All Blog Posts Tagged 'Theatre' (22)

16 Arts Organizations Receive Funding Through Culver City Performing Arts Grant Program

The Culver City Council approved 16 grants for the 2015 Culver City Performing Arts Grant Program.  The program, which is also supported by Sony Pictures Entertainment, provides music, dance and theatre performances throughout the year -- many of which are certainly familiar to regular readers of this website.  The 2015 grantees include:

The Actors’ Gang

Benita…

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Added by Scupine on December 22, 2014 at 3:30pm — No Comments

David Mamet's "Race" Opens at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City This Sunday

Let's see...David Mamet wrote a play called "Race," opening this Sunday, September 7 at 6:30, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. I wonder if it's going to push anyone's buttons... Here's description of the play: "Mamet tackles America’s most controversial subject in this provocative tale of sex, guilt and bold accusations. In “Race,” two lawyers find themselves defending a wealthy…

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Added by Scupine on September 5, 2014 at 6:00am — No Comments

New Season at Kirk Douglas Theatre Will Include David Mamet's "Race"

The Center Theatre Group (and artistic director Michael Richie) have announced the line-up for the 2014-2015 season at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. The new season, which begins July 13, 2014, and runs through August 9, 2015, will include:

  • David Mamet’s explosive Race
  • The Goodman Theatre’s world premiere production of Rebecca Gilman’s…
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Added by Scupine on June 25, 2014 at 6:30am — No Comments

Actors' Gang's Midsummer Night's Dream Extended

The Actors' Gang's interpretation of "Midsummer Night's Dream" has been extended through August 17. Directed by Tim Robbins, the play has been playing to sold out crowds through it's run. 

Here's what I wrote about the play when it opened in June:

We got proof last August that the Actors’ Gang could put on a great version of The Tempest in Media Park in…

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Added by Scupine on July 23, 2013 at 10:44pm — No Comments

Last Chance to Catch The Actors' Gang's Lauded Production of Heart of Darkness

There are only three performances left to see the play that LA Weekly selected as a Pick of the Week and called "haunting" and "fraught with eerie melancholy": the Actors' Gang's one-man adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. The show closes this Saturday, June 1, so you can go on Thursday, May 30th, Friday May 31st, or Saturday, June…

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Added by Scupine on May 30, 2013 at 6:00pm — No Comments

LA Times Reviews The Rivals at Culver City's Actors' Gang Theatre

Los Angeles Times Theater Critic Charles McNulty reviewed the new play at the Actors' Gang Theatre, saying "there are hearty laughs to be had from this scattershot spray of silliness from 1775."

He continues: "True, the goofy flamboyance often seems a tad effortful. But the fireworks of Sheridan's verbal wit are still mesmerizing. Whenever the focus shifts from the central lovers to the tyrannical patriarch Sir Anthony Absolute and the linguistically…

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Added by Scupine on October 19, 2012 at 6:00pm — No Comments

LISTEN: Tim Robbins Drops By KCRW to discuss "The Rivals," Now Playing at the Actors Gang Theatre in Culver City

To celebrate the opening of The Rivals at The Actor's Gang Theatre (and the troupe's 30th anniversary) Tim Robbins and Actors Gang co-founder David Schweizer dropped by KCRW to talk to Which Way, LA? host Warren Olney about "the challenge and fun of making a show with period language come alive…

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Added by Scupine on October 11, 2012 at 6:00pm — No Comments

New Play "The Rivals" at Actor's Gang Theatre in Culver City Begins Previews This Weekend

The Rivals, a new staging of a play from 1795 by Richard Binsley Sheridan is beginning previews at the Actors Gang Theatre in Culver City. Previews are September 21, 22, 27, and 28 at 8pm, and preview tickets are $15.

Here’s how the troupe describes the play: “Called 'a luscious feast of language and humor' and set in the notorious resort of Bath, the events of…

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Added by Scupine on September 17, 2012 at 12:30pm — No Comments

The Actors' Gang Perform Family-Friendly "Star Wars Edition" of the Tempest in Media Park in Culver City

The Actor's Gang are performing a fun family-friendly version of Shakespeare's The Tempest in Media Park every Saturday and Sunday in August at 11:00 am.

They call it The Tempest, The Star Wars Edition, so Prospero is Obi Wan Kenobi, Miranda is Princess Leia, and Ariel is C3PO. It's 45 minutes long, and a lot of fun.

