Antonio Amadeo Brings Magic to Florida at Naked Stage with A Man Puts On A Play
by RICHARD CAMERON
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Christine Dolen on The Naked Stage's 24 Hour Theatre Project 2012
24-Hour Theatre Delivers Magic at Warp Speed
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| Photo by George Schiavone |
The one-night-only performance of the eight little plays created for Naked Stage's 24 Hour Theatre Project 2012 has come and gone. Hopefully, the sleep deprived playwrights are starting to feel human again today...
Bill Hirschman on The Naked Stage's 24 Hour Theatre Project 2012
Long Night's Journey Into Day: The 24 Hour Theatre Project
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| Photo by Bill Hirschman |
It's likely a goodly number of actors, directors and certainly some playwrights slept in late this morning. They earned it. Many spent 7 p.m. Sunday to 10 p.m. Monday being creative at gunpoint.
Friday, November 9, 2012
Join us for the Madness!
The Naked Stage's 24 Hour Theatre Project is HERE!!!
Get you tickets now for the event that brings together the greatest talents of the South Florida Theatre community. ONE NIGHT ONLY! Monday, November 12th at 8pm at Gablestage. Tickets are $35 for single seats and $50 for VIP seating (includes an exclusive 24 Hour Theatre Project Poster signed by the participants).
For tix, click on the ticket icon to the right, or call 866-811-4111.
Review #4: A Man Puts On A Play
The Naked Stage's A Man Puts On A Play is Antonio Amadeo's Audacious And Ambitious Entry
By BILL HIRSCHMAN Florida Theater On Stage
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Antonio Amadeo and his crew build a set before a bemused crowd in Naked Stage’s A Man Writes A Play / Photo by Bachi Frost
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When you first come into the theatre to see A Man Puts On A Play, you might wonder if you came a week too early...
Thursday, November 8, 2012
VOTE for the Naked Stage!!!
Click on the link before and vote for the Naked Stage's The Turn of the Screw in the various categories.
VOTE for The Naked Stage!!!
Best Actress in a Play - Katherine Amadeo
Best Actor in a Play - Matthew William Chizever
Best Director - Margaret M. Ledford
Best Set Design - Antonio Amadeo
Best Lighting Design - Margaret M. Ledford
Best Production of a Play - Turn of the Screw
Best Professional Theatre Company - The Naked Stage
A lot of great artists nominated, so good luck to everyone!
Best Actress in a Play - Katherine Amadeo
Best Actor in a Play - Matthew William Chizever
Best Director - Margaret M. Ledford
Best Set Design - Antonio Amadeo
Best Lighting Design - Margaret M. Ledford
Best Production of a Play - Turn of the Screw
Best Professional Theatre Company - The Naked Stage
A lot of great artists nominated, so good luck to everyone!
Monday, November 5, 2012
Review #3: A Man Puts On A Play
Naked Stage Debuts A Play About Putting On A Play
Antonio Amadeo does quintuple duty ina World Premiere about the tension between family and art.
By CHRISTINE DOLEN / The Miami Herald
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| Kathleen Robiou, Ricardo Redd, Andy Quiroga, Antonio Amadeo, Shawn Burgess, Kaitlin Sarnacki |
With the exception of its popular annual 24-Hour Theatre Project (Which will happen again at 8 pm Nov. 12 at Gablestage), The Naked Stage produces shows sporadically, whenever time, funding and inspiration coalesce for cofounders Katherine and Antonio Amadeo...
Review #2: A Man Puts On A Play
A Man Puts On A Play
And Does It All From A to Z In a World Premiere
By ROGER MARTIN / MiamiArtZine.com
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| Antonio Amadeo, Kathleen Robiou, Andy Quiroga (Photo: Roger Martin) |
And I do mean All. Antonio Amadeo wrote a play. Then he designed it. Then he produced it.Then he directed it.And, of course, he acted in it. And then he presented it on stage at the Pelican Theatre. All this with great wit, imagination and energy.
