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Culture CLASH still at the MArk Taper Forum

2006-08-29T00:28:00.000-07:00

Jul 27 – Sep 17

Tickets are available for all remaining performances.

TICKETS ONLINE
213-628-2772

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Water & Power
by Richard Montoya for Culture Clash
Directed by Lisa Peterson
World Premiere

With: Mateo Arias. Moises Arias, Dakin Mattews, Richard Montoya, Emilio Rivera, Winston J. Rocha, Ric Salinas Herbert Siguenza.

Charles McNulty in the Los Angeles Times says:
"An exciting venture for Culture Clash. Richard Montoya, Herbert Siguenza and Ric Salinas have a fraternal chemistry that works perfectly here. The news is how well Dakin Matthews fits right in. Hard as it is to believe, the audacity of his unforgettable portrait matches that of even our most shameful public figures." ...more online at calendarlive.com

Culture Clash is back in a story of power and politics told with a pulsing city beat.
Twin brothers, nicknamed Water and Power, are on their way to take Los Angeles. Water is an ambitious state senator. Power a top-ranking police lieutenant. There can be no power without water, and no water without power. The brothers soon find themselves at opposite ends of an abuse-of-power city scandal. Who really runs the streets of LA? The police? The gangs? The politicians? It’s LA, where no amount of sunlight can illuminate the shadows.

As they did with the Taper’s recent Chavez Ravine, Culture Clash (Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, Herbert Siguenza) smartly examines history, place, and the stories of people transformed by and in Los Angeles.

Find out more about Culture Clash.

With Culture Clash, “You laugh, you enjoy, all the while sensing that you’re also seeing something authentic, something important that lurks underneath politics and headlines.” -Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle

Grand Performances at California Plaza

2006-08-26T01:16:00.000-07:00

There are great things still happening at California Plaza at the Grand Performances.

Beijing LDTX Modern Dance
with Willy Tsao
August 26 2006, 8:00 PM

Also Appearing:
08/24/06 - 8:00 PM: Beijing LDTX Modern Dance
08/25/06 - 8:00 PM: Beijing LDTX Modern Dance

As much a happening as a dance performance, Grand View Garden is Willy Tsao’s (China’s foremost dance visionary) site specific work based upon the Chinese literary masterpiece, Dream of the Red Chamber and in honor of Grand Performances’ 20th anniversary. The work will take place on the main stage and the WaterCourt offering intimate vignettes, bold statements and sweeping vistas. Thursday and Saturday programs will begin with the company’s signature work, All River Red. Comfortable walking shoes recommended.

Los Angeles Theater Center Continues to Shine even before April Grand opening

2006-08-26T00:54:00.000-07:00

Tonite was a good night to see the play that was written by Evelina Fernandez Valenzuela. Lysistrata . It was great. It has a good theme and Moral and is also fun. It is for adults though. It plays again tomorrow night at 8 pm . Don't miss this play . Great Work and great acting. Fun through the whole play.

Soldado Raza is also being shown by the LAtino Musuem of History and Art at the Los Angeles Theatre Center .8/25 - 8:00PM to 9:30PM - Theatre
Luis Valdez's Soldado Razo
Luis Valdez's historic 1971 play "Soldado Razo," about a young man about to go to war in Vietnam in the 1960s, will be performed at The Museum and Theater Center, 514 So. Spring St., for a four week-end run starting on Friday, August 25, 2006 at 8 pm through September 16.

The play is sponsored by the Latino Museum of History, Art, and Culture and directed by Ricardo Lopez. It's the last production in the old LA Theatre Center building before an extensive four-million dollar renovation takes place, converting it into the new Museum and Theater Center in partnership with the Latino Theater Company.

"Soldado Razo" performances will be held on Friday and Saturday nights at 8 pm, with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 3 pm. Dates include: August 25,26,27; Sept. 1,2,3; Sept. 8,9,10, and Sept. 15, 16. A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE WILL BE HELD AT 8 PM ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 29 TO COMMEMORATE THE 36TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHICANO MORATORIUM, THE ANTI-WAR RALLY IN EAST LA WHICH BROUGHT OVER THIRTY THOUSAND DEMONSTRATORS TO LAGUNA PARK (NOW SALAZAR PARK)IN 1970 AND RESULTED IN THE DEATHS OF ANGEL DIAZ, LYNN WARD, AND NOTED LA TIMES NEWS REPORTER AND KMEX NEWS DIRECTOR RUBEN SALAZAR WHEN PROJECTILES BY LA CO. SHERIFFS DEPUTIES WERE SHOT INTO THE SILVER DOLLAR BAR ON WHITTIER BLVD. AUGUST 29, 1970.

Ticket prices for "Soldado Razo" are: Adults $12.50; Students and SAG/AFTRA/Equity members, $8.; Seniors and Vets with IDs, $5. Donations in lieu of ticket prices will be accepted. No one will be turned away.
For reservations, please call (213) 626-7600.

Venue: Old LA Theatre Center
Address: 514 So. Spring St. , Los Angeles
Ages: college-age and adults
Admission: Adults, $12.50; Students and SAG/AFTRA/Equity members, $8.; Seniors and Vets with IDs, $5. or Donations accepted.
For more information call: (213) 626-7600 OR (626) 458-9534
Email: ndelapen@hotmail.com

Geofff Rivas Running for the Downtown Los Angeles NEighborhood Council to represent the arts

2006-08-24T12:39:00.000-07:00

Geoffrey Rivas a well known actor of Stage and Screen ,who is heavily involved in theater, is running for a seat on the Downtown Los Angeles Neighbohrood Council . Here is some info on him.

Geoffrey Rivas

Born: ?

