Vikki is Gen X-er raised on hose water and neglect. Her discovery of a 23 and Me test changed her future… but also she viewed her past. A comedic tale of traumas, parentification and secrets. How many dads does it take to raise an unapologetically self-reliant woman?
We’re Not Your Cup of Tea
“We’re Not Your Cup of Tea” by Evie Abat, Meg Lin, Cyndy Fujikawa., Pamela Najera.
We’re Not Your Cup of Tea takes its title from the fact that the evening’s performers are boundary-breakers who shatter expectations and stereotypes regarding AAPI performers.
Evie Abat (Filipina-American) will share her experience as director of Survivors by Wendy Kout. Survivors is an educational play with a diverse cast, about 10 Holocaust survivors, that is touring schools and organizations along the West Coast.
Cyndy Fujikawa (Japanese-American) will perform an excerpt from her solo show Old Man River, which had its West Coast debut at Theatre West in 1997. It relates the story of her father, actor Jerry Fujikawa, who was one of those forced into internment camps for Japanese Americans in 1942. Additionally, she will read publicly for the first time, his eyewitness statement of his experience at that time.
Meg Lin (Taiwanese-American) breaks the tradition of “saving face” by sharing her darkest pain and deepest desires in an excerpt from her award-winning solo show What Am I, Chopped Suey? Meg was recently seen on Theatre West’s stage in Love Stinks; Moose on the Loose; and Aladdin, the Princess, and the Magic Lamp.
Pamela Najera (Filipina-American) performs an excerpt from her solo show Too Old, Too Asian, Too Short in which she demonstrates how she destroyed the skepticism of others by achieving success as a professional dancer, cruise ship entertainer, and magician’s assistant.
Consulting director: Arden Teresa Lewis.
Saturday at 8 p.m.
The Fairy Who Cried Gems
The Fairy Who Cried Gems
by Lily Abha Cratsley
The Fairy Who Cried Gems is a one-woman show exploring how we can build joy out of legacies of trauma. Lily Abha Cratsley serves as the storyteller, presenting a collection of folktales inspired by the lived experiences of Indian women growing up in the United States. This love letter to her little sisters is often fantastical, sometimes verbatim, and always honest. Join us at the Madnani Theater during the Hollywood Fringe Festival this June for an immersion into the oral history of Desi-American girlhood.
Artistic Team for the 2024 Hollywood Fringe Festival
Written & Performed by Lily Abha Cratsley
Directed by Simran Fulton
Scheduled Performances at the Madnani Theater
Sunday, June 9 at 7:00pm
Saturday, June 15 at 11:30am
Monday, June 17 at 7:00pm
Wednesday, June 26 at 7:00pm
Sunday, June 30 at 6:30pm
Purchase tickets & leave reviews at hollywoodfringe.org/projects/10449
Follow our journey on Instagram at @thefairywhocriedgems
Learn more about the playwright & production history at lilyabha.com
Nora
A Stage Version of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House by Ingmar Bergman
Translated and Adapted by Frederick J. Marker and Lise-Lone Marker
Translated and Adapted by Frederick J. Marker and Lise-Lone Marker
“I’ve got to find out which view is the right one, society’s or mine…”
On Christmas Eve, Nora Helmer, whose world is built entirely around her domineering husband, must confront blackmail, financial ruin, the consequences of her past actions, and the unsettling truth about her life.
Legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 masterpiece, A Doll’s House distills the play down to its essential core. Director Cameron Watson (Top Girls, Picnic, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, The Little Foxes) explores the passion and heart of a woman — and a marriage — in crisis.
Cast:
NILS KROGSTAD: Michael Kirby
MRS. LINDE: Mildred Marie Langford
DOCTOR RANK: Peter James Smith
TORVALD HELMER: Brian Tichnell
NORA: Jocelyn Towne
Previews April 21st – 25th, Sunday at 2pm and Monday-Thursday at 8pm
Showtimes April 26th – May 26th, Fridays/Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm
Recommended for Ages 16+
Learn more at: https://antaeus.org/show-
Kairos
East West Players Announces
Cast & Crew of Kairos
A National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere
East West Players (EWP), one of the nation’s oldest theaters of color and the largest producer of Asian American theatrical works, presents Kairos, by Lisa Sanaye Dring and directed by Jesca Prudencio. East West Players produces Kairos as a part of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. The dystopian love story, supported in part by the S. Mark Taper Foundation, is the first production of East West Players’ 2024 Season. Kairos premieres at the David Henry Hwang Theater April 4 through April 28, 2024 with opening night on Sunday, April 7, 2024.