Review # 1: A Man Puts On A Play
Superstar, Antonio Amadeo, Does It All - Produces, Writes, Acts, Directs, Builds A Set - At Naked Stage
And, Makes It Look Easy
By RON LEVITT Florida Media News / ENV Magazine
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| Kaitlin Sarnacki, Ricardo Redd, Jake Tompkins, Shawn Burgess, Kathleen Robiou |
MIAMI SHORES, FL - South Florida super-star Antonio Amadeo actually makes it all seem so simple!
That is because:
1. He - with his large student crew - actually build a set before your eyes
2. He is brilliantly honest in the truism which most "theatre folk" already know, it is difficult to prioritize your on stage life against your personal family existence.
3. He actually produces, writes, acts and directs the entire show - A Man Puts On A Play - his latest foray into multifaceting at his Naked Stage theatre
4. He then writes a short play which, by everyone's estimation, could be a pacesetter in best new work, if the last 20 minutes of this opus could stand alone in a short play contest.
That may seem a lot to accomplish in a couple of hours - but Amadeo proves anew he is at the top of his game as an actor, playwright and scenic designer. Furthermore, he is gutsier than most in the crazy business of theatre, in producing such an avant-garde work as he has done at the Pelican Theatre at Barry University. If I were a little freer with certain words, I might say this work smacks of genius.
A Man Puts On A Play follows Amadeo and his company as they frantically race against the clock to put up a show before the crowds arrive on Opening Night. Just when you think the building of the set (with background music) is over, the audience is asked to take a 10-minute break before they actually see a brilliant one-act, short play starring Amadeo, Andy Quiroga and new comer Kathleen Robiou. (working, of course, on the set that had been built by the three primary actors plus Shawn Burgess, Stephanie Meskauskas, Ricardo Redd, Victor Rodriguez, Kaitlin Sarnacki and Jake Tompkins.)
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Naked Stage Artistic Director Honored With Silver Palm Award
Congratulations!!!
The 2012 Silver Palm Awards have been announced and the Naked Stage has much to celebrate. The recent production of The Turn Of The Screw had earned two awards. One for Artistic Director Katherine Amadeo for her stunning performance, and one for Director Margaret M. Ledford for her work in Turn as well as After the Revolution at Caldwell Theatre and The Unseen at The Promethean Theatre. The Naked Stage would like to send a bheart felt congratulations to all of the 2012 recipients.
To see a full list of recipients as reported by Christine Dolen of the Miami Herald, click on the image above.
John Thomason On The Naked Stage's Busy November
The Hectic Lives of Antonio and Katie Amadeo
by John Thomason/Miami New Times
As an actor on the South Florida theater scene, Antonio Amadeo has played a wisecracking Afghan-American cabdriver, a revolutionary in late-'60s Czechoslovakia, a captured writer in a totalitarian police state, and a barkeep caught in a web of 9/11 conspiracy theories — to say nothing of his award-nominated performance as the Elephant Man.
To read John Thomason's full article in Miami New Times, please click on the image above.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Naked in November!
The Naked Stage
has two amazing events planned for November that you do NOT want to miss.
First: The World Premiere production of A
Man Puts On A Play. November 2nd - 18th. Naked Stage Executive Artistic Producer Antonio Amadeo has written, produced,
directed and designed a play that gives the audience a fly-on-the-wall
perspective of the struggles an artist faces before the curtain goes up. Set in an alternate
reality, A Man Puts On A Play follows Antonio and his company as they race against
the clock to put up a show before the crowds arrive. With Antonio Amadeo, Andy Quiroga,
Kathleen Robiou, Shawn Burgess, Stephanie Meskauskas, Ricardo
Redd, Victor Rodriguez, Kaitlin Sarnacki & Jake Tompkins. Costumes are by Leslye Menshouse. Stage Manager is Kaitlin Sarnacki.
Second: The Naked Stage's Theatre Project 2012! Fundraiser at Gablestage. Monday, November 12th at 8 p.m.
