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Antaeus, L.A.’s multiple award-winning classical theater company, marks its 2012 season with a return to seminal ensemble classics. Andrew J. Traister directs the fully double-cast production of The Seagull, Anton Chekhov’s tragicomedy about life, love and the reckless pursuit of happiness. Set on a country estate by a lake in 19th century Russia, the idyllic locale belies the turbulent passions of its inhabitants. When the famed but aging actress Irina Arkádina returns home with her younger lover, she finds a household overflowing with creativity, fantasies of fame, jealousy and unrequited love.

“The Seagull is a comedy of human foibles and frailty,” explains Traister. “The behavior in the play is so human and real that it causes us to laugh at ourselves. Each character wants something that is unattainable for him.”

He laughs, “I see Chekhov as the first absurdist playwright. He took city people, put them in the country with nothing to do, and they end up eating each other.

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GENERAL ADMISSION: $30.00

Opening Nights, March 1,2: $34 Th,F: $30 (Except March 1,2) S,Sn: $34 Previews: $15

Thematic content includes: Love, Self Destruction, Highbrow, Humor

DATES AND TIMES

This show runs: 03/01/2012 to 04/15/2012

Thursdays: 8:00pm
Fridays: 8:00pm
Saturdays: 8:00pm
Sundays: 2:00pm

Preview Performances from Feb 25 - Feb 29 Thurs, Fri, Sat @ 8pm Sun @ 2pm Tues & Wed @ 8pm (only preview performances)

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Receiving its Los Angeles debut before returning to New York for an eight week run, REDCAT is hosting Rinde Eckert’s contemporary opera AND GOD CREATED GREAT WHALES through the weekend.

This rework of the production that toured in the early aughts is a streamlined success featuring several incredible duets between Rinde Eckert as Nathan and Nora Cole as Olivia, both his internal muse and real life ‘favorite’ retired Opera star.

Eckert treats its audience to a peak inside a crumbling mind as it reaches the ecstatic heights of a creative journey. His opera is a stunning, poignant dramatization of the decline of a man fighting back against his degrading memory long enough to complete his magnum opus, an opera based on Melville’s Moby Dick.

The conceit that pushes the plot forward is simple, and ingenious. Before his neurological issues progressed too far, Nathan has recorded specific instructions and reminders for himself on cassette tapes. Each day, Nathan listens to his instructions and continues to write, noting thoughts and ideas in several color coded cassette recorders strewn about his workroom.

By dramatizing Nathan’s struggle to work in his incapacitated state, Eckert is able to boldly wink at the audience while sending up long standing operatic/ symphonic traditions. Nathan’s explanation to himself of how woodwinds are used to play the part of different birds, and what Sopranos and Altos (singers) should be used for, are quite hilarious bits of ochestrational instruction.

Nathan straps his instructional cassette recorder over his jacket like a life preserver, in the hopes of rescuing this recluse from his wild, open ocean of a lost mind. Eventually Nathan straps on one over another, an operatic Frank Black bulking up on armor to keep the perilous world at bay. Instead of guitars, he layers himself with the comfort of a familiar voice intoning instructions meant to incite the completion of our hero’s quest for his own white whale.

AND GOD CREATED GREAT WHALES asks us to face up to our own mortality and the fragility of our human condition. “Nature is a bitch,” and it does not let us escape from our personal horrors and terrors, nor the prison of our ever rotting body and mind.

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GENERAL ADMISSION: $25.00

$16-25

Thematic content includes: Singing, Live Music, Dance/ Movement, Site Specific

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This show runs: 01/25/2012 to 01/29/2012

Wednesdays: 8:30 pm
Thursdays: 8:30 pm
Fridays: 8:30 pm
Saturdays: 8:30 pm
Sundays: 3:00 pm

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At its absolute best and brilliant moments, Troilus & Cressida is a kinetic, thrilling, and powerful look at an unfortunate, useless family feud; the Trojan war.

The Porters of Hellsgate open strong, using fun and forceful tribal choreography to launch the audience in to the midst of the ongoing struggle over the possession of a human treasure, Helen, Queen of Troy.

The cast offers striking beats of emotional and lyrical syncopation. Nearly every performer hits it out of the park at least once in delivering a moment of clear connection to the text, context, and fellow players, providing the Porters’ Troilus & Cressida the promise of top notch play.

The Porters’ production zings and bursts beyond the trappings of it’s NOHO Black Box in the physical expressions of the war itself. The climactic fights at the end of the show, and the tidbits of choreography drizzled throughout as tantalizing teaser serve only to cement its lesser aspects. What if Director Charles Pasternak had found more ways to liven the non physical scenes to foster better engagement with an audience disinclined to head out to a four hundred year old play? The lackluster execution of costumes and other production design limitations distract as Troilus & Cressida exposes its own flaw- a vacillation of tone which this show struggles to overcome.

Unfortunately, Troilus & Cresida is bogged down in uneven performances detailing Grecian and Trojan meditations on the meaning of life, value of war, and machinations of the pride of a warrior- not to mention the title’s (sub)plot of Troilus’ determined, yet ultimately futile attempt to secure his true love as his bride.

