Real (Fake) Fighting

It's a brawl on the boards at the Arizona Theatre Company’s Stage Combat classes

It’s a free-for-all at the Herberger Theatre as the Arizona Theatre Company presents Stage Combat classes. Hosted this Thursday as part of the ATC’s Actor’s Lab workshops, this seminar helps aspiring actors safely use stage combat to help tell the story of the play. In other words, get ready to rumble as instructor, Sean William Dupont demonstrates how to realistically use fists, slaps, falls, knees, chokes, hair pulls, elbows, bites and more, effectively within a scene. Open to any high school and college-aged students, the classes are $35.

Looking for a little less brawling and a little more laughing? Check out the ATC’s presentation of [title of show]. That’s not a typo; it’s the name of a tongue-in-cheek production about two hyper-talented young songwriters in New York trying to write a new musical about two hyper-talented young songwriters in New York trying to write a new musical! Running through this Sunday, stick around after the Thursday show to meet the creators and original stars themselves, Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell, as well as the show’s original keyboardist and musical arranger, Larry Pressgrove.

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