Ongoing special events include:
Rocky @ 24fps* / Staff Picks
Ever wonder which movies my wonderful managers have fallen head-over-heels for? Wonder no longer. Their top 5 favorites that played at the Rose in 2009:
Tana: Every Little Step, Milk, Harvard Beats Yale, Invictus, Bright Star
Amy: Waltz with Bashir, Milk, Harvard Beats Yale, Rachel Getting Married, Humpday
Renée: (500) Days of Summer, Rachel Getting Married, Slumdog Millionaire, Food, Inc., Doubt
Lori: Milk, Every Little Step, Goodbye Solo, Sugar, Moon
*24 fps (frames per second) is the speed at which 35mm film travels through a motion picture projector.
National Theatre of London
As the Rose begins its third season of High Definition Live and Encore simulcasts from the Metropolitan Opera this Saturday with Puccini's Tosca, I am very excited to announce that we are expanding our High Definition programming to include stage plays from the National Theatre of London.
Nation - Feb. 13 & 27, 11:00 a.m.
Written by Terry Pratchett
Adapted for the stage by Mark Ravenhill
 Oh I think you think I want to eat  you but -- no no no -- I am offering you afternoon tea, over there in one hour.
Set in a parallel world, not disssimilar to our own, in 1860, Nation tells the story of two teenagers from different sides of the globe, who are thrown together by a tsunami: Mau, returning to his South Pacific Island tribe after a rites of passage ritual, and Daphne, traveling from her aristocratic life in Victorian England to meet her father. Despite not speaking to same language and now totally alone in the world, they have to learn to survive and face the challenges of rebuilding Mau's nation. However, as more survivors gather, their world is threatened by invading Raiders. Together they come of age, overseen by a foul-mouthed parrot, as they discard old doctrine and forge a new Nation.
There's no demons, no gods. Just me. And the waves and the sun and birth and death. And there's no reason for anything. I'm sorry, that's just the way it seems to me.
Following his Dark Materials, Corsam Boy and War Horse, the National stages Mark Ravenhill's exhilarating adaptation of Terry Pratchett's latest witty and challenging adventure story.
The Habit of Art - May 2 & 8, 11:00 a.m.
Written by Alan Bennett
Directed by Nicholas Hytner
Cast: Richard Griffiths, Alex Jennings, Adrian Scarborough, Stephen Wight, Frances de la Tour
Running time: 2 hours, 25 min.
Excerpted from Charles Spencer's (London) Daily Telegraph review
Novemer 18, 2009
It seems entirely impossible, but Alan Bennet, that most cherished of national treasures, is now 75. There is absolutely no evidence, however, of flagging powers.
I thought it unlikely that he would be able to equal the success of The History Boys, but The Habit of Art is another absolute cracker, often wonderfully and sometimes filthily funny (this is not a show for the prudish), but also deeply and unexpectedly moving.
It is a play about theatre itself, about poetry and music, about the ethics of biogrpahy, and the terrors of age, but the older he gets, the more daring and ambitious Bennett seems to become. There is a confidence here, a sense of a writer pushing himself to the limits and not giving a damn about the consequences, that is hugely invigorating.
The central characters are W.H. Auden and Benjamin Britten. Auden, now a bossy old bore has returned to Oxford in 1972, just a year before his death.
 Britten, meanwhile, seeks out his former collaborator as he is anxious about his opera, "Death in Venice," a dangerously near-the-knuckle subject since it concerns an older man's infatuation with a young boy -- and Britten loved boys.
Yet what we see is a play about the two being rehearsed by actors. The scenes are constantly interrupted by prompts and arguments, by the actors agonizing about their roles and the stage manager soothing the hilariously insecure cast.
In lesser hands the framing device might have become more interesting than the story of Auden and Britten.
With extraordinary panache, however, Bennett and his director Nicholas Hytner, keep us equally interested in both the rehearsal process and the portrait of Auden and Britten.
I can think of a few plays that combine wild laughter, deep emotion and technical ingenuity with such bravura. The Habit of Art is a smash it if I ever saw one.
The Habit of Art contains content of an adult nature and is not suitable for under 15 years old.
"Bennett the maestro returns with a multi-layered masterpiece." -Independent
Tickets to NT Live are available at the Rose or online. General Admission $22, Seniors $20, Students/Children $16. www.ntlive.com
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The K of D, an urban legend
By Laura Schellhardt
Directed by Braden Abraham
Starring Renata Friedman
www.thekofd.com
Help support the production: Click here to donate.
 A summertime ghost story about a lonely girl with a lethal skill, this mesmerizing one-woman/sixteen-character show played a sold-out run last summer in Seattle, and will be opened in New York City as part of the New York International Fringe Festival.
Renata began working at the Rose as a ticket-tearer in 1992, and is now a professional actress who divides her time between New York and Seattle.
"I believe the fun Friedman offers here is legendary" - Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Remarkable...Calling Friedman's cracked-mirror performance virtuoso is hardly adequate" - Seattle Times
"Nothing short of magical...delightfully creepy...so good it's scary" -Seattle Weekly
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