Birthplace: California

Info: Geoffrey Rivas is a native Californian who graduated from UCLA in 1985 with a Masters of Fine Arts degree with a concentration on acting. This producer/actor has a recurring role on CSI as Det. Vega, but is heavily involved in the theater. He received a 1999 Ovation nomination for his role as Martin on Sam Shepard's Fool For Love at the Madrid Theater in Canoga Park. He is a member of the Latino Theater Co. Other than CSI, he has the following theater, TV show, and movie credits to his name: I Don't Have To Show You No Stinking Badges, Piano, Man Of The Flesh, Once Removed, Dementia, Under The Tucsan Son, Desperado: Badlands Justice, Perfect Victims, The Trip, My Sister's Keeper, Details, Luminarias, My Little Assassin, Running Red, The Thirteenth Floor, The Lake, The Right To Remain Silent, Eye For An Eye, Have You Seen My Son?, Trial By Fire, Notes From Underground, Sawbones, Above Suspicion, Hostile Intentions, In The Line Of Duty: Ambush In Waco, Bound By Honor, Blind Side, Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story, Lady Killer, Steel Justice, The Boys, When You Remember Me, Drug Wars: The Camarena Story, Powwow Highway, Glory Years, Born In East L.A., La Bamba, Grey's Anatomy, Numb3rs, Cold Case, Threat Matrix, Nip/Tuck, NYPD Blue, The Agency, The District, JAG, Providence, Gideon's Crossing, Walker Texas Ranger, Promised Land, Air America, Pensacola: Wings Of Gold, Alright Already, Brooklyn South, Chicago Hope, ER, L.A. Law, Jake And The Fatman, Wiseguy, Hunter, and Crime Story.

Playreadings at the Los Angeles Theater Center

2006-08-24T12:27:00.000-07:00

As the days draw closer to the opening of the NEW LATC next Year , there are still things going on at the Theater. This weekend there are some play readings going on. A very mixed multicultural adventure. I missed the showings at the getty Center earlier this summer of evelina Fernandez Valenzuelas retelling of lysistrata set in the City of Angeles in the future. BUt I am sure to be there this weekend.

AUGUST 25TH & 26TH 8:00pm AUGUST 27TH 5:00PM
LATC Consortium Companies: Latino Theater Company, Robey Theater Company
& Playwrights Arena present a weekend of Playreadings

FRIDAY & SATURDAY - AUGUST 25TH & 26TH - 8:00PM
SUNDAY - AUGUST 27TH -5:00PM
$10.00 DONATION

Liz Estrada in the City of Angels
Presented by the Latino Theater Company

Written by Evelina Fernandez
Directed by Jose Luis Valenzuela
Produced by Latino Theater Company
Music composed and performed by Cita & Ricardo Ochoa

With: Sal Lopez, Lucy Rodriguez, Geoff Rivas, Evelina Fernandez, Brent
Jennings, Joyce Guy, Castulo Guerra, Renee Victor, Dawn-Lyen Gardner,
John Fleck

A contemporary spin on the Aristophanic classic Lysistrata. Set in L.A.
sometime in the future, Liz Estrada, the first lady of Angelinia has
grown tired of the war in the City and decides to take matters into her
own hands. An entertaining yet poignant retelling of a play whose
lessons we have not seemed to learn over the past 2,400 years.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY
AUGUST 25TH & 26TH - 8:00PM
LATC TOM BRADLEY THEATER #1

A HOUSE WITH NO WALLS
Presented by the Robey Theatre Company

A reading of a play by Tom Gibbions

In A House With NO Walls, a bitter public battle erupts when it is
revealed that the site of a new museum enshrining American liberty is
the ground on which George Washington's slaves' house once
stood. An African-American political activist occupies the site,
demanding that the house be recreated as a reminder of the reality of
slavery in our history and a memorial to the slaves' lives. He is
opposed by a controversial African-American conservative author, who
argues that blacks must lay aside their pursuit of victim hood if they
are to achieve true equality. Their conflict is juxtaposed against the
story of Ona Judge, one of Washington's slaves, as she struggles
with the decision of whether to risk everything to escape her bondage.
Moving in time between the present and the past, the play explores our
relationship to troubling historical reality. How do we decide which
elements of our history will be commemorated and which will be erased?

FRIDAY & SATURDAY
AUGUST 25TH & 26TH 8:00PM
LATC THEATER #3

SHAHRAZAD: HEADS OR TALES?
Presented by Playwrights Arena

Book by Stephen Oles and Noelle Donfeld
Lyrics by Noelle Donfeld
Music by Sandy Shanin
Directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera

SHAHRAZAD: HEADS OR TALES?
Magic leads to mayhem in this tragic-comic musical tale of love, lust,
power and madness adapted from the classic "1001 NIGHTS." If her magical
stories don't transform a murderous Sultan back into the magnificent man
she once loved, Shahrazad knows that one of them will be dead by
morning.

SUNDAY ONLY
AUGUST 27TH - 5:00PM
LATC THEATER #2

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LTC @ Los Angeles Theatre Center
514 S. Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
(213) 489-0994 Phone
(213) 489-1851 Fax
www.Latinotheater.com
info@latinotheater.com

The new vibrant LATC will be a microcosm of the New Los Angeles; a
destination center for those pursuing artistic excellence; a laboratory
where both tradition and innovation are honored and honed. It will be
home to the Latino Theater Company, Latino Museum of History, Art and
Culture, Culture Clash, the Robey Theatre Company, Cedar Grove
Productions, Playwrights Arena, the American Indian Dance Theatre, The
East Los Angeles Classical Theatre and the UCLA School of Theater, Film
and Television.

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