With their Troilus & Cressida, The Porters of Hellsgate add to their collection of solid attacks on classic works. While this show is enjoying a bit of a renaissance of late, there IS a reason it is not oft produced. The Porters have found a way to attack the show and make the most of their company’s resources. This production should please patrons seeking out classical theater and adventurous audiences up to the challenge of Shakespeare’s verse in an infrequently produced play that momentarily transcends the limitations of a 99 and under contract.

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GENERAL ADMISSION: $20.00

$15.00 for students/seniors 60+/AEA

Thematic content includes: Love, Sex, Violence, Self Destruction, Dance/ Movement, Highbrow, Lowbrow, Humor

DATES AND TIMES

This show runs: 01/13/2012 to 02/19/2012

Wednesdays: 8:30 pm
Thursdays: 8:30 pm
Fridays: 8:00pm
Saturdays: 8:00pm
Sundays: 2:00pm

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11006 Magnolia Blvd
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Anita Barone, Anne Gee Byrd, Maritxell Carrero, Tobias Hess, James Hiroyuki Liao, Alex Morris, A.K. Murtadha, Taylor Nichols, Linda Park, Taylor Scofield and Armand Vasquez are all set to return when The Matrix Theatre Company brings back its acclaimed multiracial staging of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons for a limited five-week run beginning February 17.

“This is the first time in our 30-year history that we’re bringing a production back,” announced Matrix Theatre Company producer Joseph Stern. “The response from both critics and audiences was just overwhelming, and the entire cast wanted to continue.”

In All My Sons, Joe Keller and Steve Deever, partners in a machine shop during World War II, knowingly turned out defective airplane parts that caused the deaths of many men. Now, the past has come back to haunt their families. Miller’s gripping tale of corporate greed versus social responsibility remains as electrifying today as when first presented in 1947, but Stern and director Cameron Watson have upped the ante, presenting this non-traditionally cast version as the third play in a trilogy examining race in America through the lens of different playwrights.

“This production is a gut-puncher,” wrote the Los Angeles Times when All My Sons first opened last fall. The LA. Weekly agreed, calling it “A riveting production… a rare and excellent rendition of the play. GO!” Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle member Madeleine Shaner enthused, ““Never have I been so moved… Go, Go, Go, GO!”

In Working Author, Earnest Kearney admitted, “Going into the production I was troubled by the notion of its non-traditional casting. Well I stand corrected. By his choice of an ethnically diverse cast, Stern has brought to the forefront of our receptiveness the play’s profound ‘universal truth’ in the shadow of which the loss of a ‘historical reality’ went all but unnoticed.”

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GENERAL ADMISSION: $25.00

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This show runs: 02/17/2012 to 03/18/2012

Wednesdays: 8:30 pm
Thursdays: 8:30 pm
Fridays: 8:00pm
Saturdays: 8:00pm
Sundays: 2:00pm

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Los Angeles, CA
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7657 Melrose Avenue
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BEFORE THE REVOLUTION, is a playful, thought provoking, absurd theatre piece about what it might’ve been like for black ballerina, Eleanora Antinova, to be a part of the first international modernist ballet company, the Ballet Russes. Through the course of the piece Antinova, played by Ovation Nominated, Daniele Watts, imagines what it would be like to play an aging Russian Ballerina, Marie Antoinette, and even a minstrel performer in her attempt to challenge and examine what is expected of her as a performing artist.

Life size paper doll-like puppets and an ensemble of four dynamic actors add to the magic, humor and heartbreak of this bold re-imagining of esteemed performance artist, Eleanor Antin’s groundbreaking debut at The Kitchen in 1979.

Directed by Robert Castro. Performed by Daniele Watts, Matthew Henderson, Jonathan Le Billon, Maria Tomas, Jacob Bruce. Sound Design: John Zalewsk , Choreography: Yolande Snaith, Scenic / Costume Design: Victoria Petrovich, Ben Zamora: Lighting Design.

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GENERAL ADMISSION: $0

FREE! NO RSVPS. FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE. HAMMER MEMBERS RECEIVE PRIORITY SEATING.

Thematic content includes: Bring Kids, Love, Self Destruction, Puppets, Dance/ Movement, Humor

DATES AND TIMES

This show runs: 01/29/2012 to 01/29/2012

Wednesdays: 8:30 pm
Thursdays: 8:30 pm
Fridays: 8:00pm
Saturdays: 8:00pm
Sundays: 2:00pm, 7:00pm

SUNDAY 2PM & 7PM - 2 SHOWS ONLY

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10899 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
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Kristen Toedtman, a piano, and a microphone. Hear her croon original soul/pop songs of forbidden love (Somebody Else), lost love (Old Gibbous) and dangerous love (I’m No Stalker). You will probably laugh. And cry. Kristen will probably ask you to sing. And snap.

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Kristen Toedtman Solo

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GENERAL ADMISSION: $10.00

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Thematic content includes: Love, Singing, Live Music

DATES AND TIMES

This show runs: 01/27/2012 to 01/27/2012

Wednesdays: 8:30 pm
Thursdays: 8:30 pm
Fridays: 9:00pm
Saturdays: 8:00pm
Sundays: 2:00pm, 7:00pm

One Night Only!

