The Blank's 22nd Season
Mike Farrell in
DR. KEELING’S CURVE
By George Shea
Directed by Kirsten Sanderson
September 21-October 14, 2012
2nd Stage Theatre
6500 Santa Monica Blvd.
Walk into the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.; there you'll find Darwin's finches next to the double helix; and beside that, the Keeling Curve: a graph depicting the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide. Its' message proclaims the most basic fact of climate change: carbon dioxide levels have been climbing, and are continuing to rise at an extraordinary and accelerating pace. Mike Farrell plays Dr. Charles David Keeling in this all too real and often funny one man bio-play that makes global warming understandable, and reveals it to be anything but a myth.
THE SANTALAND DIARIES
by David Sedaris
Adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello
Directed by Michael Matthews
Starring Paolo Andino
Hollywood's New Holiday Tradition!!
November 16 - December 16, 2012
The Stella Adler Theatre
6773 Hollywood Blvd.
“SANTALAND” is an outrageously funny one-man play (from NPR’s David Sedaris) about the author’s experiences as an unemployed writer taking a job as an elf at Macy’s. At first the job is simply humiliating, but once the thousands of visitors start pouring through Santa's workshop, he becomes battle weary and bitter, occasionally taking out his frustrations on the children and parents alike.
For those who like a little spice with their Christmas sugar, this tale of mass marketing, stressed out sales clerks, drunk Santas, screaming kids and the general insanity of the holidays is hilarious, witty, sardonic and unpredictable; mercilessly cutting through the Christmas spirit to point out what crazy things we do as human beings during the holidays.
"If you’d like a bracing dash of bitters at this sticky-sweet time of year, you might want to belly up and drink in the fun....If you’re in the mood to get goofy and giggle, don’t deprive yourself of this holiday treat." -- F. Kathleen Foley, LA Times
VALENTINE TRIAGE
a new play by Frank Strausser
directed by Kirsten Sanderson
SPECIAL LIMITED ENGAGEMENT
MARCH 5-31 Only
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm
2nd Stage Theatre
6500 Santa Monica Blvd
People get to a certain age or place in their lives where they've collected damage. They don't trust. Or they're just afraid.
Eddie and Eva are trying to build a future. Barrett and Melanie only have a past. On one fateful Valentine's Day their lives intersect in an emergency room and they will never be the same.
Love has its casualties.
STARRING
Lois Atkins, Kyle Bares, Robyn Cohen, Tarina Pouncy and David Preston
PETER PAN:
THE BOY WHO HATED MOTHERS
by Michael Lluberes
Based on "Peter and Wendy" by J.M. Barrie
Directed by Michael Matthews
April 20-June 2
2nd Stage Theatre
6500 Santa Monica Blvd.
This radically fresh retelling of the JM Barrie classic is a theatrical event not to be missed. Exploring the original ideas and inspirations behind this iconic fantasy, Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers is a dark new retelling of the story of the boy who wouldn’t grow up. This is Peter Pan as you have never seen it before but how it was always meant to be told.
STARRING
Liza Burns, Benjamin Campbell, Jackson Evans, David Hemphill, Trisha LaFache, Amy Lawhorn and Daniel Shawn Miller
“Fantastic. …We really believe in the stage’s imaginative power.”
-DC Theatre Scene
“Inventive. …A novel spin on a dramatic chestnut.”
-Washington Post
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Michael Lluberes (Playwright):
Plays include Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers (No Rules Theatre Company, Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage Festival), The Boy in the Bathroom (New York Musical Theatre Festival, NYMF Most Promising New Musical and Best Book Awards, ASCAP/Disney Workshop, Penn State Festival of New Musicals, The Chance Theater, The Festival of New American Musicals, Spirit of Broadway Theatre, Bloomington Playwrights Project), The Geranium on the Windowsill Just Died (Urban Stages). Directing: Twelfth Night (Sonnet Repertory Theatre), Nighttime Traffic (NYMF), 1,000 Cats (UCB, HBO’s Funny Or Die Presents). As an actor: National Tour: Dirty Dancing, Off Broadway: American Dreams: Lost and Found, Pudd’nhead Wilson, The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It (The Acting Company), Heaven Knows (EST). Regional: The Old Globe, Cincinnati Playhouse, St. Louis Rep, Casa Mañana, Capital Rep, Maltz Jupiter, Pioneer Theatre Company. TV: “Chappelle’s Show”. He is the recipient of The American Harmony Prize, an NEA New Artist Initiative Award, Hambidge and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowships. He is a graduate of The North Carolina School of the Arts, a member of The Acting Company, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and The Dramatists Guild. www.MichaelLluberes.com
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21st Annual Nationwide
YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL
12 WORLD PREMIERES
June 2013
The Stella Adler Theatre
6773 Hollywood Blvd.
If we didn’t tell you the plays were by teenagers, you wouldn’t know. The 12 best plays in the nation are chosen by a panel of theatre professionals from submissions by teenage playwrights. Winning writers are next assigned a mentor and then a professional director who guide their scripts to the stage. We then cast the plays with some of Hollywood’s hottest award-winning actors and present the work in a month-long Festival. You have to see it to believe it!
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