Theatrical productions and theater-related events
October 17-18, 2008
Ann Magnuson and Adam Dugas:
Dueling Harps

A darkly elegant evening of gorgeous melodies with a theatrical flourish. Ann Magnuson and Adam Dugas face off on vocals as Alexander Rannie and Mia Theodoratus strum their harps in this twisted match of musical one-upmanship | Click here

October 19-20, 2008
Studio

This quarterly series for new performance works is an opportunity to experience an interdisciplinary mix of unexpected experimentation and intriguing investigations from Los Angeles artists | Click here

October 29-November 2, 2008
Meredith Monk and Ann Hamilton:
Songs of Ascension

Soaring to a grand scale of artistic gesture and ambition, this major new multimedia work reunites two of the most influential artists in the United States today. Monk’s signature form of incantatory music-theater finds an uncanny match in Hamilton’s sensuous visual artistry as the full-evening piece channels an exploration of the spiritual, vocal, and physical notions of ascension across geography and time | Click here

January 28-February 1, 2009
Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes:
Monsters and Prodigies: The History of the Castratti

Delivered with off-the-wall humor and terrific musical aplomb, this raucous farce from the internationally renowned Mexico City company reaches back to a florid chapter of European cultural history: the era of the castrati-superstars of 18th-century opera whose heavenly prepubescent voices won swooning adoration across the continent's highest courts | Click here



October 9-12, 2008
Elevator Repair Service:
The Sound and the Fury:
April Seventh, 1928

When the famously risk-taking experimental New York company announced that it was producing a stage adaptation of the first chapter of Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, it was rumored that the young theatrical innovators had finally lost their minds | Click here

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