Join The Anchor Babies for a night of #goodvibes dancing and fun!

We have a new EP hitting the internet and some stores on March 6th, but we are pre-releasing it at our show March 2nd. Come shake your booty with LA’s tropical punk sensation!

21+ • $5 at the door • Doors at 8:30 • On the Rox (upstairs at The Roxy)

Line-up:

Noble Creatures
Jeff Cohlman
The Lucky Lonely
The Anchor Babies – we are on last, but come support all the artists
DJ Kid Peace spinning in between bands!!!

Jill Charlotte Thomas’ meticulously researched new play explores the events leading up to the Manson family murders of 1969 and suggests a friendship between Charles Manson and coffee heiress and murder victim Abigail Folger. This alternative theory suggests that the killings may not have been entirely random, that the attackers may have known their victims and that there was a cover-up to protect Folger’s reputation. The MET Theatre Artistic Director L. Flint Esquerra directs the production.

**THIS PLAY IS A WORK OF FICTION. ALTHOUGH IT IS INSPIRED BY REAL PEOPLE AND ACTUAL EVENTS, IT IS NOT, AND IS NOT INTENDED TO BE, AN ACCURATE PORTRAYAL OF REAL PEOPLE, REAL INCIDENTS OR HISTORICAL EVENTS AS THEY ACTUALLY OCCURRED.**

“Daniel Eisenberg’s films are celluloid tapestries woven together out of histories and memories, night and day, daily life and reflection…”
- Ulrike Ottinger

“The cinema of Daniel Eisenberg makes the present waiver. These rigorously formal films are timepieces that are at once documents of the dynamic present, and an interrogation of the meanings produced from the materials our culture uses to connect to the flow of time.”
– Jeffrey Skoller

What do a luxury automobile, a wall clock, and a cymbal have in common? Daniel Eisenberg’s (Persistence, Something More Than Night) latest film, The Unstable Object (2011) is an elegant and visually sensual essay on contemporary models of production.

Interested in the ways “things” affect both producer and consumer, Eisenberg travels to a Volkswagen factory in Dresden, Germany, where individualized cars are hand-built by high-tech specialists; to Chicago Lighthouse Industries, where blind workers produce wall clocks for government offices; and to a deafening cymbal factory in Istanbul, Turkey, where sought-after cymbals are cast and hammered by hand, exactly as they were 400 years ago. Through sequences sympathetic to each site and subject that highlight the senses of sight, sound, and touch, The Unstable Object quietly probes the relationships our global economy creates among individuals around the world.

In person: Daniel Eisenberg

Curated by Steve Anker and Bérénice Reynaud.

Funded in part with generous support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Jack H. Skirball Series

Facing a warm crowd eager for entertainment, Mx Justin Vivian Bond knew just how to hit all the right marks in an evening of cabaret tailor made for an audience of bent urbanites who are over it all… including themselves.

Mx Bond’s sumptuous baritone was supported by Lance Horne and Nathann Carrera on piano and/ or guitar for songs that not only registered emotionally time and time again with the audience, but pierced and cracked the hard shells of the basement crowd at REDCAT with choices plucked from the radio of the 1970s, and mixed in a few originals and covers including an incredible rendition of HOMAGE TO MARAT from The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charendon Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade.

Mx Bond took the time throughout the evening to open up to the crowd, easily identifying with the misunderstood and marginalized perched on uncomfortable chairs as the ‘real art patrons’ listened to the conducting of Dudamel upon cushy thrones above them. Honesty can be funny- and brutal. Where else are you going to hear “…if Whitney Houston would have stayed a lesbian she would be alive today.”

But the attack was not on Whitney. It was a slur upon the societal machinery that forces cookie cutter heroes and artists. The message was to “…let people be who they are.” The show was one of hope. A shot in the arm to the people of like minds who would have preferred Karen Carpenter alive- talking like a trucker and walking like a Mack truck. The politics, and sexual politics, of choice, being, expression, and freedom were played for laughs, but always lurking just beneath the surface.

Mx Bond encouraged the crowd to rise up and be heard. To be respected. To find their power. One cannot help but feel better about oneself after experiencing Low Double Standards: An Entitlement Program. Someone out there loves you just the way you are. One just has to wonder… what impact would Bond’s work have on those whose social and political views run counter to his own? The growing popularity and acceptance of his act might let us know sooner than later.

J.E.T Studios welcomes Samantha Martin and the Amazing Acro-Cats, one of four performing house-cat troupes in the US, for Two Days Only The Amazing Acro-Cats will perform their Remarkable feats of agility (remarkable because they’re …you know…house cats) pushing carts, riding skateboards, rolling barrels, ringing bells, turning on lights, walking tight ropes, jumping through hoops, and much more!

The all cat combo, “The Rock-Cats” have grown in size, style and diversity! We have two new band members! In addition to Pinky on guitar, Dakota on drums and Nue on keyboards, Hen-diana Jones, who happens to be a chicken, can really peck a tambourine. Band manager, Tuna decided that every song needs more cowbell so instead of just a jazz ensemble these cats are now into Latin grooves and have an island rhythm section!