Here's a great picture of…

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Added by Scupine on August 23, 2012 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Check Out OY!, The New Play at the Actors' Gang Theatre in Culver City

The Actors’ Gang is premiering OY!, the work of author, professor, theorist and critic Hélène Cixous, best known as a playwright of epic work with Le Théâtre du Soleil. 

The story of two German Jewish sisters who compare memories of their experiences of the period of Nazism in Europe, here's how the Actors' Gang describes the…

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Added by Scupine on July 13, 2012 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City Announces Its 2012-13 Season Slate

The Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City has announced that it will host three world-premiere productions — Twist Your Dickens, The Nether and The Royale — in its 2012-13 season. A production of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape starring John Hurt is also scheduled.

 

The full schedule will…

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Added by Scupine on June 15, 2012 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Previews of Heart of Darkness at the Actors Gang Theatre in Culver City Begin this Weekend

The Actors Gang Theatre in Culver City will present a one-man adaptation of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" in workshop form for eight performances on May 4, 5, 9, 10, 16, and 17 at 8 pm. 

Conrad's novella is about a man's journey into the Congo. It's a harrowing tale, of course, and this version -- adapted by Brian Finney and directed by…

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Added by Scupine on May 2, 2012 at 6:00pm — No Comments

LA Times & LA Weekly Review "American Night" at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City

In the LA Weekly,Steven Leigh Morris reviews the new play at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose, by Richard Montoya and his sketch comedy troupe, Culture…

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Added by Scupine on March 21, 2012 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Tonight Only: 'Pay What You Can' To See 'George Orwell's 1984' at the Actors' Gang in Culver City

If you're interested in seeing The Actors’ Gang’s adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984, directed by Tim Robbins, tonight's the night to go: it's a "pay what you can" performance. The play runs ends its short four-week Culver City run onl March 24.

Adapted by Michael Gene Sullivan and originally produced by The Gang in 2006, Tim Robbins’ production of 1984 has now been seen in over 40 US states and on four continents. Written in 1948, Orwell…

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Added by Scupine on March 8, 2012 at 6:00am — No Comments

See a Preview Performance of George Orwell's 1984 at the Actors' Gang for Only $10

The Actors’ Gang’s adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 begins a short four-week run on Saturday, February 25, but previews begin this friday, February 17, and preview tickets are available now for just $10 apiece. Just go here, select the night you would like to attend, and use the code…

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Added by Scupine on February 16, 2012 at 6:00am — No Comments

Los Angeles Times Review's 'A Raisin in the Sun' at Culver City's Kirk Douglas Theatre

Charles McNulty, on The Los Angeles Times blog, calls the new production of A Raisin in the Sun at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City "a clear-eyed, emotionally stirring rendition." Says…

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Added by Scupine on February 9, 2012 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. with a Staged Reading of "The Dreamers"

Culver City's 7th Annual Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Sunday, January 15, will include a staged reading of the award-winning play "The Dreamers," written and directed by Christina Harley (above). The play follows a poor African-American family in the south and begins the day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated. 

The celebration --…

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Added by Scupine on January 11, 2012 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Culver City's Improv for the People Offers Free First Class

 

Improv for the People in Culver City is offering a free comedy improv class for first-timers. Classes are every monday night from 7:00 to 9:30, and the cost is normally $100 a month. 

Ray M. at Yelp recommends it:

This is such a great class to take…

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Added by Scupine on January 8, 2012 at 6:00pm — 2 Comments

Only Two More Chances to See the Atomic Holiday Free Fall at the Actors' Gang: Click Here for Discount Tix

Due to popular demand, The Actors' Gang Theatre in Culver City has extended its Atomic Holiday Free Fall show for two more days -- January 7 and 17 at 8 p.m. You can buy tickets on-line at here. Use the special discount code REPEAT to get tickets for only $20 (normall they're $35!). The Actors' Gang Theatre is…

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Added by Scupine on January 6, 2012 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Review Rundown for "I've Never Been So Happy" at the Kirk Douglas Theatre

Reviews are in for "I've Never Been So Happy," the new over-the-top cowboy musical from the Austin-based theater troupe Rude Mechanicals playing through October 23 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City.

 

Charles McNulty in the…

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Added by Scupine on October 13, 2011 at 6:00pm — No Comments

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