Just Like Us is a gripping, non-fiction play inspired by Helen Thorpe’s bestselling book. It follows four Latina teenage girls whose close-knit friendship is tested by the realities of immigration status—and the opportunities or barriers it creates.

Set in Denver, the story follows Clara and Elissa, who hold legal documents, while Yadira and Marisela do not. As they navigate high school and work toward college, they confront the stark differences in their paths. Student loans are not an option without a Social Security number, and when deportation looms over their families, even a dorm room may not provide refuge.

A true coming-of-age story, Just Like Us raises urgent and essential questions about identity, opportunity, and what it truly means to be American. More timely than ever, this powerful play is a must-see.

https://www.latinotheaterco.org/justlikeus

FURLOUGH’S PARADISE
WEST COAST PREMIERE
Written by a.k. payne
Directed by Tinashe Kajese-Bolden
Featuring Kacie Rogers & DeWanda Wise

Cousins Sade and Mina used to be inseparable. Now leading very different lives, they return to their childhood town for the funeral of their mother and aunt. While Sade is on a three-day furlough from prison and Mina experiences a brief reprieve from her career and life on the West Coast, the two try to make sense of grief, home, love, and kinship. As the clock ticks down, the cousins grapple with their conflicting memories of the past and their shared hopes for the future. Poetic and theatrical, Furlough’s Paradise explores family dreams of a utopia yet to be realized.

Previews: April 16, 2025 – April 23, 2025
Opening Night: April 24, 2025
Closing Night: May 18, 2025

Join LAFPI Instigators for pre-show community and connections on on Thursday, May 1 for our next LAFPI Night at the Geffen! Info here: lafpi.com/events

LOCATION
Gil Cates Theater at Geffen Playhouse
10886 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024

Skylight Theatre Company premieres Tracy Young’s modern verse translation of William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale opening at Skylight Theatre on Thursday, April 24 at 8:00pm (with previews on April 18, 19, and 23) running through Saturday, June 14, 2025.

In the Los Angeles debut of Play On Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale has been reimagined in an accessible, 90-minute modern English translation adapted by Young and Lisa Volpe. This vibrant retelling of a story about love, loss, and rebirth is helmed and directed by Young whose innovative and award-winning work has been seen in productions at Actor’s Gang, Cornerstone Theater Company, and the celebrated Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

The Winter’s Tale will run most Thursdays at 8:00pm, 8:30pm on Fridays and Saturdays, and at 3:00pm on Sundays, but irregularities exist in the schedule starting in May; always check online. Skylight Theatre is located at 1816 ½ N. Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Opening night tickets are priced at $48+. Regular shows are priced between $20-$42 (students: $20; seniors 50+: $35.) Preview tickets are priced at $15+. There are a limited number of Pay-What-You-Can tickets to any performance, using code ACCESS (advance sale only). For more information and reservations, please visit: https://www.skylighttheatre.org/thewinterstale.

Set in the present day, Young’s music-infused translation of The Winter’s Tale tells the story of Leontes, a tyrannical ruler consumed by delusion who defies the law of Apollo and plunges his kingdom into darkness. Amidst the terror that ensues, a princess emerges, wielding extraordinary power to heal the land and its people. “It is required you do awake your faith!” cries Paulina, the witch, as the dead return to life in this magical tale of hope and forgiveness.

Skylight’s production of The Winter’s Tale is forging the first collaboration between Skylight Theatre Company and Play On Shakespeare, a non-profit organization that began as part of Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s initiative to examine plays through the lens of the English we speak today, which was launched in 2015 under Bill Rauch.

“I was first drawn by Play On Shakespeare’s commitment to commissioning dozens of contemporary playwrights and translations made by playwrights who embodied many different lived experiences and share a deep love and curiosity about language,” says Armando Huipe, Skylight’s Executive Director. “They were all tasked with matching Shakespeare’s linguistic rigor as they approach the text and structure,” Huipe adds, “in order to make Shakespeare’s plays engaging and accessible to today’s audiences.”

“Right now, the picture is bleak, and it’s growing bleaker every day. The Winter’s Tale offers up a story where people find hope, forgiveness, and music in the face of tyranny. It reminds us how things that die in the winter are reborn in the spring,” said Gary Grossman, Skylight Producing Artistic Director.

Play On Shakespeare translations aim to follow the same rigor and pressure as the original, which means honoring the meter, rhyme, rhetoric, image, metaphor, character, action and theme. The work must be structured in iambic pentameter. Within this context productions of the translations can still go through the same creative process that all classics go through: the director’s vision and creative interpretation. The Oxford Dictionary definition of translate is “to carry on.” The Play On Shakespeare series is intended to “carry on” the successful communication between actor and audience.

Skylight embraces the tenets of Play On Shakespeare and is proud to introduce this important non-profit organization to LA audiences.

Joining Tracy Young, Skylight and Play On Shakespeare in their inaugural association are scenic designer Christopher Scott Murillo (Princess Grace Foundation Award); Brandon Baruch, lighting design; C. Yuri Son, Costume Design; Celina Lee Surniak, Intimacy & Fight Coordination; and Benjamin Pryor as Dramaturge. Casting is by Victoria Hoffman and includes a diverse array of artists including Trans actors who help shape the world that Young has imagined. The acting ensemble is comprised of Audrey Cirzan, Shaan Dasani, Israel Erron Ford, Victoria Hoffman, Spencer Jamison, Iman Nazemzadeh, Misha Osherovich, Miguel Perez, Quest Sapp, KT Vogt, and Daniel Deyoung.

“[Play On Shakespeare] translations transform the theatergoing experience from Shakespeare’s time to ours by updating the language, wordplay, and wit to engage audiences the way they would have been engaged in the early modern theater.”
– New York Times

LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & 

McCOY RIGBY ENTERTAINMENT present 

LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL

Music and Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin

Book by Heather Hach

Based on the novel by Amanda Brown 

and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture

Choreography by Dana Solimando

Musical Direction by Ryan O’Connell

Direction by Cynthia Ferre

OMIGOD YOU GUYS! Get ready to “Bend and Snap” as LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS & McCOY RIGBY ENTERTAINMENT announce full casting for their “pinkest” show of the season, LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL, music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin, book by Heather Hach, based on the novel by Amanda Brown and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture, with choreography by Dana Solimando, musical direction by Ryan O’Connell and direction by Cynthia Ferrer.  LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL will preview on Friday, April 25 at 8 pm and Saturday, April 26 at 2 pm, have its official Press Opening on Saturday, April 26 at 8 pm and run through Sunday, May 18, 2025 at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, 14900 La Mirada Blvd in La Mirada.   