Under the careful direction of master trainer Samantha Martin, the performance offers a unique blend of spectacle, entertainment, education and public awareness. As a pioneering feline behavioral expert, Martin has devoted her life to animal welfare and public education helping people better understand their animal counterparts.

Don’t miss this special opportunity to experience the Amazing Acro-Cats! This family friendly show is unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.

Before presenting the West Coast Premiere on its Main Stage, Theatre Unleashed is offering a SNEAK PEAK of the cult classic superhero musical The Spidey Project: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility.

The Broadway parody that made waves on the East Coast follows nerdy social outcast Peter Parker as he takes on an alterego to battle a dastardly collection of terrifying villains and perhaps his biggest nemesis of all…himself.

An Evening With Spidey and Friends takes features the cast performing musical numbers from the show, stand up comics, illusionists and improv artists performing superhero related material! Come see a sneak peek of the show before anyone else!

On the heels of the hit New York production comes the West Coast premiere of The Spidey Project: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility by Justin Moran, Jon Roufaeal, Adam Podd and Doug Katsaros.

Nerdy social outcast Peter Parker takes on an alter ego as he attempts to defeat a dastardly collection of terrifying villains and perhaps his biggest nemesis of all: himself. This original musical and Broadway parody made waves on the East Coast and TU is proud to have it open the 2012 Season.

“A dialogue of gazes between artists from Mexico and the USA…with the powerful flight of imagination.” Martín Acosta

Presented by CalArts Center for New Peformance
in association with Duende CalArts and UDG Cultura
World premiere WRITTEN BY ALEJANDRO RICAÑO • DIRECTED BY MARTÍN ACOSTA

Strangers find their lives suddenly intertwined by acts of violence and corruption in Timboctou, a wryly humorous and provocative new play written by Alejandro Ricaño and set against the volatile backdrop of the Mexican drug wars and intense border politics.

This world premiere production imagines Timboctou as a mysterious, unreachable refuge at the end of the earth and illustrates the narrow line between victim and victimized. Celebrated Mexico City director Martín Acosta leads a binational cast and creative team for this highly visual multimedia work, a unique collaboration between the CalArts Center for New Performance and its bilingual theater initiative Duende CalArts and the University of Guadalajara’s Cultura presenting organization.

In Spanish and English with subtitles.

“An enchanting journey through the Black Forest replete with romance, lots of laughs, and musical and lyrical ideas brazenly borrowed from Gilbert & Sullivan…filled with ever-surprising delights that will lift up your spirits.” (This Week in Show Business).

It’s the joyous Rudie-DeCarlo musical comedy, a hilarious, family-friendly reworking of the classic fairytale, featuring a sweetly independent Little Red (Serena Dolinsky), the discombobulated Huntsman Siegfried Spitznase (James Cooper), not one but three wayward Grandmamas (Betsy Albert, Christine Breihan and Cydne Moore – who do double duty as Little Red’s giggly girlfriends and not-so-giggly mama), and the debonair and oh so charming, not the least bit scary, Baron Wolfgang von Wolfgang, Junior (Garett Stevens) as the only “wolf” in sight.

“Cheery and clever with a fuzzy feel-good feeling!” Backstage West. Anything but a Grimm fairy tale, audiences of all ages will love the playful and authentically designed costumes by award-winning designer Ashley Hayes, the singing woodland animals crafted by The Attic Room creature department, the lilting musical numbers, and the heartfelt romances that develop along the path to Grandmama’s house, all bringing the adventure to its deservedly happily-ever-after.

“Evelyn Rudie and Chris DeCarlo have done it again with this magical fantasy.” (KPFK) Birthday and Tea Parties, hosted by a favorite fairy tale character from the show, are available in conjunction with every performance.

Kelly Carlin, only child of iconoclastic comedian George Carlin, chronicles over 40 years of her life with her famous father, through storytelling, classic video footage, and family memorabilia. “A Carlin Home Companion” is a funny, poignant and honest look at the man who not only redefined 20th century comedy, but inspired generations of comedy fans with such classic routines as Hippie Dippie Weatherman, Class Clown, The Seven Dirty Words, A Place for Your Stuff, and Modern Man.

One show only before its Montreal Comedy Festival debut. Host of the radio show Waking from the American Dream, author, and well respected storyteller, Kelly Carlin reveals what it was like to be swept up into the life and career of her father from his early days as a straight comic through his transformation into a counter culture hero and iconoclastic social commentator to the very last days of his life.

Dramaturgy by Paul Provenza and Kelly Carlin. Produced by RKM Productions. Rated R. Carlin hosts a show on Sirius XM Radio’s Raw Dog Comedy, conducts interviews with legendary comedians for Laugh.com’s On Comedy CD series, and produces for Showtime Network’s The Green Room with Paul Provenza. New York City native Provenza is a comedian/actor/producer and executive producer and host of The Green Room, currently starting its second season on Showtime Network. He is also known as director of the critically acclaimed documentary, The Aristocrats, and author of Satiristas with photographer Dan Dion.