Pay-what-you-can for The Boor & The Bald Soprano

What's better than a pay-what-you-can performance? A pay-what-you-can double feature - Chekhov's The Boor and Ionesco's The Bald Soprano!

Only two more performances left of Internationally acclaimed Santa Monica Playhouse Actors' Repertory Theatre's double-bill: THE BOOR, Anton Chekhov's hilarious farce about libertine men and liberated women and THE BALD SOPRANO, Eugene Ionesco's bizarrely humorous comedy of mishaps and manners, of which renowned playwright Ionesco himself said, "Magnificent! Your fidelity to my original intent is incredible!"

"Well worth coming to see, don't miss this marvelous production"
- American Press Service

Pay-what-you-can performances: 8pm Friday, May 21 & Friday, May 28
The Other Space at Santa Monica Playhouse
1211 4th Street SM 90401
http://SantaMonicaPlayhouse.com
310-394-9779 x1

PU!

That clearly stands for Playwright's Union.

The Playwrights Union, a network of Los Angeles theater artists writing for stage, tv and film, hosts its first Reading Festival of New Work May 6th through May 9th at the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank. Original plays were first drafted during a month-long writing challenge that nine member writers accepted in February. Plays have been finished or re-written in the weeks leading up to the Festival. Readings start at 6:30 pm, and a casual reception will take place on each evening at 8 pm, giving playwrights and audience members an opportunity to mix and mingle. Admission is free.

Please go support these fabulous playwrights - I have first hand experience with several of them and can vouch for their awesome-ness.

Playwright's Union Reading Festival of New Work
May 6-9, 2010

Please see schedule of readings here at their facebook event page
Links to the playwrights at www.playwrightsunion.com

The Victory Theatre Center
3325 West Victory Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91505
www.thevictorytheatrecenter.org

No reservations necessary. Free!

"bobrauschenbergamerica" at [Inside] the Ford

TheSpyAnts presents the Los Angeles premiere of Charles L. Mee's
"bobrauschenbergamerica" at [Inside] the Ford, with tickets to the previews and Sunday matinees all pay-what-you-can.

From the press release:
bobrauschenbergamerica - The Los Angeles premiere of Charles L. Mee's delightful, kaleidoscopic play, a fantastical road trip through the American landscape, written as Robert Rauschenberg, one of America's greatest living artists, might conceive it. Traveling easily through time, the play is a glorious collage of images and sensations - Rauschenberg's childhood home, a human martini, a pizza delivery boy, the world's worst collection of chicken jokes. More than a biographical portrait, bobrauschenbergamerica is a tribute to one artist's singular vision. "Brashly, unapologetically entertaining... a work that will resonate even with someone who has never seen one of Mr. Rauschenberg's famous collages." - The New York Times.

Pay-what-you-can performances:
Previews: January 21 and 22
Sunday Performances:
* Sundays at 3 pm: January 24, 31; February 7, 14, 21, 28
* Sundays at 7 pm: January 24, 31; February 7, 14, 21, 28

[Inside] the Ford (the 87-seat indoor theater in the Ford Theatres complex)
2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East
Hollywood, CA 90068
(just off the 101, across the freeway from the Hollywood Bowl and south of Universal Studios)

HOW:
(323) 461-3673 (GO 1-FORD) or www.FordTheatres.org

Midsummer Night's Dream

As it is indeed Midsummer, and it's free, and one of the awesome actors I know is in it, I thought I would pass this along.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A co-production between the Veterans Center for the Performing Arts, the U.S. Veterans’ Artists Alliance and Shakespeare Santa Monica

July 11th - August 9th
Saturdays @ 6pm
Sundays @ 4:30pm

West L.A. Bandshell
11338 Santa Monica Blvd, Santa Monica

But you don't have to take my word for it. Read the LAWeekly review here.

Richard III Redux at VCPA

A friend of mine is in a production of Richard III Redux at the Veteran's Center for the Performing Arts that sounds really cool. "Richard III Redux is an exciting Physical Theatre mash-up of Shakespeare's Richard III and Henry VI starring military veterans from LA." Directed by John Farmanesh-Bocca. I can't wait to check it out.

Sundays @ 8:00pm and Mondays @ 8:00pm March 22 through April 27 at VCPA, 446 S. La Brea, 90036. Admission is pay what you can.

$5 Tickets to Chris Sullivan's "A Bit of Irish"

Top o'the mornin' to ya!

Santa Monica Playhouse is offering $5 tickets for BrokeLAers to Chris Sullivan's 10th Annual Irish Extravaganza "A Bit of Irish."

The show is appropriately taking place on St. Patrick's Day, Tuesday, March 17 at 8pm at Santa Monica Playhouse.

From their website: "Irish actor-singer-raconteur Chris Sullivan, in what has become a much anticipated tradition, returns to Santa Monica Playhouse for the tenth year running with his St. Patrick’s Day inspired celebration of all things Irish. Created and performed by Sullivan, the 2009 edition of the show brings together some old familiar pieces and some new material culled from the rich tradition of Irish literature and song."

RSVP to 310-394-9779 x1 or e-mail EZeitzew@SantaMonicaPlayhouse.com and be sure to mention BrokeLA for the discount.

Santa Monica Playhouse
1211 4th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90405
www.SantaMonicaPlayhouse.com

"eLove, a Musical.com/edy" at Victory Theatre Center - $20 off for BrokeLAers

We've got a deal!

The World Premiere of award-winning Wayland Pickard’s eLove, a Musical.com/edy, directed and choreographed by Cate Caplin, stars seasoned veterans Lloyd Pedersen and Bobbi Stamm in a cyber love story where a man and a woman, searching for that “special online someone”, discover that love on the internet reveals a little more than either one had expected.

March 7th through March 29th, Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 4 pm.

General Admission $25.00.

A limited number of $5.00 tickets are available for BrokeLA patrons.

Reservations Line (818) 841-5422. Please mention BrokeLA for the $5 ticket. Cash at the Box Office please.

Box Office opens one hour before curtain.

Victory Theatre Center is located 3326 W. Victory Blvd. Street parking is readily available on the south and north side of Victory Blvd.

Visit www.elove-themusical.com for info about the show.

"Stitching" at the Lillian Theatre

Stubdog.com has free tickets to the previews of "Stitching" by Anthony Neilson at the Lillian Theatre. All you have to pay is the $4 ticket surcharge. Previews 2/26-3/5.
Get tickets at the "Stitching" page on Stubdog.com.
"Stitching" production homepage.