How does it work? At 7 p.m., on Sunday,
November 11th, 2012, 8 playwrights will gather at Gablestage -- at the historic
Biltmore Hotel -- and select a theme from which they must each write a short
play to be staged, rehearsed and performed the next day -- just 24 hours later!
At sunrise on Monday, November 12th, their randomly distributed actors,
directors and stage managers arrive and spend the entire day bringing the
writers’ work to life. A process that usually takes weeks! That night, at 8
p.m., an audience will gather to see . . . well, we have no idea what they're
going to see, actually! It’s like the entire creative theatrical process on
SPEED! This one-night event is coordinated by Naked Stage Artistic Director,
Katherine Amadeo, and
features many of South Florida’s TOP actors, directors & playwrights, such
as: Alex Alvarez, Andie Arthur, Jim
Ballard, Nan Barnett, Tracey Barrow-Schoenblatt, Sally Bondi, Amy Miller
Brennan, Marj O'neill-Butler, Clay Cartland, Anne Chamberlain, Marckenson
Charles, Oscar Cheda, Matthew William Chizever, Clive Cholerton, Andrea Conte,
Dave Corey, Christopher Demos-Brown, Christopher De Paola, Todd Allen Durkin,
Lela Elam, Tony Finstrom, Patti Gardner, Arielle Hoffman, Avi Hoffman, Dan Kelley,
Christopher A. Kent, Julie Kleiner, Mcley Lafrance, Michael Leeds, Dan Leonard,
Amy London, Margery Lowe, John Manzelli, Amy McKenna, Hunter McConnell, Michael
McKeever, Stuart Meltzer, Hugh Murphy, Andy Rogow, Juan C. Sanchez, Deborah L. Sherman,
Adam Simpson, Barbara Sloan, Karen Stephens, Shane Tanner and more!
(Participant list subject to change.) The Naked Stage would like to extend a
very heartfelt “Thank you!” to Joe Adler.
The Naked Stage’s production of A Man
Puts On A Play runs November 2nd – November 18th,
2012 (Thursday – Saturday @ 8pm, Sunday @ 2pm). There will be a brief
talk-back session with the director and actors following every Sunday matinee
performance. The Naked Stage performs at the Pelican Theatre located on the campus of Barry University 11300 NE 2nd Avenue Miami Shores
The Naked Stage's 24
Hour Theatre Project 2012 Fundraiser at Gablestage, 1200 Anastasia Avenue in Coral Gables. Seatin is very limited. VIP tickets
are $50 (include
reserved seating and a limited edition commemorative poster.). General Admission are $35. To purchase tickets by phone, call 1(866) 811-4111,
or just click the ticket icon to the
right of this blog.
Doors open at 7:30 pm. This event fills up fast, so get your tickets quick!Monday, October 8, 2012
Well, there's no turning back now!
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| Andy Quiroga & Kathleen Robiou study the script. |
A week and a half into the rehearsal process for my new play, I'm beginnig to get excited about its potential. Which is good, considering how frightened I am to let anybody see it. This is the first play I have ever written. I've always wanted to do this, but stopped myself from trying 'cause I was terrified of failing at it. But, as my wife Katie (The Naked Stage's Artistic Director), and I were contemplating this Fall slot we had reserved at the Pelican Theatre, I decided it was a perfect opportunity to finally face my fears. Being the ambitious artist that I am, however, I thought the show should be more of a fulfilling experience for the audience, and the artists involved, than just "a new play by an amateur playwright." And I think I've come up with something pretty cool. I just hope the process doesn't kill me before it gets to Opening Night. It probablty will kill me. I'm producing, directing, writing, designing and acting, and THAT... is really stupid. (Perhaps I should have called the play Hubris: The Embarissing, Self-Imposed Collapse of an Artistic Idiot.)