About Kairos
Kairos, by Lisa Sanaye Dring (Rogue Artists Ensemble & EWP’s Kaidan Project: Walls Grow Thin, La Jolla Playhouse’s SUMO) and directed by Jesca Prudencio (EWP’s Interstate: A New Musical & Man of God), is the story of two people falling in love during a tectonic shift in society. Their nascent relationship is tested by the advent of Prometheus, a procedure that grants immortality to a select few. What happens to commitment, meaning, and care when linear time breaks open? At once a dystopian science-fiction play and a dark-comedy love story, Kairos is a deeply sensitive investigation of two humans whose ideal “happily-ever-after” is terrifyingly outpaced by relentless technological and societal upheaval.
Lisa Sanaye Dring, a longtime member of the East West Players community as both a performer and teaching artist, makes her EWP playwriting debut as the inaugural production of our mainstage 2024 Season. Kairos was originally developed as part of the Geffen Playhouse’s Writers’ Room 2021/2022.
Kairos is produced at East West Players as part of a National New Play Network (NNPN) Rolling World Premiere. Other Partner Theaters are Know Theatre of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH) and Theatre Nova (Ann Arbor, MI). For more information, please visit nnpn.org. This production is supported in part by the S. Mark Taper Foundation.
Tickets to Kairos may be purchased online at eastwestplayers.org or by calling (213) 625-7000.
Cast & Crew
The cast of Kairos is led by Sylvia Kwan* (ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, EWP’s Vietgone, Signature Theatre’s King of the Yees) as Gina and Gerard Joseph* (Geffen Playhouse’s The First Deep Breath; Antaeus Theater Company’s SHE, Everybody, &900
The creative team includes direction by Jesca Prudencio^ (EWP’s Interstate: A New Musical & Man of God), assistant direction by Tyree Marshall (EWP’s Spring Awakening), scenic design by Yi-Chien Lee (EWP’s On This Side of the World, Diversionary Theatre’s Dragon Mama, Sierra Madre Playhouse’s King of the Yees), properties design by Zane Wayneright (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Disney), costume design by Ashphord Jacoway (EWP’s The Sitayana (Or How to Make an Exit), EWP Theatre for Youth’s Tam Tran goes Washington, Artists at Play’s Two Mile Hollow), lighting design by Szu-Yun Wang (EWP’s On This Side of the World; Long Beach Playhouse’s RENT, Urinetown, C
Artist Biographies
Lisa Sanaye Dring (Playwright) is a writer and director from Hilo, Hawaii and Reno, Nevada. She wrote SUMO in EWP’s writing group, which was recently produced by La Jolla Playhouse and Ma-Yi Theater Company. She has recently worked with Meow Wolf and was a member of The Geffen Writers’ Room. Lisa was honored as a recipient of the 2020/21 PLAY LA Stage Raw/Humanitas Prize. She has been a finalist for the Relentless Award, the O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference, the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, and a 2x finalist (one honorable mention) for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. Kaidan Project: Walls Grow Thin, a piece she co-wrote with Chelsea Sutton for Rogue Artists Ensemble and East West Players, was nominated for 7 Ovation Awards including Best Production (winner of 5). Lisa’s work has been developed/produced by The New Group, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Circle X, SCF @ Son of Semele, Playwrights’ Arena, Rogue Artists Ensemble, UCSB Launch Pad Series, CalArts, The Motor Company, Theatre of NOTE, and Skylight Theatre. Lisa was a member of writers groups at Boston Court, Circle X, Chalk Rep, and The Vagrancy and has been awarded fellowships at MacDowell, Blue Mountain Center, and Yaddo. Lisa was awarded the 2021 Dorothy and Granville Hicks Residency at Yaddo, which honors one promising young writer a year. She received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Interactive Programming for a piece she co-wrote and co-directed with Matt Hill called Welcome to the Blumhouse Live. lisasanayedring.com
