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Kentwood Players will hold open auditions for 9 to 5 the Musical, with Music and Lyrics by Dolly Parton, Book by Patricia Resnick, on Saturday, August 27, 2022 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm and Sunday, August 28 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Callbacks will be held on Monday, August 29 by invitation only. This is a non-equity, non-paid production directed by Kirk Larson, musical direction by Catherine Rahm, choreography by Marie Gleerup, and produced by Jeremy Palmer and Bouket Fingerhut for Kentwood...
Kentwood Players proudly presents LAUGHTER ON THE 23rd FLOOR, a Show Biz comedy by Neil Simon, Friday, July 22 through Saturday, August 6, 2022 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM, and Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00 PM at the Westchester Playhouse, located at 8301 Hindry Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90045. The production is directed by Stanley Brown and produced by Kathy Dershimer for Kentwood Players, with rights secured from Concord Theatricals. Featured in the cast in alphabetical order are...
Kentwood Players proudly presents LAUGHTER ON THE 23rd FLOOR, a Show Biz comedy by Neil Simon, Friday, July 22 through Saturday, August 6, 2022 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM, and Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00 PM at the Westchester Playhouse, located at 8301 Hindry Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90045. The production is directed by Stanley Brown and produced by Kathy Dershimer for Kentwood Players, with rights secured from Concord Theatricals. Featured in the cast in alphabetical order are...
“Moulin Rouge! The Musical,” winner of 10 Tony Awards - including Best Musical - is now making a run at The Pantages Theatre in Hollywood until September 4, 2022. When you first walk into the theatre before the performance begins and look at the stage settings, one is already enveloped in a sense of splendor, glitz, grandeur, and glory. This sets up a world where Bohemians and aristocrats rub elbows and revel in electrifying enchantment. Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary film comes to life onsta...
You know that if a relative of Frankie Valli is involved in a performance, good things are probably going to happen. And that's exactly what occurred as Valli's granddaughter, Olivia Valli, lit up the stage as the lead role of Vivian Ward in the Los Angeles premier of Pretty Woman: The Musical which opened on Friday at The Dolby Theatre for a three week run. Frankie was also sitting in the audience which helped to channel his greatness to his granddaughter's performance. Adam Pascal (Edward...
Kentwood Players proudly presents LAUGHTER ON THE 23rd FLOOR, a Show Biz comedy by Neil Simon, Friday, July 22 through Saturday, August 6, 2022 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM, and Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00 PM at the Westchester Playhouse, located at 8301 Hindry Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90045. The production is directed by Stanley Brown and produced by Kathy Dershimer for Kentwood Players, with rights secured from Concord Theatricals. Featured in the cast in alphabetical order are...
Kentwood Players will hold open auditions for NIGHT WATCH, a noir thriller by Lucille Fletcher, on Sunday, July 31 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM and Monday, August 1, 2022 from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM. If needed, callbacks will be held by appointment only on Tuesday, August 2. This is a non-equity, non-paid production directed by Brandon Ferruccio, and co-produced for Kentwood Players by Kim Peterson and Catherine Rahm with rights secured from Dramatists Play Service, Inc. Performance dates are Friday,...
At Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre Is Cancelled Was Set to be a Part of 2022 Block Party Due to a shift in the schedule of the creative team, the Sacred Fools Theater Company production of “The Art Couple” at Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre has been cancelled. The production was previously scheduled to run August 13 through August 28, 2022, as part of the 2022 Block Party. Ticketholders will be contacted with information about exchanging into the Block Party product...
The Ojai Playwrights Conference (OPC) will celebrate 25 successful seasons with a Benefit Gala to be directed and produced by OPC Artistic Director Robert Egan at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City on June 4. This is their first major OPC event in LA. The gala tilted “Caring and Daring Together,” will feature scenes from some of the best known plays developed at OPC and will also honor the inspiration, vision and commitment of Luis Alfaro, Olga Garay-English and Kerry English (po...
Casting has been announced for the World premiere production of Dave Harris' new work, "Tambo & Bones," coming to Los Angeles at the Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre May 1 through May 29, 2022, opening May 8, 2022. A co-production with Playwrights Horizons, this explosive new work from one of the country's fastest rising playwrights will be directed by Taylor Reynolds. The cast of "Tambo & Bones" features W. Tré Davis, Tyler Fauntleroy, Tim Kopacz and Alexander Neher. The creative tea...
The Actors' Gang is extending Can’t Pay? Don’t Pay! and our April 30th CLOSING NIGHT PARTY will now be our CANT' PAY? DON'T PAY! EXTENSION PARTY. Yes, we’re still partying on April 30th! The cast and crew will take 1 week off and Can’t Pay? Don’t Pay! will return May 12th, running every Thursday and Friday through June 10th with a new FINAL PERFORMANCE and CLOSING NIGHT PARTY on Saturday, June 11th. Can’t Pay? Don’t Pay! is a show about rising prices, inflation, and the struggles of the workin...
A musical with book and lyrics by Lisa Kron, and music by Jeanine Tesori Based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel Presented at the Westchester Playhouse Directed by Kathy Dershimer with musical direction by Cheryl Gaul and produced by Jenny Boone and Harold Dershimer. Featured in the cast are Natalie Cayetano, Nico Fisher, Grant Ruckheim, Julia Sison, Jon Sparks, Amanda Webb, and Dana Weisman. Joining the cast: Amelia Fischer as John Bechdel, Ryver Townsend as Christian Bechdel Performance...