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| Jake Tompkins |
Thankfully, I have assembled an amazing team of artists. Andy Quiroga, Kathleen Robiou, Victor Rodriguez, Stephanie Meskauskas, Ricardo Redd, Shawn Burgess, Jake Tompkins and Kaitlin Sarnacki. So far, this has been one of the most positive and creatively satisfying experiences of my career, and I am happy to be sharing it with all these people. The script has gone through 9 revisions already. It was going down a terrible path until Katie read it and set me straight. She is one of the most intelligent artists I know and I am truly blessed to have her at my side. John Manzelli (The third co-founder of the Naked Stage, along with Katie and myself) was also invaluable to the trimming process. I love collaborating with him. I believe the script is in a pretty good place.
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| Shawn Burgess & Kaitlin Sarnacki |
I'm excited to see what happens this week. The set is being built and rehearsals will switch, day to day, between two different casts. There is an experimental element to what we are doing, so I'm sorta "wingin' it" for some of this. It should make for some amazing art. I think. But, what do I know? Nothin'.
A Man Puts On A Play opens on November 2nd and runs through the 18th. We play Thursdays through Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm with a brief talk-back session with the actors and me after each Sunday matinee performance. Tickets are $25 for a single seat, $18 for a senior (60+), and $12 for a student (student ID at door). If you'd like to come see the World Premiere of my first effort as a playwright, click the ticket icon to the right of this blog and by your tix TODAY!!!
The theatre will only have 36 seats for this production, so get yours now!!!
Due to the small size of the space and the amount of noise made by the lobby door, there will be NO LATE ADMITTANCE! So get there on time, or you'll miss out.
The Naked Stage performs at the Pelican Theatre on the campus of Barry University.
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| Ricardo Redd & Stephanie Meskauskas |
11300 NE 2nd Ave
Miami Shores, Fl 33161.
For more information on all things Naked Stage, call Antonio Amadeo at our administrative office at 954-261-1785.
For tickets, click on the ticket icon to the right or call 1-866-81-4111.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Monday, October 1, 2012
Antonio Amadeo Writes His First Play!!!
The Naked Stage is proud to present:
A World Premiere Play by Antonio Amadeo
NOVEMBER 2 - NOVEMBER 18
"A man struggles to maintain the balance
between his art and a regular family life."
Written, Produced and Directed by Antonio Amadeo.
Starring Antonio Amadeo, Andy Quiroga, Kat Robiou, Katherine Amadeo, Sean Burgess, Stephanie Meskauskas, Ricardo Redd, Victor Rodriguez, Kaitlin Sarnacki, James Tompkins.
Set, lights and sound by Antonio Amadeo. Costumes by Leslie Menshouse.
Stage Manager: Kaitlin Sarnacki.
There will be a brief talk back after each Sunday Matinee performance.
There will be a brief talk back after each Sunday Matinee performance.
To buy tickets, click on the image above
or the ticket icon to the right.
Or to contact us by phone, call:
amin: (954) 261-1785 tix: (866) 811-4111
or the ticket icon to the right.
Or to contact us by phone, call:
amin: (954) 261-1785 tix: (866) 811-4111
NO LATE ADMITTANCE!!!
THE NAKED STAGE at the Pelican
Theatre
11300 NE 2nd Ave.
Miami Shores, FL 33161
Directions:
I-95 to NW 103rd Street (Exit 8b). Go East. Turn
Left (North) onto N. Miami Avenue. Turn Right (East) onto NE 115th Street. Turn
Right (South) into the parking lot.
The Pelican Theatre is located on the campus of
Barry University.
Friday, September 7, 2012
Drama Queen:
Naked Stage's 24-Hour Theatre Project returns
The Naked Stage recently wrapped up an impressive, much-lauded production of the spooky Turn of the Screw at Barry University's Pelican Theatre. Now comes word that artistic director Katherine Amadeo and her hubby-colleague, Antonio Amadeo, have a date and a venue for the sixth edition of their way-popular 24-Hour Theatre Project...
