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Hit | May 15 – June 8 | The Los Angeles Theatre Center

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I’ve been wanting for years to see a play by Alice Tuan and now she has a world premiere right here in LA!

May 15 – June 8
By Alice Tuan
Directed by Laurel Ollstein
Produced by The Los Angeles Theatre Center

In a play that could only be set in L.A., with a plot that feels ripped out of recent Hollywood headlines, Kim and Mark meet as the result of an ill-fated collision on the freeway (of course). A string of sex, excess, love triangles and Zankou Chicken soon follows in Alice Tuan’s Hit. It’s a psychosexual romp, originally commissioned by the Public Theater, from the CalArts educator and playwright behind Ajax (por nobody), Last of the Suns and Coastline.

Previews May 15, 16 | Opens May 17
Thursday – Saturday 8pm | Sunday 3pm
General Admission | $40
Students, Seniors, Veterans, Groups 10+ | $20
$10 Thursdays (Limited number available)
Previews | $20
LATC Members | $20

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Hit | May 15 – June 8 | The Los Angeles Theatre Center.

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Susan Simpson | Concrete Folk Variations | May 2-11 | Automata Arts

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This promises to be really exciting, the entirety of Susan Simpson’s “Concrete Folk Variations” trilogy done at one go!

When a prominent society maven and philanthropist who secretly slums at lesbian dives is murdered, L.A.P.D. beat cop, Loretta Salt, turns reluctant investigator and steps into an infested swamp of corruption, brutality and subterfuge.

A soulful, gripping noir, Concrete Folk Variations is told through Simpson’s intricately crafted puppets, projections and a minimalist mid-century Los Angles cityscape. This cultural excavation of the moment just before the rise of the modern gay movement unearths secret codes, clandestine homosexual societies, flamboyant transgressions and soul crushing silence. Concrete Folk Variations is a hypnotic tale of the formidable times.

Performed by
Dan Rae Wilson, Moira MacDonald, Zachary Schwartz, Jonathon Williams

Voices by
Hilario Saavedra, Mark Simon, Kendra Ware, Anne Yatco

Live Musical Score: Eric Potter

Video Design: Dustin Neiderman

MAY 2-11
8pm Thursday-Sunday, 3pm Saturday and Sunday

Tickets:
$18 General Admission
$15 Members/Students/Seniors
Seating is Limited; Advance Reservations Suggested.

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*** For those familiar with Concrete Folk from past iterations you might like to know that this performance will contain all three episodes collected into one evening.****

Read reviews and see pictures from from past Concrete Folk Productions
HERE

Automata Arts.

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Poor Dog Group | Five Small Fires at the Bootleg Theater

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Poor Dog Group is a group of CalArts graduates who formed five years ago to explore the outer bounds of theater in a way reminiscent, to me, of the Wooster Group in NYC. I’ve long been a fan of their work, among the most challenging I’ve seen in LA. This is their new show at the excellent Bootleg Theater near downtown.

March 6 – 29 | Thurs-Sat | 7:30pm

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Five Small Fires began as an investigation into ancient ritual, and the nature of satyr play within Greek theater. Set in a community center, revolutionaries of an abstract New Age movement stew over life’s meaning and purpose. A dark secret begins to reemerge, causing the members to seek aggressive liberation. While philosophical rhetoric builds upon itself, the members continue to seek emancipation from the troubles of contemporary life by conducting a series of lessons and tests, which they broadcast on-line. As these rituals collide in celebratory chaos, a higher community is formed through dance, initiation rites and radical apocalyptic anarchy.

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Peiyi Wong: From Photographs: March 15-16

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FROM PHOTOGRAPHS: An installation/performance by Peiyi Wong at Automata Arts.

Peiyi Wong

A multi-media installation / performance that attempts to examine the many ways we have of looking, in hopes of uncovering the ideal way forward.

We will be presenting the latest research and findings of an anonymous amateur archeologist-explorer who remains inexplicably drawn to the ruins of Llano del Rio, a failed socialist utopian commune built on the edge of the Mojave Desert.

Written, directed, and performed by Peiyi Wong

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