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Block Party 2017
Celebrating Los Angeles Theatre
Block Party 2017
Los Angeles is home to over 250 theatre companies, featuring an abundance of talent, diversity, and ingenuity. To celebrate the vibrant theatre of our city, we’re premiering Block Party—three recent productions from local theatre companies, highlighting some of the best work our town has to offer. Help us celebrate L.A. theatre and join the Block Party!
Want to see all three shows & save? Buy a Party Pass!
$67 + a free drink*
Use promo code: PARTYPASS by phone or in person at the Box Office.
*Available by phone or in person only. Available now through April 23, 2017. Not valid on previously purchased tickets or combined with other offers. Not available on April 16, 30, or May 14. Handling fees may apply. Subject to availability.
Pay What You Want
As an integral part of Block Party’s mission to celebrate the vibrant theatre of Los Angeles and connect with our community, we will be offering Pay What You Want performances on the first Friday of each show.**
**Available in person only. Only valid on 4/14, 4/28, 5/12. Not valid on previously purchased tickets or combined with other offers. Subject to availability. $1 minimum.
Failure: A Love Story
Apr 14–23, 2017
Written by Philip Dawkins and directed by Michael Matthews, Failure: A Love Story from Coeurage Theatre Company chronicles the lives, loves and deaths of the three Fail sisters and the one man who fell in love with each of them. Set against the backdrop of 1920s Chicago, this touching, whimsical tale explores the impermanence of life and the permanence of love.
Credits
- By
- Philip Dawkins
- Directed by
- Michael Matthews
- Scenic Design by
- JR Bruce
- Costume Design by
- Allison Dillard
- Lighting Design by
- Matthew Brian Denman
- With
- Joe Calarco
- June Carryl
- Cristina Gerla
- Kristina Johnson
- Margaret Katch
- Denver Milord
- Gregory Nabours
- Theodore Perkins
- Kurt Quinn
- Brandon Ruiter
- Nicole Shalhoub
- Gina Torrecilla
- Brittney S. Wheeler
- A Coeurage Theatre Company Production
Citizen: An American Lyric
Apr 28 – May 7, 2017
The Fountain Theatre’s Citizen: An American Lyric, a meditation on race that fuses poetry, prose, movement, music and the video image, is a provocative stage adaptation of Claudia Rankine’s internationally acclaimed book of poetry about everyday acts of racism in America adapted by playwright and The Fountain Theatre Co-Artistic Director Stephen Sachs and directed by Shirley Jo Finney. Of Rankine’s Citizen, The New Yorker wrote that it was brilliant… [and] explores the kinds of injustice that thrive when the illusion of justice is perfected.
The New York Times wrote that Rankine brilliantly pushes poetry’s forms to disarm readers and circumvent our carefully constructed defense mechanisms against the hint of possibly being racist ourselves.
Credits
- By
- Claudia Rankine
- Adapted for the stage by
- Stephen Sachs
- Directed by
- Shirley Jo Finney
- Scenic and Media Design by
- Yee Eun Nam
- Costume Design by
- Naila Aladdin-Sanders
- Lighting Design by
- Pablo Santiago
- Sound Design by
- Peter Bayne
- Movement Director
- Anastasia Coon
- With
- Bernard K. Addison
- Leith Burke
- Tony Maggio
- Simone Missick
- Monnae Michaell
- Lisa Pescia
- A Fountain Theatre Production
Dry Land
May 12–21, 2017
Written by Ruby Rae Spiegel and directed by Alana Dietze, Echo Theater Company’s Dry Land is a haunting play about female friendship and an abortion that takes place in the locker room of a central Florida high school. Written when Spiegel was just 21 years old and still an undergraduate at Yale, the play is a deeply truthful portrait of the fears, hopes and bonds of teenage girls—as gut-wrenching as it is funny. In his New York Times "critic’s pick" review, Ben Brantley called Dry Land tender, caustic, funny and harrowing, often all at the same time.
Credits
- By
- Ruby Rae Spiegel
- Directed by
- Alana Dietze
- Scenic Design by
- Amanda Knehans
- Costume Design by
- Elena Flores
- Lighting Design by
- Justin Huen
- Sound Design by
- Jeff Gardner
- With
- Daniel Hagen
- Ben Horwitz
- Connor Kelly-Eiding
- Teagan Rose
- Jenny Soo
- Jacqueline Besson
- Alexandra Freeman
- Francesca O’Hern
- Bukola Ogunmola
- Sidne Phillips
- Tessa Hope Slovis
- An Echo Theater Company Production
Subscribers will automatically receive tickets to one production with the opportunity to purchase the remaining two as add-ons.
Program info at CenterTheatreGroup.org/BlockParty
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Performance Length
The performance length for Failure: A Love Story is approx. one hour and 44 minutes, with no intermission.
The performance length for Citizen: An American Lyric is approx. 65 minutes, with no intermission.
The performance length for Dry Land is TBA.
Be Aware
Pay What You Want**
- April 14, 2017
- Failure: A Love Story
- April 28, 2017
- Citizen: An American Lyric
- May 12, 2017
- Dry Land
Credits
- Block Party receives major support from
- Aliza Karney Guren and Marc Guren
- with generous funding also provided by
- Joni and Miles Benickes
Production Photos—"Dry Land"
