Trump in Space, winner of the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival Encore! Producer’s Award, extends again, playing Friday nights at The Second City Hollywood Studio Theatre. The book and lyrics are by Gillian Bellinger and Landon Kirksey with music by Tony Gonzalez and Sam Johnides. Frank Caeti is the director.

8pm FRIDAY NIGHTS ONLY! Final extension thru August 16!

Trump in Space is Star Trek meets Avenue Q meets Trump, a musical battle of good vs. bad and ideals vs. opportunism. This original musical is an epic space adventure filled with all the sci–fi tropes we love and all the politics we love to hate. Four hundred years in the future, the fallout of the Trump administration has left humans stranded without a planet. Captain Natasha Trump, a direct descendant of President Donald J. Trump, races to find humanity a new planet because the earth blew up!

Said Shari Barrett of BroadwayWorld.com, “Laughs abound with each farcical situation based on political satire to the max – with great ensemble harmonies throughout.” Trump in Space proudly occupies a spot on the StageRaw.com Top Ten.

Running time is one hour.

The cast includes Gillian Bellinger, Landon Kirksey, Mary Lou, Scott Palmason, Nicole Pellegrino, Joy Reguilano, Jessie Sherman, Jim Shipley, and Rob Warner.

https://www.secondcity.com/shows/hollywood/trump-space-musical/

In celebration of what would have been Anne Frank’s 90th birthday this June, the Simon Wiesenthal Center  presents a unique play that reframes Anne’s story through an unconventional lens. In this new adaptation of the immortal Holocaust story, 13 year-old Anne Frank imagines her life as a young woman — safe in a post-war world. When she meets a publisher who expresses interest in her story, Anne looks back on the two years she spent hidden away with her family during the Nazi regime. This innovative production eschews traditional sets and costumes to place the audience and actors on the same dramatic plane as the characters — all real people under real circumstances — fighting for their lives, sanity and dreams of the future.

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What we always hear: “Black Male Shot by White Police Officer.” What we never see — how loved ones struggle to cope in the aftermath. The Matrix Theatre Company presents the West Coast premiere of a daring new play from a significant emerging voice in theater. Scraps, written by Geraldine Inoa and directed by 2019 Obie Award winner Stevie Walker-Webb, opens at the Matrix Theatre on July 6, with previews beginning June 27.

Set in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, three months after the fatal shooting of black teenager Forest Winthrop by a white police officer, Scraps is a provocative mash up of poetry, realism and expressionism that chronicles the effects of Forest’s death on his family and friends.

“Geraldine has created a completely original, highly theatrical, frequently funny collage,” says producer Joseph Stern. “At first glance, the story sounds very familiar — but I’ve never seen anything like it before.”

“Trauma doesn’t end after the event, but instead reverberates forever through the lives of those who remain,” Inoa explains. “If we continue to only engage in surface-level conversations about race that prevent us from feeling uncomfortable, we are only asking for things to stay the same. This is a provocative play that may cause discomfort, but I hope it enables audiences to make a step forward, even if that means just making room to listen to my characters for 90-minutes.”

Those characters include aspiring rapper Jean Baptiste Delacroix; Forest’s high school friend Calvin Young, whose status as a freshman at Columbia University may not be enough to save; Aisha Douglas, the beautiful mother of Forest’s son; Aisha’s tragic younger sister; and Forest’s young son, Sebastian.

Scraps premiered in a sold-out run at NYC’s Flea Theater in 2018, directed by artistic director Niegel Smith. The New York Times review called Inoa “a playwright to watch,” noting her “own sharp vision”; Time Out New York called Inoa “a passionate new voice screaming to be heard”; and The New Yorker described Scraps as “an ambitious, vibrant new play.” It was a finalist for the L. Arnold Weissberger New Play Award, a semifinalist for the P73 Playwriting Fellowship and a semifinalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.