A fabulously fun award-winning musical based on the beloved movie, LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICALfollows the transformation of Elle Woods as she tackles stereotypes and scandal in pursuit of her dreams.  Action-packed and exploding with memorable songs and dynamic dances – this musical is so much fun, it should be illegal!                                                                                 

Elle Woods appears to have it all. Her life is turned upside down when her boyfriend Warner dumps her so he can attend Harvard Law. Determined to get him back, Elle ingeniously charms her way into the prestigious law school. While there, she struggles with peers, professors, and her ex.  With the support of some new friends, though, Elle quickly realizes her potential and sets out to prove herself to the world. 

ABOUT THE CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM

The Cast of LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL features Kathryn Brunner as “Elle Woods,” Michael Thomas Grant as “Emmett Forrest,” Nicholas James McDonough as “Warner Huntington, III,” Anna Mintzer as “Vivienne Kensington,” Anthea Neri Best as “Pauline,” Ed Staudenmayer as “Professor Callahan,” Jane Papageorge as “Brooke Wyndham,” Dahlya Glick as “Enid,” Grace Simmons as “Margot,” Bella Hicks as “Serena,” and Aurelia Michael as “Pilar.”  The Ensemble will feature (in alphabetical order) Cristyn Dang, Grant Hodges, Nathan Madden, Donovan Mendelovitz, Bailey Renee Miller, Taylor Mettra, Davon Rashawn, Anthony Sanchez, Callula Sawyer, Rochelle Scudder (“Bruiser” Handler), Amir Jabari Bailey-Simmons, Krystle Rose Simmons, Rodrigo Varandas, and Rianny Vasquez.  Swings are Emmy J. Lane and Ben Raanan. 

CYNTHIA FERRER (Direction) has directed/choreographed major musicals around the country, including Singin’ in the Rain, 9 to 5, Damn Yankees, 42^nd Street, Peter Pan, Camelot, King and I and Louisiana Purchase.  She played leading roles in over one hundred musicals and in four Broadway/National Tours, including Singin’ in the Rain as the original “Kathy Selden.”  Cynthia appeared in the films Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Georgia Rule, and television shows “Cougartown,” “Crossing Jordan,” “General Hospital” (Dr. Rachael Ryan), and “B Positive” with Garry Marshall, Julia Roberts, Carol Burnett, Alec Baldwin, and Courtney Cox. 

DANA SOLIMANDO (Choreography) has earned numerous awards including three Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Awards, seven Ovation Award nominations, a NAACP award nomination, and three L.A. Drama Critics Circle nominations for her choreography.  International awards include the 2023 Koryfeusz award and 2022 Kiepura award nomination.  Credits include: World Premiere of IRENA – The Irena Sendler story for Teatr Muzyczny Poznan (2023 Koryfeusz award and 2022 Kiepura award nom), Cabaret (2019 Ovation and L.A. Drama Critics Circle nominations), Rebel Genius (2019 World Premiere), American Idiot (Ovation nomination), Jersey Boys (McCoy Rigby), Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame (5th Ave. Theater), Parade (Ovation nomination), Spring Awakening (Ovation nomination), Billy Elliot (L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award nomination), Ragtime (Ovation nomination), Damn Yankees (Ovation nomination), Swing! (L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Awards – Best Choreography), Miss Saigon at Macau International Arts Festival/McCoy Rigby Ent. (Ovation nomination), and many more. 

RYAN O’CONNELL (Musical Direction) has worked on more than 75 productions as a musical director, orchestrator, and composer.  Favorite credits: Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (2nd Stage NYC), Ragtime (First National Tour), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (La Mirada Theatre/McCoy Rigby Entertainment), Mary Poppins (Musical Theatre West) and Private Jones (Signature Theatre).  He has helped create music for NBC, CBS, Fox, Netflix, Cartoon Network, Disney World, and Disneyland, where he currently works as a music director and teaching artist. www.ryanomusic.com. 

The Design Team for LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL is as follows: Scenery Rental Provided by Front Row Theatrical Rental; Lighting Design by Anne McMills; Sound Design by Josh Bessom; Costume Design by Adam Ramirez; Hair/Wig Design by Katie McCoy Yagen; Projection Design by Jon Infante; Prop Rental is by The Music and Theatre Company; Properties Coordination by Kevin Williams.  Animals by William Berloni Theatrical Animals.  The Casting Director is Julia Flores.  The Production Stage Manager is Bree Sherry.            

ABOUT THE SCHEDULE AND PRICING

LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL will preview on Friday, April 25 at 8 pm and Saturday, April 26 at 2 pm, have its official Press Opening on Saturday, April 26 at 8 pm and run through Sunday, May 18, 2025 at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, 14900 La Mirada Blvd in La Mirada.   

Performances are Thursdays at 7:30 pm; Fridays at 8 pm; Saturdays at 2 pm & 8 pm; and Sundays at 1:30 pm & 6:30 pm.  There is no performance on Sunday, April 27 at 6:30 pm.           

There will be an Open-Captioned performance on Saturday, May 10at 2:00 pm.  Talkbacks with the cast and creative team will be on Thursday, May 1 at 7:30 pm and Thursday, May 15 at 7:30 pm.    

Tickets range from $25 – $95 (prices subject to change) and can be purchased at La Mirada Theatre’s website www.LaMiradaTheatre.com or by calling the La Mirada Theatre Box Office at (562) 944-9801 or (714) 994-6310.                                                                                     

Group, student, and military discounts are available.  Children under 3 will not be admitted into the theatre.         

LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS is located at 14900 La Mirada Boulevard in La Mirada, near the intersection of Rosecrans Avenue where the 91 and 5 freeways meet.  Parking is FREE.

Psychological drama ‘The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon’ explores human rights violations against journalists

Victims in search of justice. Latino Theater Company brings Chicago’s Water People Theater back to Los Angeles for a three-week run of The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon following the show’s success as part of last season’s Encuentro theater festival. Written by acclaimed Venezuelan playwright, actress and human rights advocate Rebeca Alemán and directed by Iraida Tapias, the Jeff Award-nominated drama opens May 3 at The Los Angeles Theatre Center in downtown Los Angeles. Performances continue through May 25, with two low-priced previews taking place on May 1 and May 2. All performances feature Spanish supertitles.

