NEWS RELEASE — CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR ‘THE MISMATCH GAME’ AT LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ON MARCH 11 & 12

CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR
UPCOMING EDITION OF
The MisMatch Game

Presented by the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s
Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center
and Creator/Producer/Host Dennis Hensley

TWO NIGHTS ONLY!
Friday, March 11 & Saturday, March 12 at 8pm

Casting has been announced for the upcoming edition of Dennis Hensley’s The MisMatch Game, the show the Los Angeles Times calls, “witty, ribald … an adventure in surrealist era bending.” The side-splitting parody of the 70s game show returns to the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Renberg Theatre for two nights only, Friday, March 11 and Saturday, March 12 at 8pm.

Host Dennis ‘Gene Rayburn’ Hensley will be joined onstage by a panel of some of LA’s most creative, hilarious, and demented comic minds. The cast for Friday 3/11 is set to include Willam Belli as Jessica Simpson, Danny Casillas as Reba Areba, Dante as Jack Nicholson, Maile Flanagan as Danny Bonaduce, Rebekah Kochan as Pamela Anderson, and Amy Phillips as Teresa Guidice. On Saturday 3/12, the scheduled cast is Julie Brown (role TBA), Nicol Paone as Arianna Huffington, Felix Pire as Ricardo Montalbán, Chris Pudlo as Juliette Lewis, Tom Lenk as Zooey Deschanel, and Craig Taggart as Bette Midler. Cast members subject to change.Visit www.lalgbtcenter.org/theatre for updates.

The MisMatch Game regularly fills the house at its irregularly scheduled gigs at the Renberg Theatre. Audiences keep coming back for the razor’s-edge improv and the racy, anarchic, and decidedly un-PC wit and wildness. The Advocate honored The MisMatch Game with a “10 Best Theatre” citation that said, “This recurring Los Angeles happening re-imagines the ‘70s TV game show The Match Game with full-camp press and excellent sub-lebrity impersonations.”

General admission tickets are $15 and may be purchased online at www.lalgbtcenter.org/theatre or by phone at (323) 860-7300. Net proceeds from all ticket sales will support the full range of free and low-cost programs and services offered by the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Renberg Theatre is located at the Village at Ed Gould Plaza, 1125 N. McCadden Place (one block east of Highland, just north of Santa Monica Boulevard), in Hollywood, 90038. Free onsite parking is available.

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02-29-16

NEWS RELEASE — “THE UNDERSTUDY” BY THERESA REBECK — OPENS FRIDAY 3/11 at 8pm

“The storm is upon us.”

THE UNDERSTUDY
BY THERESA REBECK
DIRECTED BY LAURA HENRY

FEATURING
MAX BUNZEL, BRAXTON MOLINARO,
AND MAGDALENE VICK

OPENING FRIDAY, MARCH 11
AT WORKING STAGE THEATER
FOR NINE PERFORMANCES ONLY

A new production of The Understudy by Theresa Rebeck will open on Friday, March 11 at 8pm for a limited run of nine performances at Working Stage Theater in Los Angeles. The cast will feature (in alphabetical order) Max Bunzel (NCIS: Los Angeles), Braxton Molinaro (Sons of the Prophet at The Blank Theatre), and Magdalene Vick (Average Joe). Directed by Laura Henry, the engagement will run through March 27 only.

A journeyman actor in over his head, a B-list movie star yearning for legitimacy, and an overwhelmed stage manager set the stage for Rebeck’s hilarious and poignant satire of passion about behind-the-scenes life in today’s entertainment industry. [Run time is 90 minutes.] Scenic design is by Ryan Wineinger and Sam Ogden, costume design is by Whitney Oppenheimer, projection design is by Brad Peterson, and the stage manager is Ashley Clark.

Theresa Rebeck is a widely produced playwright throughout the United States and abroad whose work also includes The Scene, The Water’s Edge, Loose Knit, The Family of Mann, Spike Heels, Bad Dates, Poor Behavior, View of the Dome, Omnium Gatherum (co-written with Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros and a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2004) and Our House. She has written two novels, Three Girls and Their Brother and Twelve Rooms with a View. She is also an award-winning writer and producer for television, including the shows Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Brooklyn Bridge, Dream On, L.A. Law and NYPD Blue, and she is the creator of NBC’s Smash, among others.

Laura Henry is a critically acclaimed director and acting coach. She was a full time director and professor at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts from 2004 through 2011. She is now based in Santa Monica where she teaches full time at her studio. Henry’s LA theatre credits include Shift (LA Theatre Festival); House of Blue Leaves and The Crucible (Matrix Theatre); Raft of the Medusa and The Sonworshipper (Zephyr Theatre); and The Hypochondriac and The Promise (HBO Workspace).

The world premiere of The Understudy was produced by the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Nicholas Martin, Artistic Director, on July 23, 2008. It was commissioned by Playwrights Horizons with funds provided by The Leading National Theatres Program, a joint initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Opening of The Understudy is set for Friday, March 11 at 8pm. General seating admission is $15 and the running schedule is Friday and Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 3pm through March 27 only THREE PERFORMANCES ADDED: Friday 4/1 at 8pm, Saturday 4/2 at 8pm, and Sunday 4/3 at 3pm. Tickets may be purchased online at theunderstudy.brownpapertickets.com, by emailing understudytix@gmail.com, or by calling (800) 838-3006. Working Stage Theater is located at 1516 N. Gardner Street in Los Angeles. Street parking is available.

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02-29-16

Reviews: Vieux Carré

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-vieux-carre-lankershim-arts-center-20160218-story.html

http://www.stagescenela.com/2016/03/vieux-carre/