Tartuffe

A re-envisioned classic by Molière

directed by Josh Chambers

Previews February 13 - 20

Opens February 21 - March 22, 2009

Pop art and industrial music lift Molière’s delicious rhymes and indictment of hypocrisy and drops them in our own back yard, the San Fernando Valley. Suburbia becomes the battleground for a spiritual and cultural civil war between art and commerce, charlatan and saint. This Tartuffe upends the expectations of a Comedy of Manners in the pastel washes and smog-stained environs of “The Other Hollywood.”

Courting Vampires

World Premiere by Laura Schellhardt

directed by Jessica Kubzansky

Previews April 30 - May 8

Opens May 9 - June 7, 2009

In this deeply moving allegory that straddles graveyard and courtroom, Nina, a vitally alive, headstrong young woman falls victim to a fatal blood disease, and her protective older sister, Rill, vows revenge on the vampire who infected her.  With righteousness and impassioned love Rill puts him on trial for his life.  But does anything – even justice – avenge death?

The Pain and the Itch

A Co-Production with Furious Theatre Company

West Coast Premiere by Bruce Norris

directed by Dámaso Rodriguez

Previews July 16 - 24

Opens July 25 - August 23, 2009

A young daughter is in serious need of attention while her parents worry if the milk is organic. A ravenous creature may be prowling the upstairs bedrooms. And an average Thanksgiving for this family unravels into an exposé of disastrous choices and less-than-altruistic motives.  The Pain and the Itch is a scathing comedy about the politics of class and race, a controversial examination of denial and its consequences.

God Save Gertrude

World Premiere by Deborah Stein

music by David Hanbury

directed by Michael Michetti

Previews October 1 - 9

Opens October 10 - November 8, 2009

A punk rock riff on Hamlet.  Angry crowds gather outside an abandoned theatre as Queen Gertrude takes the stage to riff on Patti Smith and sing about her many loves and her many mistakes, while her country simmers in a volatile state of transition. As the bombs rain down and her coked-up son sells out to MTV, Gertrude hopes to incite one more riot before she goes.

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