A taut psychological drama, The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon is set in 2019 somewhere in Latin America. Somewhere in a country immersed in violence and corruption, a world where cruelty is habit, impunity is routine, liberty is utopian and revealing the truth poses the greatest danger of all. Alemán stars as Paulina, a human rights journalist and advocate for victims of femicide and indigenous communities. After surviving a vicious attack that left her in a coma, Paulina struggles to regain her memory. With fellow journalist Rodrigo (Eric K. Roberts) at her side, she must painstakingly piece together the truth in order to demand justice. Based on true events, this powerful and poetically stirring drama addresses the relentless violation of human rights against journalists who strive to report the truth.

“The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon emerged from a profound need to raise my voice and draw attention to femicide and violence against journalists,” says Alemán. “The harrowing true stories of Miroslava Breach and Anabel Flores, two Mexican journalists brutally silenced for speaking truth and seeking justice, inspired me.”

The production premiered in 2019 at the Chicago International Theater Festival, earning Jeff Award nominations for Alemán and Tapias. It received its off-Broadway premiere last July at New York’s Teatro Repertorio Español, where it was performed in Spanish with English supertitles. In October, it received six performances as part of Latino Theater Company’s Encuentro 2024: We Are Here – Presente! national Latiné theater festival.

The creative team includes scenic designer Marisabel Munoz, lighting designer Alejandro Melendez and costume designer José Manuel Díaz. Sound is designed by Tapias and Maydi Diaz, and projections are designed by Stephanie Rodrigues, Marisabel Munoz and Carlos Marcano. The production manager is May Congxiao Fei.

As it enters its 40th year in 2025, Latino Theater Company was named to the Los Angeles Times “Best of Latino L.A.” list, and artistic director José Luis Valenzuela has been named the 2024 recipient of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation’s Gordon Davidson Award for lifetime achievement and distinguished service in the national not-for-profit theater. The Latino Theater Company is dedicated to providing a world-class arts center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed; and a place where the convergence of people, cultures and ideas contribute to the future. The company has operated The Los Angeles Theatre Center since 2006, producing hundreds of plays, creating over 4000 jobs and helping hundreds of nonprofit organizations by providing space and resources. The City, recognizing the Latino Theater Company for its “effective first-class theater center operations,” recently extended the company’s initial 20-year lease for an additional 30 years, through 2056.

The Delicate Tears of the Waning Moon opens on Saturday, May 3 at 8 p.m., with performances thereafter on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m. through May 25. Six preview performances take place April 10 through April 18 on the same schedule. Tickets range from $10–$48, except opening night which is $75 and includes a post-performance reception.

The Los Angeles Theatre Center is located at 514 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013. Parking is available for $8 with box office validation at Los Angeles Garage Associate Parking structure, 545 S. Main St., Los Angeles, CA 90013 (between 5th and 6th Streets, just behind the theater).

For more information and to purchase tickets, call (213) 489-0994 or go to latinotheaterco.org.

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Skylight Theatre Company
Presents The World Premiere of
Roger Q. Mason’s
Hide & Hide

Directed by Jessica Hanna

Thursday, May 15 – Sunday, June 29, 2025

Skylight Theatre Company proudly presents the World premiere of Hide & Hide, written by Roger Q. Mason and directed by Jessica Hanna. Previews begin May 9, 10, and 14, with opening night on Thursday, May 15. The production runs through Sunday, June 29, 2025, at Skylight Theatre. This new work marks the playwright’s return to Skylight Theatre Company following the success and critical acclaim of their 2022 production, Lavender Men. Hide & Hide is the second in Mason’s Califas Trilogy. It is a Homeric critique of the American Dream told through Billy (played by Ben Larson), a queer rent-boy from Texas fleeing a Christian sex conversion camp, and Constanza (played by Amielynn Abellera, The Pitt), a Filipina immigrant with a soon-to-expire visa, who together form a sham marriage to pursue their version of that dream in seedy 1980 Los Angeles.

“Hide & Hide excavates the myth of the American Dream, how it motivates, corrodes, and ignites people to do the unspeakable in the name of freedom,” shares the playwright and creator, Roger Q. Mason. “The piece is based in 1980, the year my mother immigrated to the United States from the Philippines. In times like these, she—and our family at large—wonder, ‘Was the plane ride even worth the journey?’ I think so, but we have to fight for the freedom promised in the dream.”

“Frida- Stroke of Passion- The Immersive Experience” by Odalys Nanin.

Odalys Nanin’s acclaimed 2017 show Frida- Stroke of Passion is revived for a limited engagement at Casa 0101 Theater in a reimagined immersive staging. Immerse yourself into the world of the world-famous artist Frida Kahlo, where her paintings of vegetation and animals come alive in front of you, enhanced with the sounds of Frida’s world.  A revealing look at Frida’s physical and emotional state of mind during the last week of her life, where reality and fantasy blend together imbued with enough haunting elements to make it a living dramatic experience.

The play begins on July 6, 1954, Frida’s 47th birthday. She will die exactly one week later. The narrative will explore the mysterious circumstances surrounding her death. (There is an official account of her cause of death, but how did she die really?) This is not all, however. It is the story of a woman living as vibrantly as she can despite dwindling health and a world of pain.

She attempts to continue painting. Partially anesthetized by a mixture of tequila and painkillers, she is visited by many lovers, male and female, singer Chavela Vargas, movie star Maria Felix, Communist politician Leon Trotsky, entertainer Josephine Baker, Cuban spy Teresa Proenza, photographer Tina Modotti, and Frida’s husband, painter and muralist Diego Rivera. Some are physically present in her room, others are recreated and present in her vivid memory.

The relationship between Frida and Diego is deeply complex. Diego is incapable of sexual monogamy, so much so that he practically pushes Frida into the arms of other lovers. Yet their emotional attachment to each other is surpassingly deep and a thing of wonder.

Odalys Nanin is the playwright, director, and portrays Frida.

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“From a Yardie to a Yankee” by Sardia Robinson.

Proceeds from this special performance will benefit a family of ten who were deeply affected by the Eaton Fire. Your support will help them rebuild and recover during this challenging time.

Sardia Robinson is originally from Jamaica. Wikipedia defines “yardie,” : ‘In the  most innocuous sense, “yardie” can simply refer to a Jamaican national; as “yard” can mean “home” in Jamaican Patois, Jamaican expatriates who moved abroad to countries such as the U.K. and U.S. would often refer to themselves and other Jamaicans as “yardies”.’

