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Zoot Suit
By: Luis Valdez
Starring: Marco Rodriguez, Kinan Valdez, Daniel Valdez, Alma Martinez, Primavera Flor-Valdez, Lakin Valdez, Gregory Itzin, Xochiquetzal Candelaria, Estrella Esparza, Ruben C. Gonzalez, Raul Cardona, Daniel Chacón, Katrina Valdez, Seth Millwood, Spencer Garrett, Al Ruscio
Directed by: Luis Valdez
"Briskly paced... full of Latin fire and lively Big Band and Chicano melodies." —AudioFile Magazine
Chicano playwright Luis Valdez masterfully uses the Sleepy Lagoon murder case to examine the Chicano Zoot Suit Culture of the 40’s. Passionate and provocative, Zoot Suit pulses with the beat of big band music and traditional Latin songs. Music Direction by Daniel Valdez.
This play is sponsored by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded project of the California State Library.
Air Date: May 26, 2023
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Desire Under the Elms
By: Eugene O’Neill
Starring: Orson Bean, Amy Brenneman
Directed by: Eric Simonson
Eugene O’Neill’s tale of Ephraim Cabot, greedy and hard like the stone walls that surround his farm, the family patriarch brings home his new young bride, Abbie. His grown sons disapprove; one leaves but the other stays to fight for the family fortune.
Air Date: June 2, 2023
Act One
By: James Lapine
Based on the autobiography by: Moss Hart
Starring: Jane Kaczmarek, Mark Jude Sullivan, Jon Tenney
Directed by: Christopher Hart
A boy from the Bronx becomes the toast of Broadway. Moss Hart’s classic stage autobiography is brought to life, with his son Christopher directing, in a story that illuminates the early years of one of theater’s great humorists.
Air Date: June 9, 2023
The Browning Version
By: Terence Rattigan
Starring: Martin Jarvis, Kate Steele, Daniel David Stewart
Directed by: Peter Levin
In Terence Rattigan's classic drama, an aging schoolmaster at an English secondary school faces the harsh judgments of his students, his fellow teachers, and his vicious and spiteful wife. But can a lone act of kindness from a sympathetic student change his heart?
Air Date: June 16, 2023
Extinction
By: Hannie Rayson
Starring: Seamus Dever, Sarah Drew, Joanne Whalley
Directed by: Martin Jarvis
A zoologist in Australia gets funding to save an endangered species from the very company that threatens its existence. Will this deal with the devil allow her to save the species, or will it destroy her entire life's work? Extinction is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays.
This play is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.
Air Date: June 23, 2023
The Foreigner
By: Larry Shue
Starring: Kenneth Danziger, Paxton Whitehead
Directed by: Eric Simonson
What does a shy Englishman in search of rest do when he visits a fishing lodge in America? In Larry Shue’s hilarious farce, Charlie Baker, a proofreader by day and a boring husband by night, adopts the persona of a “foreigner” who doesn’t understand English. When others begin to speak freely around him, he not only becomes privy to secrets both dangerous and frivolous, he also discovers the adventurous extrovert within.
Air Date: June 30, 2023
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