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Theatrical productions and theater-related events, including works produced by the CalArts Center for New Theater.
July 20-22, 2006
NOW Festival -- Program 1

Inventive Los Angeles performing artists are given a chance to take creative risks using REDCAT as a high-tech theatrical laboratory. Featuring The Outsiders, Michael Sakamoto & Amy Knowles and Kristina Wong | Click here

July 27-29, 2006
NOW Festival -- Program 2

Inventive Los Angeles performing artists are given a chance to take creative risks using REDCAT as a high-tech theatrical laboratory. Featuring Mira Kingsley, Marisa Carnesky and Victoria Marks | Click here

August 3-5, 2006
NOW Festival -- Program 3

Inventive Los Angeles performing artists are given a chance to take creative risks using REDCAT as a high-tech theatrical laboratory. Featuring John Fleck, Julie Crockett and Matt Wardell | Click here



Past 05/06 Theater Events:
September 21-25, 2005
JOJI INC.: ERASE-E(X)
Featuring choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, The Wooster Group and Isabella Soupart

This exhilarating dance theater work begins with an original composition by famed Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and moves through successive choreographic reinventions by erasure-first by the legendary Wooster Group, then by De Keersmaeker again, and finally by Isabella Soupart. | Click here

October 2-3
Studio

REDCAT's quarterly program for new performance works and works-in-progress has been a creative laboratory for such Los Angeles artists as Héctor Aristizábal, Doug Cooney, Rodney Mason, Denise Uyehara and Lauren Weedman. | Click here

November 3-6, 2005
Dan Hurlin: Hiroshima Maiden
West Coast premiere

Dan Hurlin's beautifully staged puppet theater work brings to life a forgotten chapter of history: the harrowing account of 25 Hiroshima survivors--all young women horribly disfigured in the nuclear attack--who visited the United States in 1955 to undergo reconstructive surgery. | Click here

November 10-13, 2005
MARTA Carrasco: Aiguardent
Part of the International Latino Theatre Festival of Los Angeles

Striking visual images and daring movement have made Catalan performer Marta Carrasco a favorite at some of the world's most prestigious festivals. | Click here

December 1-3, 2005
Anne Lebaron And Terese Svoboda: Wet
World Premiere

Set against the backdrop of a great American river during a torrential flood, this provocative new opera by Anne LeBaron and Terese Svoboda sketches out a world in which multinational corporations have cornered all supplies of water. | Click here

Decmeber 8-10, 2005
Terry Allen And Jo Harvey Allen: Dugout III: Warboy (And The Backboard Blues)
West Coast premiere

Artist, musician and writer Terry Allen stages a sweeping multimedia theater work that is both a love story--between a minor league baseball player and a barrelhouse piano player--and an investigation of how memories are invented. | Click here

January 11-15, 2006
The Actors' Gang: The Exonorated
Written and directed by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen

This sharply staged hit drama from the artist-run Los Angeles company tells the real-life stories of 6 former death row inmates who were eventually proven innocent and released. | Click here

January 18-22, 2006
Paul Zaloom: The Mother of All Enemies
World premiere

The wickedly funny puppeteer and satirist gives new meaning to the term "shadow government" with his latest whirlwind spectacle, a politicized update of the traditional Middle Eastern "Zaragoz" shadow play. | Click here

February 2-4, 2006
Carl Hancock Rux: Asphalt

This kaleidoscopic portrait of a near-future, post-apocalyptic city and its distressed inhabitants is an electrifying stage adaptation of the Alpert Award winner's debut novel. | Click here

February 19-20, 2006
Studio

REDCAT's quarterly program for new performance works and works-in-progress has been a creative laboratory for Los Angeles artists showcasing an interdisciplinary mix of theater, dance, music and multimedia works.| Click here

March 3-4, 7-8, 2006
Juilliard Actors on Tour

Juilliard celebrates its 100th birthday "on the move" as part of the School's ongoing anniversary season. | Click here

March 19, 2006
CAP/Plaza de la Raza: Puppet Theater

An original multimedia puppet theater production by students in the Community Arts Partnership/Plaza de la Raza Puppetry Program, staged under the direction of Susan Simpson of CalArts' Cotsen Center for Puppetry and the Arts. | Click here

March 22-26, 2006
Wunderbaum and Kopna Kopna:
Lost Chord Radio

Fueled by a throbbing rock music score, the inventive theatrical adventure Lost Chord Radio combines the talents of acclaimed Dutch theater ensemble Wunderbaum and renegade music group Kopna Kopna. | Click here

April 7-9, 2006
Eiko and Koma: Cambodian Stories

Renowned movement duo Eiko and Koma intricately choreograph the actions of 10 young dancers and painters in Cambodian Stories, a multidisciplinary collaboration with artists from Phnom Penh. | Click here

April 14-15, 2006
THE GRANDE MOTHERS RE:INVENTED:
STRAVINSKY MEETS ZAPPA

A raucous two-part concert inspired by the enduring legacy of Frank Zappa. First, the trio of Don Preston, Napoleon Murphy Brock and Roy Estrada joins forces with an ensemble of guest artists. | Click here

April 20-22, 2006
My Barbarian: Double Future

The Los Angeles-based performance art band combines music, theater, dance and visual art in sublime sexy songs, surreal scene-stealing and phantasmagorical feats of pure fantasy fun.| Click here

April 23-24, 2006
Studio

REDCAT presents the season's final showcase for new experimental works and works-in-progress by local music, dance, theater and interdisciplinary artists. | Click here

April 27-30, 2006
Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani

The most important independent theater collective in Peru, Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani has sustained an exploration of political performance, theatrical experimentation and indigenous performing culture for more than three decades. | Click here

May 19 & 21, 2006
Charles Phoenix: Retro Disneyland Slide Show

With amazing vintage color slides, Charles Phoenix creates the ultimate "E Ticket" to the early days of the granddaddy of all theme parks. | Click here

May 26-27, 2006
CAP/Plaza de la Raza Youth Theater

The 16th annual production of an original play by students in the Community Arts Partnership/Plaza de la Raza Youth Theater Program, written and staged with guidance from B.J. Dodge, Marvin Tunney, Mady Schutzman and CalArts students. | Click here

June 8-11, 14-18, 2006
CORNERSTONE THEATER COMPANY:
DEMETER IN THE CITY

With fiery passion, offbeat humor and heartbreaking song, Demeter in the City summons the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone to enact a timeless ritual of separation, abandonment, reunion and emancipation. | Click here

July 12-15, 2006
Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!

Penny Arcade's intimate, riveting presence and hilarious insights reveal the similarities among her wildly diverse audience in a emotionally transformative performance experience | Click here