Click on the image above to see Christine Dolen's complete blog in the Miami Herald.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Review #7: The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw
BY JOHN LARIVIERE/TalkinBroadway.com (Southern Florida)
Naked Stage presents the play The Turn of the Screw, adapted by Jeffrey
Hatcher from the Henry James novella of the same name. The original Henry James
ghost tale published in 1898 has been adapted into an opera (Benjamin Britten)
and at least three films (1992, 1999 and 2009), as well as this play adaptation
by Hatcher in 1997...
Click on the picture above to read John Lariviere's full review
Friday, August 10, 2012
Review #6: The Turn of the Screw
Matthew Chizever and Katherine Amadeo give a haunting performance at Naked Stage
August 9, 2012 BY RICHARD CAMERON examinor.com
"Astounding fine art! Amadeo and Chizever give chilling performances, Naked Stage rises triumphantly!" Theatre Chat top pick.
South Florida - The Naked Stage current production of The Turn of the Screw by Jeffrey Hatcher is one of the strongest period pieces South Florida has seen on stage in a long time.
Click on the image above to read Richard Cameron's full review of THE TURN OF THE SCREW.
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Review #5: The Turn of the Screw
Scenery, Lighting Turn Pelican Black Box Into A Scary Mansion at Naked Stage
BY RON LEVITT Florida Media News / ENV Magazine
And, How about those actors; Katherine Amadeo and Matthew William Chizever!
MIAMI – One would think that after years of reviewing shows, it would be impossible for an acting group to actually chill this writer (In addition to a much improved new air conditioning system). WRONG!!
Somehow or other, set designer Antonio Amadeo and lighting designer/director Margaret Ledford and two fantastic actors make life so eerie and creepy, one actually forgets this is all happening in a theatre. Goosebumps are the order of the day!
The audience won’t need much of an imagination to feel the creepiness around them as it visits the Naked Stage at Barry University ‘s haunted mansion where Jeffrey Hatcher’stheatrical adaptation of HenryJames’ ghost story “The Turn of the Screw” takes place. Amadeo – with the major assist from his wife/ lovely actress Katherine Amadeo and the versatile leading man, Matthew William Chizever -- have transformed the black box theatre into the scariest fun house since Halloween was inaugurated.
The Naked Stage promotional material literally sets the stage….. “a young governess journeys to a lonely manor house to care for two recently orphaned children”: She learns that there was another governess beforehand who drowned herself when she became pregnant by a sadistic valet, who is also now deceased. Is Ihis house haunted by their apparitions or are they just make-believe ghosts of the children’s imagination?
Two actors create an intensely creepy world that lures the audience into its chilling tale with great use of theatrical magic. It is a superb ghost story and a vivid entertaining experience..
Making sense of the stylized language of 19th century England alone is a daunting task for the acting duet , but –along with the spread of fear --the two actors are perfectly in synch….. never leaving the stage or playing multiple characters. One must give credit to both actors plus the dialect coach Kathryn Johnston. In any case, the audience is left with a massive lump of scary moments. Despite the inguistic challenge, The Naked Stage has found a way to make this piece accessible to its made-in-Miami audience. Katherine Amadeo and Chizever tell this story with a reality twist which seems totally plausible for1870. It transcends what one expects in theatre. Katherine; Amadeo evokes a ghost-like presence as she turns mad. Chizever, one of the area’s most admirable actors , switches hauntingly between three roles – the sinister bachelor, a compassionate caretaker and a 10 year-old boy.
To support these two magical performances, Director. Ledford has shaped this work beautifully. Her lighting design works hand in hand with Antonio Amadeo’s amazing grey-toned set and the fine-tuned scare-the-hell-out-of-them actors. Whether it is the interior of the house of Bly, the garden or a nearby river, this company has a brilliant way of making the audience see ghosts and images that are only in someone’s mind or befitting this valuable script. !
The Pelican Theatre is located on the campus of Barry University in Miami Shores. “The Turn of the Screw” runs through August 12th. For tickets, call 866-811-4111 or visit www.nakedstage.org.
