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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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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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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:
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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:
ContinueThis is such a great class to take…
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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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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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