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2008-2009
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Sweet Honey in the Rock
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Saturday, September 27, 8 p.m.
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Grammy Award-winning Sweet Honey in the Rock celebrates the legacy of African-American musical traditions. With stunning vocal prowess, their voices resonate with harmonies and rhythms of hope, love, justice and peace. Sweet Honey is an a cappella sextet featuring five talented vocalists and one sign language interpreter whose repertoire captures the complex sounds of spirituals, gospel, Blues, African chants and ancient lullabies.
www.sweethoney.com
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War of the Worlds/The Lost World
L.A. Theatre Works
Susan Albert Loewenberg, producing director
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Friday, October 3, 8 p.m.
Saturday, October 4, 8 p.m.
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War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, adapted by Howard Koch &
The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by John de Lancie and Nat Segaloff
Two classic tales of science fiction and fantasy share the stage in this Sci-Fi double bill.
L.A. Theatre Works returns to the Edison stage to celebrate the 60 th anniversary of Orson Welles’ original broadcast of War of the Worlds. What Wells created Welles made iconic. This incredible weekend of Star Trek meets Indiana Jones is full of back-to-back chills, thrills and great literature as each night offers two masterpieces of science fiction and adventure.
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Trey McIntyre Project
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Friday, October 10, 8 p.m.
Saturday, October 11, 8 p.m.
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The hottest dance ticket in town…Trey McIntyre blasts onto the international scene with his own full-time, world-class contemporary ballet company. One of today’s most sought-after choreographers, McIntyre has established a remarkable reputation creating works with New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Houston Ballet and many others. McIntyre innovates the ballet genre by fusing its classical inheritance with freshness, vitality and depth.
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Luna Negra Dance Theater
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Friday, November 7, 8 p.m.
Saturday, November 8, 8 p.m.
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Celebrating the 100 th birthday of José Limón, Luna Negra Dance Theatre performs There is a Time, by Limón. Inspired by Chapter 2 of Ecclesiastes, the piece reflects the life of a community and the conviction that there is a continuity of life that cannot be destroyed.
Founded by Eduardo Vilaro in 1999, Luna Negra Dance Theater blends ballet and modern dance with the richness of Latino and Afro-Caribbean dance styles.
www.lunanegra.org
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The Guthrie Theater & The Acting Company present
King Henry V
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Friday, February 13, 8 p.m.
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Two powerhouses of American theatre fuse their artistry and passion in a production that matches Shakespeare’s own. Young, restless and ambitious, Henry V inherits a troubled crown and launches a hasty invasion on France. This epic tale portrays the brutality of warfare the price of destiny. “Once more unto the breach, dear friends…”
www.theactingcompany.org
www.guthrietheater.org
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The Guthrie Theater's John Miller directs the Acting Company's world premiere of James Fenimore Cooper's
The Spy
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Saturday, February 14, 8 p.m.
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By James Fenimore Cooper
Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed by John Miller-Stephany
This thrilling adventure of espionage, double agents and disguises features American literature’s first spy. This compelling story was written by James Fenimore Cooper, author of The Last of the Mohicans, and adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher who co-wrote the stage adaptation of Tuesdays with Morrie with author Mitch Albom . Caught up in the American Revolutionary War, one family fights between British loyalties and revolutionary sympathizers. No one is who they appear to be.
www.theactingcompany.org
www.guthrietheater.org
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Joe Goode Performance Group
WonderBoy
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Friday, February 20, 8 p.m.
Saturday, February 21, 8 p.m.
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Joe Goode Performance Group, in collaboration with master puppeteer Basil Twist, present Wonderboy, an unexpected tale of a peculiar superhero isolated by his gift of super sensitivity and his uncanny ability to empathize with everyone. With music by Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi, this remarkable collaboration brings Twist’s magical puppetry and Joe Goode’s storytelling through text, song and dance.
I want to pierce the veil of toughness that we all have in our lives and to uncover the vulnerable center, the confused, flailing human part of us that we conceal and avoid.—Joe Goode
www.joegoode.org
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Ahn Trio
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Saturday, February 28, 8 p.m.
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The Ahn Trio redefines the art & architecture of chamber music. Born in Seoul, Korea and graduates of Julliard, the sisters breathe new life into the standard piano-trio, exploring the new, cutting edge projects that re-imagine the art form. It is precisely their vitality and commitment to innovation that continually draws new audiences to this contemporary expression of classical music.
www.ahntrio.com
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Diavolo
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Friday, March 27, 8 p.m.
Saturday, March 28, 8 p.m.
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Diavolo redefines dance. Under the artistic direction of Jacques Heim, Diavolo showcases dance as an extreme sport. Diavolo offers a full program of excitement that features and brings to life Foreign Bodies, an orchestral work of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s music director, Esa-Pekka Salonen’s, Heim’s choreography propels the evolution of dance by combining dance, gymnastics, extreme theatricality and architectural structures.
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Special Events
Olympia Dukakis
Rose
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Saturday, November 22, 8 p.m.
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Academy Award-winning star of Moonstruck and Steel Magnolias, Olympia Dukakis, performs her Broadway hit Rose. This unforgettable portrait of an 80 year-old Ukranian Holocaust survivor is a one-woman tour de force. Follow Rose’s life journey from the war-torn years in Warsaw to modern-day Miami Beach.
Edison Theatre & Metro Theater Company
To Kill A Mockingbird
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Friday, January 9, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 10, 2 p.m.
Saturday, January 10 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, January 11, 2 p.m.
Friday, January 16, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 17,
2 p.m.
Saturday, January 17, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, January 18, 2 p.m.
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Adapted for the stage by Christopher Sergel from Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize Winning Novel
Directed by Carol North
This compelling story is set in 1935 in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, where the trial of a black man turns a community on its ear. For 9-year old Scout and her brother Jem, the trial and events surrounding it reveal life lessons in courage as their father, Atticus Finch, takes a stand for what is right. Delving into issues of prejudice and injustice that still challenge our country, To Kill a Mockingbird has an enduring power to touch the heart and awaken the conscience.
Treasured by generations of readers, To Kill a Mockingbird comes to the stage in the caring hands of Metro Theater Company, last seen at Edison Theatre with Hana’s Suitcase. This is a rich theatrical experience to share, to reflect upon, to remember.
Recommended for audiences age 10 and older
Produced by special arrangement with DRAMATIC PUBLISHING, Woodstock, Illinois.
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