Born into a poverty-stricken Jamaican neighborhood where crime, gangs and political revolution were the norm, Sardia had to step over corpses in the street on her way to school. Then an unplanned pregnancy led to yet more hurdles. Sardia’s engaging and unique storytelling style takes audience members on an emotional rollercoaster ride fraught with peril, pain, suffering, but also filled with humor, endearing characters, and the undeterred spirit to survive.

This vivid presentation portrays writer and performer Sardia Robinson’s epic struggles from the murderous streets of Kingston, Jamaica to the deadly consequences of Chicago’s drug wars. The one-woman show starring Robinson is full of colorful characters (she portrays eleven different roles), powerful portrayals, obstacles overcome, and heartwarming humor. This show will grip your heart and imagination.

From a Yardie to a Yankee has won awards across the country, among them the Best in Show Award at the TAG Studio Solo Festival,  the Innovative Women in Theatre Award (Hollywood Fringe Festival), and Best Solo Production Award (Broadway World),  It was listed as one of the Top Ten Shows to see in Los Angeles by Broadway World. The show recently toured New York, London, Jamaica and the Bahamas. A graduate of Columbia College Chicago, Sardia received the Great Black Women Alumni Award in recognition of her contributions to young performers from Chicago’s Mahogany Scholarship Heritage Foundation. Her stage credits include A Raisin in the Sun, Black Caesar, Lady M, For Colored Girls, and T3 Trojan. Her film credits include Justice Delayed, in which she stars as Amy Jacques Garvey, wife of activist Marcus Garvey; Neighbors Who Kill, and  on TV, the hit sitcom  airing in the Caribbean, House Out of Order, Double Cross, and Murder in the Thirst.

A few words about Altadena: Altadena is a haven of hope and inspiration, particularly for its middle-class Black residents. Nestled just north of Pasadena and less than 15 miles from downtown Los Angeles, this unincorporated suburb offers a unique blend of history, resilience, and natural beauty. (Unincorporated areas operate without city governments, relying instead on county services and resources.)

Surrounded by lush forests, diverse wildlife, and rolling hills, Altadena holds a special place in California’s history. It was one of the first areas in the state where middle-class Black families could own homes and thrive—at a time when restrictive housing policies barred many African Americans from property ownership. Though the Eaton Fire devastated parts of the community, erasing some of its rich legacy, Altadena remains a symbol of perseverance.

The area has also been home to many prominent Black and Caribbean figures, including the legendary Bahamian American entertainer, the late Sidney Poitier.

Here’s another way you can donate to assist Eaton fire survivors. Go to

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Sardia explains why she is doing this performance: “My grandmother always said that we are here to be of service, and that wisdom has stayed with me throughout my life. Whenever I see people in crisis, in any way that I can help, I always jump at the opportunity. Being of service is what we are here to do, and to me, it always feels better to give than to receive.”

Directed and performed by Sardia Robinson.

Saturday at 8 p.m.

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North Hollywood’s Scariest Show Returns This MAY/JUNE 2025…

Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group proudly presents:

URBAN DEATH… Includes Special 20^th Anniversary Maze

DETAILS
WHO: Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group
WHAT: URBAN DEATH 20^th Anniversary Show & Maze!
WHEN: Fridays & Saturdays May 23, 24, 30, 31, June 6, 7, 13, 14
TIME: 8:30pm – runs 55 minutes
WHERE: ZJU Theatre Group- 4850 Lankershim Boulevard, North Hollywood, CA 91601
TICKETS: http://zombiejoes.tix.com/  Advance tickets $20 online / $25 at door
WEBSITES: http://zombiejoes.com/ & http://www.urbandeath.com/
Insta: @zombiejoes & @urbandeath_zju
WARNING: Graphic content, trigger warnings, and full nudity. AGES 17+

THE EVENT

Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group celebrates 20 Ghoulish Years of URBAN DEATH with their All-New Fun, Frightening and Freaky “sit-down” signature horror production that dives deep into the depths of inexplicable horrors, unfathomable monstrosities, and the disturbed spirits that walk among us…This Time Complete with a Super Special & Ultra-Terrifying 20th Anniversary MAZE!

Directed by Denise Devin and Jana Wimer, Created by Zombie Joe and Jana Wimer, Produced by Zombie Joe, with Music by Joseph Bishara, and Featuring: Gina Rizzo Bishop, Abigail Corrigan, Elijah Cunnally, Daisy Donohue, Ian Heath, Matt Keim, Jonica Patella, Bennett Patera, Elif Savas, and Michael Silva, with ZJU General Manager, Charlotte Cocker, this all-new iteration of Urban Death fuses the fantasmic and shocking with the terrifyingly human, guiding audiences through a bone-chilling walk-through maze followed by a 45-minute sit-down horror-theatre thrombosis. Each night, brave guests will be led into the darkness and thrust into a series of haunting, grotesque, freaky and often beautiful vignettes that have defined Urban Death as a genre-breaking theatre phenomenon for two decades.

This is Zombie Joe’s Underground’s signature show that has captivated, thrilled, terrified and mystified Southern California, and beyond, and the show that started their hugely successful annual Halloween Haunt. URBAN DEATH has traveled the globe haunting audiences in Edinburgh, New York City, and Cape Town. URBAN DEATH has also been recognized by horror icon Joe Bob Briggs, receiving the Silver Bolo Award for “Excellence in Horror Media.”

Prepare for a freaky, raunchy, terrorizing, and entirely unique horror theatre experience. URBAN DEATH will shock and delight even the bravest of souls. Do not come alone!

This is a 17+ event that features adult content, graphic themes, and nudity. 

SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZJUTheater/ and https://www.facebook.com/UrbanDeathZJU

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbGP2PkuqlWbrB5hF8AvfVA (URBAN DEATH)

Insta: @zombiejoes & @urbandeath_zju

“Comical… Bizarre… Terrifying!”
LA Times

“An absolute must-visit for fans of haunted attractions and macabre theatre alike!”
Dread Central

“One of the more powerful and weird multi-sensory environments in town.”
LA Weekly

Ophelia’s Jump Theatre Presents THE SLOW DRAG, a Jazz Play

by Carson Kreitzer
May 30 through June 29, 2025

Ophelia’s Jump (OJP) celebrates Pride Month with it’s production of The Slow Drag – a Jazz Play by Carson Kreitzer. The production will be performed at the OJP Theater located at 2009 Porterfield Way, Ste I, Upland, from May 30 through June 29, 2025. The Slow Drag is a play with a full complement of musical selections from the jazz era along with one original composition written for Ophelia’s Jump’s production by resident Music Director/Composer Janette Combs in consultation with Kreitzer.

