tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81739307968109472552024-03-13T08:41:10.305-07:00Drama geekConversation and commentary for theater-lovers woldwideKristen Howertonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11055131545156196477noreply@blogger.comBlogger163125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173930796810947255.post-84895190624468726132016-09-01T09:00:00.000-07:002016-09-01T09:00:23.088-07:00True Romance at Cinespia Sunday, September 4th<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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One of the most underrated and best movies of the 90s is playing at Cinespia this Sunday, September 4. Written by Tony Scott, the romance-adventure flick stars Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Christopher Walken, Patricia Arquette, Christian Slater, Val Kilmer, and Brad Pitt in his self-proclaimed favorite role ever. Movie starts at 8. Gates open at 6:45. </div>
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Lindsey Anthony-Bacchionehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03573803642636484054noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173930796810947255.post-28757530732198551262016-08-31T20:38:00.004-07:002016-08-31T20:39:14.315-07:00The Birds this Saturday, September 3rd, at Cinespia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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One of my favorite movies of all time! If you haven't experienced a film at Cinespia at the Hollywood Cemetery, <i>The Birds</i> is a great film to introduce you to the outdoor movie experience. Gates open at 6:45. Come early, come prepared. Movie starts at 8pm. For more information check out <a href="http://cinespia.org/event/alfred-hitchcocks-birds/">cinespia.org</a>.</div>
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Lindsey Anthony-Bacchionehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03573803642636484054noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173930796810947255.post-36311355427309483462016-08-15T12:01:00.001-07:002016-08-15T12:01:09.260-07:00The Suitcase at Echo Theatre Company thru August 25<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Inspired by the true story of Michel Leleu, the son of a French Jew murdered at Auschwitz who recognized his father's suitcase at an exhibition at the Shoah, <i>The Suitcase</i> explores a father and son relationship an <i>asks us to consider what we are responsible for in the wake of enormous national tragedy.</i> Described as surreal yet humorous, this is one of the best theatre companies in LA and is sure to deliver a refreshing piece of theatre. For more information, check out <a href="http://www.echotheatercompany.com/1266-2/">echotheatrecompany.com</a></div>
Lindsey Anthony-Bacchionehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03573803642636484054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173930796810947255.post-15193314098471263232016-07-28T06:00:00.000-07:002016-07-28T06:00:28.756-07:00FringeNYC coming August 12 - 28<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The New York International Fringe Festival is coming August 12 - 28. If you want to see innovative, fresh theatre before you have to pay hundreds of dollars for one ticket, spend $18 on a ticket with 200 shows to choose from. For more information check out <a href="http://fringenyc.org/">fringenyc.or</a>g.</div>
Lindsey Anthony-Bacchionehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03573803642636484054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173930796810947255.post-84320540534445392972016-07-27T15:41:00.004-07:002016-07-27T15:41:43.047-07:00Reel Harlem Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival 2016: Purple Rain this Monday, August 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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On Monday, August 1st at Marcus Garvey Park, Reel Harlem Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival will feature <i>Purple Rain </i>and live music starting at 6:00 p.m. Free admission!</div>
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Lindsey Anthony-Bacchionehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03573803642636484054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173930796810947255.post-89237991082430564152016-07-20T14:42:00.004-07:002016-07-20T14:42:52.830-07:00In & Of Itself - Final Extension at the Geffen, Closes August 28<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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If you have not had a chance to see the widely critically acclaimed <i>In & Of Itself, </i>tickets will be in short supply as the final extension for this play was just announced. The new show by Derek DelGaudio has been described as <i>a show constructed as a metaphoric labyrinth, filled with allegorical illusions and centered around a single paradoxical truth.</i> The artist blurs the lines between art and magic and uses magic tricks to tell unravel a more personal and moving narrative. For more information, check out <a href="http://geffenplayhouse.org/in-and-of-itself">geffenplayhouse.org</a>.</div>
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Lindsey Anthony-Bacchionehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03573803642636484054noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173930796810947255.post-64098495342959879792016-07-11T15:21:00.001-07:002016-07-11T15:21:57.199-07:00The New York Musical Festival, July 11 - August 7<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A fun, vibrant and diverse festival to "ensure the future vitality of musicals." To check out the line up and book tickets, go to <a href="http://www.nymf.org/">http://www.nymf.org/</a>. </div>
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Lindsey Anthony-Bacchionehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03573803642636484054noreply@blogger.com78tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173930796810947255.post-22746753772625431292016-07-11T15:08:00.005-07:002016-07-11T15:08:56.475-07:00Go Back To Where You Are rehearsal process at the Odyssey Theatre<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Another gem coming out of the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, <i>Go Back To Where You Are </i>is a love story for the theatre lover, opening July 16 and running through September 4. For more information, check out <a href="http://www.odysseytheatre.com/go_back_where_you_are.php">odysseytheatre.com</a>.</div>
