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IS HE DEAD? --- West Coast Premiere of a New Comedy
By Mark Twain
Adapted by David Ives
April 28 - May 24
The West Coast premiere of a newly discovered comedy by the master of American humor, Mark Twain. A struggling artist stages his own death to drive up the price of his paintings in a zany, hilarious and sly critique of the art world. As the riotous scheme unfolds and crazy complications ensue, Twain poses daring questions about fame, greed and the value of art, poking his signature, mischievous fun at everyone invovled. Tom Sawyer was never this much fun!
"Shriekingly funny - I don't know when I've heard a New York audience laugh louder or longer." - The Wall Street Journal
FACING EAST --- A Poignant New Play
By Carol Lynn Pearson
June 9 - July 5 (no performance July 4)
The Southern California premiere of Pearson's eloquent and multifaceted play about the challenging intersections of faith and family, diversity and love. Ruth and Alex McCormick are an upstanding Mormon couple reeling from the suicide of their excommunicated son. But when they meet their dead son's partner for the first time, they must come to terms with their own inner demons and the love they lost.
"Some theatre is good drama. Some drama is important theatre. Facing East is both." - nytheatre.com
BRIGHT IDEAS --- Los Angeles Premiere
August 25 - September 20
The Los Angeles area premiere of Coble's gleeful, Macbeth-ian black comedy about the nurturing instinct gone haywire. Genevra and Joshua Bradley are convinced that placement in the correct preschool will ensure their soon-to-be four-year-old son's future success in life. Although the Bradley's registered their son for Bright Ideas Early Childhood Development Academy on the day he was born, he's still stuck on the waiting list, so the fretting couple takes matters into their own hands - with dire and downright Shakespearean results. Macbeth meets MacParenting in this new comedy of homicidal proportions.
"...hilariously funny." - The New York Times
"A tidy little gem of comic insanity " - Variety
SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD
Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
October 13 - November 8
Songs For a New World does not tell one story; it tells sixteen unique stories through sixteen driving, exquisitely crafted songs. Says composer Jason Robert Brown, "It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back." Audiences are transported from the deck of a 1492 Spanish sailing ship to a ledge 57 stories above Fifth Avenue to meet a startling array of characters ranging from a young man who has determined that basketball is his ticket out of the ghetto to a woman whose dream of marrying rich nabs her the man of her dreams and a soulless marriage. These are the stories and characters of today, the songs for a new world told with a driving, exquisitely crafted score running the gamut of today's popular music.
"Fear not for the future of the American musical theatre as long as talent like Jason Robert Brown keeps coming." --- Gannett Newspapers
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