About The Slow Drag – a Jazz Play: Inspired by the real-life story of Billy Tipton, a jazz musician, bandleader, and talent promoter who upon his death at home in 1989 of a bleeding ulcer, was discovered to have been a biological woman. A fact that he had kept secret even from his common-law wife and three adopted sons. Though varying ac-
counts exists about the events surrounding Tipton’s transition from female to male sometime during his high school, many stories mention his having wanted to play in his high school band, but not having been allowed because it was not considered an ap-
propriate activity for a girl. Though the details are hazy, there is not question that a few years after he graduated from high school, Tipton was working in bands as a musician and had transitioned to life as a man. Over the years, Tipton found a measure of success in music and was involved with three women who each during their time together referred to themselves as his wife. He adopted three sons with his third wife and later died at the age of 74 after refusing to go to a doctor for treatment.

Kreitzer’s play draws inspiration from Billy’s story in creating three fictional characters, a
cornet playing bandleader named Johnny Christmas, his beautiful and vibrant wife,
June Wedding, and their friend pianist Chester Kent, who is a black man passing as
white. The play picks up Johnny at the moment of death. As life is seeping away from him, he enters a liminal “cabaret” space where he performs his final show for the gathered audience-a survey of his life and love with June told through dialogue and the music that underscored all the important moments of his life and for which he may have kept the biggest secret of all.

The play includes jazz standards such as The Man I Love, The Way You Look Tonight,
Love Me Or Leave Me, Tea for Two, More than You Know, My Blue Heaven, They Can’t
Take that Away From Me and others, along with two original songs, Sweet Melinda and
Dream Waltz with lyrics by Carson Kreitzer.

2009 Porterfield Way, Suite I,
Upland , CA 91786
909-734-6565
opheliasjump.org
@opheliasjump

Production history: The Slow Drag was first performed at the American Place Theatre
in New York in 1996. It was subsequently performed in London at the Freedom Theater on February 4, 1997 and then moved to the Whitehall Theater in the West End in November, 1997. In the United States, the play requires that rights be separately acquired for each of the songs which has resulted in few US productions of The Slow Drag since the conclusion of it’s West End run.
About the Playwright:
Carson Kreitzer is an award winning playwright whose works center women often in messy, complicated, and/or extreme circumstances. Plays include: Freakshow, Self Defense or the death of some saleman, The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Slither, 1:23, Flesh and the Desert, and Lempicka among others.

Ticket Information: $57 general admission, High School & College Students 25% off,
College Student Rush– 50% discount at the box office starting 15 minutes to curtain;
Kids (13 and under) $46.
Online ticketing available at opheliasjump.org. Please call 909-734-6565 for tickets and
information on group discounts.

About Ophelia’s Jump
Ophelia’s Jump is a non-profit Performing Arts Theatre producing plays, the Midsummer
Festival in Claremont and music and various performances at our OJP Music Lounge.
Ophelia’s Jump Productions was founded by artists and educators who believe that the purpose of theatre is to create unending conversations, spark imagination, incite conscience, and elicit a visceral response. Ophelia’s Jump aims to invigorate the creativity and intellect of the community by working with local emerging artists. Ophelia’s Jump is
a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. Additional information available at opheliasjump.org
or [email protected]

Skylight Theatre Company premieres Tracy Young’s modern verse translation of William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale opening at Skylight Theatre on Thursday, April 24 at 8:00pm (with previews on April 18, 19, and 23) running through Saturday, June 14, 2025.

In the Los Angeles debut of Play On Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale has been reimagined in an accessible, 90-minute modern English translation adapted by Young and Lisa Volpe. This vibrant retelling of a story about love, loss, and rebirth is helmed and directed by Young whose innovative and award-winning work has been seen in productions at Actor’s Gang, Cornerstone Theater Company, and the celebrated Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

The Winter’s Tale will run most Thursdays at 8:00pm, 8:30pm on Fridays and Saturdays, and at 3:00pm on Sundays, but irregularities exist in the schedule starting in May; always check online. Skylight Theatre is located at 1816 ½ N. Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027. Opening night tickets are priced at $48+. Regular shows are priced between $20-$42 (students: $20; seniors 50+: $35.) Preview tickets are priced at $15+. There are a limited number of Pay-What-You-Can tickets to any performance, using code ACCESS (advance sale only). For more information and reservations, please visit: https://www.skylighttheatre.org/thewinterstale.

Set in the present day, Young’s music-infused translation of The Winter’s Tale tells the story of Leontes, a tyrannical ruler consumed by delusion who defies the law of Apollo and plunges his kingdom into darkness. Amidst the terror that ensues, a princess emerges, wielding extraordinary power to heal the land and its people. “It is required you do awake your faith!” cries Paulina, the witch, as the dead return to life in this magical tale of hope and forgiveness.

Skylight’s production of The Winter’s Tale is forging the first collaboration between Skylight Theatre Company and Play On Shakespeare, a non-profit organization that began as part of Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s initiative to examine plays through the lens of the English we speak today, which was launched in 2015 under Bill Rauch.

“I was first drawn by Play On Shakespeare’s commitment to commissioning dozens of contemporary playwrights and translations made by playwrights who embodied many different lived experiences and share a deep love and curiosity about language,” says Armando Huipe, Skylight’s Executive Director. “They were all tasked with matching Shakespeare’s linguistic rigor as they approach the text and structure,” Huipe adds, “in order to make Shakespeare’s plays engaging and accessible to today’s audiences.”

“Right now, the picture is bleak, and it’s growing bleaker every day. The Winter’s Tale offers up a story where people find hope, forgiveness, and music in the face of tyranny. It reminds us how things that die in the winter are reborn in the spring,” said Gary Grossman, Skylight Producing Artistic Director.

Play On Shakespeare translations aim to follow the same rigor and pressure as the original, which means honoring the meter, rhyme, rhetoric, image, metaphor, character, action and theme. The work must be structured in iambic pentameter. Within this context productions of the translations can still go through the same creative process that all classics go through: the director’s vision and creative interpretation. The Oxford Dictionary definition of translate is “to carry on.” The Play On Shakespeare series is intended to “carry on” the successful communication between actor and audience.

Skylight embraces the tenets of Play On Shakespeare and is proud to introduce this important non-profit organization to LA audiences.

