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The Los Angeles Premiere of

Dying City

by Christopher Shinn

Directed by Michael Peretzian

Featuring Burt Grinstead and Laurie Okin

Opening Saturday, May 18

Saturdays at 5pm • Sundays at 7pm • Mondays at 8pm

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One Night in Miami…

by Kemp Powers

Directed by Carl Cofield

 with Giovanni Adams, Kevin Daniels, Jason Delane, Matt Jones, Ty Jones, Jason E. Kelley & Burl Moseley

Opening Saturday, June 8

Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm • Sundays at 3pm

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One night. Four friends. History to be made.

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Spring Fling Fundraiser

Star-studded scenes from upcoming and past RMT shows

Silent auction • Appetizers, cocktails, and desserts

Monday, May 6, 2013

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Chapter 40: Tribes

Monday, May 27 at 8:00PM

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Salome Jens is starring in the World Premiere of Tomorrow, opening March 9

May 7, 2012 4:21:35 PM PDT

From: Jim Grissom, regarding Tennessee Williams

Dear Ms. Jens

“I was like a rabid dog for so long, you see, although rabid dogs aren’t really after anything, I suppose, other than release from their misery: I was, truth be told, a ravenous dog, a wild and hungry bitch looking for my own release, but it was creative release, and I was terribly hungry. The fog was not rolling in across the boards very much; I had damaged the machinery—no gods appeared from their heights with a woman. So…we go to the theatre, the cinema, the television screen, which we pull closer to us, near the typewriter or the pad, and we scribble and we wait, and a voice, a form might appear….It was on one of those hungry walks about town that I saw Salome [Jens]. The first exposure was probably The Disenchanted, but my creative captivity began when I saw The Balcony, which I was drawn to by the playwright, but I was kept there by the vision that she projected—a vision that was not merely hair and skin and legs—all of which could keep a person transfixed—but by talent and intellect and an acute vision that she had trained on so many layers of that play: ugly layers, certainly, but ugly layers peeled back by the lapidary skills of a great and damaged writer. There is great prejudice delivered to the pretty and the wise, and I feared that for her, but the talent was greater than the creamy vessel into which it had been poured, and so she teased it, taunted it, trained it, cast it over the prison wall beauty has created for so many others who were similarly gifted. Her Josie was particularly extraordinary—we bandy these words about so much they fail to mean anything, but she was frighteningly poignant, sensual, angry, a futile feminine figure cast against an unforgiving horizon—a horizon not unlike the sky that beats down on my Alma. How long can you fight? And with what? What are the weapons we have at our disposal, and how wisely can we deploy them? All of these questions were in that performance, driven into the text, into the performance, into my heart. I do not think she is capable of sloth—artistic sloth, I mean. I think that clarity and elevation are primary goals for her: I think she wants to get to the bottom of things, find out what the natural order of a person is, as so many like to say. She acts from a deep place—emotional as well as technical. She doesn’t pose. I was unable to sleep one night and put on the television, hoping for some company and some fog, and there she was, on some late-night horror thing, and I sat up and was amazed because, I thought, She’s elevating that! A poor port for a great talent, but there’s a lesson for you—for all of us. We husband and we love our talents, and we take them on great trips we hope will expose them to adventure and erudition and an appreciative audience, and we never know what we will find, what we will receive, how we will be received. I have told you that I lack a faith that would make my journey easier, and I do not think that Salome lacks this faith.”

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A High Tea

The afternoon includes the first public reading of A Family Secret by Donald Freed and a reception welcoming Damian Cruden, Artistic Director of the York Theatre Royal.

Sunday, February 3 at 3:00PM

at The Jonathan Club on the Santa Monica beachfront

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by Rob Mersola

Nominated for three LA Weekly Awards, including Production of the Year!

LA Times Critic’s Choice • Ovation Recommended

Directed by Elina de Santos • Starring Joshua Bitton, Burl Moseley, and Jennifer Pollono

EXTENDED AGAIN!

Now playing through April 14 at the Skylight Theatre

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A Bright New Boise

by Samuel D. Hunter

LA Times Critic’s Choice • LA Weekly Pick of the Week

Ovation Recommended!

EXTENDED through January 27!

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Directed by John Perrin Flynn • Starring Matthew Elkins, Erik Odom, Trevor Peterson, Heather L. Tyler, and Betsy Zajko

All remaining performances are SOLD OUT. Use the Reservations tab to add your name to the waiting list.

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by Henry Murray

LA Times Critic’s Choice • LA Weekly Pick of the Week

Jesse and Poppy, longtime loves, have made a suicide pact to protect against the time when their bodies deteriorate and they lose control over their destinies. But life has thrown them a curve… so what does this mean for the pact? Three Views of the Same Object explores three different outcomes to this dilemma. It’s a story about enduring love and aging in America. MORE INFO

MUST CLOSE November 11

Only four performances left!

Saturday 11/3 at 8pm • Sunday 11/4 at 3:00pm • Friday 11/9 at 8pm • Sunday 11/11 at 3:00pm

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Starring Anne Gee Byrd, K Callan, Catherine Carlen, Nancy Linehan Charles, Shelly Kurtz, and Allan Miller