About this Event
Join us for a reading of a new hauntingly prescient & powerful play in progress called FRAGMENTS written & performed by award-winning Playwright, Performer, & Professor Jim Petosa on 12/6/26, 4-6pm @ BECKET ARTS CENTER? The program should last about 90 minutes with a discussion to follow for those who are interested in talking. Donations for the Becket Arts Center & Q-MoB's Wellness Program are gladly appreciated.
The play is about moments of life for one couple navigating their mystical, transformative, and brutal journey through the AIDS pandemic.
IMPORTANT: To reserve tickets you must register with the Becket Arts Center using this ticketing link
AND we request you also register here on Eventbrite so Q-MoB can save you a seat with out group (and so you can also make a donation to support Q-MoB's on-gong Wellness Program, which works to prevent & support men living with chronic illness/pain.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT/PERFORMER: Jim Petosa is Professor Emeritus with Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. He served as a professor and as director of the BU School of Theatre from 2002 – 2018. He also served as artistic director of the Boston region’s New Repertory Theatre from 2012 – 2018. Petosa has directed Tom Stoppard and André Previn’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at NYC’s Town Hall and the operas Carmen (Peter Brook adaptation) and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat among others. PTP/NYC credits include Monster, Spatter Pattern, A Question of Mercy, Therese Raquin, Somewhere in the Pacific, Marisol, Dog Plays, Statements After an Arrest, Good, Brecht on Brecht, among others. He also served as Artistic Director for the Olney Theatre Center, where directing credits include Democracy, Racing Demon, Brooklyn Boy, Copenhagen, The Laramie Project, Art, The Miracle Worker, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (won a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Musical Production), Theatre J’s Collected Stories (received a Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Direction), and Look! We Have Come Through! (Charles MacArthur New Play nomination, Co-created with Carole Graham Lehan). A member of the Actor’s Equity Association and the Society of Directors and Choreographers, and the Becket Arts Center Board, he teaches acting and directs for the Boston University Opera Institute.
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HOW TO REACH US THE DAY OF THE EVENT: I f on the day of the event you need to cancel or be late or have trouble finding the group, please call/text the Bart 503-734-6508
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Becket Arts Center, 7 Brooker Hill Road, Becket, United States
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