here

MIDNIGHT's DREAM

By Patrick Thomas McCarthy ptmc

Thursday January 2, 2020

Sit Down Reading

Theatre Lab West, Milwaukee, WIS

What if Ray Cooney, Georges Feydeau & Shakespeare had a baby?

CAST 7 Men & 5 Women

Congressman Theseus O’Baron = DON LOBACZ

Congresswoman Hippolyta Blackbottom/ Titania Whipmaster = MEGAN ROSE MILLER

Colonel Edgeus Edge/ the Edger's father = MARK SCHUSTER

Mr. Phineas Puck / Congressional Chief of Staff = JEREMY WELTER

Demetrius Demigoggins / Demitri/ Book of Face Double Agent = NATHAN DANZER

Sandy Lysander Lackluster / Sandy/ dimmest of bulbs = MAX WILLIAMSON

Hermia Edge / The Edger /Daughter of Colonel Edge = Hannah Weinberg-Kinsey or Hayley San Fillipo

Helena Jane Hathaway / The Congressman's secretary = Hannah Weinberg-Kinsey or Hayley San Fillipo [whoever's taller]

Mz. Bette Bottom / Midnight / Congressional Staffer / Pyramus =

DONNA LOBACZ

Quin Quince / Congressional Staffer / Turd Blossom / Wall / Moonshine / Dog =

KEITH SMITH

Frankie Flute / Francis / Congressional Staffer / Mustard Seed / Thisby =

KEVIN GADZALINSKI

Ms. Snug Robin-Starvling / Congressional Staffer / Peace Blossom / Lion =

SHARON SOHNER + Stage Directions

Aaron's Revengers Tragedy

A Feast of Blood

Mashing up Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy and the Victorian Penny Dreadful, STRING of PEARLS a.k.a. Sweeney Todd, to provide enough vengeance, mayhem and blood to fill a banquet hall of horror. Aaron becomes the central character in this barbaric tripleheader, gaining his freedom, his vengeance and his child’s legacy on the bloody way. Coming soon from ptmcplaywriting.com

COMING SOON:

Staged Reading Part of COTE Tales Reading Series

Manhattan Plaza Ellington Room

September? 2020

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Reeking of Indiscretion

Madame X's

Allerton

FringeNYC BYOV

Tickets $20

October 7-21, 2019

CHAIN Studio Theatre

312 W. 36th 4th Flr, NYC

Reeking of Indiscretion:

Madame X's Allerton

by Patrick Thomas McCarthy ptmc

A STAGED READING

One Night Only

Tuesday July 16th at 8:30pm

ALL OUT ARTS Fresh Fruit Festival

@ The Wild Project 195 East 3rd St & Ave B

with

Ms. Anna Cody as Caroline Kirkland / Madame X

Mr. Jordan Tierney as John Wyatt Gregg

Mr. Patrick McCarthy as Robert Henry Allerton

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Reeking of Indiscretion:

Madame X's Allerton

Sat. July 13th, 2019 7pm

Full Reading sponsored by

Grounded Goodwife

Woodbury, CT

with

Sheri Bresson as Caroline Kirkland / Madame X

Miles Everett as Robert Allerton

Sam Bass as John Gregg

Contact: Grounded Goodwife... groundedgoodwife@yahoo.com

Reeking Of Indiscretion:

MadameX'sAllerton

by #ptmc

Reading March 31, 2019

with

Terry Caza as Robert

Drew Bolander as John

Mary O'Brady as Madame X

#MadameXsAllerton

reading 12/30/18

#EastPointCommons

#Milwaukee #Wisconsin

with

#DonnaLobacz as

#MadameX #CarolineKirkland

#DonLobacz as #JohnGregg

#ptmc as #RobertAllerton

#MaeHaskins #Steppenwolf

as audience & arbitor

New Title... 1/1/19

#ReekingOfIndiscretion:

MadameX'sAllerton

to quote that "lit crazy charmer",

she was... "Reeking of indiscretion"

Caroline Kirkland A.K.A. Madame X

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Aaron's

Revenger's

Tragedy

1st Reading 5.19.19

Cast: 8 Men 3 Women

Time Frame: 1865 London

Keith Herron - Mr. Titus Todd – barber of Fleet St, father to Lavinia, knows not wife's status

Mary O'Brady - Mrs. Tamara Gothique Dread– piemaker of Fleet St, mother to Demitri/Spurio

Rik Walter - Judge Valentine Saturpin /Turpininus?– Judge has condemned Titus to life in prison, raped his wife, taken Titus’ daughter Lavinia as his ward, plans to marry her

Anne Pasquale - Midwife – delivers Tamara/Aaron's child [should double]

Anne Pasquale - Ambitiosa Birelli– cross dresser, snake oil salesman, barber

Joel T. Bauer - Bassianus Ingestrie – adventurer, law student, love interest to Lavinia

Jenna Krasowski - Miss Lavinia Barker – 16 years old, daughter to Titus, ward to Judge Saturpin

Jeff Davis - Master Demitri Dread – 18 years old, son to Mrs. Gothique Dread

Brady Cudmore - Master Spurio Dread – 17 years old, son to Mrs. Gothique Dread

Christopher Washington - Aaron Vindice Hannibal – "indentured servant" to Mrs. Dread, African descent

David Palmer Brown - Beadle Sordidos Slaughter – assists the judge, large profane man

Liam Allen - Tobias Ragg – workhouse boy, African descent

Synopsis A.R.T.

Mashing up Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy and the “Penny Dreadful” String of Pearls a.k.a. Sweeney Todd, to provide enough vengeance, mayhem and blood to fill a banquet hall of horror.

Aaron becomes the central character in this barbaric tripleheader, gaining his freedom, his vengeance & child’s legacy on the bloody way.