Room 5 Lounge: 323-938-2504 MAP

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Room 5 Lounge
143 North La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles, CA
90036
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Company of Angels presents The World Premiere of Wind Chimes. Upon the return of a volatile relative, past joys and pains are reexamined and secrets are revealed. Each family member must decide what it means to forgive and be forgiven.

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GENERAL ADMISSION: $20

Previews $10 Seniors $15 w/I.D Students $12 w/I.D

Thematic content includes: Redemption, Love, Adultery, Sex

DATES AND TIMES

This show runs: 02/17/2012 to 03/18/2012

Wednesdays: 8:30 pm
Thursdays: 8:30 pm
Fridays: 8:00pm
Saturdays: 8:00pm
Sundays: 7:00pm

Added performance-Thursday March 1, 8pm

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501 S. Spring St., 3rd Floor
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Ratatat Theater Group, in association with Son of Semele, presents….

A layer cake of zany farce and deep reflection, Roses is an existential comedy by about trying to find a clear signal in the noise of modern life. Two men dig through the clutter of their hearts, minds, and personal histories—tossing around philosophical time-bombs, dressing up in women’s clothing, dancing about in cardboard boxes, and getting very, very lost.

Called “An entirely fresh and unique work of theater” (Noozhawk) and “A triumph of creative expression in all its giddy glory” (Santa Barbara Independent), Roses is play about trying to live and stay awake through the habits, static, and competing truths of our lives.

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GENERAL ADMISSION: $18.00

$35 for Festival Pass (1 ticket to each of the four productions in Company Creation Festival). This production is part of Company Creation Festival @ Son of Semele Theater... four productions generated by ensembles, running in repertory.

Thematic content includes: Redemption, Love, Self Destruction, Humor

DATES AND TIMES

This show runs: 01/18/2012 to 03/04/2012

Wednesdays: 8:00pm
Thursdays: 8:00pm
Fridays: 8:00pm
Saturdays: 8:00pm
Sundays: 5:00pm

Performances are on: 1/18, 1/19, 1/20, 2/4, 2/5, 2/15, 2/16, 2/17, 3/3, 3/4

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Director/Adapter Holly L. Derr, in association with Son of Semele, presents…

“As Long as Fear Can Turn to Wrath,” an adaptation of selected chapters of a certain great American novel, begins by illuminating the consequences of an unregulated home loan industry. We then follow the collective Okies as they are swindled by used car dealers, forced to beg for bread to feed their children, denied pay for work they have already performed, and kicked off the one piece of land – the Hooverville – they have chosen to occupy.

By focusing not on any one individual or family but rather on the more than 300,000 people that made up the “Okies,” our production shows that the scourge of poverty infects whole societies, not just individuals. The problems these families face and the conclusions they draw are separated from those of today only by time, not by sentiment. (Check out our tumblr of images relating then to now.) In this piece, we hope to reveal the consequences of joblessness, convince the viewer that our current path will only lead to more division, and reinforce the necessity of collective action in solving problems.

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GENERAL ADMISSION: $18.00

This production is running in repertory as part of Company Creation Festival @ Son of Semele Theater, four new works generated by ensembles.

Thematic content includes: Redemption, Love

DATES AND TIMES

This show runs: 01/11/2012 to 01/26/2012

Wednesdays: 8:00pm
Thursdays: 8:00pm
Fridays: 8:00pm
Saturdays: 8:00pm
Sundays: 5:00pm

Performance dates: 1/11, 1/12, 1/13, 1/28, 1/29, 2/8, 2/9, 2/10, 2/25, 2/26

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The Informers, in association with Son of Semele, presents…

As epic as your first kiss and a personal as a Facebook poke, “i wonder if it’s possible to have a love affair that lasts forever, or things i found on craigslist,” written by Christopher Oscar Peña with music and lyrics by Melissa Lusk, is The Big Chill for millennials.

In the face of their ten-year high school reunion, a group of 20-somethings still caught up in yesterday wake up to find themselves still searching a sense of purpose. The group are forced to confront their crippling insecurities and emotional baggage. Secrets are shared and people are “no longer in a relationship” as the personal becomes public in this gripping, witty insight into making it all work in web 2.0. …things i found on craigslist is about ambivalence, connection and finding yourself – and love – in the internet age.

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i wonder if it’s possible to have a love affair that lasts forever or things i found on craigslist

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GENERAL ADMISSION: $18

This production is running in repertory as part of Company Creation Festival @ Son of Semele, four new works generated by ensembles.

Thematic content includes: Love, Sex, Drug Use, Nudity, Singing, Lowbrow

DATES AND TIMES

This show runs: 01/14/2012 to 02/24/2012

Wednesdays: 8:00pm
Thursdays: 8:00pm
Fridays: 8:00pm
Saturdays: 8:00pm
Sundays: 5:00pm

Performances are: 1/14, 1/15, 1/25, 1/26, 1/27, 2/11, 2/12, 2/22, 2/23, 2/24

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