Flat Earth Theatre is holding open auditions for a production of “Rossum’s Universal Robots,” the stage play that premiered in 1921 and introduced the word “robot” to our language. Auditions will be held Thursday, November 20th from 7-9pm and Saturday, November 22nd from 2-4pm at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA. For details visit http://community.livejournal.com/b0st0n/6344163.html or http://www.flatearththeatre.com/.
The play will run January 23rd - 31st, 2009 at the Arsenal Center for the Arts.
Arisia 2009 is still coming up in January, but the convention’s guest list for January 2010 has just been announced:
Artist Guest of Honor - Sarah Clemens
Fan Guests of Honor - Kevin Roche and Andy Trembley
Musical Guest of Honor: SJ Tucker - Skinny White Chick
Writer / Editor Guest of Honor – Gardner Dozois
For more details on this announcement see http://community.livejournal.com/arisia/248704.html. For information on Arisia 2009, visit http://2009.arisia.org/.
If you’re a “Twilight” fan, you’ve got another chance to see some of the actors live, thanks to this weekend’s New England Fan Experience event:
The Twilight premiere will taking place at the Fenway Regal 13 on Friday evening November 21st. The stars will be arriving between 6-6:30pm. The screening which will be introduced by Twilight Stars Kellen Lutz (Emmett Cullen) and Edi Gathegi (Laurent) around 7pm in theatre number 13.
This event is taking place in conjunction with this weekend’s New England Fan Experience, but you do not have to have a ticket to NEFE to attend the movie, nor does a ticket to NEFE get you into the movie screening; they’re separate tickets. For more information about both events, and to enter a contest to possibly win tickets to the showing, visit http://www.nefe.us/experience/popcult.
[Tipped once again by espionage agent Loaded Gun.]
Want a chance to show off your inner geek?
The musical group Enuma Elish have composed a soundtrack to Fritz Lang’s classic film “Metropolis” and will be performing their music live (along with the film) at several venues:
- November 15 at 8:00pm at AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island
- November 20 at 8:00pm at The Regent Theatre in Arlington, Massachusetts
- November 21 at 12:00 midnight at The Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, Massachusetts (Edit: Coolidge link updated.)
To learn more about Enuma Elish and hear a sample of the group’s music, visit
http://www.myspace.com/enumaelishmusic.
Regarding the previously mentioned “Twilight” event being held at the Square One Mall, Bostonist reports that there will be some fairly strict security to avoid a repeat of the fiasco in San Francisco. You may have to line up overnight if you want to be one of the lucky 500 people who score an autograph; there will be a brief public Q&A session later in the evening for everyone else. See http://bostonist.com/2008/11/12/omg_its_edward_cullen_boston_area_p.php for details.
Fans of the “Twilight” series can see actors from the upcoming movie version live at various Hot Topic stores across the country. For a complete list of appearances and instructions on how to purchase autograph access, visit http://community.hottopic.com/hottopic/Events/110508_Twilight.asp. The nearest local appearance will be November 14 at 6:00pm at the Square One Mall, featuring Robert Pattinson who plays “Edward.”
Things could get interesting: Pattinson’s appearance in San Francisco had to be called off when 3000 crazed fans showed up and everything went horribly wrong.
[Tip via Loaded Gun]
Author Allegra Goodman will appear at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA on Tuesday, November 18 at 7:00pm to promote her book The Other Side of the Island, her first book for younger readers.
From “New York Times” bestselling author Allegra Goodman comes a post apocalyptic novel about love, loss, and the power of human choice.
Honor and her parents have been reassigned to live on Island 365 in the Tranquil Sea. Life is peaceful there–the color of the sky is regulated by Earth Mother, a corporation that controls New Weather, and it almost never rains. Everyone fits into their rightful and predictable place. . . .
Except Honor. She doesn’t fit in, but then she meets Helix, a boy with a big heart and a keen sense for the world around them. Slowly, Honor and Helix begin to uncover a terrible truth about life on the Island: Sooner or later, those who are unpredictable disappear . . . and they don’t ever come back.
For details visit http://www.portersquarebooks.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=storeevents&eventId=388420.
The Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, MA, has an ongoing film series called “Science On Screen” in which a movie that is (to some degree) based on science is paired with an introduction from a scientist in a related field. The next couple of events have science fiction ties:
- Monday, December 1 at 7:00pm: “Contact,” starring Jodi Foster and based on a book by Carl Sagan, with an introduction by astrophysicist Paul Horowitz who will discuss the SETI project (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence).
- Monday, January 19 2009 at 7:00pm: “Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey” is a documentary about the man who invented the theremin, the otherworldly musical instrument that became a staple of sci-fi movies. The movie is introduced by composer and MIT Professor of Music and Media Tod Machover.
For information on tickets and future showings in this series, visit http://www.coolidge.org/science.
Counter-Productions Theatre Company is adapting episodes of the old radio show “X Minus One” to be performed live on stage. According to the website:
“X Minus One” was a half-hour science fiction radio series broadcast from April 24, 1955 to January 9, 1958 in various timeslots on NBC. Initially a revival of NBC’s Dimension X (1950-51), X Minus One is widely considered among the finest science fiction dramas ever produced for radio. The first 15 episodes were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl and Theodore Sturgeon, along with a few original scripts. Episodes of the show that Counter-Productions Theatre Company will adapt to the stage include George Lefferts’ “The Parade”, Murray Leinster’s “A Logic Named Joe”, and J.T. MacIntosh’s “Hallucination Orbit”.
Performances start today, November 7th, and run through November 23rd; this takes place at The Piano Factory Theatre in Boston, MA. For detailed times and ticket information, visit http://www.counterproductionstheatre.com/?page_id=121.
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November 17, 2008 10:53 pm | 
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