An alumnus of the Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group and the inaugural recipient of the Shonda Rhimes Unsung Voices Playwriting Commission from IAMA Theatre Company, Inoa currently resides in Los Angeles where she writes for AMC’s The Walking Dead. Her work has been developed at both the Atlantic Theater Company and Labyrinth Theater Company. The Flea Theater production of Scraps marked her professional playwriting debut. She holds a B.A. from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Stevie Walker-Webb is an Obie award-winning director, performing artist and cultural worker, a former 2050 Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop (named in celebration of the Census Bureau’s projection that by the year 2050, there will be no single racial or ethnic majority in the U.S.) and recipient of the Princess Grace Award for theater. Off-Broadway: Jordan E. Cooper’s Ain’t No Mo’ at the Public Theater; upcoming: Fairview at Woolly Mammoth and One In Two with the New Group in New York City. He is the founding artistic director of the Jubilee Theatre in Waco, Texas, holds an MFA from the New School, a BS in Sociology from the University of North Texas, and is an Emerge-NYC alumnus.

In 2009, following more than three decades of producing multiple award-winning work for the stage, Matrix Theatre Company founder/artistic director Stern resolved to redirect the company’s focus to the exploration of race issues in contemporary society. Since then, the Matrix has offered up critically acclaimed productions of Lydia Diamond’s Stick Fly, set in the Martha’s Vineyard summer home of an upper middle class African American family; Neighbors, the highly provocative study of the history of racism in America by then-unknown playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, who has since gone on to win two Obie awards and a MacArthur “genius” grant; a non-traditional. multi-culturally cast production of all My Sons by Arthur Miller; the West Coast premiere of We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South-West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915 by Jackie Sibblies Drury, who went on to receive the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; and the Los Angeles premiere of The Mountaintop by Katori Hall, in an acclaimed production directed by Roger Guenveur Smith.

Scraps opens on July 6 and continues through Sept. 15, with previews taking place June 27 through July. 5. Performances are scheduled Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Sundays at 3 p.m. and Mondays at 8 p.m. General admission on Saturdays and Sundays is $35; previews and all Monday evening performances are Pay-What-You-Want. The Matrix Theatre is located at 7657 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90046 (west of Stanley Ave., between Fairfax and La Brea). For reservations and information, call (323) 960-7711 or go to www.matrixtheatre.com

Rogue Machine and Collaborative Artists Bloc present a special American Saga revival of

“Gunshot Medley: Part I”

Written by Dionna Michelle Daniel / Directed by Desean Kevin Terry

A lyrical and mystical new play, with live music, about the struggle against systemic racism. Set in a haunted North Carolina graveyard this intricately crafted work brings past and present together in a soulful tale of lives destroyed by deep-seated tensions and conflicts that have marred America’s history from antebellum south to the present day.

Rogue Machine´s 2018 run of this production received critical acclaim and toured to the community of Watts. The play poignantly and elegantly tackles issues connected to Black Lives Matter, gun violence, and social responsibility in a world created by Dionna Michelle Daniel that features breathtaking joy as well as sorrow.

“Elegant, moving and rigorous.  Poetic theatre” – Cultural Weekly

“Top Ten…a solid shot to the heart and mind.”  – Stage Raw

As a result of the level of impact from last year’s run, Rogue Machine and Collaborative Artists Bloc are co-producing A Special American Saga Revival of – Gunshot Medley: Part I, bringing this important piece of work to an entirely new community.

Cast: Mildred Langford – Betty. Donathan Walters – George. Sha’Leah Nikole Stubblefield – High Priestess of Souls. Derek Jackson – Alvis.

Production Team: John Perrin Flynn and Cristian Kreckler (Producers), Priti Donde (Scenic Design), Matt Richter (Lighting Design), Wendell C. Carmichael (Costume Design), Jeff Gardner (Sound Design), Christopher Eclipse (Choreographer).

Playwright Dionna Michelle Daniel is a writer, actress, and vocalist from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Daniel’s plays address social and political issues surrounding the African-American experience. Her plays include Gunshot Medley: Parts 1 & 2 and Rain, River, Ocean. Recently, she has received the 2020 Community Commission for Peppercorn Theatre in Winston-Salem. Daniel currently serves as the Community Engagement & Learning Programs Manager at the Pasadena Playhouse. As an advocate for arts education, she has led acting and writing workshops at Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory, A Place Called Home, Great Books Summer Program, and Authoring Action Organization. Other accomplishments include: 2017-2018 Core Apprentice at The Playwright’s Center & 2018 Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights Diversity Fellow.

