Women at Work Onstage
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Shows below are arranged by closing date…
** Now Playing and Upcoming ** One Night Only **
AFTER, All written and directed by Jennifer Berry
Feb 14 through March 16 2014
Friday & Saturdays @ 8pm
Sundays @ 2pm & 7pm
The Carrie Hamilton Theatre
@ The Pasadena Playhouse
39 S. El Molino Avenue
Pasadena CA 91101
Two women reunite on the eve of an art opening: a famous painter and an unwanted guest. Are they old friends or just survivors of an unspeakable loss? Is Los Angeles the city of second chances or just a barren landscape of faded friendships divided by time and place? Meet Marsha and Sue two Los Angeles transplants in their forties, their thirties, and their twenties as they try to piece together loss, longing, love and running away.
Running time: 90 minutes. No intermission.
ENSEMBLE: AMY ELLENBERGER & ELISA JACOBS NIXON
LIGHTING AND SET DESIGN: AARON FRANCIS
PRODUCTION DESIGN: ROY CLARK
COSTUME DESIGNER: HALEI PARKER
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: ALANA CHEVERONT
PRODUCTIONS STAGE MANAGER: SAM BAKER
PRODUCTION MANAGER: KRISTEN HAMMACK
http://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/box-office/carrie-hamilton-theatre/after,-all.html
STAND-OFF ON HWY #37 by Vickie Ramirez
PREVIEWS: Feb. 26 and Feb. 27, 8 pm
OPENS: Friday, Feb. 28, 8pm
RUNS: March 1 – March 16
Thursdays and Fridays — 8 pm
Saturdays and Sundays — 2 pm and 8 pm
Sundays, 2 pm and 8 pm
Wells Fargo Theater
Autry National Center
4700 Western Heritage Way
Los Angeles, CA 90027-1462
http://theautry.org/whats-here/theater-native-voices
Native Voices at the Autry continues its vital role as the country’s only equity theatre company dedicated exclusively to developing the work of Native American playwrights with the world premiere Equity production of Stand-Off at HWY #37 by Vickie Ramirez (Tuscarora*), directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera, featuring 16 performances running from Friday, February 28 to Sunday, March 16, 2014 (previews Wednesday and Thursday, February 26-27). An exciting, funny and thought provoking tale about political, environmental and spiritual convictions, Stand-Off at HWY #37 takes place in upstate New York, on the border of a small town and the local Haudenosaunee reservation, where a young National Guardsman of Tuscarora heritage has to choose between upholding the oath he took to defend his country and protecting the traditional lands of his people.
$20 for general adult admission; $12 for students/military/seniors (55+),;$10 for Autry members; previews half price
*refers to tribal affiliation
323 667-2000, ext. 299
http://theautry.org/whats-here/theater-native-voices
SEX AND EDUCATION by Lissa Levin
February 15 – March 16, 2014
Thursdays, Fridays 8:00 pm
Saturdays 3:00 pm and 8:00 pm
Sundays 2:00 pm
The Colony Theatre
555 N 3rd St
Burbank, CA 91502
http://colonytheatre.org/upcomingshows.html
Directions here: http://colonytheatre.org/directions.html
Starring Stephanie Zimbalist
Before texting, facebooking, and tweeting became the preferred mode of communication for young people, there was writing notes. Remember passing them in high school? Remember how it felt to get caught? OMG! Meet Miss Edwards, a high school English teacher on the last day of a long teaching career. And meet Joe Marks, a basketball star whose college scholarship is suddenly in jeopardy when his attempt to pass his girlfriend a profanity-laced, sexually charged note, dripping with hormones and misplaced modifiers, is intercepted by Miss Edwards during a final exam. With nothing to lose as she bids farewell to her teaching career, Miss Edwards puts an unorthodox approach to the test, using the note to teach him a lesson in English composition, and to see if she can light an intellectual flame under one last underachiever.
“A delightfully warped homage to educators everywhere, filled with the mixed joys and sorrows of passing the mantle of knowledge to a generation that thinks Madonna was a contemporary of Mark Twain and school is a waste of time.” – Backstage
“Hilarious… Levin has obviously diagrammed a sentence or two in her time, and her shots at declining standards of literacy are spot-on.” – LA Times
Tickets $20 to $50, TICKETS
A NICE INDIAN BOY by Madhuri Shekar
February 20 – March 23,
Wednesdays – Saturdays 8PM,
Sundays 2PM
David Henry Hwang Theater
120 Judge John Aiso St.
Los Angeles CA 90012
Read about the playwright here: Madhuri Shekar
WORLD PREMIERE of A NICE INDIAN BOY. A comedy about love and marriage, Naveen Gavaskar and Keshav Kurundkar share all things Indian – from the Hindi language to the difficulty of being gay in Indian culture. Keshav, however, is adopted by Indian parents…and Caucasian. The Supreme Court Ruling on gay marriage has been decided, and this play is timely in continuing the discussion.
