Reduced Shakespeare Company ®
Completely Hollywood (abridged)
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Friday, October 26, 8 p.m.
Saturday, October 27, 8 p.m. |
The Reduced Shakespeare Company boldly goes where few dare—Tinseltown! America ’s “bad boys of abridgement” go about savaging show biz with an epic edit of movie masterpieces. It’s everything you need to know about Hollywood in 12 easy lessons. You’ll laugh so hard you’ll cry.
They’ve gone Biblical, they’ve gone historical, now the RSC has gone completely Hollywood …abridged, of course!
www.reducedshakespeare.com
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Nikolais Dance Theatre
performed by Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company
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Friday, November 2, 8 p.m.
Saturday, November 3, 8 p.m.
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For the first time in the United States , an existing dance company has absorbed the collection of a past dance master to preserve and present an artistic legacy. Known as the master of innovative and startling dance, Alwin Nikolais created complete multimedia works that integrated projection, sound, light, choreography and costumes to turn dance into a visual and kinetic art. This unique evening of dance celebrates the genius of Nikolais’s many talents and aesthetic force.
The recreation of Tent was made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpieces: Dance initiative, administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts.
www.nikolaislouis.org
www.ririewoodbury.com
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GrooveLily
Striking 12
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Friday, November 16, 8 p.m.
Saturday, November 17, 8 p.m. |
A rock musical celebration and a refreshing holiday alternative for the 21st century, Striking 12 is a hybrid mix of musical theater and live concert. It’s the story of a grumpy, overworked New Yorker who resolves to spend New Year’s Eve alone in his apartment and finds unexpected, much-needed holiday cheer. It’s a contemporized, urbanized retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Match Girl . Performed by celebrated pop-rock trio GrooveLily, the evening springs to life with an eclectic score of pop, rock, jazz and more. Tis the season. Deal with it.
www.striking12.com
www.groovelily.com
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Pablo Ziegler
Quintet for New Tango with Claudia Acuña
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Friday, January 18, 8 p.m. |
As a grammy award-winning pianist and composer, Pablo Ziegler’s passion for tango pours from his music. Blending classical tango rhythms with jazz improvisations, Ziegler uses the piano percussively, coaxing out a rhythmic mix of jazz and early 20th-century classical music. Chilean vocalist Claudia Acuña joins the Pablo Ziegler Quintet and seamlessly fuses Latin rhythms with her instinctive jazz sensibilities.
www.pabloziegler.com
www.claudiaacuna.com
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L.A. Theatre Works, Susan Albert Loewenberg, producing director
Top Secret: The Battle for The Pentagon Papers
A Docudrama by Leroy Aarons & Geoffrey Cowan starring John Heard, Gregory Harrison, John Vickery and
Shannon Cochran *
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Friday, January 25, 8 p.m. Saturday, January 26, 8 p.m.
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John Heard & Gregory Harrison
In 1966, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara commissioned a study on the history of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. The document became known as The Pentagon Papers. Only 15 copies of the Papers were circulated and in 1971, one was leaked. In this riveting historical docudrama, Top Secret: The Battlefor the Pentagon Papers, L.A. Theatre Works brings these important days and the subsequent trial to life as The Washington Post struggles with the decision to publish these “classified” documents. The play, based on interviews and documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, follows the debate as McNamara and his staff sort through the documents and tries to decide if publishing The Papers violates national security — and the legal wrangling that followed.
*Cast subject to change.
www.latw.org
Click here to view Notes from the Director Geoffrey Cowan
Click here for resources on "Top Secret" from USC Annenberg School
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The Campbell Brothers & The Louisiana Blues Throwdown
Sacred Funk
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Friday, February 15, 8 p.m. |
Sacred steel meets blues funk in this aptly titled evening, Sacred Funk . Two generations of Campbell ’s celebrate their gospel roots with the “sacred steel” guitar. Introduced in the United States around 1900 from Hawaii , the steel guitar became the most popular style of electric guitar in the 1930s and was then integrated into church services. The steel guitar sound mimics voices and quite literally “sings” the hymns. The Campbell Brothers join The Louisiana Blues Throwdown with Vasti Jackson, Mathilda Jones and Marc Stone in an all out evening of gospel blues funk.
www.campbellbrothers.com
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CoisCéim
Knots
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Friday, February 29, 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 1, 8 p.m. |
Pronounced “Kush Came” and based in Dublin, Ireland, CoisCéim is a contemporary dance company creating works that are cutting-edge and adventurous. Their latest production layers high-octane choreography with the insightful writings of psychoanalyst R.D. Laing to fuse text and movement into Knots. We spend our lives looking for the perfect partner to “tie the knot,” and then we spend the rest of our lives examining the frayed ends. Knots takes us through a series of twists and turns as we try to unravel the secrets of love and marriage.
www.coisceim.com
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Susan Marshall & Company
Cloudless
Friday, March 28, 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 29, 8 p.m. |
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Hailed as “one of the most significant choreographers working today,” Susan Marshall & Company offer Cloudless, a new work described as “modest in means, stunning in effect.” A series of 18 vignettes, Cloudless draws movements directly from daily life: an embrace, a touch, a turn of the head. Marshall weds familiar movement into formal structure that allows form and narrative to become one and blurs the line between abstract dance and the emotional story.
www.susanmarshallandcompany.org
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East Village Opera Company
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Friday, May 2, 8 p.m. |
You’ve heard opera and you’ve heard rock, but you’ve never heard opera rocked like this! The East Village Opera Company features a powerhouse five-piece band, a string quartet and two vocalists who are dedicated to electrifying the classics. Their inventive and hard-hitting arrangements are performed at full length and in the original languages and include “La donna é mobile” from Rigoletto and “Habanera” from Carmen. The East Village Opera Company brings the towering emotion and timeless musicality of opera into the 21st century.
www.eastvillageoperacompany.com
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