Previews 8pm July 2, 3, and 5

Opening: 5pm on Saturday, July 6th and at 7pm on Sunday, July7th

Schedule: July: Friday 12, 26 at 8pm; Saturday 6, 13, and 20 at 5pm and Saturday 27 at 8pm; Sunday 7, 14, 21 and 28 at 7pm. August: Friday 2, 9 at 8pm; Saturday 3, 10 at 8pm; Sunday 4, 11 at 3pm.

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Son of Semele Ensemble announces its upcoming production of Men On Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus. Ten intrepid pioneers plunge into uncharted waters in a dramatic tale that’s both heroic and comic.

Jaclyn Backhaus’ acclaimed play reenacts the legendary 1869 Powell Expedition to map the Colorado River– but with a twist. The rugged white men are all played by a diverse cast of female and non­binary actors. The ironic, often comic result explores both the West’s mighty river and the imagined new world as created by our legends. The result triggers the question, “Who and what has our ‘America’ left out?”

Men On Boats will be directed by company member Barbara Kallir and will feature performances by Melissa Coleman­ Reed, Shelby Corley, Taylor Hawthorne, Liz Lanier, Cindy Lin, Tiana Randall­Quant, Thea Rodgers, Jinny Ryann, Ashley Steed and Elspeth Weingarten.

The production team includes Carlo Maghirang (set), Allen Clark (lighting), David Marling (sound), Wyndell C. Carmichael (costumes), Caribay Franke (movement) and Ben Kutner (music). Dramaturgy is by Flor San Roman, and the production stage manager is Edward Khris Fernandez, assisted by Jimin Kang.

Jaclyn Backhaus, an Arizona native of German and Punjabi descent, teaches at NYU’s Tisch School (where she earned a BFA). She is also a resident playwright at the Lincoln Center. Backhaus’ other plays include INDIA PALE ALE (2018 Horton Foote Prize), YOU ON THE MOORS NOW, and the book and lyrics for the musical FOLK WANDERING.

Performances Fridays & Saturdays @ 8pm, Sundays @ 5pm and Tuesdays @ 7pm

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MOVING ARTS is thrilled to announce the Los Angeles premiere production of APPLE SEASON, written by E. M. Lewis and directed by Darin Anthony (BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!)).  

Lissie returns to her family’s land after many years. A chance encounter with an old flame conjures memories she thought she’d escaped long ago.  This striking new play explores family, desire, and whether to confront the tangled past – or burn it to the ground.

The cast of APPLE SEASON will feature: Rob Nagle (The Judas Kiss, Boston Court; The Little Foxes, Antaeus Theatre Company), Liza Fernandez (“Mom,” “The Good Place,” “How To Get Away With Murder”) and Justin Huen (Mojada, Getty Villa; Oedipus El Rey, Boston Court; 2010 Ovation Award nomination for ‘Best Lead Actor’).

APPLE SEASON has assembled the following design and production team; Scenic Design is by Stephanie Kerley Schwartz.  Lighting Design is by Martha Carter. Sound Design is by Warren Davis. The Production Stage Manager is Kirsten Turkle. The Producer is Cece Tio.

APPLE SEASON is produced by Moving Art at Atwater Village Theatre as a part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. Other partnering theaters are New Jersey Repertory Company (NJ) and Riverside Theatre (IA). Mr. Anthony and E. M. Lewis are long time collaborators, he has directed three premiere productions of E. M. Lewis’ work, plus two “Car Plays” and a one-act for the Samuel French Ten Minute Play Festival in New York.

Opens: Saturday, July 13 at 4:00pm

Performances will be Fridays, Saturdays & Mondays at 8:00pm; Saturdays & Sundays at 4:00pm

Previews: Thursday, July 11 & Friday, July 12 at 8:00pm.

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Selected as an Honorable Mention for the Hollywood Fringe 2019 due to it’s cultural theme, “Girl From Schenectady” is a story about a 38 year old Nigerian Woman from Schenectady New York who is still a Virgin. Her story begins with her Journey to finding True Love. However, her plan is to find Mr. Right and to lose her Virginity before she turns 40. The story takes place at the Airport, while Ayo is waiting for her next flight to take off, she describes the metaphoric places she has traveled to Find True Love. She takes the Audience on a ride to her past and her Nigerian family traditions, Culture and Values. She struggles to break free from her Nigerian Generational Cycle, Parental Divorce, Failed Marriages and to keep history from repeating itself. Ayo also takes the Audience on her dating journey starting with a Nigerian Man. She also dates a Mexican Man, an Italian Man and an African American Man. After several attempts to finding True Love and Losing her virginity before 40, she goes on a self-discovery, and Lands in the last place she ever thought she would find True Love.