Joining Tracy Young, Skylight and Play On Shakespeare in their inaugural association are scenic designer Christopher Scott Murillo (Princess Grace Foundation Award); Brandon Baruch, lighting design; C. Yuri Son, Costume Design; Celina Lee Surniak, Intimacy & Fight Coordination; and Benjamin Pryor as Dramaturge. Casting is by Victoria Hoffman and includes a diverse array of artists including Trans actors who help shape the world that Young has imagined. The acting ensemble is comprised of Audrey Cirzan, Shaan Dasani, Israel Erron Ford, Victoria Hoffman, Spencer Jamison, Iman Nazemzadeh, Misha Osherovich, Miguel Perez, Quest Sapp, KT Vogt, and Daniel Deyoung.

“[Play On Shakespeare] translations transform the theatergoing experience from Shakespeare’s time to ours by updating the language, wordplay, and wit to engage audiences the way they would have been engaged in the early modern theater.”
– New York Times

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Skylight Theatre Company
Presents The World Premiere of
Roger Q. Mason’s
Hide & Hide

Directed by Jessica Hanna

Thursday, May 15 – Sunday, June 29, 2025

Skylight Theatre Company proudly presents the World premiere of Hide & Hide, written by Roger Q. Mason and directed by Jessica Hanna. Previews begin May 9, 10, and 14, with opening night on Thursday, May 15. The production runs through Sunday, June 29, 2025, at Skylight Theatre. This new work marks the playwright’s return to Skylight Theatre Company following the success and critical acclaim of their 2022 production, Lavender Men. Hide & Hide is the second in Mason’s Califas Trilogy. It is a Homeric critique of the American Dream told through Billy (played by Ben Larson), a queer rent-boy from Texas fleeing a Christian sex conversion camp, and Constanza (played by Amielynn Abellera, The Pitt), a Filipina immigrant with a soon-to-expire visa, who together form a sham marriage to pursue their version of that dream in seedy 1980 Los Angeles.

“Hide & Hide excavates the myth of the American Dream, how it motivates, corrodes, and ignites people to do the unspeakable in the name of freedom,” shares the playwright and creator, Roger Q. Mason. “The piece is based in 1980, the year my mother immigrated to the United States from the Philippines. In times like these, she—and our family at large—wonder, ‘Was the plane ride even worth the journey?’ I think so, but we have to fight for the freedom promised in the dream.”

North Hollywood’s Scariest Show Returns This MAY/JUNE 2025…

Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group proudly presents:

URBAN DEATH… Includes Special 20^th Anniversary Maze

DETAILS
WHO: Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group
WHAT: URBAN DEATH 20^th Anniversary Show & Maze!
WHEN: Fridays & Saturdays May 23, 24, 30, 31, June 6, 7, 13, 14
TIME: 8:30pm – runs 55 minutes
WHERE: ZJU Theatre Group- 4850 Lankershim Boulevard, North Hollywood, CA 91601
TICKETS: http://zombiejoes.tix.com/  Advance tickets $20 online / $25 at door
WEBSITES: http://zombiejoes.com/ & http://www.urbandeath.com/
Insta: @zombiejoes & @urbandeath_zju
WARNING: Graphic content, trigger warnings, and full nudity. AGES 17+

THE EVENT

Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group celebrates 20 Ghoulish Years of URBAN DEATH with their All-New Fun, Frightening and Freaky “sit-down” signature horror production that dives deep into the depths of inexplicable horrors, unfathomable monstrosities, and the disturbed spirits that walk among us…This Time Complete with a Super Special & Ultra-Terrifying 20th Anniversary MAZE!

Directed by Denise Devin and Jana Wimer, Created by Zombie Joe and Jana Wimer, Produced by Zombie Joe, with Music by Joseph Bishara, and Featuring: Gina Rizzo Bishop, Abigail Corrigan, Elijah Cunnally, Daisy Donohue, Ian Heath, Matt Keim, Jonica Patella, Bennett Patera, Elif Savas, and Michael Silva, with ZJU General Manager, Charlotte Cocker, this all-new iteration of Urban Death fuses the fantasmic and shocking with the terrifyingly human, guiding audiences through a bone-chilling walk-through maze followed by a 45-minute sit-down horror-theatre thrombosis. Each night, brave guests will be led into the darkness and thrust into a series of haunting, grotesque, freaky and often beautiful vignettes that have defined Urban Death as a genre-breaking theatre phenomenon for two decades.

This is Zombie Joe’s Underground’s signature show that has captivated, thrilled, terrified and mystified Southern California, and beyond, and the show that started their hugely successful annual Halloween Haunt. URBAN DEATH has traveled the globe haunting audiences in Edinburgh, New York City, and Cape Town. URBAN DEATH has also been recognized by horror icon Joe Bob Briggs, receiving the Silver Bolo Award for “Excellence in Horror Media.”

Prepare for a freaky, raunchy, terrorizing, and entirely unique horror theatre experience. URBAN DEATH will shock and delight even the bravest of souls. Do not come alone!

This is a 17+ event that features adult content, graphic themes, and nudity. 

SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZJUTheater/ and https://www.facebook.com/UrbanDeathZJU

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbGP2PkuqlWbrB5hF8AvfVA (URBAN DEATH)

Insta: @zombiejoes & @urbandeath_zju

“Comical… Bizarre… Terrifying!”
LA Times

“An absolute must-visit for fans of haunted attractions and macabre theatre alike!”
Dread Central

“One of the more powerful and weird multi-sensory environments in town.”
LA Weekly

Ophelia’s Jump Theatre Presents THE SLOW DRAG, a Jazz Play

by Carson Kreitzer
May 30 through June 29, 2025

Ophelia’s Jump (OJP) celebrates Pride Month with it’s production of The Slow Drag – a Jazz Play by Carson Kreitzer. The production will be performed at the OJP Theater located at 2009 Porterfield Way, Ste I, Upland, from May 30 through June 29, 2025. The Slow Drag is a play with a full complement of musical selections from the jazz era along with one original composition written for Ophelia’s Jump’s production by resident Music Director/Composer Janette Combs in consultation with Kreitzer.