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Lindsey Anthony-Bacchionehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03573803642636484054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173930796810947255.post-53764092165251318352016-06-23T06:00:00.000-07:002016-06-23T06:00:05.042-07:00World premiere of Blueprint for Paradise by Laurel M. Wetzork - July 30 at the Hudson Theatres in Hollywood<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Set in 1941 during the weeks leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, and inspired by true events, Wetzork imagines the relationship between African-American architect </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Paul Revere Williams</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> (designer of landmark L.A. buildings including Saks Fifth Ave and the Los Angeles County Courthouse, as well as private residences for Bert Lahr, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and Frank Sinatra) and a wealthy American couple who employed him to design a compound and training ground for Nazi sympathizers.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The ruins of an abandoned WWII Nazi compound in Pacific Palisades, known today as the ‘Murphy Ranch,’ are the inspiration for this new play. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The Athena Cats </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">presents the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">world premiere </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b>Blueprint for Paradise</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> by </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Laurel M</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Wetzork</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, opening </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">July 30</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> at the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> Hudson Theatres</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> in Hollywood.</span></i></span><br />
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Lindsey Anthony-Bacchionehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03573803642636484054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173930796810947255.post-12997660395129457622016-06-22T20:36:00.002-07:002016-06-22T20:36:57.512-07:00Greenway Court Theatre presents a revival of Not Man Apart Physical Theatre Ensemble’s Ajax in Iraq<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Raw, dynamic, heartfelt, and volatile, </span><span style="background-color: white;">Ajax in Iraq</span><span style="background-color: white;"> parallels the lives of ancient and modern heroes. This stunning physical drama grapples with issues that have become all too well known to the American public – sexual abuse against women in the military, war of occupation, post-traumatic stress disorder, and the price of committing combat troops to situations that may have no end. Ellen McLaughlin’s electrifying play intertwines the story of A.J., a female U.S. Army combatant, with the legend of Ajax, a Greek Hero of the Trojan War whose story is said to be the first documented case of PTSD. The result is shocking, captivating, strangely humorous, and relentlessly honest."</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">For more information, ch<span style="font-family: inherit;">eck ou<a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_2114955550">t </a></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.greenwaycourttheatre.org/ajaxiniraq/">http://www.greenwaycourttheatre.org/ajaxiniraq/</a>.</span><br />
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Lindsey Anthony-Bacchionehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03573803642636484054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173930796810947255.post-24936487464921038652016-06-15T22:19:00.002-07:002016-06-15T22:19:52.337-07:00The Blank Theatre's Young Playwrights Festival through June 26, 2016<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Having once been a festival playwright, I have also returned as an audience member for several years and have always found a special delight in <a href="http://www.theblank.com/">The Blank Theatre's <i>Young Playwrights Festival</i>.</a> If you are looking for a little light and hope (even the dark angsty youth stuff), treat yourself and your family to this amazing festival that always brings me so much joy. The kids are alright.<br />
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Lindsey Anthony-Bacchionehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03573803642636484054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173930796810947255.post-84063824651884093142016-06-07T06:00:00.000-07:002016-06-07T06:00:20.883-07:00‘Home/Sick’ at Odyssey Theatre now playing through July 3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Lindsey Anthony-Bacchionehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03573803642636484054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173930796810947255.post-38075161063591667822016-06-06T13:11:00.001-07:002016-06-06T13:11:20.819-07:00Eugene O'Neill's 'The Hairy Ape' now playing at Odyssey Theatre<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Steven Berkoff </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">directs a rare production of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Eugene O’Neill</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">’s 1922 expressionist play </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><em>The Hairy Ape</em></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">at West L.A.’s </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Odyssey Theatre now playing through July 17.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">O’Neill’s critique of class stratification is the story of Robert “Yank” Smith, a brutish ship laborer who searches for a sense of belonging in a world controlled by the wealthy elite. As head coal stoker on an ocean liner, Yank is in his element: he rules his dark, smoky world. But when the pale, spoiled daughter of the ship's owner visits the engine room for a thrill, she is at once repulsed and terrified by Yank and what she sees there. Half in love with the unattainable and half blinded by rage, the bewildered Yank blunders violently through Manhattan seeking revenge and trying to understand his place on “de oith.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Stowe’s most famous novel about a slave who demonstrates great strength in the face of overwhelming brutality rallied abolitionists worldwide. Inspired by the draconian measures of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 — which made it illegal to help or harbor runaway slaves — and by the words of former slave, social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer and statesman Frederick Douglas, Stowe first released ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin’ in serial format in a weekly newspaper beginning June 5, 1851 with the subtitle ‘The Man That Was a Thing.’ Director Ellen Geer sets her adaptation 35 years later, in 1886, following the death of Stowe’s husband. According to historians, that was the year when Stowe’s health began to deteriorate and she succumbed to what is now believed to have been Alzheimer’s. Obsessed with ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ she devoted the remainder of her life to re-writing it again and again.</i></span></span><br />
