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Now Playing and Upcoming
THE TERRITORY OF DREAMS by Velina Hasu Houston
(2011 Recipient of the Israel Baran Award)
May 22 and 23, 2012, 8 pm
Hot House @ The Pasadena Playhouse
39 S. El Molino Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91101
Carrie Hamilton Theatre
http://www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/outreach-and-education/hothouse.html
The lives of four women – a blue-collar worker, an attorney, the owner of a nanny agency, and a boba shop vendor – collide in contemporary Los Angeles, the harsh realities of survival obscuring their hopes and dreams. “I shall go . . . to the territory of dream. . . I shall be the other I am without knowing it . . . .” – Jorge Luis Borges
Free event. Talkback and reception after each performance.
CAFE VIDA written by Lisa Loomer
TIMES & DATES
APRIL 26 – MAY 20, 2012
previews April 26 – May 4
opening night – Saturday, May 5
Thursdays – Saturdays @ 8 p.m.
Sundays @ 2 p.m.
*Just added* Wednesday, May 16 @ 8 p.m.
Acclaimed playwright Lisa Loomer pens the first play in The Hunger Cycle, a collaboration between Cornerstone, Homeboy Industries and Homegirl Café. Chabela and Luz are rival homegirls ready to leave the life and begin anew at Café Vida — the only place in the city that gives young women and their troubled pasts a genuine second chance to start a new life free of violence. It’s here that these former enemies choose “la vida” over “la muerte” as they learn to compost, tend a garden, julienne an onion, and rock your lunch order with a smile and a heaping side of transformation. Directed by Michael John Garces.
LOCATION:
Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC) – Theatre 3
514 South Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
TICKETS:
$20 Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays
$10 Thursdays
Pay-What-You-Can tickets available at the door for each performance
GROUP RATES:
Discounted tickets are available for groups of 10+.
Contact Ann-Sophie at amorrissette@cornerstonetheater.org or 213-613-1700 x 120 for information.
THE GRIMM WORLD by Samantha Levenshus and Adam Neubauer
FRIDAYS @ 8:30pm
APRIL 20 – JUNE 8, 2012.
4850 LANKERSHIM BLVD.
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA 91601
www.ZombieJoes.com
Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group proudly presents Samantha Levenshus and Adam Neubauer’s all-new high-octane storybook extravaganza about the path-crossing exploits of colorful Brothers Grimm characters Hansel and Gretel, The Frog Prince, Cinderella, Snow White, and their lovable critter friends. Directed by Sebastian Munoz. For Ages 10 and up.
Tickets $15
For Reservations Call: 818-202-4120
Website: www.ZombieJoes.com
THE CONVERT at The Kirk Douglas Theatre
By Danai Gurira
Apr 17 – May 19, 2012
Tuesday – Friday at 8, Saturday at 2 & 8, Sunday at 1 & 6:30. No performances on Mondays. No performances May 15-18.
Kirk Douglas Theatre
9820 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232
http://www.CenterTheatreGroup.org/Convert
Salvation comes at an unholy price when colonialism threatens a Southern African boomtown. It’s 1895 when the convert, a teenager named Jekesai, is thrust into strange new circumstances that pit Ancient African traditions against Western culture and Christianity. When conflict erupts, she must follow her heart and make the ultimate sacrifice.
With an urgent voice, both heartrending and humorous, Obie Award-winner Danai Gurira (In the Continuum and Eclipsed) brings yet another faraway world to the Douglas to enlighten, enrage and ultimately edify audiences.
“Gurira is earning a reputation for hard-hitting drama.” — Variety
The Convert is a co-production with McCarter Theatre Center (Princeton, NJ) and The Goodman Theatre (Chicago).
Special Ticket Offer!
See THE CONVERT for just $20 (Reg. $30-$45). Available for select performances NOW – Apr 22! Call 213.628.2772 and mention code TRADITION or visit www.CenterTheatreGroup.org/TRADITION
For more about the play, visit:
www.CenterTheatreGroup.org/Convert
THE SQUARE ROOT OF WONDERFUL by Carson McCullers
Apr. 27- May 27, 2012. Fri. & Sat. at 8, Sun. at 7.
Raven Playhouse, 5233 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, CA 91601
www.Plays411.com/squareroot
Directed by Steve Jarrard. Presented by Collaborative Artists Ensemble.,” Mollie, a woman twice-divorced from the same man raises her teenage son on an apple farm not far from New York City. An architect, John, to whom she rents a barn has fallen for her immediately. She does not find his attraction to her unwelcome.
But her abusive ex-husband Phillip, released from a sanitorium following a suicide attempt, attempts to move back in. She still harbors an erotic attraction to him, which can only drive a wedge between her and John. So Mollie faces a romantic dilemma: Will she choose the longstanding if inconsistent connection to Phillip? It’s what she knows. Or, will she welcome the possibility of new passion with John, a man she has known only for days, but who promises a love of real affection and who professes to want her always? What will she do?
$20. Students and seniors $10. Use code GOOD. 323-860-6569. Online ticketing: www.Plays411.com/squareroot
THE LAUGHING COW by Jessica Abrams
4/27 to 5/20, Fridays, Saturdays at 8; Sundays at 7
Meta Theatre on Melrose
7801 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90046
Playwright: Jessica Abrams
Director: Lindsay Frame
If a Scream Happens Inside The Cubicle of a Hollywood Studio, Does anyone hear it? This is just one of the questions answered in Jessica Abrams new work. The starlet with a secret, angling for a comeback. The downtrodden assistants, vying for a break. Welcome to Hollywood, where everyone has a story. Some get to tell it, some don’t. But when the general counsel of a family entertainment company expresses his political opinions and gets flagged by the FBI, decisions must be made and lives must change.