About The Slow Drag – a Jazz Play: Inspired by the real-life story of Billy Tipton, a jazz musician, bandleader, and talent promoter who upon his death at home in 1989 of a bleeding ulcer, was discovered to have been a biological woman. A fact that he had kept secret even from his common-law wife and three adopted sons. Though varying ac-
counts exists about the events surrounding Tipton’s transition from female to male sometime during his high school, many stories mention his having wanted to play in his high school band, but not having been allowed because it was not considered an ap-
propriate activity for a girl. Though the details are hazy, there is not question that a few years after he graduated from high school, Tipton was working in bands as a musician and had transitioned to life as a man. Over the years, Tipton found a measure of success in music and was involved with three women who each during their time together referred to themselves as his wife. He adopted three sons with his third wife and later died at the age of 74 after refusing to go to a doctor for treatment.

Kreitzer’s play draws inspiration from Billy’s story in creating three fictional characters, a
cornet playing bandleader named Johnny Christmas, his beautiful and vibrant wife,
June Wedding, and their friend pianist Chester Kent, who is a black man passing as
white. The play picks up Johnny at the moment of death. As life is seeping away from him, he enters a liminal “cabaret” space where he performs his final show for the gathered audience-a survey of his life and love with June told through dialogue and the music that underscored all the important moments of his life and for which he may have kept the biggest secret of all.

The play includes jazz standards such as The Man I Love, The Way You Look Tonight,
Love Me Or Leave Me, Tea for Two, More than You Know, My Blue Heaven, They Can’t
Take that Away From Me and others, along with two original songs, Sweet Melinda and
Dream Waltz with lyrics by Carson Kreitzer.

2009 Porterfield Way, Suite I,
Upland , CA 91786
909-734-6565
opheliasjump.org
@opheliasjump

Production history: The Slow Drag was first performed at the American Place Theatre
in New York in 1996. It was subsequently performed in London at the Freedom Theater on February 4, 1997 and then moved to the Whitehall Theater in the West End in November, 1997. In the United States, the play requires that rights be separately acquired for each of the songs which has resulted in few US productions of The Slow Drag since the conclusion of it’s West End run.
About the Playwright:
Carson Kreitzer is an award winning playwright whose works center women often in messy, complicated, and/or extreme circumstances. Plays include: Freakshow, Self Defense or the death of some saleman, The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Slither, 1:23, Flesh and the Desert, and Lempicka among others.

Ticket Information: $57 general admission, High School & College Students 25% off,
College Student Rush– 50% discount at the box office starting 15 minutes to curtain;
Kids (13 and under) $46.
Online ticketing available at opheliasjump.org. Please call 909-734-6565 for tickets and
information on group discounts.

About Ophelia’s Jump
Ophelia’s Jump is a non-profit Performing Arts Theatre producing plays, the Midsummer
Festival in Claremont and music and various performances at our OJP Music Lounge.
Ophelia’s Jump Productions was founded by artists and educators who believe that the purpose of theatre is to create unending conversations, spark imagination, incite conscience, and elicit a visceral response. Ophelia’s Jump aims to invigorate the creativity and intellect of the community by working with local emerging artists. Ophelia’s Jump is
a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. Additional information available at opheliasjump.org
or [email protected]

ENSEMBLE THEATRE COMPANY 

Presents the Final Production of its 46^th Season, the Southern California premiere of

A GROUNDBREAKING NEW MUSICAL CELEBRATING WOMEN WHO CHANGED AMERICA!

JUSTICE: A NEW MUSICAL

Book by Lauren Gunderson

Directed by Jenny Sullivan

Limited Engagement begins Thursday, June 4

at The New Vic Theatre in Santa Barbara!

Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara (ETC), Santa Barbara’s only professional theatre company and a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), brings a groundbreaking new musical about the women who shaped the highest court in the land, the Southern California premiere of JUSTICE: A NEW MUSICAL, with music by Bree Lowdermilk, lyrics by Kait Kerrigan, book by America’s most produced playwright Lauren Gunderson and directed by Jenny Sullivan. JUSTICE: A NEW MUSICAL, the final production of ETC’s 2024/2025 season, will perform Thursday, June 4 through Sunday, June 21, 2025 (with a press opening on Saturday, June 6 at 8:00pm) at The New Vic Theatre, 33 W. Victoria Street. 

Experience the captivating story of three remarkable women who transformed American jurisprudence forever—Sandra Day O’Connor, the pioneering first female Supreme Court Justice; Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the tireless champion for gender equality; and Sonia Sotomayor, the Court’s first Latina Justice, JUSTICE: A NEW MUSICAL follows their extraordinary journeys from law school to the highest court in the land, highlighting the personal and professional obstacles they overcame in a male-dominated legal world. Through stirring music, sharp humor, and emotional depth, this innovative production celebrates these judicial icons who forever changed what Justice looks like in America. 

“This remarkable creative team has crafted a powerful and entertaining musical that brings to life the extraordinary stories of these pioneering women jurists,” said Scott DeVine, ETC’s executive artistic director. “Lauren Gunderson’s book, Bree Lowdermilk’s music, and Kait Kerrigan’s lyrics come together seamlessly to create a musical that does justice to these remarkable trailblazers. Our exceptional cast, led by three of musical theatre’s finest performers, brings these iconic women to life with dignity, humor, and heart. JUSTICE: A NEW MUSICAL promises to be both an educational journey and an uplifting theatrical experience that celebrates the ongoing fight for equality under the law.”                                                                     

LAUREN GUNDERSON (Playwright) is one of the most produced playwrights in America since 2015 topping the list thrice including 2022/23. She is a two-time winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for I and You and The Book of Will, the winner of the William Inge Distinguished Achievement in Theatre Award, the Lanford Wilson Award and the Otis Guernsey New Voices Award; a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Weisberger Award, and John Gassner Award for Playwriting; and a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s Residency with Marin Theatre Company. She studied Southern Literature and Drama at Emory University, and Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School where she was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. Her play The Catastrophist, about her husband virologist Nathan Wolfe, premiered digitally in January 2021. She co-authored the Miss Bennet plays with Margot Melcon, and The Half-Life of Marie Curie premiered off-Broadway and is now at Audible.com. Her work is published at Bloomsbury (Revolutionary Women: A Lauren Gunderson Anthology, anthropology, I and You), Playscripts (I and You; Exit Pursued By A Bear; The Taming and Toil and Trouble), Dramatists Play Service (The Revolutionists; The Book of Will; Silent Sky; Bauer, Natural Shocks, The Wickhams and Miss Bennet) and Samuel French (Emilie). Her picture book “Dr Wonderful: Blast Off to the Moon” is available from Two Lions/Amazon. She is the book writer for musicals with Ari Afsar (Jeannette), Dave Stewart and Joss Stone (The Time Traveller’s Wife), Joriah Kwamé (“Sinister”), Kait Kerrigan and Bree Lowdermilk (JUSTICE: A NEW MUSICAL and Earthrise), and Kira Stone (Built for This). She is a board member of The Playwrights Foundation. LaurenGunderson.com 

BREE LOWDERMILK (Music) is an acclaimed composer whose work includes The Mad Ones, Henry & Mudge, and The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown. Her music has been performed at Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, and theaters nationwide. Lowdermilk’s compositions are known for their emotional resonance and contemporary sophistication, perfectly capturing both the gravity and humanity of the Supreme Court JUSTICE: A NEW MUSICAL is portrayed in this production. 

