L.A. Stage Insider
L.A. Stage Insider
November 9, 2022
Written by Julio Martinez
NEWS
Hollywood Fringe Festival
Upcoming Hollywood Fringe Festival 2023(HFF23) announces the return of its annual Creative Workshop Series - Creative Conversations - happening this year on Dec 3, 2022 at The Complex. This series is designed to be a day of learning and collaboration that will assist Fringe participants on creative development, the writing process, and mentorship in the arts. Sessions during this year's Creative Conversations Event will include: Writing Queer Solo Work (co-presented with Celebration Theatre), 12-1:15 pm; Creating Theatre in the 2020s, 1:30-2:45pm; and Writing for Fringe 101, 3:00-4:15pm. This event will have ASL interpretation and will also be available on Facebook Live. Coming up: Official HFF23 Dates; and HFF23 Scholarships. Applications opening on Nov 28. More details will be released soon, including an informational workshop for interested scholarship applicants.
PREMIERES
Casa 0101 Presents the Premiere of Remembering Boyle Heights: Part 2, the second half of a theatrical celebration inspired by the diverse stories, memories and experiences of Boyle Heights history and monumental events shaping the community from the 1940’s to present day, from the point of view and/or lens of Her-story. Created and devised by Josefina Lopez, Corky Dominguez & The Remembering Boyle Heights Ensemble, directed by Dominguez. Performances begin Nov, 18, running through Dec 18 (Fri & Sat, 8pm, Sun, 3pm. For tickets and more information, go to here.
AROUND TOWN
Co-produced by Latino Theater Company, Letters from the Black Sea, focusing on the misadventures of Ovid, the poet of love in Rome—with more than a passing resemblance to Marvin Gaye--based on Ovid's Epistulae ex Ponto, written by Oliver Mayer and directed by Jose Luis Valenzuela. Plays Nov 12 (7pm) and Nov 13 (3pm) at Getty Villa Theater Lab Auditorium, Auditorium 17985 Pacific Coast Highway, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272. For tickets and more information, go here.
One of L.A.s leading presenters of live theater is also producing Dance at the Odyssey, now presenting Insula, directed and choreographed by Gema Galiana, performed by Gabriel Jimenez, based on a text by Anthony Nikolchev. Play Nov 11-19. For tickets, go here.
READINGS
Readings at the Road
Road Theatre in NoHo continues staged reading series with Kevin Delin’s A Climate of Errors. In a quaint New England bed and breakfast, three women (a climate scientist, a stranded Hollywood producer, and the local mayor) unwittingly discover a secret government database on paranormal terrorism. Are federal agents about to confirm the old legend that the B&B is haunted by a Revolutionary War era apparition? The cast includes Allison Blaize, Amy Tolsky, Bruce Katzman, Chuck McCollum, Krishna Smitha, Rob Nagel, and Susan Diol, directed by Jonathan Levitt. One night only, Nov. 14 at 7:30 PM. This event is open to the public. For more information, go here.
SOLO MOJO
Ellie Brelis
Hosted by Theatre 68, Driver’s Seat, has extended its run through Nov 20 (Fri & Sat, 8pm), Sun at 3pm). Written and performed by Ellie Brelis, directed by Directed by Emily Mikolitch. Based on true events this one-woman show tells the story of living with OCD, a once-in-a-lifetime heartbreak, a mental health hospitalization, coming out as queer, and, just possibly, learning how to drive. Theatre 68 Arts Complex, Emerson Theatre is located at 5112 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood, 91601. To purchas tickets, go here.
Co-produced by Center Theatre Group and East West Players, “Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord,” will perform at Kirk Douglas Theatre. Opening Feb 15, running through Mar 12, 2023. Written & performed by Kristina Wong, directed by Chay Yew. On day three of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wong began sewing masks out of old bed sheets and bra straps on her Hello Kitty sewing machine. Before long, she was leading the Auntie Sewing Squad, a work-from-home sweatshop of hundreds of volunteers — including children and her own mother. Was it a feminist utopia forming in the midst of crisis or a mutual doomsday cult? Single tickets go on sale Dec 14, available online at CenterTheatreGroup.org, by calling Audience Services at (213) 628-2772 or in person at the Center Theatre Group Box Office. For more information, visit CenterTheatreGroup.org/ACCESS.
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John Rubenstein
Arts in Review, hosted by arts journalist Julio Martinez, celebrating the best in theater and cabaret in the Greater Los Angeles area, airs on KPFK (90.7fm) on Fridays (2-2:30pm), streamed live around the world in real time over www.kpfk.org. On Nov 9, Julio welcomes John Rubenstein, starring in Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground, running through Nov 20 at Theatre West. For tickets go to www.theatrewest.org or www.newlarep.org