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Rehearsals have begun for the world premiere of Paul Rudnick's new play " Big Night." Directed by Tony winner Walter Bobbie (" Chicago" and " Bright Star" )," Big Night" begins previews September 10, opens September 16 and continues through October 8, 2017, at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City.The full cast includes, in alphabetical order, Brian Hutchison (" Smokefall" Off-Broadway), Max Jenkins (NBC's " The Mysteries of Laura" ),Kecia Lewis (" The Drowsy Chaperone,"...
Center Theatre Group Will Remount Three Local Productions for Block Party Celebration Center Theatre Group received submissions from 53 local theatre companies for the second annual Block Party: Celebrating Los Angeles Theatre at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. Block Party will continue to highlight some of the remarkable work being done on stages throughout Los Angeles by fully producing three previously staged productions. For a full list of the theatre companies who submitted an...
The world premiere production of "King of the Yees" will open at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City on Sunday, July 16 at 6:30 p.m. Written by Lauren Yee, directed by Joshua Kahan Brody and produced in association with Goodman Theatre, "King of the Yees" will continue through August 6. The cast includes, in alphabetical order, Rammel Chan, Francis Jue, Angela Lin, Stephenie Soohyun Park and Daniel Smith. The creative team includes set design by William Boles, costume...
Santa Monica’s New Roads School has been honored with five nominations for the acclaimed Jerry Herman Awards for its Spring 2017 middle and high school musical, In the Heights. These nominations recognize the New Roads production as one of the best secondary school musical theater productions in Los Angeles. New Roads’ nominations include:Best ProductionBest Supporting Actress – Julia Malinow (Daniela)“No Small Parts” Award – Caleb McGee (Piragua Guy)Best Staging and ChoreographyBest Musical Direction The Jerry Herman Awards celebra...
The screening will be followed by a conversation with award-winning journalist Bill Moyers and Academy Award winner Tim Robbins on Monday, May 15The Actors’ Gang Theater is hosting a special benefit screening of Rikers: An American Jail, on Monday, May 15 at 8 pm at The Actors’ Gang Theater in Culver City. A conversation with award-winning journalist Bill Moyers, who oversaw the documentary, Academy Award® winner Tim Robbins, and Chris Bisbano, a former Prison Project student, will follow the screening. The event is the second of Acto...
The Third and Final Installment of Block Party Will Run For 11 Performances OnlyCenter Theatre Group's Block Party continues with the opening of The Echo Theater Company production of " Dry Land" this Sunday, May 14 at 6:30 p.m. at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. Written by Ruby Rae Spiegel and directed by Alana Dietze, " Dry Land" will begin previews May 12 and continue for 11 performances through May 21. Block Party highlights some of the remarkable work being done in other, more...
Kentwood Players will hold open auditions for THE GINGERBREAD LADY, a dramedy by Neil Simon, on Saturday, May 13 fromnoon to 4 pm and Sunday, May 14 from 7 pm to 10. Callbacks will be held on Monday, May 15 from 7 pm to 10 by appointment only. This is a non-equity, non-paid production directed by Drew Fitzsimmons and produced by Jenny Boone and Lynn Gutstadt for Kentwood Players with rights secured from Samuel French. Performance dates are July 14 through August 19 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8...
Kentwood Players proudly presents GOOD PEOPLE, a dramedy by David Lindsay-Abaire, opening Friday, May 12 through Saturday, June 17 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm at the Westchester Playhouse, 8301 Hindry Avenue in Westchester. There will be a complimentary pre-show champagne and dessert reception between 7 pm and 7:30 for season subscribers and their guests attending the Saturday, May 13 performance. The production is directed by Gail Bernardi and produced by Susan Goldman...
Center Theatre Group will produce the West Coast premiere of the hit musical parody “Spamilton” at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. Presented as part of Center Theatre Group’s 2017-2018 season “Spamilton” will run November 5 through December 31, 2017, with opening set for November 12. The production will launch a national tour with additional cities and dates to be announced. The rest of the Kirk Douglas Theatre’s 2017-2018 season will be announced at a later date.Created by Gerard Alessandrini, “Spamilton” celebrates and satirizes t...
Five concerts that you don't want to miss are landing at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills in the month of March. On March 5, original vocalist and current member Henry Fambrough and his Spinners will be delighting the audience with their sophisticated, up-tempo R&B songs and precision choreography that made them famous. With over 60 million records sold over their illustrious career, they have performed for Presidents, received six Grammy nominations, and have appeared on Soul Train and many...
Currently in previews, the world premiere of Ngozi Anyanwu’s new play Good Grief will open at Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City on Sunday, March 5 at 6:30 p.m. Directed by Patricia McGregor, Anyanwu also performs in Good Grief, which runs through March 26. This is the first of Anyanwu’s plays to receive a full professional production. The cast features, in alphabetical order, Dayo Ade, Wade Allain-Marcus, Ngozi Anyanwu, Marcus Henderson, Omozé Idehenre, Carla Renata and Mark Jude Sullivan. Scenic design is by Stepha...
Casting is complete and rehearsals have begun for Ngozi Anyanwu’s new play “Good Grief” at Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. Directed by Patricia McGregor, Anyanwu will also perform in “Good Grief” for its world premiere at the Douglas, which begins previews February 26, opens March 5 and closes March 26, 2017. This is the first of Anyanwu’s plays to receive a full professional production. The cast features, in alphabetical order, Dayo Ade, Wade Allain-Marcus, Ngozi Anyanwu, Marcus Henderson, Omozé Idehenre, Carl...