Kentwood Players presents a staged reading of A COMPLICATED HOPE, an original play by John Mabey on Sunday, March 27, 2022 at 7:00pm at the Westchester Playhouse, located at 8301 Hindry Avenue in Westchester, CA 90045. This is a non-equity, non-paid production directed by Ryan Holihan, produced for Kentwood Players by Susan Goldman Weisbarth and Marty Feldman, and features Mari King (Marie), Nadia Sine (Rose Marie), and Shawn Plunkett (Arnie). Marie and daughter Rose Marie are left adrift after...
‘Can't Pay? Don't Pay!’ written by Nobel Laureate Dario Fo and Franca Rame is returning to The Actors' Gang Theater in the old Ivy Substation on March 19, 2022, with previews beginning March 12, exactly two years from the day the theater was shuttered and had to suspend this hilarious production. Fo’s high-energy, satirical farce is directed by Bob Turton, who won a Stage Raw Award for his role, The Madman, in The Actors’ Gang’s 2019 production of Dario Fo's 'Accidental Death of an Anarchist'. Hungry and fed up by rising prices and stagnant...
Kentwood Players will hold open auditions for the musical FUN HOME with book and lyrics by Lisa Kron, music by Jeanine Tesori, based on the graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, on Saturday, March 5, 2022 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 6 from 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Call backs will be held on Monday, March 7 by appointment only. This is a non-equity, non-paid production directed by Kathy Dershimer with musical direction by Cheryl Gaul, and produced by Jenny Boone and Harold Dershimer...
Kentwood Players will hold open auditions for CLUE, a murder mystery comedy adapted from the screenplay by Jonathan Lynn, written by Sandy Rustin with additional material by Hunter Foster and Eric Price based on the Paramount Pictures Motion Picture, based on the Hasbro board game Clue. Auditions will take place on Saturday, January 22 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM and Sunday, January 23 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Callbacks will be held on Monday, January 24 at 7:00 PM by appointment only. This is a...
Culver City Public Theatre has brought back plays in the park. The Public Theatre is now presenting "Zombie Thoughts," a live outdoor performance featuring goblins and video games, at Dr. Paul Carlson Park, located at 10400 Braddock. The outdoor play will be presented at noon on Saturdays and Sundays from now until November 21. Admission is free but pre-registration is required at https://www.ccpt.org/ This family-friendly show is the west coast premiere of "Zombie Thoughts," a...
By Marni Ayers, SamoHi Theatre Producer (and mom). For almost 2 years they have been doing online theater, one mom explained. "Which was challenging, but kept them connected to each other." "The drama students literally did not know for sure if they could even perform without masks ... until this week. We literally had to wait to make sure there were no outbreaks" They rehearsed for 2 months masked. Not a single Covid case in the cast - phewwww! And now..... wait for it... Samohi Theatre is...
Created by Musical Theatre International as a fundraiser for theatres across the country, MTI's ALL TOGETHER NOW! is a musical revue featuring 15 songs from great Broadway shows including Rent, Beauty and the Beast, Once on this Island, Come From Away, Little Women, Newsies, Guys and Dolls, Godspell, Annie, Sister Act, Ragtime, Company and more. A total of 5600 theaters across the country will be performing this revue at the same time! Kentwood Players is proudly presenting MTI's ALL TOGETHER...
Kentwood Players has announced the re-opening of the newly-refurbished Westchester Playhouse with the presentation of "VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE," a comedy by Christopher Durang. The play, which opened last weekend, will run through Sunday, October 10. Shows will take place on Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. Originally slated to open in March 2020 but delayed due to the pandemic, Durang's hilarious comedy "VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND...
The 17th Season at the Kirk Douglas Theatre Includes "Alma," "Tambo & Bones" and Block Party: Celebrating Los Angeles Theatre Featuring "To T or Not To T" and "The Art Couple" in a Season Which Begins March 6, 2022. Center Theatre Group Artistic Director Michael Ritchie and Managing Director / CEO Meghan Pressman are announcing the upcoming seasons for the Mark Taper Forum and Kirk Douglas Theatre. Presenting a rich variety of work on all three of CTG's physical venues plus an offering on the...
Three-time Emmy winner Bradley Whitford ("The Handmaid's Tale," "The West Wing," "Get Out," "The Post") will play the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the magical new interpretation of Charles Dickens' timeless story, "A Christmas Carol." Adapted by Tony Award winner Jack Thorne ("Harry Potter and the Cursed Child") and originally directed and conceived by Tony Award winner Matthew Warchus ("Matilda"), "A Christmas Carol" comes to the Ahmanson Theatre November 30, 2021 through January 1, 2022....
There are eight legendary bands coming to Canyon Club's venue's at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills and The Starlight Bowl in Burbank. Air Supply will make an appearance at the Saban Theatre on September 4 and then George Benson on September 23. Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock met on May 12, 1975 at rehearsals for "Jesus Christ Superstar" in Sydney, Australia. They became instant friends with their common love for The Beatles and, of course, singing. In 1980 "Lost in Love" became the...
The Actors’ Gang, a theater group based in Culver City, is now showcasing a new virtual play about life during the Great Depression and lessons for COVID recovery. Called “We Live On,” it runs through September 6. It is based on Studs Terkel’s book “Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression.” The play explores 30 different accounts — those documented by Terkel and original stories from cast members. The play is directed by the great actor Tim Robbins, who has spent the last 40 years as co-founder and artistic director of The Actors...
