An Evening at the Hilgard House will feature an open bar, complimentary hors d’oeuvres, dancing, a jazz quartet in the Grand Salon, chanteuse Bianca Caruso, and a silent auction offering local art, food and wine, and deluxe vacation packages, along with other live entertainment. Formal attire is requested.

Tickets for the Brimmer Street Theatre Company’s 5th Anniversary Gala are $50, and are available online at www.BrimmerStreet.org. The Hilgard House is located at 624 Hilgard Avenue in Los Angeles, 90024.

Brimmer Street Theatre Company creates and produces new works of theatre to cultivate artists and engage audiences in Los Angeles. By working from a select core of talented artists, the company is able to produce a unique brand of American theatre that is rooted in our common experience and driven by our commitment to building better theatre that is challenging, extraordinary, and inspiring. For more, visit www.BrimmerStreet.org.

“Winner of the 2005 Tony Award for Best Musical, Monty Python’s SPAMALOT, the musical comedy sensation lovingly ripped off from the classic film “Monty Python and The Holy Grail,” now returns to spread laughter and cheer throughout the kingdom. Monty Python’s SPAMALOT tells the tale of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table as they embark on their quest for the Holy Grail. But before they can find their grail, they’re taking a little side-trip to the fair city of Los Angeles.”

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Cal Rep performances are in the Royal Theater aboard the Queen Mary. The production runs Wednesday through Saturday, February 17-March 3 and Tuesday through Saturday March 6-March 10 at 8 pm. There will be a preview performance on February 16 at 8 pm. Please note that this production features adult themes and nudity. Tickets are $20 for general admission, $15 for students, military, and seniors (55 and older). Parking at the Queen Mary is $8 for patrons of Cal Rep performances, $6 for CSULB students and patrons who have dinner aboard the ship. Long Beach Public Transit also runs directly to the Queen Mary. For tickets and information please call (562) 985-5526 or visit www.calrep.org. For more information about the B-Word Project, visit bwordproject.org.

Everyone’s favorite web-slinger is ready to join TU!

Launching its 5th year, Theatre Unleashed is proud to present the WEST COAST PREMIERE of The Spidey Project: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility, running Thursday-Saturday from March 8-April 14 at Studio/Stage in Los Angeles.

Nerdy social outcast Peter Parker takes on an alter ego as he attempts to defeat a dastardly collection of terrifying villains and perhaps his biggest nemesis of all…himself in this clever original musical.

A Broadway parody, The Spidey Project and producer Justin Moran made waves on the East Coast when the show was developed, opened and closed before another highly publicized Spider-Man musical could get off the ground. When it was first produced, it had no budget and performed just twice. Now TU will give it a budget and a full run, keeping the piece’s pioneer spirit while giving theatre goers an opportunity to see a show they only read about.

“When I was a kid, I often read Spider-Man and loved the idealism inherent within the character of Peter Parker, said David Chrzanowski, director. “But to me he was more than just an idealistic teenager trying to find his way. As an ensemble, we’re going to look for moments of truth in both text and song and convey them as honestly as we can.”

The show marks the second musical for the company and its first on the Main Stage, something the artistic directors considered when they added it to the season.

“It’s hilarious, heart-warming, campy and just catchy as hell,” said Co-Artistic Director Jacob Smith. “We knew this was a show we wanted. It’s truly going to be fun for everybody.”

And each show will be original…at least with one character, Dr. Spiderman. A cameo role in the play, TU will feature a different actor a surprise each night, including some recognizable faces. The company is also collecting books for a local charity and will feature Spiderman fan art in its lobby.

The Spidey Project will officially kick off with an appearance from the cast before the long-running live fantasy adventure show Dungeon Master on Sunday, Feb. 19 and a fundraiser event at Nerd Melt Theater on Saturday, Feb. 25 featuring super hero-related stand up comedy and improv with selected songs and scenes from the show performed by the cast. See the company website for more details. www.theatreunleashed.com.

Four Clowns is a physical, musical and emotional journey into what it means to be human. Follow four clowns – sad, mischievous, angry and nervous – as they lament and reminisce about their past. As the old adage goes, ‘laughter is the best medicine,’ but laughter comes most earnestly when reflecting on past sorrows.  As the clowns tell their tales of woe and elation from childhood to adulthood we discover that they are all the same…and so are we.
Multi-award winning show-turned-troupe Four Clowns toured the nation in 2011 with their first show, an original by the same name, Four Clowns. The tour included stops at the Minnesota and San Francisco Fringe Festivals, Phoenix, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, Chicago and a homecoming stretch at Sacred Fools in LA.

The cast features Alexis Jones as Sad Clown, Kevin Klein as Mischievous Clown, Raymond Lee as Angry Clown and Amir Levi as Nervous Clown with pianist Mario Granville.

Four Clowns is a part of Studio SCR, which is a series in which SCR partners with SoCal’s most intriguing artists to create eclectic, contemporary theatre, providing exciting opportunities to expand audiences and forge new artistic relationships.