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Lindsey Anthony-Bacchionehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03573803642636484054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173930796810947255.post-46906114501520914902016-05-27T01:06:00.001-07:002016-05-27T01:06:12.685-07:00Tony Award-winning comedy 'Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike' by Christopher Durang opening at ICT June 10<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">A witty mashup of Chekhov’s </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Uncle Vanya, The Seagull</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The Cherry Orchard</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, Durang’s off-kilter romp is set in bucolic Bucks County, PA. There, middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonia have frittered their lives away in the family farmhouse full of regret, angst and the alarmingly ambiguous prophecies of their addled house cleaner Cassandra. Enter their sister, self-absorbed movie star Masha, with her prized 20-something boy toy Spike, and the stage is set for an absurd weekend of abundant comic twists that pays loving homage to Chekhov’s classic themes of loss and longing. </span></i></span><br />
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Nominated for four Tony awards and directed by Ivo Van Hove, Arthur Miller's <i>The Crucible</i> is running for 8 short weeks on Broadway. Lauded and loved by the critics and starring Saoirse Ronan as Abigail Williams, this one is not to be missed. </div>
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Gospel and rock n' roll take hold of the Public Theatre with Stew and Heidi Rodewald's (of <i>Passing Strange) </i>new breakout musical, <i>The Total Bent. "</i><i>When a British record producer arrives in Montgomery, Alabama to hook Marty Roy, a young black musical prodigy, he launches us back into Marty’s tumultuous upbringing. The son of a gospel star and self-proclaimed healer, Marty spent his childhood writing the songs that have made his charismatic father famous. But in a nation on the verge of social upheaval, with the rising heat from the street guiding his pen, Marty finds himself at odds with his spiritually forceful father as he strives to create a masterpiece that will change America— no matter the cost."</i></div>
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Peter Shaffer's <i>Amadeus</i> opens in 1870 with the stark raving mad Antonio Salieri, once the most revered composer in Vienna. He claims that he killed Mozart, his one time rival, who died 30 years earlier. The play takes the audience on a journey (back in time) to unravel the delusions or possible confession of an artist now past his prime. For tickets, check out <a href="http://www.scr.org/calendar/view?id=7761">scr.org</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 22px;">Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, <i>Weiner</i>, captures an unflinching account of a political campaign at its ultimate peak and its disastrous unraveling when decimated with scandal. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 22px;">Independent at LACMA and the New York Times Film Club presents a free screening of </span><a href="http://www.lacma.org/event/weiner" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #aa0000; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Weiner</em></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; line-height: 22px;"> (2016) on Monday at 7:30 pm at the museum’s Bing Theatre. </span></span></div>
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This summer rings in the 54th Anniversary of <i>Shakespeare in the Park</i> at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. Brought to you by the Public Theater, <i>The Taming of the Shrew </i>will begin May 24 and run through June 26 followed by the rarely produced play <i>Troilus and Cressida. </i>Tickets are free and distributed (2 per person) at the Delacorte Theater at noon on the day of shows. For more information, check out <a href="http://www.centralpark.com/guide/activities/shakespeare-in-the-park.html">centralpark.com</a>. </div>
Lindsey Anthony-Bacchionehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03573803642636484054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173930796810947255.post-8425736308099725152016-05-13T10:40:00.001-07:002016-05-13T10:40:26.828-07:00Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival 2016 kicks of its summer season with Richard III on June 25<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival 2016 kicks of its summer season with <i>Richard III</i> on June 25. <i>The Tempest</i> begins July 30. The performance site is at the Old Zoo in Griffith Park. There is an uphill walk to get there. Children and picnics welcome. But alcohol is prohibited, and so is censorship, so keep that in mind when explaining some adult themes to the littles. Dogs are also kindly asked to stay home.</div>
Lindsey Anthony-Bacchionehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03573803642636484054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8173930796810947255.post-57918627794366677152016-05-11T06:00:00.000-07:002016-05-11T06:00:09.132-07:00‘Romeo and Juliet’ in East Jerusalem kicks off the 2016 summer repertory season at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum’s outdoor amphitheater - June 4<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Kicking off the 2016 summer repertory season at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">’s outdoor amphitheater on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">June 4, d</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">irector </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Ellen Geer </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">re-sets William Shakespeare’s </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><em>Romeo and Juliet</em></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> in East Jerusalem,.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Theatricum is best known for its productions that frame contemporary social issues through the lens of classic literature.