Jesca Prudencio (Director) is a director and choreographer dedicated to creating theatrical experiences that humanize issues and challenge form. Selected theater: Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play (Old Globe, Craig Noel Award Outstanding Director); Bald Sisters by Vichet Chum (Steppenwolf); Little Amal, Mobile Happiness Bazaar, PDA, and Can We Now? (La Jolla Playhouse WOW Festival); Kit Yan & Melissa Li’s Interstate (Mixed Blood, East West Players); Lauren Yee’s The Great Leap (Steppenwolf); Vietgone,
Three Cities
THREE CITIES by Katherine Vondy, Directed by Jessie Lee Mills
With: Bree Wernicke & James Tang
Synopsis:
Ada & Benedict are friends in their 20s, living in New York, who have only begun to realize they have romantic feelings for each other. Unfortunately, the timing couldn’t be worse. Ada is a dancer and has just accepted a place in a touring company; she’ll be leaving the city without the opportunity to give Benedict a chance. But Ada & Benedict are young, and life is long; they assume their paths will cross again. And in the meantime, who knows what wonderful things the world may have in store for them?
Revisiting Ada & Benedict twelve years later in San Francisco, and then twelve years after that in London, Three Cities is a play-with-dance revealing the ways in which the future can diverge from our youthful expectations.
About BLOSSOMING: a new play reading series
The Vagrancy annually selects four playwrights with diverse perspectives to join their playwrights’ group. Beginning each fall, the writers meet regularly as they craft their plays. The Vagrancy hosts two development workshops wherein the plays are explored with the playwright, actors, and a director in a rehearsal setting. This year’s theme is “Two-Hander”
BLOSSOMING is the first public reading of these four original plays. Be inspired, have a glass of wine, and help the plays’ development along with post-reading audience and artist talkbacks.
These readings are made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs & is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
Hitler’s Tasters
Rogue Machine Introduces the First Full Run of Hitler’s Tasters
Written by Michelle Kholos Brooks / Directed by Sarah Norris
Opening at 5pm on Saturday, April 27, 2024 with reception to follow
8pm Fridays, Mondays; 5pm Saturdays; 7pm Sundays through June 3, 2024
(no performances on Monday, April 29, May 13)
Upstairs on the Henry Murray Stage
Recommended for ages 14+
Rogue Machine at the Matrix Theatre, 7657 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90046
Award-winner Hitler’s Tasters will be Rogue Machine’s next offering during their 16th season. Written by Los Angeles playwright Michelle Kholos Brooks and scheduled to open at 5pm on Saturday, April 27th, the play is a powerful reimagining of historical protocol at Wolf’s Lair, directed by Sarah Norris on the immersive Henry Murray Stage upstairs at the Matrix Theatre.
An earlier production of the play was set for a run in Los Angeles, under the direction of Sarah Norris, but managed to realize only two performances in March of 2020 before COVID forced it to shut down. With this new production, LA audiences will finally experience Michelle Kholos Brooks’ bold play that eerily connects our current society with our history from almost a century ago.
A dark comedy based on the largely unknown story of young German women conscripted to taste Adolf Hitler’s food for poison, this fictional account explores the way girls navigate sexuality, friendship, and patriotism during the Third Reich. Using an anachronistic retelling of a historical footnote, Hitler’s Tasters considers what girls discuss as they wait to see if they will survive another meal. Inspired by a 2014 interview with 94-year-old Margot Wölk who, for the first time, revealed her harrowing past as one of Adolf Hitler’s food tasters. Margot, a German secretary at the time, was among fifteen young women selected for this “honor” at Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair.
