Durant Casting - Weekly Audition News & Notices

Published: Mon, 04/15/19

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Parade
The tragic, true story of the trial and lynching of a man wrongly accused of murder is brought to theatrical life. Amid religious intolerance, political injustice and racial tension, the stirring Tony Award-winning Parade explores the endurance of love and hope against all the odds. Set in 1913, and based on the real-life trial of Leo …
Disney’s Beauty & the Beast
A tale as old as time… The classic story tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed into …
Suddenly Last Summer (and a collection of Tennessee Williams Monologues)
New Orleans, 1937. Catherine Holly is a young woman institutionalized for a severe emotional disturbance that came about when her cousin, Sebastian Venable, died under questionable circumstances while they were on holiday in Spain a few months earlier. The late Sebastian’s wealthy mother, Violet Venable, makes every effort to deny and suppress a potentially sordid …
Play-writing as slow science
An academic writes a research-based play, and learns that the play-writing process makes the underlying research better.