Jessica Abrams’ television writing credits include The Profiler for NBC and Watch Over Me for Fox/MyNetworkTV. Her play The First To Know was read in the MaD Play Reading Series last April, and her solo piece If I Look This Good, Why Do I Feel Like Sh*t? was read at the ExAngeles Writers Collective’s A Month of Sundays Reading Series this past October. She was a guest artist at the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive in 2010.
Tickets: $15 on Goldstar and LA Stage Alliance; $20 at the door; $30 on website
Parking on Ogden and Orange Grove.
SYNESTHESIA – Artistic Telephone Across the Genres
MONDAYS, May 7 thru June 11 at 7:30PM
2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057
http://www.athenatheatre.com/synesthesia/
Now in its fifth season, Synesthesia is a live, annual event which unites a select and diverse range of arts for six performances only. “Synesthesia” originated as an Electric Pear exclusive production, conceived by Ashlin Halfnight and Melanie Sylvan, and staged for the first time in 2007.
“Synesthesia” is a multi-medium art show displaying how eight artists of different genres inspire each other. The first artist was asked to select a fortune cookie. They have two weeks to create a piece inspired by the fortune. The next artist will then see that creation and will have two weeks to design his own piece inspired by the artist before him (never having seen the fortune). The next artist in the series will interpret that piece and then has two weeks to create a piece of his own. The next artist will interpret THAT piece and in two weeks will create his work from there. Then another artist interprets the preceding piece and the process will continue for 4 months involving a total of 8 performing artists. This game of “creative telephone” will culminate in an evening of their work performed live, in-sequence. The transitions will consist of a video montage of moments in response to the artist who just performed and glimpses into the initial impulses that sparked the inspiration of the next piece to come.
Director: Cate Caplin
Created by: Electric Pear Productions
“Electric Pear Productions has taken the grade-school game of Telephone to a new level.” – Time Out New York
1. Ruby Karen- Aerial Artist, Dancer
with Luca Cecchini – Character Dancer; William Meyers – Composer
2. Aldo Pisano- Spoken Word
3. John Bobek- Singer, Songwriter
with Nora Davis-Singer; Matt Lucich – Drums
4. Marc Rosenthal- Lighting and Projection Designer
with Michelle “Star” LaVon – Choreographer, Dancer
5. Michael Bonnabel- ASL, Singer
with Ken Weiler – Guitar
6. John Achorn- Commedia dell’arte Performer
7. Rocco Vitacco- Musical Theatre Composer
8. Michael Dunn- Chef, Actor
Director: Cate Caplin, Producer: Athena Theatre in Association with Bootleg Theater
Producer: Brett Aune, Associate Producer/Lighting Designer: Gabrieal Griego
Production Stage Manager: Elspeth Weingarten
Videographer: Brandon Lopez, Sound Designer: Lynz Floren
Graphic Designer: Ty Donaldson/Buddha-Cowboy Productions
Associate Artist: Biz Urban
THE LAST DAY by Christina Joy Howard
WORLD PREMIERE
4/28 – 5/27, Saturdays 8pm, Sundays 7pm
LOFT ensemble
929 e. 2nd street
LA | CA | 90012
www.LOFTensemble.com
LOFT ensemble Founder Christina Howard has created a play about her father, Bruce Howard who worked in Vietnam in 1965 as a civilian, and returned to Saigon in 1975 to secretly help evacuate the remaining U.S. employees and their families before the country fell to the North Vietnamese Army. THE LAST DAY, directed by Tiger Reel, chronicles a daughter trying to connect to her emotionally distant father as she journeys with him through the events that led to his destiny. Christina Howard’s play uses actual tapes that her father recorded while on the rooftop of the Brinks Hotel watching the communist invasion.
Contact Managing Director Kevin Meoak:
kmeoak@sbcglobal.net
Admission: $20
A SPIRIT OVER DOLLSPORT
by writer/composer, Che’ Dortch
Saturday, June 2nd, 7:00 p.m.
The West Angeles Performing Arts Theater, located at 3020 Crenshaw Bl., Los Angeles
When Angel Washington loses her parents in a car accident, she finds herself alone in the world with nothing more than a battered suitcase and her beloved doll, Mrs. Peasley.
With no living relatives to take her in, Angel is dumped in a run down orphanage. There she must defend not only her honor, but Mrs. Peasley as well.
Bitter, fed-up and tired of feeling alienated, Angel runs away. Out in a freezing storm, she seeks refuge in a neighborhood toy store. After the shop keepers evil wife throws her out, Angel discovers Mrs. Peasley missing. Determined to find her doll, Angel goes back into the store.
Once there, Angel meets a group of disgruntled dolls whom she convinces to join her search. Banding together, they manage to use their wits, tenacity and courage, to find Mrs. Peasley and ultimately, themselves.
If you like musicals… If you love stories that instill self-worth. If you don’t mine laughing until your sides hurt then bring your Kleenex…this is a must see!!!
Che’ Dortch Ex. Producer; Writer/Composer Director. Stacey Strickland Jr, Choreographer; music design by Brad Roseborough; Audrey Brooks, Production Assistant; Candice Harriman, P.A; Calvin Sharp, Production Manager; Raymond Ellis Creative Consultant. There is a parking lot with security guard on duty.
Adults $20.00 Children under 12 $15.00
For more information, please call 323-733-8707
westangeleschurch.org/departments/performing-arts/
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