REVIEW HIGHLIGHTS
“the best clowns I have seen” – Stage Mage
“daring and energetic, weird and wonderful” – Huffington Post
“skilled & true” – Backstage
“his cast is gifted” GO! – LA Weekly
“a masterpiece” – Broadway World
“you’ll be sure to cry…from laughter” – LA Theatre Review
“relentless hilarity” – Examiner
“touching and humorous” – Union Weekly
“comedically gifted and exceptionally well matched troupe” – LAist
“the most hilariously funny quartet in one theater” – Stage & Cinema

Company Creation Festival is a curated festival of new work hosted by the award-winning Los Angeles theater company Son of Semele Ensemble. CCF supports bold and daring new works generated by ensembles. Projects are selected through a written application process. Last year’s festival was the birth-place of the critically-acclaimed smash hit Cyclops: A Rock Opera which received a subsequent run at Son of Semele, followed by the Carrie Hamilton Theater at the Pasadena Playhouse and the New York Musical Theatre Festival.

The 2012 festival will include the following productions:

 As Long as Fear Can Turn to Wrath
Adapted from a certain great American novel by Holly L. Derr
(Holly L. Derr)
As the American Dream withers in the wasted soils of Oklahoma, the disenfranchised venture west toward the promise of a verdant and thriving California, only to discover that the systemic cruelties of the Great Depression have beaten them to the Golden State.

i wonder if it’s possible to have a love affair that lasts forever or things i found on craigslist
by Christopher Oscar Peña
(The Informers)
While suddenly staring down the prospect of marriage and adulthood, the lives of a group of friends explode when they receive the Facebook invite to their high school reunion and the personal becomes public.

Roses
By Casey Caldwell
(Ratatat Theater Group)
An absurdist comedy about two men digging through the clutter of their hearts, minds, and personal histories and getting very, very lost while trying to find a clear signal in the noise of modern life.

Reactor: Simple Clean Efficient
By Brenda Varda
(Collab :: Wordspace)
While the global atomic debates heat up, here in San Onofre Ellie struggles with her nuclear engineer mother and her estranged physicist father, searching for voices of power and unity in a fractured, yet nuclear compliant world.

 Tickets
 www.sonofsemele.org
Individual tickets are $18 online and $20 at the door. Festival passes (one admission to each production) are $35, available online only. Box office opens one half hour prior to curtain. Son of Semele Theater is located in Silver Lake at 3301 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA  90004 (one mile west of Alvarado).

Performances are at 8:00 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, and at 5:00 p.m. Sunday.

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The reading is part of Native Voices’ signature FIRST LOOK SERIES: Plays in Progress, which brings playwrights together with professional directors, dramaturgs, and actors for a workshop and public presentation at the Autry, providing an important next step in the play’s development. www.NativeVoicesattheAutry.org

The Saturday, February 11 performance of God’s Ear, a play by Jenny Schwartz, directed by Rory Kozoll, is set to benefit Peace Over Violence, a social service agency dedicated to the elimination of sexual and domestic violence; dedicated to a world without violence. Theatre, film, and television actress Frances Fisher serves as honorary chairperson for the evening.

Peace Over Violence provides crisis intervention services and violence prevention education, along with one-on-one counseling and guidance to heal survivors of violence. Teens are taught about healthy relationships; girls are trained in self-defense, boys are taught conflict resolution, and all are given advice on public policy.  The organization believes, above all, that violence is preventable. For more information, visit www.peaceoverviolence.org, or call (213) 955-9090.

In God’s Ear, a couple suffers a tragic accident, and their grief propels them into a fantastical world where the Tooth Fairy sings, their flight attendant is a cross dresser, and GI Joe offers family counseling. It’s a lyrically absurd journey of love, loss, and laughter.

Of the Echo Theater Company’s production, which opened on January 14, Back Stage said, “Director Rory Kozoll skillfully moves the action along and brings out every bit of dark (and light) humor.” Said the LA Weekly, “With a nod to the absurdist canon, and perhaps Lewis Carroll, Jenny Schwartz’s use of clichés, idiom and chatter is … brilliant and funny.” God’s Ear is produced for the Echo Theater Company by Lauren Bass and Chris Fields.

Tickets for the Peace Over Violence benefit performance on Saturday, February 11 at 8pm are $40, and are on sale now. Tickets can be purchased (as well as regular priced tickets for remaining performances of God’s Ear through February 19), by visiting www.echotheatercompany.com or by calling (877) 369-9112. The regular running  schedule  is  Fridays  and  Saturdays at  8:00pm  and  Sundays at 7:00pm, and tickets are $25. The Zephyr Theatre is located at 7456 Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, 90046. Street parking is available.

Being in the pink isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be! In this glittering musical, Pinkalicious and her brother, Peter, learn that a little bit of what you love can go a long way.

Bay Area Children’s Theatre presents

Pinkalicious the Musical
Book by Elizabeth Kann and Victoria Kann
Music by John Gregor
Lyrics by John Gregor, Elizabeth Kann and Victoria Kann

February 2012
Berkeley: Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse
Saturdays & Sundays — 11 am & 2 pm
11 Feb 2012 - 4 Mar 2012

San Ramon: Front Row Theater
Saturdays & Sundays — 2 pm & 4:30 pm
10 Mar 2012 - 18 Mar 2012

For tickets please visit www.BACTheatre.org

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