“I thought I had heard every crazy, twisted story possible about Adolf Hitler, until a 94 years old woman named Margot Wölk told her extraordinary tale of being conscripted to be one of his food tasters. Times change, people don’t. One day, as I was thinking about this story, I watched a group of young women take photos of themselves in pursuit of the perfect selfie, and I realized that those women…those girls, really, were likely the same age that the Tasters would have been. Their dreams and desires would be the same. I determined that I wanted the girls of Hitler’s Tasters to feel very present and very alive. I did not want them to be sepia-toned people in history. That is why Hitler’s Tasters is woven with anachronisms and contemporary references. Hitler very specifically chose young, German women, the future of the Reich, to test his food for poison. The idea of young women stuck in a room together waiting to see if they were going to live or die after every meal – could there be a riper situation for drama and (dark) comedy? Isn’t adolescence hard enough?” – Michelle Kholos Brooks (playwright).
Michelle Kholos Brooks (Playwright) is an award-winning playwright with her work produced and staged internationally. Awards and distinctions include the Susan Glaspell Award for Hitler’s Tasters, the Reva Shiner Comedy Award for Kalamazoo, co-written by Kelly Younger. Hitler’s Tasters was named Best of Fringe at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival by The Stage (UK). Hostage was a finalist for the Woodward/Newman Drama Award, The Fratti-Newman Political Play Contest and a Showcase finalist for the National New Play Network. Chair received second place in the Firehouse Theatre Festival of New American Plays. Michelle’s plays have been produced and/or developed at the Skylight Theatre (World Premiere, Hostage), Centenary Stage (World Premiere, Hitler’s Tasters), Pacific Resident Theatre, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Bloomington Playwright’s Project (Rolling World Premiere, Kalamazoo), The Colony Theatre (World Premiere, Family Planning), Florida Repertory Theatre, Boston Court Theatre, The Road Theatre Company, Wordsmyth Theatre, The Barrow Group, Bay Street Theatre, Venue 9 Theatre, Wings Theatre, Laurel Grove Theatre Company, Drama West, Vox Humana Theatre Ensemble, iTheatre Collaborative, New Light Theater Project, 59E59 Theaters, Olive Theatre Greenside Venue at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Adobe Rose Theatre, Pendragon Theater, and Guild Hall. Brooks’ play War Words made a six-city appearance for Veteran’s Day, 2021. Publications include Dramatists Play Service, Room Literary Magazine and The Daily Beast. Brooks earned a B.A. from Emerson College and an M.F.A. in Fiction from Otis College of Art and Design. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America, The Playwright’s Center and Pacific Resident Theatre. In addition, she is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.
Sarah Norris (Director) is the founding Artistic Director of New Light Theater Project. Her work has been seen around the country including in NYC, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, and internationally in Scotland, Australia, England and Ireland. Select producer and production credits include: Playwrights Horizons (I Am My Own Wife Off-Broadway and Tony Winning Broadway transfer), Disney Theatrical Productions, Bisno Productions (Hughie on Broadway w/ Forest Whitaker; My Report to the World w/ David Strathairn). Select New Light credits and acclaim: Hitler’s Tasters, The American Tradition (TimeOut NY Critics Pick; Best of Theater – Slant Magazine; “The gleefully anachronistic show…has a rambunctious punk-rock energy that’s all too rare on our increasingly sanitized stages!” – The New Yorker), Imagining Madoff (This Week in Arts – NY Times; “Engrossing and philosophically lively” – The New Yorker), Breeders (“Both ridiculously and strangely moving!” – Jesse Green, NY Times; TimeOut NY Critics Pick; “An unexpected marvelous new comedy!” – Huffington Post). Select directing credits include: Everything is Super Great (TimeOut NY Critics Pick), This Wrestling Place (w/ Executive Producer Ben Folds), Picture Ourselves in Latvia (Best of Theater, The L Magazine), Hitler’s Tasters (Best of the Edinburgh Fringe; featured in the Chicago Tribune, LA Times and the BBC).
The Cast: Ali Axelrad (Anna), Olivia Gill (Hilda), Paige Simunovich (Liesel), Caitlin Zambito (Margot).
Creative Team: Joe McClean and Dane Bowman (Scenic & Lighting Design), Ashleigh Poteat (Costume Design), Christine Cover Ferro (Costume coordinator), Chris Moscatiello (Sound consultant), Carsen Joenk (Sound Design), Ashlee Wasmund (Choreographer), Emmy Frevele (Choreography for Rogue Machine).