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> Geer says, “We place the story in a city currently divided by political and cultural strife. The lovers are able to see beyond the narrow scope of the world in which they live and find <span style="font-family: inherit;">each other in spite of it all.”</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><em style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Romeo and Juliet </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">opens on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Saturday, <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1168107681" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">June 4</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">7:30 p.m</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. and continues through </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1168107685" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Oct. 2</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. Tickets range from</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">$10-$38.50</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">; children 4 and under are </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">free</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> is located at </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">1419 North Topanga Canyon Blvd</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. in Topanga, midway between Malibu and the San Fernando Valley. For a complete schedule of performances and to purchase tickets, call </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">310</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">-</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">455-3723</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> or log onto </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://ZDSCommunications.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data%3DHHL%253d%2540%252c94A%2526JDG%253c%253d2%253c180.LP%253f%2540083%253a%26RE%3DMC%26RI%3D4902059%26Preview%3DFalse%26DistributionActionID%3D10316%26Action%3DFollow%2BLink&source=gmail&ust=1462917257355000&usg=AFQjCNEU2m-nqlhjbFG2vmRy49D_r5gCzQ" href="http://zdscommunications.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d%40%2c94A%26JDG%3c%3d2%3c180.LP%3f%40083%3a&RE=MC&RI=4902059&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=10316&Action=Follow+Link" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.theatricum.com</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Matrix Theatre will present a mini Australian theater festival in June, when L.A.’s Australian Theatre Company presents a ‘Double Feature’ of two celebrated Australian plays that were made into movies and ATC’s second annual free reading series - all over the course of 3-1/2 weeks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Kicking things off on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1168107605" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Monday, June 6 at 8 p.m.</span></span> is Andrew Bovell’s noir psychological thriller, <em>Speaking in Tongues</em>. Two couples set out to betray their partners… a lover returns from the past… a husband doesn’t answer the phone… and a neighbor is the prime suspect when a woman disappears.<br /><br />Brendan Cowell’s <em>Ruben Guthrie, </em>opening on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1168107606" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Tuesday, June 7</span></span>, takes an affecting and darkly comic look at alcoholism and the impact of Australia’s drinking culture. A Sydney adman who spirals high, then crashes hard, it’s the story not only of his battle with the bottle — but also of the city that won't let him put it down.<br /><br /><em>Speaking in Tongues </em>and <em>Ruben Guthrie </em>run <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1168107601" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">June 6</span></span> through <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1168107614" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">June 28</span></span>, alternating performances on Mondays at 8 p.m.; Tuesdays at 8 p.m.; Thursdays at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1168107615" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">8 p.m.</span></span>; Fridays at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1168107616" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">8 p.m.</span></span>; Saturdays at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1168107618" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">4 p.m.</span></span> and <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1168107619" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">8 p.m.</span></span>; andSundays at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. The <em>Works by Women</em> free reading series takes place on Wednesdays at 8 p.m.Please scroll down for a complete schedule of performances.<br /><br />For reservations and information, call <a href="tel:%28323%29%20960-4443" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" value="+13239604443">(323) 960-4443</a> or go to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://ZDSCommunications.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data%3DHHL%253d%2540%252c%253a0%253b%2526JDG%253c%253d2%253c180.LP%253f%2540083%253a%26RE%3DMC%26RI%3D4902059%26Preview%3DFalse%26DistributionActionID%3D10367%26Action%3DFollow%2BLink&source=gmail&ust=1462917257395000&usg=AFQjCNEAvEvfodJiJPm4xu7IeQ9rNYLS2A" href="http://zdscommunications.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d%40%2c%3a0%3b%26JDG%3c%3d2%3c180.LP%3f%40083%3a&RE=MC&RI=4902059&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=10367&Action=Follow+Link" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.AustralianTheatreCompany.<wbr></wbr>com</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Stopping By </i>written by actress Barbara Tarbuck is a loving, touching and often hilarious solo show about a 74-year-old woman who sets out to take her husband’s ashes to Burning Man, where she encounters the vast open space, violent dust storms, glowing night skies and uninhibited joy of thousands. Tickets are $20 at </span></span><span class="s2"><a href="http://zdscommunications.pr-optout.com/Tracking.aspx?Data=HHL%3d%40%2c98%3f%26JDG%3c%3d2%3c180.LP%3f%40083%3a&RE=MC&RI=4902059&Preview=False&DistributionActionID=10356&Action=Follow+Link">www.edgemarcenter.org</a></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> or call </span>(310) 392-7327.</div>
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