FESTIVAL OF SHORTS - B3 Productions - June 7-16

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MATT & BEN - B3 Productions - March 1-9, 2019

by Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers

Matt & Ben is the irreverent story of how Matt Damon and Ben Affleck “wrote” Good Will Hunting.  Friends since childhood, Matt and Ben have always had a competitive relationship.  Now, when the completed script of Good Will Hunting falls from their ceiling, the would-be writers must decide what to do with it.  The main area of contention is who will play the lead.  Will Matt, the serious and studious one, be able to convince Ben, who is normally fun-loving but no less determined to have the role, that he is destined for the part, due to his ability to interpret the role?  With the main characters written to be, and played by, women, Matt & Ben is a farcical look at friendship and stepping into greatness.

with Megan Holcomb as Matt Damon and RC Contreras as Ben Affleck. 

Director:  Ilana Lydia

Showtimes:
Friday, 3/1 @ 7:30 PM
Saturday, 3/2 @ 7:30 PM
Sunday, 3/3 @ 2:00 PM
Friday, 3/8 @ 7:30 PM
Saturday, 3/9 @ 7:30 PM

Ticket Prices:  $20
Box Office:  www.asidetheatre.com (520) 261-0288
Venue:  Aside Theatre, 3508 N 7th Street suite 130B, Phoenix, AZ 85014

FROGWOMAN - B3 Productions - November 9 - December 15, 2018

by Chris Danowski
Directed by RC Contreras
Stage Manager - Caitlin Mayr

FrogWoman is the story of a starlet who has surgically turned herself into a frog. She has a manservant named Burley who is as good as three men put together, but side by side and not on top of each other like her circus friends. In a world controlled by an unseen Voice of Authority, will FrogWoman ever break free from the confines of her fame and find her true froggish nature? Will she ever find true love? And most curiously, will she ever find out who’s spending her money?

FrogWoman - Ilana Lydia
Producer - Ashley Naftule
Amphibianologist /FrogWomanhead1 - Marcella Grassa
Fan /Burley1/ SueBobFrog1 -  Sky Donovan
FrogWomanhead2 /Burley2/ SueBobFrog2 - Lindsey Gemme
FrogWomanhead3 /Burley3/ SueBobFrog3 - Dayna Donovan
Wizened FrogWoman - Amy Carpenter
Voice of Authority - Juliet Rachel Wilkins
Set Design - RC Contreras
Sound Design - Emma Walz
Costume Design, Make-up, Hair - Sara Wheatcroft
Lighting Design - Austin Welles
Props Design - Juliet Rachel Wilkins

It plays 11/9, 11/10, 11/16, and 11/17 at 8PM at The Sic Sense Theatre, 19th Street and McDowell in Phoenix.

Tickets can be found at www.thesicsense.com

ON THE VERGE - B3 Productions - August 24-September 1, 2018

B3 presents On the Verge: Performance Art for the Rest of Us. With show-stoppers and extraordinary
scene work, monologues, and songs, On the Verge: Performance Art for the Rest of Us makes the unique accessible.

Master of Ceremonies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RC Contreras
Accompanist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lincoln Wright

Performers:
Ashley Naftule, Aubrie Rose, Christopher Allen, Crystal Pearl Inzunza, Gabe Escuardo, Ilana Lydia, Juliet Rachel Wilkins, Libby Mueller, Marcella Grassa, Megan Holcomb, Megan Olsen, and Michael LeSueur

Performances will be August 24, 25, 31, and September 1, all at 8 PM. Shows are at the SIC Sense
Theatre, 1902 E McDowell Rd, Phoenix, Arizona, 85006. Tickets are $15 and may be purchased ahead of time at www.thesicsense.com. Tickets purchased before 8/23 can use the code VERGE to get $5 off.

There is adult content during the evening, and the show may not be suitable to for all audiences.

The SIC Sense Sketch Comedy Troupe
1908 E. McDowell, Phoenix, Arizona 85006

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POLYPHEMUS - B3 Productions - July 13-21, 2018

Ethan doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with him, but apparently others do. He’s been checked into a mental healing facility (the kind of place easily entered, but not so easily exited), complete with an enfeebled cowboy, a girl who is the living embodiment of the term “brutally honest”, and a verified psychopath in a James Dean jacket. Polyphemus gives us a tantalizing glance into the outcasts of society and what happens when people with no choices left are given the power to make one.

Tink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Crystal Inzunza
Jackie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caitlin Mayr 
Wes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Richard Jenkins
Ethan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Jamal Peters
Johnny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Gabriel Andrew Bourland                                                                Jaundice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   Michael Sean LeSueur

Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ilana Lydia
Writer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alex Tuchi
Assistant Director . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Charles Wesley Botz
Fight Choreographer . . . . . . . . . . . Devon Mahon
Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Franklin A. Cerne

Props/set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Ric Alpers
Costumes/makeup . . . . . . . . . . . .  Juliet Rachel Wilkins
Sound/lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Emma Walz
Board Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Austin Welles, Rosie Chavez

Where:  The SIC Sense Theatre,
1902-9 E. McDowell Rd., Phoenix, AZ, 85006
When:  July 13-21, Fridays and Saturdays @ 8 PM

For tickets, please visit www.thesicsense.com

FESTIVAL OF SHORTS - B3 Productions - May 11-19, 2018

B3’s Festival of Shorts is comprised of eight plays from an international pool of writers.