Rogue Machine is the only company to receive the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for “Best Season” three times (2023, 2016, 2011). Additionally, they won the Ovation Award for “Best Season” (2017) and in the last 9 years the company has won three Ovation Awards and four LADCC awards for “Outstanding Production of the Year.” Rogue Machine produces new plays, primarily by Los Angeles based playwrights, and important contemporary plays not yet seen in Los Angeles. Nine of their productions have been published by Samuel French, Dramatists Play Service or Broadway Play Publishing, and six of the productions have had subsequent stagings at significant theatres, including Off Broadway, major regional houses and the Donmar Warehouse in London. Four world premieres, Razorback, Small Engine Repair, Lone-Anon, and One Night in Miami… were made into feature films, and playwright Kemp Powers was nominated for an Academy Award. In recognition of its artistic achievement, administrative strength, development of new work and other significant contributions to the field of professional theatre in the United States, Rogue Machine is supported by the Shubert Foundation, The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, The David Lee Foundation, The City and County of Los Angeles, The Ahmanson Foundation, and The Richenthal Foundation. RMT is a recipient of the American Theatre Wing’s 2014 National Theatre Company Grant.
“Hitler’s Tasters” opens at 5pm on April 27, 2024 and runs at 8pm Fridays, Mondays; 5pm Saturdays; 7pm Sundays through June 3, 2024 (no performances on Monday, April 29, May 13). Rogue Machine, in the Matrix Theatre (upstairs on the Henry Murray Stage) located at 7657 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046. Tickets are $45 (Students $25 / Seniors $35); Show4Less: May 3 ($10+), May 10 ($15+), May 17 & 24 ($20+). Reservations: https://www.
Rogue Machine has upgraded their HVAC system at the Matrix Theatre to exceed compliance with current COVID protocols. They have installed HEPA air purifiers in all public spaces.
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Towne Street Theatre April Reading Series
Join us on Saturday, April 27th while we present three plays from our playwrighting class taught by resident playwright Mildred Lewis!
Towne Street Theatre’s 10 Minute Play class embodies what’s special about this dynamic company. The effortlessly intergenerational and multiethnic group produced excellent work that made audiences feel, laugh, think and cry. Don’t miss the chance to experience this magic again.
A.I. STEIN by Sonia Jackson
A budget smart home system tries to take over the Clark home in “A.I. Stein”. Surprise! There’s only one mama allowed in the Clark household. Sonia Jackson’s play tells truths about A.I. in this timely comedy.
TINA GOES ON A DATE by Veronica McClelland
In “Tina Goes on a Date”, Veronica McClelland explores mental illness with so much heart, truth and compassion that when Tina finally walks out the door past her anxiety and depression, you’ll cheer for her.
THE GRUDGE by Jacqueline Castañeda
When Karina and Nora turn the tables on cheater Michael, Jacqueline Castañeda rewrites the rules of the revenge in her coming of age comedy “The Grudge”. The Real Housewives couldn’t have done any better.
Our Mission:
The Towne Street Theatre’s mission is to create, develop and produce original work that is reflective of the African American experience and perspective and how it intersects with other cultures. A Black female-led theatre arts organization, we cultivate voices of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Towne Street envisions a future where every artist is free to express their creativity without constraints, and where social justice issues are continually explored, dismantled and acknowledged through the healing power of theatre.
Please visit https://www.townestreetla.org/stella-adler-theatre for more details on getting to the theatre.
Queen of Fishtown
Edinburgh Fringe’s Best Character Driven Solo Show
QUEEN OF FISHTOWN
Comes to The Groundlings for Three Shows
Actor, writer, director, comedian and native of the Greater Philadelphia area, Katierose Donohue Enriquez brings her multi-award winning solo show, Queen of Fishtown back to Los Angeles, CA for three performances. On her stoop in Fishtown, Katierose’s Kathleen moves you with her stubborn, heartfelt honesty as she struggles to maintain her authenticity in an ever evolving world.
Following a sold out Hollywood Fringe run, her world tour of Fishtown included performances at Edinburgh Fringe, in London at the King’s Head Theatre, at Theatre Row on 42nd Street and Under St. Mark’s in NYC, NAMBA in Santa Barbara, Little Fish Theater in San Pedro and in Philadelphia at the historic Plays and Players Theatre in the city that inspired it. Queen of Fishtown runs April 12th, 13th and 14th on the new Gary Austin Stage at the legendary Groundlings Theatre. The show is presented and produced by Groundlings super-star alum Lynne Marie Stewart.
