Part of “Skylight Live,” created in March 2020, this new series was inspired by an artistic community of theatre makers presenting new works. Skylight Theatre Company brings together some of LA’s most talented writers, directors and actors for weekly presentations of uplifting stories, written specifically for this medium. Viewable live on FaceBook or YouTube, each week this series includes an interactive conversation with audiences afterwards.

https://www.facebook.com/skylighttheatre/

https://www.youtube.com/user/SkylightTheatreCo/featured

Part of “Skylight Live,” created in March 2020, this new series was inspired by an artistic community of theatre makers presenting new works. Skylight Theatre Company brings together some of LA’s most talented writers, directors and actors for weekly presentations of uplifting stories, written specifically for this medium. Viewable live on FaceBook or YouTube, each week this series includes an interactive conversation with audiences afterwards.

https://www.facebook.com/skylighttheatre/

https://www.youtube.com/user/SkylightTheatreCo/featured

Part of “Skylight Live,” created in March 2020, this new series was inspired by an artistic community of theatre makers presenting new works. Skylight Theatre Company brings together some of LA’s most talented writers, directors and actors for weekly presentations of uplifting stories, written specifically for this medium. Viewable live on FaceBook or YouTube, each week this series includes an interactive conversation with audiences afterwards.

https://www.facebook.com/skylighttheatre/

https://www.youtube.com/user/SkylightTheatreCo/featured

Part of “Skylight Live,” created in March 2020, this new series was inspired by an artistic community of theatre makers presenting new works. Skylight Theatre Company brings together some of LA’s most talented writers, directors and actors for weekly presentations of uplifting stories, written specifically for this medium. Viewable live on FaceBook or YouTube, each week this series includes an interactive conversation with audiences afterwards.

https://www.facebook.com/skylighttheatre/

https://www.youtube.com/user/SkylightTheatreCo/featured

What happens when you want something so badly, you step out of reality to get it? L.A. Theatre Works presents Deal by Barbara Isenberg, a delightfully funny and surreal eight-minute foray into “short story cinema” starring Sean Astin and Sarah Drew. Deal premieres on the L.A. Theatre Works youtube channel at youtube.com/watch?v=o8xe86id40w&feature=youtu.be.

Originally published as a magazine piece, Isenberg’s Twilight Zone-esque tale introduces us to Marsha, a middle-class housewife who lives vicariously through the world of TV game shows. Astin and Drew bring the short story to vivid life — without changing a single word.

“This is not an adaptation,” notes LATW producing artistic director Susan Albert Loewenberg. “Sarah and Sean perform the story, word for word, in a creative new way that infuses it with an infectious vitality. It’s tremendous fun.”

“In all my years as a writer, nobody ever turned any of my articles into short films, much less with talent at the level of Sarah’s and Sean’s,” laughs Isenberg, an award-winning author and journalist. A former staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal as well as for the Los Angeles Times, where she remains a frequent contributor, Isenberg’s books include the best-sellers “Conversations with Frank Gehry” and “Tradition!: The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World’s Most Beloved Musical.” “Tradition” was produced as in audio book in 2016 by L.A. Theatre Works, voiced by actor Adam Grupper who was appearing in Bartlett Sher’s acclaimed Broadway revival of Fiddler at the time.

The creative team for Deal includes executive producer Loewenberg, producer and creative director Anna Lyse Erikson, director Sonia Malfa, editor and colorist Cole Greenbaum, and sound mixer and editor Ronn Lipkin. It is produced by L.A. Theatre Works with generous support from Good Company.

Enjoy Deal at youtube.com/watch?v=o8xe86id40w&feature=youtu.be.

Starting Thursday, June 18 – 3:00pm
ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE, A Pandemic Rom-Com
Written by Anna Mathias
Directed by Ann Hearn Tobolowsky
Performed by: Steve Hofvendahl,  Lily Knight, Rob Nagle
– Developed at Antaeus Playwright’s Lab

Available for viewing: www.youtube.com/user/SkylightTheatreCo

BLACK WOMEN DATING WHITE MEN is a Zoom support group for five Black women to learn, laugh, and drink lots of wine. The piece was created from a collection of interviews of (you guessed it) Black women who are in long-term relationships (plus two marriages) with white men. Jones was inspired to write the piece when she found herself in a relationship with a white man, something that she never imagined happening. Expect talks about privilege, activism, and the mystery of headscarves.