Beatrix in the Shadows by D. Lee Miller
directed by Juliet Rachel Wilkins
featuring:
Debra Lyman as Beatrix Potter
Michael Sean LeSueur as Peter Rabbit

Fish From Heaven by Rosemary Frisino Toohey
directed by Bertha Alicia Cortes
featuring:
Brandon Sanchez as Esteban
Bethany Baca as Lucia

Raghead by Tom Coash
directed by Jessica Holt
featuring:
Dallin Holt as Nick
Melody Chrispen as Sarah

The Brotherhood by Renee’ Flemings
directed by RC Contreras
featuring:
Elijah Davis
Bray Lawrence

The Connection by Robin Doupe
directed by Jessica Holt 
featuring:
Bridget Russell as Ava
Julia Murphy as Brittany
Avery Volk as Skye
Debra Lyman as Marta
Dallin Holt as George

The Trouble with Cashews by David MacGregor
directed by Bertha Alicia Cortes
featuring:
Brenda Batres as Tara
Clayton Caufman as Pete

These, Our Mindless Hearts by Dale Light
directed by RC Contreras
featuring:
Christian Boden
Olivia Brown

What Everyone Wants by John Perovich
directed by Juliet Rachel Wilkins
featuring:
Marina Sharpe as Randi
Michael Thompson as Matty
Kymbrlee Hsu as Michelle
James Baker as Steven

Tickets for B3’s Festival of Shorts are $15 and can be purchased at www.thesicsense.com. 

Use code 5OFFPRESALE to save $5 off your ticket price before May 10th. 

Performances are at The SIC Sense Theatre, 1902-9 E McDowell, Phoenix, AZ 85006.  Performances are May 11th, 12th, 18th, and 19th at 8PM

A WOMAN ON STAGE - B3 Productions - March 16 - March 24, 2018

by Ilana Lydia

Rachel, a grad student in an archaic field of study, finds that her annoying roommates are making less and less sense, when a message comes to her through a Man on TV that she isn’t real, but a fictional character. Rachel resists grasping the truth, relying on soliloquies and round-robin scene changing to explore her theatrical state.

CAST
Becky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  RC Contreras
Man on TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brady Anderson
Rachel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Cheyanne Ballou
Stella . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  Juliet Rachel Wilkins

On Sunday, March 16th, B3 offers a special "pay what you can" matinee - all seats are available at the door, for whatever donation audience members can contribute. That performance is followed by a discussion facilitated by Now and Then Creative Company Artistic Director, John Perovich.

Seats for all other performances are available for a special online price of only $12, with all tickets at the door for $15.

Performances at SIC Sense, located at 1902-9 E. McDowell Rd. Phoenix, Arizona 85006.

Showtimes
Fri Mar 16, 2018 | 8:00PM
Sat Mar 17, 2018 | 8:00PM
Sun Mar 18, 2018 | 2:00PM
Fri Mar 23, 2018 | 8:00PM
Sat Mar 24, 2018 | 8:00PM

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B3 Productions' 2018 line up!

B3 Productions recently announced its 2018 line-up.

Full of fresh new works and unusual voices, B3 will be celebrating playwrights -- local to international, and contemporary works -- unpublished to infamous.


First up, in March, is A Woman on Stage, written by Ilana Lydia. A madcap comedy, this work calls for the audience to be shepherded around to different small playing areas in the building, in addition to a traditional audience/performer set up. It is strongly feminist and advocates for live theater, with the villain being a Man on TV. According to the playwright, "A Woman on Stage uses radical and unprecedented levels of metatheater to make the audience question the nature of scripted-ness, and reality in general."

In May, B3 will be starting the annual tradition of A Night of Shorts. Playwrights around the world competed for an entry to this evening, which will be judged by the audience every night and a small cash prize will be given to the winning author. Two factors were judged in picking these gems: the writing (of course), and its experimental nature, or the level of provocativeness the work displays.

July brings us local favorite actor and playwright Alex Tuchi’s work, Polyphemus. Truth is a power: no one understands that more than the five teenage residents of the mental healing facility that Polyphemus surrounds. Polyphemus is a slow burn about coping with the reality that, in the end, no one knows what normal really is; it tortuously blossoms into moments of true, unbridled honesty that we all give up too soon.

August heats things up with Mac Wellman’s Sincerity Forever. Two profane aliens -- literally, furballs -- have landed in the Southern town of Hillsbottom. Is God watching? Does he care? Is God a He? Mac Wellman addresses these and other questions in this Obie Award-winning play that skewers the social malignancy of ignorance, sexism, and racism.

November ushers out the year with Sarah Ruhl’s The Vibrator Play (or In the Next Room). A  play about sexuality, being intimate, and the balance of power between the sexes, The Vibrator Play is set in the 1880s, when all eyes were on the electric light bulb and its promise for the future that ushered in a new instrument to treat female hysteria. Both comic and wistful, Ruhl is in her element with this off-kilter tale.

Visit B3’s website for details and more information. 

B3 Productions is a resident company at The SIC Sense Theatre, 1902-9 E. McDowell in Phoenix.