About the Show
Kathleen Burke is not that mad her Fishtown neighborhood gentrified around her, but when she gets the surprise of her life at her 40th birthday party it triggers a high stakes battle to maintain her authenticity while facing even more inevitable change. Profound and profane, Queen of Fishtown is a love letter to the historically overlooked and unappreciated city of brotherly love and working-class women everywhere and it’s all done in a thick, distinctive Philly dialect audiences cannot get enough of right now. Set on a stoop in Philadelphia, where humor is a defense mechanism and self-care is a punchline Queen of Fishtown is like Mare of Easttown; but funny and with zero murder!
“It is a full circle moment for me to bring Queen of Fishtown to the Groundlings Theatre, where the idea originated nearly a decade ago, during my time in the Sunday Company. On top of that, the iconic Lynne Marie Stewart is producing! Pinch me! Lynne’s someone I have always looked up to — She is such a bright, beautiful light, and the fact that she’s shining some of that on my show makes me feel proud.” says Enriquez.
Who
Katierose Donohue Enriquez is a Los Angeles based actor, writer and director originally from the Philadelphia area of South Jersey (Go Birds!) Her 5X award winning solo show, Queen of Fishtown was born from a sketch she wrote while performing in the Groundlings Sunday Company, of which she and the Queen’s director Corey Podell are alumni. Katierose produced and performed the long-running, all female, sketch comedy show Ma’am directed by Colleen Smith, and her own solo sketch showcase, THAT WOMAN! was directed by Groundlings alum and Saturday Night Live cast member, Mikey Day. Recently, Katierose was nominated as Best Supporting Performer in a Play by Broadway World, Los Angeles for her work in writer/director Chris Haas’s 90s-set immersive theater piece, You Can’t Disappear in Studio City.
Katierose also works consistently as a theater director and in 2023 was acknowledged for her “razor sharp direction” by Stage Scene LA; later receiving a Top Honor Scenie Award – Best Direction of a Drama (Intimate Theater) for the world premiere thriller, Final Interview by Gabriel Oliva. Currently, she is enjoying directing two starkly different pieces: Comedian Stacie Burrows’ Edinburgh Fringe bound, solo musical Laughable and the southern ensemble drama, Hurricane Kate by Scott Golden, both shows will be premiering at the Hollywood Fringe Festival this June. TV credits include: 2 Broke Girls (CBS), How I Met Your Mother (CBS), The Comeback (HBO), Future Man (HULU), American Crime (ABC), and Astronomy Club (NETFLIX). Katie received her MFA from The American Repertory Theater’s Institute at Harvard University and The Moscow Art Theatre and her BA in Fine Arts from Rider University. Proud member of SAG-AFTRA and the Actor’s Equity Association.
Director Corey Podell is a Florida raised, LA based director, actress, and clown. In addition to Queen of Fishtown Corey directed and co-devised the multiple award winning stage shows: Gutterplum (2019), Mr. Chonkers (2022), and Vanessa 5000 (2023) all with runs at LA’s Elysian Theater and SOHO Theatre, London. Corey is an alumni of the Groundlings School and Theatre where she has taught, performed, and directed. Corey also studied performance and clowning with Phil Burgers at The Idiot Workshop, and Deanna Fleysher and is a founding member of the notoriously riotous clown ensemble, “Clown Zoo.” Corey directed three short films of her own in as many years. TV credits include: Transparent (AmazonPrime), 2 Broke Girls (CBS), The Comeback (HBO), and Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC)
Producer Lynne Marie Stewart appeared on Broadway in The Pee-wee Herman Show where she reprised her role as Miss Yvonne (“The Most Beautiful Woman in Puppetland”) whom she played on the CBS Saturday morning series, Peewee’s Playhouse and in the original stage production at the Groundlings Theatre in Los Angeles. She can be seen as Charlie’s Mom in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia on FXX. Lynne was also Scott Aukerman’s mom on IFC’s Comedy Bang Bang! She has worked with Tracy Ullman in both of her series Tracy Takes On… (HBO) and State of the Union (Showtime). You can hear Lynne as the voice of Aunt Harriett in the animated films Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders and Batman vs. Two Face. Other credits include Nobodies (TV Land), The Cool Kids (Fox), RuPaul’s AJ and the Queen (Netflix), and 2 Broke Girls (CBS). She has appeared in ALL the Peewee Herman movies: Peewee’s Big Adventure, Big Top Peewee and Peewee’s Big Holiday. She is proud to have had parts in two groundbreaking films American Graffiti and Bridesmaids.