Center Theatre Group has selected three local productions for the inaugural Block Party: Celebrating Los Angeles Theatre at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. Block Party will remount Coeurage Theatre Company's production of "Failure: A Love Story" by Philip Dawkins, Echo Theater Company's production of "Dry Land" by Ruby Rae Spiegel and Fountain Theatre's production of "Citizen: An American Lyric" by Claudia Rankine and adapted for the stage by Stephen Sachs. Each production will have a...
Kentwood Players proudly presents THE IMAGINARY INVALID by Molière, an outrageous satire of medicine and its practitioners, opening Friday, January 13 through Saturday, February 18, 2017 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm at the Westchester Playhouse, located at 8301 Hindry Avenue in Westchester. There will be a champagne and dessert reception between 7 pm and 7:30pm for season subscribers and members attending the Saturday, January 14 performance. The production is directed...
Playwright, actor and director Tim Crouch will join the cast of the American premiere of "Adler & Gibb," a co-commission by Center Theatre Group with the Royal Court Theatre in London. Written and directed by Crouch and co-directed with Andy Smith and Karl James, the DouglasPlus presentation of "Adler & Gibb" will run January 17 to 29 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. The opening will be on January 18. The cast includes Crouch as Sam, Gina Moxley as Margaret Gibb, Jillian Pullara as...
Kentwood Players will hold open auditions for the musical "Big Fish" with Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa and Book by John August, on Saturday, January 14, 2017 from 11 am to 2 pm and Sunday, January 15 from 6 pm to 9 pm. Callbacks by invitation only will be held on Monday, January 16 at 7 pm. This is a non-equity, non-paid production led by Director/Musical Director Catherine Rahm with choreography by Alison Mattiza and produced by Lori A. Marple-Pereslete by special arrangement with Theatrica...
AVPA's Blurred Vision Theatre Company will open its 2016-17 season with Almost, Maine at The Ivy Substation in downtown Culver City November 10 to 13. Written by John Cariani, the romantic comedy is about a town "thats so far north, its almost not in the United States – its almost in Canada. And it almost doesnt exist, because its residents never got around to getting organized. So its just...Almost." On a wintry Friday night, under the glow of the Northern Lights, residents of Almost find t...
Kentwood Players will hold open auditions for the comedic satire “The Imaginary Invalid” by Molière, on Saturday, November 12, noon to 4 pm and Sunday, November 13 from 6 pm to 9:30. This is a non-equity, non-paid production directed by Susan Stangl and produced by Sheridan Cole Crawford for Kentwood Players. Performance dates are January 13 through February 18, 2017 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm. Auditions and performances take place at the Westchester Playhouse, located at 8301 Hindry Avenue in Westchester. Moli...
Deborah Warren has been named the new Director of Marketing and James Sims the new Director of Communications at Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles, one of the largest and most active nonprofit theatre companies in the country.. Warren arrives at Center Theatre Group with a marketing background that includes a decade at League of Resident Theatres (LORT), including five years as Director of Marketing at the Geffen Playhouse. She spent 15 years marketing Broadway productions in New York and around the country with Disney Theatrical Group as...
Rehearsals have begun for the world premiere of “Throw Me on the Burnpile and Light Me Up,”written and performed by the Oscar-nominated Lucy Alibar (Best Adapted Screenplay for “Beasts of the Southern Wild”). “Throw Me on the Burnpile” previews September 10, opens September 16 and continues through October 2 at Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. Directed by Center Theatre Group Associate Artistic Director Neel Keller, “Throw Me on the Burnpile and Light Me Up” blends a lecherous goat, Pentecostals on the radio, a clut...
Right in the heart of the classic motion picture studio district "Screenland" comes a revived art form of theatrical revue. With laughter, drama and song, this is the whacky world of "The Bucket List Actors. " It all started as a group of once were, or wanna be actors and performers, started meeting in Culver City two years ago. Carole Marie, a Chickasaw citizen, and long time Screen Actors Guild member, had an early morning dream about her digital camera she had used to make documentaries. It...
The season opens on July 16 with Frog Tails, an original play as part of the Children’s Popcorn Theatre series. Long time company member Eric Billitzer has once again combined and updated two Grimm folk tales for a comedy of mistaken identities, magical spells, royal romance, and talking animals. Directing is Nicola Henry, Vice President of CCPT. Nicola trained in London's Covent Garden securing a BA Honours Degree in Drama and set up her own theatre company and acting school in the UK for children and adults, Imagine Theatre Company. C...
Shrek the Musical, Jr is coming July 14, 15 and 16t from dee-Lightful Productions at the Vets Auditorium. Better than the book, better than the movie, Shrek the Musical has ogres, donkeys, fairy tale creatures, and princesses of several kinds. Songs! Jokes! Belching! (He's an ogre, you know -) Thursday the 14th and Friday the 15th at 7 pm, and two shows on Saturday the 16th at 3 pm and 7 pm. Tickets available at the door, All seats $10. For more info, go to www.dee-Lightful.org, or like us on Facebook....
Kentwood Players presents the comedy "Olive and the Bitter Herbs" by Charles Busch opening Friday, July 8 through Saturday, August 13 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm at the Westchester Playhouse,8301 Hindry Avenue in Westchester. The production is directed by Kirk Larson and produced by Lori A. Marple-Pereslete by special arrangement with Samuel French. Featured in the cast are Gail Bernardi, Martin Feldman, Daniel Kruger, Ken MacFarlane and Alison Mattiza. "Olive and the Bi...
Kentwood Players will hold open auditions for “Wait Until Dark” by Frederick Knott, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher, on Saturday July 9 from 1 pm to 4 and on Sunday, July 10 from 6 pm to 9. Callbacks, if needed, will be Monday, July 11 at 7 pm by invitation only. This is a non-equity, non-paid production directed by Kathy Dershimer and produced by Jenny Boone by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc. Performance dates are September 9 to October 15 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm. Auditions and performances tak...