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Monday, July 30, 2012
Q&A with Naked Stage Co-Founder Antonio Amadeo
Talkin’ in the Green Room With: Antonio Amadeo
BY BILL HIRSCHMAN
Welcome to a regular, if intermittent feature: Irreverent, lighthearted question & answer sessions with some of South Florida’s best known professionals. Unlikely but perhaps, secretly, Antonio Amadeo is actually a nasty rotten misanthrope, but no one will ever believe it. Amadeo is widely-regarded as one of the nicest guys and quietly talented members in the local theater community, eliciting comparisons to Tom Hanks and a teddy bear (although Amadeo himself reveals below that he’s Batman.) Over the decades he has built an enviable resume of acting roles, including the tortured souls in Mosaic Theatre’s The Elephant Man, GableStage’s The Pillowman and Promethean Theatre’s The Unseen...
Click on the image above to read the full article at Florida Theater On Stage.
Review #3: The Turn of the Screw
Naked Stage’s Turn of the Screw Is Superbly-Crafted Ghost Story
BY BILL HIRSCHMAN Florida Theater On Stage
Matthew William Chizever menaces Katherine Amadeo in Naked Stage's The Turn of the Screw
To read Bill Hirschman's full review of THE TURN OF THE SCREW, click on the image above.
Review # 2: The Turn of the Screw
The Naked Stage's THE TURN OF THE SCREW Haunts The Pelican Theatre
BY MICHELLE PETRUCCI BroadwayWorld.com
Click on the image to read the full article from BroadwayWorld.com.
Review # 1: The Turn of the Screw
Naked Stage conjures a seductive fright night
BY CHRISTINE DOLEN The Miami Herald
PHOTO BY DANIEL BOCK
Katherine Amadeo and Matthew William Chizever go gothic in ‘Turn of the Screw.’
Click on the image above to read Christine Dolen's full review of THE TURN OF THE SCREW.
Saturday, July 21, 2012
I see theatre people!
THE TURN OF THE SCREW
Opening July 27
(preview performance on Thursday, July 26)
starring KATHERINE AMADEO & MATTHEW WILLIAM CHIZEVER
directed by MARGARET M. LEDFORD
3 weeks only!!!
Thursday, July 19, 2012
NEW DATES for THE TURN OF THE SCREW!!!
The new dates for The Naked Stage's production run of THE TURN OF THE SCREW have been set!
JULY 27 - AUGUST 12
THE TURN OF THE SCREW stars Katherine Amadeo and Matthew William Chizever and is directed by Margaret M. Ledford.
For tix & info: http://www.nakedstage.org/ or call for tix at 1-866-811-4111
For tix & info: http://www.nakedstage.org/ or call for tix at 1-866-811-4111
Thursday, July 5, 2012
THE TURN OF THE SCREW
NEW DATES!!! JULY 27 - AUGUST 12
The Naked Stage is proud to present THE TURN OF THE SCREW
The Naked Stage is proud to present THE TURN OF THE SCREW
adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the story by Henry James
JULY 27 - AUGUST 12
ONLY 3 WEEKS!!!
starring Naked Stage Artistic Director Katherine Amadeo & Matthew William Chizever
directed by Margaret M. Ledford
Click on the image above for more info or, to buy tickets, click on the ticket icon to the right.
or to copntact us by phone, call:
amin: (954) 261-1785 tix: (866) 811-4111
or to copntact us by phone, call:
amin: (954) 261-1785 tix: (866) 811-4111
THE NAKED STAGE at the Pelican Theatre
11300 NE 2nd Ave.
Miami Shores, FL 33161
I-95 to NW 103rd Street (Exit 8b). Go East. Turn Left (North) onto N. Miami Avenue. Turn Right (East) onto NE 115th Street. Turn Right (South) into the parking lot.
The Pelican Theatre is located on the campus of Barry University.
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