Tommy Sadoski is headed to Broadway. The 1996 A&M Consolidated High School graduate and his fellow castmates in Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty (yep, no capital letters in the title) met with the producers of August: Osage County, who announced that they would bring reasons to Broadway in February. (August: Osage County recently won the Best Play Tony Award.)
Director Terry Kinney will work with the same cast that has been performing off-Broadway in the Lucille Lortel Theatre since June 2. The engagement ends Saturday.
According to Playbill, the LaBute play will begin Broadway rehearsals Jan. 26 and have its first preview Feb. 13.
LaBute is best known as the screenwriter for In the Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors, Nurse Betty and Wicker Man. Though he has had several plays produced off-Broadway, reasons will mark his Broadway debut.
Sadoski was quite active on the Bryan-College Station theater scene. He starred in the Theatre Company production of Hamlet and the Consol Tiger Theatre production of The Man Who Came to Dinner.
In 1996, Sadoski was accepted into the prestigious Circle in the Square acting school in New York and graduated in 1998. His credits include Moonlight and Magnolias in Atlanta, The Santaland Diaries in Connecticut and the movie Loser (with Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari). He was also on a couple of episodes of Law and Order.
On July 12, he will be in Los Angeles for the world premiere of The New Twenty, an independent film about five best friends who find their relationships changing.
Bolivia exhibit
Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History is exhibiting "Two Views of Indigenous Bolivia," featuring photos by Johannes Lein and Helen Cottrell, through Sept. 1.
Lein's pictures are being exhibited for the first time in the U.S., and Cottell's are being shown for the first time ever. Photos in the exhibit, curated by Monica Barnes, were shot from the 1940s to 1960s, and document Bolivian landscapes, monuments and indigenous life. For details, go to www.adoramapix.com/ monique-les-granges.
Tickets for this special exhibit and to the museum's permanent galleries are $5 for adults; $4 for children ages 4 to 17, students and senior citizens; and free to children 3 and younger.
The museum is in the Brazos Center, 3232 Briarcrest Drive in Bryan. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays.
Round Top concerts
The popular July 4 concert is one of six that will be presented by the Festival-Institute at Round Top this week.
• The annual patriotic concert is at 3 p.m. today with conductor Lawrence Isaacson leading the Texas Festival Orchestra in works by Woody Guthrie, George Gershwin and Leroy Anderson. Guest saxophonist Timothy McAllister will be the soloist for the world premiere of Roshanne Etezady's Golden Spike for Saxophone and Orchestra. Tickets are $20 for students and $30 for nonstudents.
• The Young Artists will perform a free chamber music concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
• Conductor Kenneth Woods directs the Texas Festival Chamber Orchestra in "A Salute to American Music" at 8 p.m. Friday. Tickets are $10 for students and $20 for nonstudents.
• Young Artists are featured in "Pianos Galore!" at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $10 for students and $20 for nonstudents.
• Festival faculty will join the Young Artists in a chamber music concert at 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $10 for students and $20 for nonstudents.
• Conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni leads the orchestra in works by Sibelius at 8 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $15 for students and $25 for nonstudents.
Tickets can be purchased at www.festivalhill.org or by calling 979-249-3129. Round Top is on F.M. 237 between Brenham and La Grange.
More July 4 fun
• The George Bush Presidential Library and Museum will host the College Station Lions Club's 48th annual Fourth of July Celebration, "I Love America."
The museum will open at 9:30 a.m. and extend its hours until 8:30 p.m. Admission is free all day Friday. Live entertainment and kids games will begin at 5:30 p.m. The evening will end with fireworks and a concert by the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra.
• Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historical Site will be open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday. Food vendors and arts and crafts booths will be open during the day. Children's games with free Blue Bell ice cream will begin at 6:30 p.m. The Brazos Valley Chorale will perform patriotic pieces at 8 p.m. A fireworks display sponsored by H-E-B is set for 9:15 p.m. Admission is free.
• The 12th annual Elizabeth Lutheran Church Community Wide July 3 Celebration will be from 6 to 11 p.m. Thursday on Texas 21 east of Caldwell. Live music and children's games precede the fireworks display. Admission is free.
• Chappell Hill will hold the third annual Summer Cowboy Event beginning at 10 a.m. Friday with a parade. There will be food, pony rides and more. An exhibit honoring V.T. "Cowboy" Williams will run through July 27 at the Chappell Hill Historical Museum. Admission is free.
Closing show
The last performance of Brazos Valley TROUPE's "MusicAmericana" will be at 3 p.m. today at 3705 E. 29th St. in Bryan's Town & Country Center. Tickets are $8 for adults, $7 for senior citizens and $6 for TROUPE members. For reservations, call 846-4903.
More 'Plaid'
Performances of Forever Plaid at Brenham's Unity Theatre are at 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. Sunday through July 13. Tickets are $22 at www.unitybrenham.org.
The theater is at 300 Church St. in Brenham.
Contra dance
The monthly contra dance will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 305 Wellborn Road in College Station. Live music will be provided by Jalapeño Honey.
Admission is $3 for students and $5 for adults, with first-timers free. No experience and no partner necessary.
Happy trails
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