Upcoming Shows
By Peter Sinn Nactrieb
Directed By Caitlin Sullivan Hart
@ The Long Beach Playhouse, Studio Theatre
5021 East Anaheim Street, Long Beach, CA 90804
For Tickets, Info and Specials visit http://www.lbplayhouse.org/ or call 562-494-1014
Featuring...
Angel Correa as Jules
Julie Civiello as Jo
& Michelle Holmes* as Barbara
(*Denotes member of Actor's Equity Association)
Jo, a female journalism student, and Jules, a male marine bilogist, meet in a subterranean biology lab for an erotic "casual encounter". But there's nothing casual whatsoever about this particular evening. Will meaningless sex have meaning? What's going on in the fish tank? And who is that woman, Barbar, pulling levers in the corner? Something is about to explode.
When:
Friday, February 24th and Saturday, February 25th @ 8pm
Thursday, March 1st, Friday, March 2nd & Saturday, March 3rd@ 8pm
Thursday, March 8th, Friday, March 9th & Saturday, March 10th @ 8pm
Where:
The Long Beach Playhouse’s Studio Theatre
5021 East Anaheim Street
Long Beach, CA 90804
Tickets:
$20 General / $15 Students and Seniors
$10 groups of 10 or more
www.lbplayhouse.org (562) 494-1014
On The Director...
"Caitlin S. Hart's direction is first rate" -StageSceneLA
"Director Caitlin S Hart seizes on the text's Gothic elements in a staging worthy of The Old Dark House" -LA Weekly
"This production is well assembled and crafted" -LA Theatre Review
On Alive Theatre…
"...A company well worth watching" -David C. Nichols, LA Times
"Alive Theatre is a young, dynamic, multicultural company producing vibrant work on a shoe string. They are straight up "of the people, for the people". Strength, commitment, talent and heart abound!””- Playwright, Stephen Adly Guirgis, on In Arabia We’d All Be Kings
"I was very moved... by the excellent performance of my play.”-Playwright, José Rivera on Alive Theatre's References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot at The Museum of Latin American Art
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Alive Theatre and Inventing Room Productions present...
In Collaboration with the Long Beach Playhouse
Starring and Written by Amir Levi
Directed by Shauna Horn
Gay Mexican-Israeli American Jew Amir Levi Brings His Coming-of-Age Tale, MALE MATRIARCH to the West Coast
Following a Critically Acclaimed Run at the
New York International Fringe Festival
Male Matriarch – the autobiographical story of its star and creator Amir Levi – challenges postmodern gay identity through his cultural desire to create a nuclear family based on traditional values. Strongly influenced by the love stories of his mother and grandmother, Amir shares his Builla’s rhythm, his mother’s taste in curly-haired men, and thinks he’s destined to be the next matriarch of his Mexican Jewish American family. When his first relationship crumbles, dashing his boyhood dreams, he quickly finds that the fairy tale courtships of his beloved matriarchs seem nowhere to be found.
When:
Performances: (Running time: 65 minutes)
Tuesday, March 6th @ 8pm
Wednesday, March 7th @ 8pm
Where:
The Long Beach Playhouse’s Studio Theatre
5021 East Anaheim Street
Long Beach, CA 90804
Tickets:
$20 General / $15 Students and Seniors
$10 groups of 10 or more
www.lbplayhouse.org (562) 494-1014
Presented by Alive Theatre and Inventing Room Productions as part of the Long Beach Playhouse’s NEW Collaborative Series, the show will be directed by Shauna Horn with choreography by Megan Sipe and original music by Jesse Soursourian. Following a run at the New York International Fringe Festival in August, Male Matriarch is making its West Coast debut at the Long Beach Playhouse’s Studio Theatre in Long Beach, CA.
Levi wrote Male Matriarch (formerly titled Te Busco) under the guidance of playwrights Rachel Sheinkin (Tony Award, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), Lucy Thurber (Scarcity, 13P) and Adam Bock (A Small Fire, The Drunken City) while Levi was studying at the O'Neill National Theater Institute. Ms. Sheinkin wrote to Amir, “I was very impressed with the commitment and passion you brought to [Male Matriarch], and the observant, nuanced writing...I hope it's a project you'll continue.” Since then, Male Matriarch has been developed by directors Portia Krieger and Shauna Horn at Manhattan Theater Source, Emerging Artists Theatre, The Tank, and in 2010 enjoyed its Off-Broadway debut at 45 Bleecker Theatre in New York. For more information on Amir and the show, check out: www.malematriarch.com.
