The Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City is the newest and most intimate of Center Theatre Group’s family of theatres. The 317-seat venue, located in a newly renovated historic theatre, opened in October 2004 with a season that included six world premieres. Subsequently, Artistic Director Michael Ritchie has selected a wide range of productions - from the classic Come Back, Little Sheba featuring S. Epatha Merkerson to the world premieres of two new musicals, Sleeping Beauty Wakes (with Deaf West Theatre) and Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (a wild West rock musical), to the productions of fellow Los Angeles theatre companies allowing those artists reach a broader audience at the Douglas. Featuring a strong pulse and theatrical beat, the 2007-08 six-show season offers two world premieres including a new David Mamet farce.
Performances at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
Two Unrelated Plays
By David Mamet
World Premiere
May 11 - Jun 8, 2008
TWO UNRELATED PLAYS BY DAVID MAMET include two short plays performed in tandem. In KEEP YOUR PANTHEON an impoverished acting company on the edge of eviction is offered a lucrative engagement and life is finally on the upswing. But through a series of riotous mishaps, the troupe finds its problems have actually multiplied, and that they are about to learn a new meaning for the term ‘dying on stage.’ Mamet's early work, DUCK VARIATIONS, is a sly meditation on the meaning of life, where observations about ducks, whether factual or incorrect, create a beautiful fugue on the human condition.
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Of Equal Measure
By Tanya Barfield
Directed by Leigh Silverman
World Premiere
Jun 29 - Jul, 2008
Jade Kingstone is an ambitious African-American stenographer in the Woodrow Wilson White House with behind the scenes access. The president is the man who enters the U.S. into World War I in order that the world "be safe for democracy." He also is the one who begins instituting segregationist policies and trampling civil liberties. In this increasingly complex modern world, Jade finds the need to make a choice between protecting her job, her brother, and her own sense of America's duty to its citizens and to the world abroad.
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Photo Credit
Kirk Douglas Theatre.
Photo by Craig Schwartz.