Encore Performances:

Sunday July 14 2019, 8:00 PM

Thursday July 18 2019, 8:00 PM

“Loose Underwear” by Dagmar Stansova

From exorcisms to orgasms, the daughter of a New Age Holocaust survivor is compelled to “cha-cha” away the wounds of her ancestors. Through the celebratory delight of her loose underwear she finds freedom. And yes… it’s funny.

Dagmar Stansova (Writer / Performer) Award winning writer and critically acclaimed actor, has performed in leading roles off-Broadway, at LaMama and The Public Theatre and in Los Angeles at the Odyssey and West Coast Ensemble. She’s written an award winning screenplay about the Velvet Revolution of 1989 which earned her a Writers Guild of America membership.

Debra De Liso (Director) Award winning director, dramaturg, recipient of the Rainbow Award from the L.A. Women’s Theatre Festival for her decades of work in forgotten communities including artists with disabilities, institutionalized teens and incarcerated women.

Encore Performances:

Sunday July 14 2019, 3:00 PM
Sunday July 21 2019, 3:00 PM

Running time: 60 minutes

Admission age: 16

https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/5795?tab=tickets

The Filigree Theatre, an independent theatre company based in Austin, TX led by women, returns to Los Angeles to present a Limited Run of the West Coast Premiere of Lila Rose Kaplan’s critically acclaimed play, 100 PLANES.

Under the direction of Elizabeth V. Newman, and produced by Stephanie Moore, Co-Founders of The Filigree Theatre, 100 PLANES stars Alani Rose Chock (as Lieutenant Kay McClure), Brittany Flurry (as Monique DuPont),Karen Harrison (as Major Anne Clarkson), and Brennan Patrick (as David Greene).

The year is 1997 and hotshot young pilot Lieutenant Kay McClure dreams of being the first to fly a new hybrid fighter jet.  She begs the legendary Major Anne Clarkson to train her.  Major Clarkson pushes Kay impossibly hard despite the concerns of Monique, Major Clarkson’s lover.  100 PLANES is a bittersweet comic drama that follows three women as ambition, love, and passion collide on a U.S. Air Force Base in Germany.

Playwright Lila Rose Kaplan said:  “I wrote 100 PLANES as I was starting out as a professional playwright.  I was quite conscious of being a young woman in a field dominated by men.  I wanted to investigate what it takes for women, in any field, to balance ambition and love.  Sometimes we see ambitious women portrayed and we often see romantic women, but rarely do we see women who are after both ambition and love.  Toni Morrison has a great quote about writing the stories she wants to read.  I take her advice to heart and many of the plays I write are the plays I wish I could see.  I long for stories about women that are more dimensional.  Set against the backdrop of the military, 100 PLANES looks at three women and one man grappling with the same question – is it possible to love what you do and love another person?”

Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 5:00 p.m.

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Crabbe and Goyle are Dead by Kitty Keim

Crabbe and Goyle Are Dead is an absurd comedy exploring the existential crises happening off-stage during a very famous, and equally tumultuous, seven-year span at everyone’s favorite school of witchcraft and wizardry.

Influenced by “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead,” this absurdist comedy features beloved (and underused) characters from the Potterverse pondering life’s big questions.

About the playwright: Kitty Keim  is an experienced Shakespearian artist with a BA in English and Theatre from CSU and an MLitt and MFA from Mary Baldwin University.

About the director: Andy Justus is a theatre grad from UC-Santa Cruz and veteran of the Seattle Fringe community with some “peculiar” works under his belt, including some inspired by Lewis Carroll and Franz Kafka.