A NICE INDIAN BOY is performed with an intermission.
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SAVE THE DATES
Special Pay-What-You-Can Performance Thursday, February 27, at 8 p.m.
Southern California Edison Community Night Wednesday, March 5, at 8 p.m.
Post Show Discussion Sunday, March 9, at 2 p.m. A chat with the performers and creative team immediately follows the show.
Wine Down Fridays Complimentary glasses of red or white wine before the show, during the regular performance run. (Must be 21+ years of age.)
PARKING OPTIONS
- Lot 7 $7.00 adjacent to the theater
- Metered street parking
- Aiso Parking Structure directly across the street from the theater Wed-Sat $3 after 5pm, Sun $1/hour for first two hours and $3 for the third hour (after 3 hours, $1.50 every 15 minutes up to $14 max).
For more information, visit www.eastwestplayers.org, call (213) 625-7000 or email info@eastwestplayers.org.
TICKETS: https://eastwestplayers.secure.force.com/ticket
Preview Performances Thursday, February 20; Friday, February 21; and Saturday, February 22 (all at 8 p.m.), and Sunday, February 23, at 2 p.m. All preview seats are $21.
Student and Senior Discounts: $5 off regular ticket price
Special Group Rates available for ten (10) or more.
Contact Krystel Gapasin at kgapasin@eastwestplayers.org or call (213) 625-7000 x10 for details.
CLOSELY RELATED KEYS by Wendy Graf
February 28 (Preview Thursday, February 27)
through March 30
Thursday, Friday and Saturday @ 8pm
Sundays @ 4pm
Lounge Theatre
6201 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90038
Home. Identity. Secrets and lies. An African-American attorney with a career on the rise is shocked to learn she has an Iraqi half-sister in Wendy Graf’s newest play, a hard-hitting drama about family conflict and clashing cultures. Julia Dolan’s carefully constructed life begins to crumble when Neyla, a devout Muslim, arrives in the U.S. A violinist, Neyla plans to audition for Julliard – but is there more to her story? Directed by Shirley Jo Finney, the world premiere of Closely Related Keys examines the walls we erect in our current climate of racial, religious, moral and political polarization.
No Performances March 2nd (due to the Oscars) or March 20th.
Preview: $15
General Admission: $25
Saturdays: $30
Opening night: $30 (with opening night party)
Special Show Info
Running time: 120 minutes.
There will be an intermission.
323-960-7774
RITE OF SEYMOUR by Allison Volk
Mar. 13 – 30,
Thursday-Saturday at 8pm;
Sundays at 4pm
Son of Semele Theater
3301 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA, 90004
In Allison Volk’s absurdist romp, 1950s housewife Helena discovers that her husband, Seymour, is no longer the eloquent poet she married. Specifically, he has devolved into a chattering monkey, which could pose a problem at the elegant dinner party Helena is throwing for the publisher interested in Seymour’s work. Meatloaf, banana cream pies and mayhem ensue as Helena struggles to solve the mystery of her husband’s condition, all the while playing the perfect hostess.
Volk is an actress, award-winning filmmaker, and co-founder of The City Shakespeare Company.
Playwright: Allison Volk
Producer: Kathleen Reinbold
Lighting Design: Anna Cecelia Martin
Costume Design: Lynne Marie Martens
Director: Doug Oliphant
http://www.sonofsemele.org/2013/shows/riteofseymour.html
https://www.facebook.com/events/216682055196146/
#RiteofSeymour @DriveTheatre
https://sonofsemele.secure.force.com/ticket
$17, general ($15 online)
$14 student/senior/union ($12 online)
$12 Thursdays!
Street parking, & grab a latte next door at the Tribal Cafe!
FLYIN’ WEST by Pearl Cleage
March 12 – April 6;
Thurs, Fri &
Sat @ 8pm; Sun @ 2pm
International City Theatre
Long Beach Performing Arts Center
300 East Ocean Blvd.
Long Beach CA 90802
In Pearl Cleage’s powerful historical drama set at the turn of the twentieth century, four African-American women journey west to the all-black town of Nicodemus, Kansas to seek the freedom promised by the end of the Civil War — only to be challenged by the harsh and unforgiving terrain, the social climate of the time and the men who claim to be with them for love.
www.InternationalCityTheatre.com
$32-$47
562-436-4610
CINNAMON GIRL Book & Lyrics by Velina Hasu Houston
March 14-April 6, 2014
Thursday and Fridays at 8 pm
Sundays at 7 pm.
