It's time to speak. It's time to listen.
These are the final three performances of what has been a remarkable year. We’re working with our great old friends, Veteran Artist Program, and our new friends at Johns Hopkins Science University and CenterStage. This is a great cast and a great performance. Please join us for this wonderful run. Tickets available HERE.
At 8pm on Veterans Day, November 11, 2014, “Telling: San Antonio,” filmed at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, will be broadcast by KLRN. We are honored to be a part of KLRN’s nationally recognized programming schedule. If you missed it at the Tobin, or want to see these fantastic performances on the small screen, tune in. It will be a powerful television event.
After a week of rehearsal hosted by Humanities Texas at the Byrne-Reed House, we opened “Telling: Austin, TX 2014,” on October 25th at the B Iden Payne Theater, thanks to the generous partnership of Texas Performing Arts. It was a fantastic show! An additional run of performances will take place at the Austin Playhouse, November 7-9, 7:30pm – reserve your free tix here. Other partners on this fantastic city-wide effort are Texas Commission for the Arts, Austin Community College Creative Writing Department, Writers League of Texas, Veteran Artist Program and the Bob Woodruff Foundation.
See you at the Austin Playhouse!
Original poster designed by Dreux Carpenter.
We’ll be coming to Minneapolis/St. Paul December 10-13, 2014 to interview prospective performers for “Telling: Minnesota 2015,” a partnership between The Telling Project, The Guthrie Theater and the Bob Woodruff Foundation. We are incredibly excited to return to Minnesota after our wonderful experience in October 2013. To sign up, email us here: info@thetellingproject.org. We can’t wait to work with you!!
We’re excited for our first project in the Sunshine State, working with the Florida Humanities Council. Tampa Bay area vets and military family members, we are coming in early December to interview prospective performers for a production we will be staging in late spring of 2015. If you’re interested, please check out the attached FLYER for info on the project and how to get involved. Thanks – and we’ll see you soon!
“Over the past few decades, thousands of veterans have returned from wars to live in San Antonio. They all have stories, but few of us get to hear them. Playwright Jonathan Wei has come up with an innovative way to help us. He turns veterans into actors, and their stories into theater. We talk to Wei and one of his veterans/actors to learn about “Telling: San Antonio” and its impact.”
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9/29/2014 – from The Rivard Report, written by Lily Casura
Catharsis is a word with ancient Greek roots, meaning a purging of strong emotions, often through art. In today’s post-draft, all-volunteer era, where fewer than 1% of Americans serve in the military, it’s interesting that the expressive arts have become an important arena for veterans to connect with civilians.
“The Telling Project,” opening Wednesday night at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, and featuring 10 San Antonio-area veterans and family members, from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan, is one such opportunity. When the play first opened in the nation’s capital, the Washington Post reviewed it saying, “If you see nothing else this weekend, see this.”
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We’re so excited to be presenting “Telling: San Antonio,” for so many reasons. It’s our first partnership with PBS – with KLRN, which has been an absolutely fantastic collaborator. We’ll be performing at the absolutely stunning Tobin Center for the Performing Arts as one of the first engagements in the brand new Carlos Alvarez Studio Theater. We’re working for the second time with one of our favorite people, Stacey Shade Ware (director, “Telling: Austin, TX”). And we have just a totally blow you away cast of performers. October 1-5 – can’t wait to see you there!!! Tickets here.
We love Baltimore! We had such a superb experience working with a fantastic group of vets and the then brand new Veteran Artist Program in 2011 when we did our first production there, and we are thrilled to be back, this time with VAP and the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. With an opening at JHU and a run later this year in the Head Theater at Center Stage, we’re very excited to see the next chapter of this important conversation unfold.
The Telling Project 