Friday July 19 2019, 8:00 PM

Saturday July 20 2019, 6:30 PM

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Sorry About My Friend by Rachel Scott and Xan Herring

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Chrissy Meth is a solo show written & performed by by Crystal Bush with direction & development by Jessica Lynn Johnson.  It centers around a motherless child “Crystal” who grows up in the western suburbs of Chicago, and not only has to face the racially oppressive construct of her world, she also finds herself stumbling from one abusive relationship to the next, pushing her into a deep drug addiction. Somehow, from the depths, of being lost forever, she finds hope and begins to put the pieces back together. Through the use of song, multimedia, humor and multiple characters, she explores, questions and challenges beliefs and social mores surrounding identity, and self esteem while showing that it’s never too late to comeback and find one’s self-worth.

Encore! performance Saturday July 20 2019, 8:00 PM

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Theatre of NOTE announces a chance to  see the brand new, 60-minute CLEO, THEO & WU — now with songs! – before it goes to  the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as part of FEMPIRE.

The World Premiere of CLEO, THEO & WU, written by Kirsten Vangsness and directed by Lisa Dring, was part of NOTE’s 2017-2018 Season.

In CLEO THEO & WU, Lucy is a modern Angeleno gal just trying to be her best self. The Cool Girl, Lady Boss and all around getting sh*t done Boss Bitch. But, suddenly, the fate of the universe is in her hands and she’s gonna need to do better than self-help books and inspirational Insta-quotes. Never fear, space creatures from the future and the forgotten women of ancient history are teaming up to get Lucy on the right track. Careening through time and place, CLEO, THEO & WU takes Lucy on a heroine’s journey with the remarkable women who were so much more than the power hungry, sex-obsessed obstacles that history books would have you believe.

Sunday, July 21  7pm
Monday, July 22  8pm
Tuesday, July 23  8pm

Playing at the California Room – Thymele Arts, 5481 Santa Monica Blvd, 2nd Floor

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“Billie Holiday: Front and Center” by Sylvia D. Jatta.

Billie Holiday (1915-1959)  was a trail-blazing musical artist, known as perhaps the first female vocalist to use her voice in the style of jazz improvisation. Recording first with Benny Goodman, she became the first Black female vocalist to front a white band, that of Artie Shaw. She also performed with Count Basie and Duke Ellington. She had long professional associations with saxophonist Lester Young (who named her Lady Day; she called him Prez) and pianist Teddy Wilson.

Born to poverty in Philadelphia, she was a victim of sexual assault while still a child and sentenced by the court to a Catholic correctional institution. It was only her first experience with the court, however. She was convicted at age 13 (along with her mother) of prostitution. Subsequent arrests involved possession of narcotics and substance abuse.

Despite a turbulent life, abusive relationships, and racism, she prevailed to become one of the greatest jazz and blues artists of her time, before her untimely demise at age 42 from cirrhosis of the liver. In addition to multiple hit recordings, she sold out Carnegie Hall three times.

Writer-performer Sybil D. Jatta brings Holiday’s story to vibrant life in the new show Billie Holiday: Front and Center. Ms. Jatta portrays multiple characters and sings a selection of songs that comprise an array of Holiday’s greatest hits, among them God Bless the Child, Strange Fruit, What a Little Moonlight Can Do, All of Me, Don’t Explain, My Man, Good Morning Heartache, many more. Ms. Jatta is accompanied live by jazz musicians.

Sybil D. Jatta is a Phoenix native who first portrayed Holiday in the touring musical Sang Sista Sang, produced by Smokey Robinson, Mickey Stevenson and B’ANCA. Ms. Jatta’s  other stage credits include The Music Man, Jesus Christ Superstar, Bubbling Brown Sugar, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Little Shop of Horrors, Simply Heavenly and her own show Just Let Me Sing. Her film and TV credits include Veep, Deliver Us From Eva, Two Can Play That Game, The Sarah Silverman Show, Strong Medicine and more.

B’ANCA directs Billie Holiday: Front and Center.

Musical director: Casey McCoy. Drums: Fritz Wise. Saxophone: David Patterson. Bass: Michael Saucier.

Friday, July 26, 2019 at 8:00 p.m.; Saturday, July 27 at 8:00 p.m.; Sunday, July 28 at 3:00 p.m.; Friday, August 2 at 8:00 p.m.; Saturday, August 3 at 8:00 p.m.; Friday, August 16 at 8:00 p.m.; Saturday, August 17 at 8:00 p.m.; Sunday, August 18 at 3:00 p.m.