Playwrights’ Arena @ Greenway Court Theatre
544 N. Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, California
A mother’s mysterious death and a cinnamon plantation owner’s violent abuse of power causes a young cinnamon peeler to flee the plantation and begin an odyssey on which she discovers life — and herself. A stirring world premiere musical set in 1939 Ceylon.
Directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera, Produced for Playwrights’ Arena by Winship Cook, Produced for Greenway Court Theatre by Ty Donaldson, Musical Director Marc Macalintal, Choreographer Giovanni Ortega, Production Manager Heno Fernandez, Stage Manager Janette Jara, Scenic Designer Christopher Murillo, Lighting Designer R. Christopher Stokes, Sound Designer Howard Ho, Sound Board Operator Dean Sponseller, Costume Designer Mylette Nora, Casting Director Raul Staggs, Public Relations Jerry Charlson, Musical Associates Mayme Huang and Shelly Ren, Research Assistant Natasha Lipson. Music by Nathan Wang
https://greenwayartsalliance.secure.force.com/ticket
https://greenwayartsalliance.secure.force.com/ticket.
TALHOTBLONDE by Kathrine Bates
March 7 – April 26;
Fri & Sat @ 8pm,
Sun @ 2pm
Ruskin Group Theatre
3000 Airport Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90405
World Premiere!
An EMMY Award winning journalist stumbles on a plot that towers all others. Based on a true story, playwright Kathrine Bates crafts this stunning account of lust, lies, and fantasies into a World Premiere production at Ruskin Group Theatre. Sex and obsession, indulged through an erotic relationship on the Internet leads to explosive consequences, becoming a cautionary tale for the times we live in.
http://www.ruskingrouptheatre.com/component/content/article/5-now-playing/68-talhotblond
Tickets: $20-$25
(310) 397-3244.
TOP GIRLS by Caryl Churchill
March 6 – May 4;
Thurs & Fri @ 8pm;
Sat @ 2pm & 8pm; Sun @ 2pm
ANTAEUS THEATER
5112 Lankershim Blvd.
North Hollywood CA, 91601
Antaeus. L.A.’s classical theater ensemble, kicks off its 2014 season with a fully partner-cast production of the award-winning comedy by Caryl Churchill. Politics get personal in the go-getting 1980s of Margaret Thatcher’s England when Marlene, who has just been made managing director of the Top Girls Employment Agency, discovers that life above the glass ceiling is not all it’s cracked up to be.
www.Antaeus.org/www.facebook.com/AntaeusTheater
Tickets: $15-$34
(818) 506-1983
THE HEBREW HILLBILLY by Shelley Fisher
Friday February 28
Saturday March 22
Saturday May 17
all shows 8:00 p.m.
The Santa Monica Playhouse
1211 4th St.
Santa Monica, CA 90401
http://www.santamonicaplayhouse.com/map–directions.html
The Hebrew Hillbilly, written and performed by singer songwriter Shelley Fisher, is a musical one woman show which chronicles Ms Fisher’s Hollywood odyssey that begins in the heart of the Mississippi Delta in her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, birthplace of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Blues and Bar-b-cue. Growing up Jewish in the deep South with a flamboyant mother who frowned on her dating the local redneck boys, the Hebrew Hillbilly begins singing as a little girl and never stops. From her early years as a blonde bombshell, through her current incarnation as The Memphis Belle of L.A., Ms Fisher has been on a show business rollercoaster that slows down just long enough for her audience to climb on board this deeply personal, yet universally appealing and hilarious ride. The production is directed by Chris DeCarlo and produced by Debra Ehrhardt, with 14 original songs written by Shelley Fisher, Kenneth Hirsch, and Harold Payne.
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/414931
PREMEDITATION by Evelina Fernandez
April 17-May 11th
Thursday-Saturday 8:00pm
Sundays at 3:00pm
The Los Angeles Theatre Center
514 S. Spring Street 90013
Fifty percent of marriages end in divorce, but how many end in murder?
Premeditation is a dark romantic comedy for anyone whose significant other has ever left dirty underwear on the bathroom floor.
Starring Sal Lopez, Lucy Rodriguez, Geoffrey Rivas and Evelina
Fernandez.
http://thelatc.org/2014/shows/premeditation/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theLATC Twitter: @TheLATC
General Admission | $40
Students, Seniors, Veterans, Groups 10+ | $20
$10 Thursdays (Limited number available)
Previews | $20
LATC Members | $20
For tickets visit TheLATC.org or call (866)811-4111
WAKE by Carey Crim
April 26-May 25, 2014,
Thurs/Fri/Sat @ 8pm, Sun @ 3pm
Fremont Centre Theatre
1000 Fremont Ave. Ste. 100,
South Pasadena, CA 91030
WEST COAST PREMIERE!