L.A. Theatre Works, the world’s leading producer of audio theater, has chosen six titles by Black playwrights from its extensive collection of work to stream free on its website.  The four plays written by women are  Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine by Lynn Nottage; The Mountaintop by Katori Hall; The Night Watcher, written and performed by Charlayne Woodard; and Stick Fly by Lydia R. Diamond.

Also available for free viewing are A Huey P. Newton Story, written, directed and performed by Roger Guenveur Smith; Ceremonies in Dark Old Men by Lonne Elder III.

Fabulation is two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage’s satirical tale about a successful African-American publicist (Charlayne Woodard) who stumbles down the social ladder after her husband steals her hard-earned fortune. Broke and pregnant, Undine is forced to return to her childhood home in the Brooklyn projects, where she must face the challenges of the life she left behind.

The Mountaintop is Katori Hall’s gripping, slyly humorous, Lawrence Olivier Award-winning re-imagining of events as they might have taken place at the Lorraine Motel on the night before the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The LATW recording stars Aja Naomi King and Larry Powell.

In her acclaimed one-woman show The Night Watcher, playwright/performer Charlayne Woodard tells the story of a woman who chooses not to have children — only to be pulled into the real-life struggles of kids of all ages, races and backgrounds.

Stick Fly is Lydia Diamond’s powerful comedy-drama about an upper-class African American family (recorded for L.A. Theatre Works by Justine Bateman, Dulé Hill, Tinashe Kajese, Carl Lumbly, Terrell Tilford and Michole Briana White) wrestling with parental expectations, sibling rivalry, and issues of class and race during a vacation on Martha’s Vineyard.

“Even as we are drawn into the great stories and characters, these plays expand our knowledge and awareness of the Black experience,” says L.A. Theatre Works producing artistic director Susan Albert Loewenberg. “It is our pleasure to be able to provide free access to these state-of-the-art recordings to students, teachers and the general public.”

Go to https://latw.org/black-voices to streamline these titles for free through August 30.

2020 PANDEMIC PLAYS

A 10-MINUTE SHORT PLAY FESTIVAL

The world has changed immeasurably in 2020. The stunning loss of life globally and the desperate attempts to stop the spread of the coronavirus have led us to ponder what comes next? Our new normal consists of social distancing, sheltering in place, and wearing masks in public. The current health crisis has plunged us into instability, anxiety, and fear.

The Pandemic has also meant that cultural institutions have closed all over the world. What can we do in the face of such devastation?

The answer remains elusive, however, one possible response is to adapt. We may not be able to greet each other in the confines of a theatre space but we can still use the power of theatre to share our stories. We can learn to adapt and go on. We can continue to make theatre.

Lower Depth Theatre has brought together ten playwrights from across the country to create ten brand new ten-minute short plays within two weeks.

These new plays will capture how the current pandemic is impacting and reshaping the lives of people across racial, ethnic, socio-economic, and gender boundaries.

More info: www.lower-depth.com/pandemic-plays

Livestream June 29-July 2: www.facebook.com/lowerdepth/live

Recorded Replays available through July 10: www.lower-depth.com/2020-pandemic-plays-replay

She NYC ARTS/ SHE LA Arts presents a virtual production of

THIS WILL BE OUR YEAR

This Will Be Our Year is a rock and roll Greek tragedy where a meet-cute devolves into the romantic ruin of two smart, funny, but damaged people. The play follows Gen, a struggling New York jewelry designer, and Hugo, a fledgling British rock star, over the span of ten years as they meet, come together, fall apart, and destroy each other’s lives.

Starring:
Rob Nagle
Ali MacLean
Sharon Houston
Will Doughty
Wes McGee
Megan Duffy

Written by Ali MacLean
Directed by Jason Weiss

Click this link https://shenycarts.org/she-la/ to get your tickets today!