ONLINE TICKETING: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/billie-holiday-front-and-center-tickets-63407808462

*2019 ENCORE PRODUCERS’ AWARD WINNER!*
It’s Christmas in July with an encore performance of Bunny the Elf LIVE! fresh off a sold out run at the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Now is your chance to catch this award winning audience favorite!

A heartwarming story about a Musical Theatre Nerd forced by her family to give up her dreams and get a real job in the real world… as a toy store elf.  Christi Pedigo’s YouTube sensation Bunny the Elf will be sharing her elfing journey LIVE! On stage! With new material and a special update on what is next for Bunny. Will she get promoted to the North Pole? Will the customers crush her spirit? What will happen to her after Christmas?

“Pedigo’s performance is pitch-perfect throughout; the slightly loopy voice, the radiant smile, the limitless physicality, the endearing sincerity project a character we can’t help but love… Her writing is honest and witty… Pedigo has found a wonderful vehicle in Bunny to showcase both her acting and her writing talent…” – Scotty Keister

Recommended for ages 10 , please email bunnytheelf@gmail.com with questions about content for children.

Sunday July 28 2019, 5:00 PM

“It Happened in L.A.”

Theatre West is inaugurating a new series, The Art of Storytelling. Each evening in the series will be comprised of storytelling around a central theme. The theme for the first evening in the series is It Happened in L.A.

            The performers and their stories are as follows:

Kathie Barnes. Do I Know Sean? When interrupted lunch plans can make a gal go from being just a gal to almost a celebrity.

Suzanne Collins. Chicken. A woman finds excitement, comfort and despair while shoplifting.

Anne Leyden. Jack Calls Back. The words no mother wants to hear.

Connie Mellors. Equine Foot in Mouth. (Written by Susannah West Cord.) “A horse is a horse, of course, of course!” And a horse will do what a horse is going to do.

Dina Morrone. Mr. Welles. Waiting on Orson Welles and his small dog Kiki was no Hollywood picnic.

Clara Rodriguez. Facing the Ocean. A dried-up woman from a dried-up town takes the plunge in Santa Monica.

Odyssey Theatre Ensemble continues its “Circa ’69!” season of significant and adventurous plays that premiered around the time of the Odyssey’s 1969 inception with the signature work of early feminist giant of the avant-garde María Irene Fornés, Fefu and Her Friends. Denise Blasor directs.

In this splendidly surreal comedy-drama, a group of eight women gathers at the country home of the brilliant and eccentric Fefu to plan an event for their do-gooding educational work. As multiple conflicts unfold between the old friends, they struggle to define who they are and what it means to be a woman in a male-dominated world.

In a format that was groundbreaking for its time, the play is divided into three parts. The first part takes place in the living room of the house with the full audience. The second part is set in four different areas of the house: the lawn, the study, the bedroom and the kitchen. Fornés deconstructed the familiar stage, removing the fourth wall, and scenes are played in multiple locations simultaneously. The audience is divided into groups to watch each scene, then they rotate to the next set as the scene is repeated, until each group has seen all four scenes. The play concludes in the living room with the full audience.

Starring Tiffany Cole, Dominique Corona, Sandy Duarte, Tanya Gorlow, Jennifer Lee Laks, Sydney A. Mason, Zaire Martínez Roldán, Alexis B. Santiago, Cynthia Yelle.

“This is a play about female empowerment and about all aspects of femininity,” says Blasor. “With only a small number of audience members present for each scene, they become part of the characters’ most intimate reflections about their relationships to men, to each other, to Eve and ‘original sin.’ It’s about the volumes of sadness that we, as women, carry, and how, sometimes, we are the enemies to ourselves instead of being sisters. It’s a play about awakening and not surrendering. It’s set in 1935, a wonderfully historic era full of jazz, art, poetry and politics.”

Performances of Fefu and Her Friends take place on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.and Sundays at 2 p.m. Additional weeknight performances are scheduled on Wednesday, Sept. 11; Thursday, Sept. 19, and Wednesday, Sept. 25; all at 8 p.m. There will be three preview performances, on Wednesday, July 31; Thursday, Aug. 1, and Friday, Aug.2, also at 8 p.m.

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