Molly Harrison is an agoraphobic mortician, anchored to the safety of her funeral home for over three years. Her vivacious mother and precocious teenage daughter try in their own humorous ways to help her take that first step down the front walk, including hypnosis, sensory-overload therapy and a trip to Moscow. But in the end, Molly must realize what is truly important in her life before the power of love can finally inspire her to embrace the world again. Presented by SeaGlass Theatre.
www.FremontCentreTheatre.com/@FremontCTheatre/@SeaGlassTheatre
We are also hosting a “High Tea” on our Mother’s Day Performance!
Regular tickets $25, student/senior $20.
Preview Friday, Apr. 25 @ 8pm – $12.50.
Opening Night Saturday, Apr. 26 @ 8pm –$35.
The Fremont Centre Theatre is located on the corner of Fremont Ave. & El Centro, (north of Monterey Road) in South Pasadena. Free lot and street parking.
Tickets: www.FremontCentreTheatre.com or call 1-818-533-8441.
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
LITTLE SWAN, a Pas de Deux by Allie Costa
Monday, March 10th at 8 PM
The Zephyr Theatre
7456 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles, California 90046
http://www.alliecosta.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Allie-Costa/152248411549551?ref=hl
@allieacts
http://playground-la.org/monday
In celebration of Women’s History Month, PlayGround-LA announced the topic (HERSTORY: The Greatest Stories Never Told!) and L.A. playwrights had just four days to generate their original short plays inspired by the topic. The top six scripts (see below) will be presented as script-in-hand staged readings for Monday Night PlayGround on Monday, March 10 at 8pm. For more information and for tickets, visit http://playground-la.org/monday
Origin Story by Tiffany Cascio, directed by Rondrell McCormick
Little Swan, a Pas de Deux by Allie Costa, directed by Jim Kleinmann
Wendy the Welder by Andrew Crabtree, directed by Snehal Desai
H(er)story repeats itself by Mike Deas, directed by Alejandra Cisneros
A Barefooted Easter by Vincent Durham, directed by Liz Anderson
If I Were a Man by Mercedes Segesvary, directed by Lee Sankowich
https://www.facebook.com/events/260754490751769/
http://playground-la.org/monday
Tickets: http://playground-la.org/boxoffice/
CHECKMATE by Laura Shamas
Tuesday, March 11, 2014. 7 p.m.
Play Club West at J.E.T Studios
JET Theater
5126 Lankershim Blvd.
North Hollywood, CA.
An out-of-work reporter becomes involved in the decoy industry via a female private investigator–with devastating consequences
http://uaplayclubwest.wordpress.comAdmission: Free
PERSONAL SPACE by Allie Costa
Saturday, March 15th at 2 PM
Edendale Library
2011 W. Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90026
http://www.lapl.org/whats-on/events/drama-west-3
Personal Space has been selected by Drama West Productions to be part of their March event! Join actors and directors from the L.A. theater, film, and television community for an afternoon of original comedy and drama by L.A. writers. Stay tuned for a full lineup of writers, directors, and actors!
FREE! No tickets necessary!
http://www.alliecosta.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Allie-Costa/152248411549551
http://www.twitter.com/allieacts
@allieacts
A SONG FOR A SURFER, by CALLAN STOUT
Sunday, March 23, 2014 at 2 pm
Art Share L.A.
801 E. 4th Place
Los Angeles
Directed by Angie Scott and featuring performances by Cecilia Fairchild, Andy Gorrill, and Colin Simon
The carefree lives of surfers Nate and Devin are thrown for a loop when Koa mysteriously appears, demanding entrance into the friends’ pad. As free-spirited Koa begins to unearth painful memories, Nate and Devin find their lifelong friendship tested by the triangle.
http://www.savageplayers.com/surfer
Admission is FREE for all Savage Reads events (cash donations are gratefully accepted at the door).
THE WOMEN – by Karen A. Clark
March 30th, 2014
3:00 pm matinee
Electric Lodge
1416 Electric Avenue
Venice CA.
karen a clark fb; karen a clark twitter
One-woman solo show as part of the 21st annual L.A. Women’s Theatre Festival. This show is both laugh out loud funny and sweetly poignant in the re-enactment of family events. It recalls the women’s bread making tradition at family reunions; as well as the adventures of one of the women in the family who somehow missed all the family lessons of making the bread. This story is told through the daughter’s eyes.
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