KAIT KERRIGAN (Lyrics) is an award-winning bookwriter, lyricist, and playwright. BROADWAY: The Great Gatsby (book); WEST END: The Great Gatsby, The Time Traveller’s Wife (add’l lyrics with a score by Joss Stone and Dave Stewart); OFF-BROADWAY: The Mad Ones (book and lyrics), Henry and Mudge (book and lyrics). Also in 2025: The Heart (book and additional lyrics) at La Jolla Playhouse, The Great Gatsby in Seoul, The Mad Ones off-West End at the Other Palace, Indigo (book) at the Leicester Curve, UK. Additional regional credits include musicals: JUSTICE: A NEW MUSICAL (lyrics), Earthrise (lyrics); as well as plays: Father/Daughter, Imaginary Love, and Disaster Relief. Her immersive house party The Bad Years (concept, book, and lyrics) had two sold-out pop-up productions in Brooklyn. DIGITAL: “A Killer Party” (screenplay with co-writer Rachel Axler). Albums include The Great Gatsby, The Mad Ones, Kerrigan-Lowdermilk Live, and her debut with Bree Lowdermilk Our First Mistake, which hit #1 on the digital singer-songwriter charts. Her songs include viral hits “Run Away with Me” and “Go Tonight”. Her shows have been developed by La Jolla Playhouse, Page 73, Marin Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Aurora Theatre, and others. Awards: Kleban Award for libretto, Jonathan Larson Award for lyric-writing, Most Promising Lyricist Award from the Theatre Hall of Fame, Edgerton Award for FATHER/DAUGHTER; residencies at Page 73, Dramatists Guild Fellows, Rhinebeck, Goodspeed’s Johnny Mercer Project, and MacDowell. She is an alumna of Barnard College and the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop and a member of the Dramatists Guild. @kaitkerrigan on social media.  

JENNY SULLIVAN (Director) directed ETC’s The Children (with Nancy Travis, Linda Purl and Michael Butler), Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical (with Linda Purl and David Engel), Sleuth (with Daniel Gerroll and Matthew Floyd Miller); Rubicon’s Twilight: Los Angeles-1992 (with Chris Butler) and The Gin Game (with Joe Spano and JoBeth Williams). Some of Jenny’s favorite productions include Tom Dugan’s Wiesenthal (Acorn Theatre off-Broadway & The Wallis Annenberg) and Jackie Unveiled (The Wallis Annenberg); The Dresser at Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre (with Len Cariou and Granville Van Dusen); Geffen Playhouse: Nora & Delia Ephron’s Love, Loss, and What I Wore; Laguna Playhouse productions: The Year of Magical Thinking, Steel Magnolias and I Am My Own Wife; The World Premiere of Jane Anderson’s The Baby Dance: Pasadena Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Long Wharf Theatre (CT Critics’ Directing Award) and Lucille Lortel Theatre off-Broadway; Other ETC productions include: The Legend of Georgia McBride, I Am My Own Wife(Indy Award), Baby Doll, Good People, Tea at Five, The Year of Magical Thinking, The Lion in Winter (Indy Award), The Mystery of Irma Vep (Indy Award), The Clean House (Indy Award), The Memory of Water and Dublin Carol (Indy Award). Rubicon Theatre: The Baby Dance: Mixed, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Darrow, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Hamlet, Defying Gravity, The Rainmaker. Jenny’s past Santa Barbara productions include Marat/Sade, The Way We Live Now: Theatre for Our Lives in This Crisis Called AIDS (Center Stage Theatre) and Listen for Wings (Access Theatre); Nancy Nufer’s Food Confessions, Mother Earth/Father Sky and The Shadow Box, all played at the Lobero Theatre. Jenny was a founding member of Santa Barbara’s “The Mime Caravan,” the creators of the annual Summer Solstice Celebration. Films: “Access All Areas” and “The Next Best Thing” (in which she had the good fortune to direct her father Barry). Her film “I Know Catherine, The Log Lady” is currently being screened across the country. Jenny’s most proud of the World Premiere of her play J for J starring Jenny, Jeff Kober and the late great John Ritter. 

Producers for JUSTICE: A NEW MUSICAL are Kathy Weber and Dr. Philip J. Wyatt. Associate Producers are Cynthia Brown and Arthur Ludwig. Supporting Producer are Carla Amussen, Debra and Peter Bertling, Chris and Dori Carter, Beverly DeVine, Sybil Rosen, Sheila M. Stone and Robert Turbin and Carol Vernon. Dana White is ETC’s Visionary Producer for the season. 

ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE 

JUSTICE: A NEW MUSICAL previews on Thursday, June 4 at 7:30pm & Friday, June 5 at 8:00pm; opens on Saturday, June 6 at 8:00pm (press opening) and runs through Sunday, June 21, 2025 at 2:00pm at The New Vic, 33 W. Victoria Street in Santa Barbara. 

Performances are Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm, and Sundays at 2:00pm; with added performances on Tuesday, April 8 at 7:30pm, Saturday, June 13 at 3pm, Wednesday, June 17 at 2pm and Saturday, June 20 at 3:00pm. 

Ticket prices range from $25 – $94. All Patrons 35 and under are always $35. Student tickets are $25. Single tickets are available through the ETC ticket office at (805) 965-5400, or online at etcsb.org. Prices subject to change.

“A Rose Called Candace” by Candace Nicholas-Lippman.

A Rose Called Candace is the remarkable life story of a woman in bloom.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised in Sacramento, actress and spoken word poet Candace Nicholas-Lippman shares her story of family, faith, fear, and freedom—and finds her truth and transformation along the way.

Performed by Candace Nicholas-Lippman. Co-directed by Bernadette Speakes. Presented by JuVee Productions and The Robey Theatre Company in association with Los Angeles Theatre Center.

Fri. & Sat. at 8:00, Sun. at 3:00.

http://therobeytheatrecompany.org

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