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Forty-six years after founding South Coast Repertory, David Emmes and Martin Benson have decided it is time to begin the search for their successor. They have greenlighted a detailed leadership transition plan that is set to culminate later in the year with the naming of a new Artistic Director to join the leadership team. This does not mean, however, that Emmes, the Producing Artistic Director, and Benson, the Artistic Director, are retiring. They will continue to serve in their current capacities until a new Artistic Director is in place, at which point they will assume the titles of Founding Directors. In their new roles they will serve as counselors and advisers to their successor. They will continue to play an active role in assisting the new Artistic Director in the finding and development of plays, and they will continue to direct productions. Emmes and Benson transformed SCR from a company with $17 and a station wagon into a three-theatre complex with a $9 million annual budget and numerous awards, including a Tony. Two Curtainup New York critics, have moved to the West Coast Jenny Sandman to San diego and Amy Krivohlavek to San Francisco. We'll miss them in New York but are pleased to have them still aboard to expand our California coverage.
It's 1945, and, on a South Pacific island, a U.S.O. show is threatened with cancellation when a certain famous trio of singing sisters fails to show up. It's up to three earnest and determined brothers to go on with the show! Thtat's the premise of The Cabrillo Music Theatre's The Andrew Brothers, which will run from , February 5th, 2010 through February 14that the 1,800-seat Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, located at 2100 Thousand Oaks Boulevard in Thousand Oaks. The show is filled to the brim with more than twenty-five songs made famous by the Andrews Sisters and framed with a laugh-filled book by Roger Bean, creator of the long-running Off-Broadway and Los Angeles hit, The Marvelous Wonderettes. Playing the three "Brothers" are Stan Chandler, David Engel and Larry Raben.
The Andak Stage Company has announced a seventh world premiere to open its fourth season. Liberty Inn: The Musical is a full-length musical adapted from Goldoni's comic masterpiece La locandiera (The Landlady) by Dakin Matthews (book and lyrics) and B. T. Ryback (music). This collaboration is the result of a meeting while the two were performing together in The History Boys at the Ahmanson Theatre. They wrote this musical, mostly in cyberspace, while Mr. Ryback was working in Los Angeles and New York, and Mr. Matthews was touring the world with Sam Mendes' Bridge Project. The show opens Saturday, March 13 at 8:00pm and Sunday March 14, 2010 at 2:00pm and will run through Sunday April 25, 2010, with no performances Easter weekend, April 2-4. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm and Saturdays and Sundays at 2:00pm at NewPlace Studio Theatre, 10950 Peach Grove Street, North Hollywood, CA 91601. All tickets are $25, with discounts for previews, seniors, students, industry professionals, and groups. (866) 811-4111 for reservations or visit www.Andak.org.
David Mamet's Speed-the-Plow won't open the Mark Taper Forum's 2010-11 season. Replacing it is Frank D. Gilroy's The Subject Was Roses, starring Martin Sheen, Frances Conroy and Brian Geraghty, with Neil Patel, who was to direct the Mamet, still at the helm. Sheen, who played the role of the son in the 1964 Broadway production of the play and also starred in the 1968 film version will play the role of the father this time around.
The Fountain Theatre's 2010/11 season line-up includes the United States premiere of Athol Fugard's newest play, The Train Driver; the West Coast premiere of Tennessee Williams' final full-length play, A House Not Meant to Stand; the West Coast premiere of The Ballad of Emmett Till by Ifa Bayeza; the Los Angeles premiere of Opus by Michael Hollinger; a fresh look at August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; and the world premiere of the Flamenco dance/drama DJ: Don Juan in LA. For details all (323) 663-1525 or go to www.FountainTheatre.com.
At the Mark Taper Forum: Palestine, New MexicoU to Jan. 24th. Culture Clash, LA's Chicano performing group, presents Captain Catherine Siler's visit to the reservation home of PFC Raymond Birdsong, killed in Afghanistan. The notion of occupied homelands permeates the play. Reservations: 213-628-2772.
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