Where
Groundlings Theatre, Gary Austin Stage, 7280 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA
When
Queen of Fishtown runs three consecutive performances:
Friday, April 12th at 8 PM, Saturday, April 13th at 8 PM and Sunday April 14th at 2 PM.
Tickets
Single tickets are priced at $15 and available online or at The Groundlings’ box office.
https://purchase.groundlings.
About The Groundlings Theatre
Celebrating 50 years! The Groundlings is an L.A. improvisation and sketch comedy destination where we leave everything at the door, welcome and arrive from all walks of life in hopes of instilling a brave, uncensored practice of examining and reflecting flawed/shocking/absurd human culture using the cure-all spoonful of sugar: LAUGHTER. Groundlings comedians drive a vehicle for human emotional processing, and our brand of comedy is a language in which opposing communities establish a dialogue through a mutual decision to come unarmed. We are also Hollywood’s foremost comedy training ground and a springboard for countless careers.” – https://groundlings.com/
Reviews for Queen of Fishtown
“Katierose has created such a heartfelt and honest story with a perfect unsung hero. That’s not a character we hear from very often and it’s about damn time she gets her own show. It’s hilarious but I didn’t expect to be so moved by it…”– Andrew Rannells (Girls, “Book of Mormon,” upcoming Broadway “Tammy Faye”)
“(a) truly poignant and hilarious piece of work, a somewhat Irish stubborn humor made better with the fantastic Philly accent.”– Fiona Doyle at The Artiscape
“The prime strength of Queen of Fishtown to my mind is the voice it affords to a certain kind of woman in our society, not necessarily from Northeast Philly, who is often overlooked or ignored” RECOMMENDED – Deborah Klugman at Stage Raw
“Katierose has created such a rich world, I didn’t want to leave it at the end.” – Brit McAdams (writer/director
“We’ve given Queen of Fishtown 5 stars in addition to this award. The production pushed the boundaries of character comedy/drama and was a tour-de-force performance by Katierose Enriquez. Bold and full of artistic risks that most certainly paid off.” – Firework Award for Best Character Driven Solo Show, Edinburgh Fringe
I’ve Grown Plenty, Thanks!
I’ve Grown Plenty, Thanks! by Maria Bartolotta
We all have that friend – who life seems to throw so many wrenches at them, we run out of supportive things to say. All we’ve got left are cliche quips like “you’ll look back on this some day and see how much it helped you grow!”
Maria is that friend.
An evening full of music and laughs, Maria Bartolotta lets you in on her latest therapy session as she navigates why certain things in life, like love, don’t come so naturally to her. Combined with music from some of your Broadway favorites, Crazy Ex Girlfriend, Garfunkel & Oates, and many more, Maria takes us on the mental rollercoaster of dating in the last 10 years, balancing phone screens with vulnerability, and her unique experience – causing her to ask the ever-alluding question: What’s Wrong With Me?!
Will she figure it out? Who knows. Will she make you laugh in the process? Most definitely.
TRIGGER WARNING: THIS PRODUCTION MAY CONTAIN SOME EMOTIONALLY CHALLENGING CONTENT
Created and Performed by Maria Bartolotta
Preview Saturday June 8th 7:00pm, Friday June 14 2024, 8:30 PM, Saturday June 15 2024, 4:30 PM, Sunday June 16 2024, 12:30pm, Monday June 17 2024, 6:30 PM @ Three Clubs (Three Clubs Stage Room) 1123 N VINE ST.
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#IveGrownPlentyThanks #IGPT
