PRESS RELEASE — COEURAGE THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS “ANDRONICUS” — OPENING JULY 12 AT LYRIC-HYPERION THEATRE & CAFE

COEURAGE THEATRE COMPANY
LA’S ‘PAY WHAT YOU WANT’ THEATRE COMPANY
 PRESENTS
ANDRONICUS
ADAPTED AND DIRECTED BY JEREMY LELLIOTT
OPENS SATURDAY, JULY 12
AT LYRIC-HYPERION THEATRE & CAFE

Coeurage Theatre Company, LA’s ‘Pay What You Want’ Company, has announced the second production of its 2014  season, Andronicus, adapted and directed by Coeurage artistic director Jeremy Lelliott. There will be one preview performance on Friday, July 11 at 8pm and opening is set for Saturday, July 12 at 8pm. Andronicus will play through August 17 at Coeurage’s new home, the Lyric-Hyperion Theatre & Cafe in Silver Lake.

Deliciously twisted humor gives way to unexpected poignancy in this bold take on William Shakespeare’s original horror play The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus. Reveling in the darkest corners of human nature, Andronicus is a streamlined adaptation of Shakespeare’s most violent play; the bard’s masterful dramatic structure and brutal tale of revenge have been carefully preserved.

The cast will feature (in alphabetical order) Brian Abraham, Anthony Mark Barrow, Ted Barton, Gabriel Di Chiara, Kaitlyn Gault, Doug Harvey, Mark Jacobson, Zach Kanner, John Klopping, Nardeep Khurmi, TJ Marchbank, John McKetta, Katie Pelensky,Paul Romero, Chris Salazar, and Rebekah Tripp.

Scenic design is by Dean Cameron, lighting design is by Tito Fleetwood Ladd, costume design is by Kara McLeod, and sound design is by Joseph V. Calarco. Choreography is by Tiffany Cole with fight choreography by TJ Marchbank. Stage manager is Emily Goodall.

Andronicus will play one preview performance on Friday, July 11 at 8pm and opening is set for Saturday, July 12 at 8pm. The regular running schedule is as follows — Fridays, July 18, 25 and August 1, 8, and 15 at 8pm; Saturdays, July 26 and August 9 at 8pm; Sundays, July 20 and August 3 and 17 at 7pm through August 17. All seats are available on a Pay What You Want basis, and may be reserved online at www.coeurage.org/tickets or by calling (323) 944-2165.

The Lyric-Hyperion Theatre & Cafe is located at 2106 Hyperion Avenue in Los Angeles, 90027. Street parking is available.

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06-19-14

**The Coeurage PAY WHAT YOU WANT Policy**

Pay What You Can is based on a person’s ability to pay.

Pay What You Want is based on a patron’s desire.

It is a value placement as well as an economic decision, designed to eliminate cost as a factor in attending theatre. Each patron decides what a theatre experience is worth to him or her, and some decide it is worth more than they initially paid.

For that reason, the box office is kept open during intermission and after performances.

Announcing: Coeurage Theatre Company Presents ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ October 12 Thru November 10

COEURAGE THEATRE COMPANY
LA’S ‘PAY WHAT YOU WANT’ THEATRE COMPANY
PRESENTS SHAKESPEARE’S
LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST
DIRECTED BY TED BARTON

OPENS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12
AT THE 2ND STAGE THEATRE IN HOLLYWOOD
FOR FIVE WEEKS ONLY THRU NOVEMBER 10

Coeurage Theatre Company, LA’s ‘Pay What You Want’ Company, has announced the final production of its 2013 season, Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, directed by Ted Barton. There will be one preview performance on Friday, October 11 at 8pm and opening is set for Saturday, October 12 at 8pm. Love’s Labour’s Lost will play through November 10 only at the 2nd Stage Theatre in Hollywood.

Love’s Labour’s Lost abounds in sophisticated wordplay, puns, and literary allusions and is filled with clever pastiches of contemporary poetic forms. Three noble companions take an oath to devote themselves to three years of study, promising not to give in to the company of women – one somewhat more hesitantly than the others. He reminds the king that the princess and her three ladies are coming to the kingdom, and when the king and his men meet the princess and her ladies they all fall comically, instantly in love. There are numerous sub-plots and a play-within-the-play at the end of which there is a bitter twist in the story, which is an unusual ending for Shakespeare and Elizabethan comedy. The first recorded performance of Love’s Labour’s Lost was in 1597 followed by one in 1605, but it was not performed again until 1839.

The cast will feature (in alphabetical order) Brian Abraham, Jonas Barranca, Anthony Mark Barrow, Elitia Daniels, Julianne Donelle, Michael Faulkner, Madeline Harris, John Klopping, Jeremy Lelliott, Ian Littleworth, TJ Marchbank, Chris O’Brien, Emelie O’Hara, William Reinbold, Sammi Smith, and Patrick Wenk-Wolf. The production design is by Tito Fleetwood Ladd, costume design is by Mary Reilly, and sound design is by Joe Calarco.

