August 1, 2010
RANC
HO PANCHO, written by our author Gregg Barrios, plays at Teatro Bravo September 24, 25 and October 1, 2, 8, and 9. RANCHO PANCHO, a two act play, explores the relationship of American playwright Tennessee Williams and his partner Pancho Rodriguez. Fernando Teson, Interim Artistic Director at Teatro Bravo, will direct RANCHO PANCHO.
Teatro Bravo, a theater based in Phoenix, Arizona, produces works in both Spanish and English that promote complex Latino themes. Teatro Bravo also develops the talents of Latino actors, directors, playwrights, designers, and stage managers.
RANCHO PANCHO, published by Hansen Publishing Group, covers the relationship of Tennessee Williams and Pancho Rodriguez from the summer of 1946 in Nantucket to the summer of 1947 in Provincetown and includes characters based on Carson McCullers, Margo Jones and Marlon Brando. Gregg Barrios does a wonderful job of capturing the complex, passionate and often turbulent relationship of Tennessee Williams and Pancho Rodriguez, who Williams based his character Stanley Kowalski in STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE.
To learn more about RANCHO PANCHO, please visit the play’s web site. RANCHO PANCHO also features a “Foreword” by David Kaplan, author of TENNESEE WILLIAMS IN PROVINCETOWN, and an “Afterword” by Gregg Barrios. RANCHO PANCHO is available as a paperback from Hansen Publishing Group or from your favorite Internet bookseller. RANCHO PANCHO is now also available as an ebook from Apple’s iBookstore for the iPad and iPhone or from Amazon for the Kindle.
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July 30, 2010
Backstage-An Actor’s Resource featured our book by David Kaplan Tennessee Williams in Provincetown in an article entitled “Six Inspiring Biographies or Memoirs Every Actor Should Read.” The list was compiled by the staff of the Dramatist Book Shop in New York’s theater district. The piece found Tennessee Williams in Provincetown
“…concise, fast-moving, and eminently readable book. Well worth your time.”
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July 25, 2010
Hansen Publishing Group has just finished converting six of its titles to ebooks. The following titles are currently available from Apple’s iBookstore for the iPad and iPhone: TENNESSEE WILLIAMS IN PROVINCETOWN by David Kaplan, LAST RITES by Joseph M. Paprzycki, SCREEN SAVERS by John DiLeo, RANCHO PANCHO by Gregg Barrios, STONES by Michael Aaron Rockland, and STARTING AND FINISHING THE PAPER by Michael Walters and Ellen Diehl-Matto. These same titles are now also available as ebooks from Amazon on their entire Kindle platform, which includes the Kindle, the Kindle for Mac, the Kindle for PC, the Kindle for iPhone, the Kindle for iPad, the Kindle for Blackberry and the Kindle for Android. These titles will become available for Barnes & Nobles’ Nook and as Google books later this summer when these companies open up their services to independent publishers.
Hansen Publishing Group’s partnering with Apple and Amazon has now made our ebooks available internationally. In the iBookstore our titles are now available in the U.S., Canada, The United Kingdom, France and Germany. This will grow as Apple makes the iPad available world wide. On the Amazon platform our titles are now available where ever Amazon sells ebooks.
The individual volumes of The Five Approaches to Acting Series by David Kaplan will become available as ebooks later this fall. These include Part One: Getting to the Task, Part Two: Playing Episodes, Part Three: Building Images, Part Four: Inhabiting the World of the Play and Part Five: Telling a Story. At this time, there are no plans to release the Collected Series, the complete volume, as an ebook.
Posted from Piscataway, New Jersey, United States.
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July 21, 2010
Joseph M. Paprzycki and his play LAST RITES, published by Hansen Publishing Group, are featured in the August 2010 issue of the New Jersey Monthly. The article entitled “The ‘Rite’ Stuff” contains quotes from an interview with Joe, background information about the play LAST RITES, and the story of the South Camden Theatre Group’s theater being built in south Camden on the site of Joe’s grand parents’ bar. LAST RITES will be the first play to be performed when the new theater opens in September 2010.
The article is available online at the New Jersey Monthly’s site.
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July 21, 2010
Michael Aaron Rockland will kick-off his second book tour for his new novel STONES starting on September 1, 2010. Michael will present a lecture and read from his novel STONES. Guests are encouraged to ask questions. Following the lecture, Michael Aaron Rockland will be available to sign books and speak to guests. Copies of STONES will be available for purchase at the venues.
- September 1, 2010, 7:30 p.m., Jewish Congregation of Concordia-Monroe Township, NJ
- September 4, 2010, 7:30 p.m., Temple B’Nai Or, Morristown, NJ
- September 12, 2010, 10 a.m., Bnai Brith of Concordia, at the Concordia Community Clubhouse
- September 25, 2010, 2:00 p.m., Morris County Library
- October 24, 2010, 10:30 a.m., the book club of Temple Anshe Emeth, New Brunswick, NJ
- December 21, 2010, 2 p.m., Brandeis University Alumnae, at Robbinsville Public Library
- January 19, 2011, 7:30 p.m., Temple Beth Shalom, Cherry Hill, NJ
Please double check with the venue to verify time and date before attending.
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June 28, 2010
Teatro Bravo! will perform Gregg Barrios’ play Rancho Pancho from September 24-October 9, 2010. Rancho Pancho, published by Hansen Publishing Group, is a two-act play that explores the relationship of playwright Tennessee Williams and his Latin lover, Pancho Rodriguez, the inspiration for the character Stanley Kowalski in Williams’ Street Car Named Desire.
Rancho Pancho will be directed by Fernando Teson, Interim Artistic Director at Teatro Bravo and who is also chairperson of the Performing Arts Department at the Metropolitan Arts Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. The Teatro Bravo performance of Gregg Barrios’ Rancho Pancho will be at Metropolitan Arts Institute, 1700 North 7th Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85007-1760. The performances dates of Rancho Pancho at Teatro Bravo: Preview, September 24, 7:30pm; Opening Night, September 25, 7:30pm; October 1, 2, 8, 9 , 7:30pm.
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March 2, 2010
Michael Aaron Rockland
Our author Michael Aaron Rockland will read and discuss his new novel STONES at the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University on Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 7:30pm.
STONES is a novel about a complex Jewish-American family. Simultaneously serious and comic, STONES takes place in Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island. Its protagonist, Jack Berke, accompanies his aged mother Rachel as they visit their family graves during the Days of Awe. Jack contemplates the tombstones and the lives of family members who lie under them, the stones that, according to Jewish custom, he places on those tombstones, and the stone that has for a lifetime resided in his own heart.
Location:
The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life
Rutgers University
12 College Ave.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
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February 23, 2010
Saint, of course. Joe just emailed me from New Orleans. His play Tennessees’ Final Curtain has been selected as a finalist in the full-length play contest held at the Eighth Saints and Sinners Literary Festival, March 13-16. We wish you the best of luck!
Joseph M. Paprzcki’s play LAST RITES was recently publishing by Hansen Publishing Group.
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