Director Ted Barton returns to Coeurage, where he performed in Translations earlier this season. Barton has worked at the Mark Taper Forum, TheatreWorks, Berkeley Playhouse, Foothill Theatre Company, Ensemble Theatre Company, MainStreet Theatre Company, Sierra Repertory Theatre, International City Theatre, Theatricum Botanicum, Actors Theatre of Phoenix; California, Colorado, and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festivals; Shakespeare Sedona, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and in the national tour of On Golden Pond.

Love’s Labour’s Lost will play one preview performance on Friday, October 11 at 8pm and opening is set for Saturday, October 12 at 8pm. The running schedule is Friday and Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 7pm through November 10 only. All seats are available on a Pay What You Want basis, and may be reserved online at https://coeurage.secure.force.com/ticket, or by calling (323) 944-2165.

The 2nd Stage Theatre is located at 6500 Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood, 90038. Street parking is available.

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09-24-13

**The Coeurage PAY WHAT YOU WANT Policy**
Pay What You Can is based on a person’s ability to pay.
Pay What You Want is based on a patron’s desire.
It is a value placement as well as an economic decision, designed to eliminate cost as a factor
in attending theatre. Each patron decides what a theatre experience is worth to him or her,
and some decide it is worth more than they initially paid.
For that reason, the box office is kept open during intermission and after performances.

Announcing: Coeurage Theatre Company Presents ‘A Bright Room Called Day’ by Tony Kushner, Opening August 17

COEURAGE THEATRE COMPANY
LA’S ‘PAY WHAT YOU WANT’ COMPANY
PRESENTS
A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY
BY TONY KUSHNER
DIRECTED BY JEREMY LELLIOTT

OPENS SATURDAY, AUGUST 17
AT THE LOST STUDIO ON LA BREA
FOR FIVE WEEKS ONLY THRU SEPTEMBER 15

Coeurage Theatre Company, LA’s ‘Pay What You Want’ Company, has announced their next production, A Bright Room Called Day by Tony Kushner, directed by Coeurage Artistic Director Jeremy Lelliott. There will be two preview performances on Thursday, August 15 and Friday, August 16 at 8pm, and opening is set for Saturday, August 17 at 8pm. A Bright Room Called Day will play through September 15 only at The Lost Studio on S. La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles.

In A Bright Room Called Day, Pulitzer, Tony and Emmy Award-winning writer Tony Kushner examines Berlin’s reaction to the rise of Hitler in 1932. Through its provocative, fantastical and audacious look at history, Kushner’s incendiary play challenges not just the German culture at the time, but the status quo of here and now. Originally produced in 1985, this new production combines the lyricism of Kushner’s words with an eclectic soundtrack and choreography.

The cast will feature (in alphabetical order) Erin Anderson, Laura Crow, Mark Jacobson, Graham Kurtz, Nicole Monet, Teya Patt, Bert Rotundo, and Miles Warner. The production design is by Tito Ladd, costume design is by Cole Clemens, and sound design is by Joe Calarco. The stage manager is Megan Laughlin.

Tony Kushner’s best known work is Angels in America (a play in two parts: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika), a seven-hour epic about the AIDS epidemic in Reagan-era New York, which was later adapted into an HBO miniseries for which Kushner wrote the screenplay and won an Emmy Award. His other plays include Hydriotaphia, Slavs!, Homebody/Kabul, and the book for the musical Caroline, or Change. In the early 2000s, Kushner began writing for film. He co-wrote the screenplay for Munich in 2005 and in January 2006, a documentary feature about Kushner entitled Wrestling With Angels debuted at Sundance. In 2011, he wrote the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln and was nominated for an Academy Award. His most recent work for the stage, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, was first produced in 2009.

A Bright Room Called Day will play two preview performances on Thursday, August 15 and Friday, August 16 at 8pm, and opening is set for Saturday, August 17 at 8pm. The running schedule is Friday and Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 7:30pm through September 15 only. All seats are available on a Pay What You Want basis, and may be reserved online at https://coeurage.secure.force.com/ticket, or by calling (323) 944-2165.

The Lost Studio is located at 130 S. La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, 90036. Street parking is available.

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07-16-13

**The Coeurage PAY WHAT YOU WANT Policy**
Pay What You Can is based on a person’s ability to pay.
Pay What You Want is based on a patron’s desire.
It is a value placement as well as an economic decision, designed to eliminate cost as a factor
in attending theatre. Each patron decides what a theatre experience is worth to him or her,
and some decide it is worth more than they initially paid.
For that reason, the box office is kept open during intermission and after performances.