Bart Tangredi

LA Writers Center presents a free online reading of Strange Fruit Part 2 by Jon Bastian as a part of their Breathe online play reading series, which will live stream on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at Howlround.tv beginning September 26 2020 at 11 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC-7) / 1 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC-5) / 2 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC-4).

LA Writers Center presents a free online reading of 'Strange Fruit Part 1' by Jon Bastian as a part of their 'Breathe' online play reading series, which will live stream on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at Howlround.tv

The Attic Collective is bringing its unique blend of whimsy, clowning and magical realism to Los Angeles audiences this February with its production of I Decided I'm Fine: A Roach Play directed by Rosie Glen-Lambert.

Loft Ensemble in North Hollywood has announced the third production of its eighth season, The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever! by Joe Marshall. Under the direction of Bree Pavey, the cast will feature (in alphabetical order) Cassandra Carmona, Matt Caudel, Noah Copfer, Andrew Cottrell, Madylin Sweeten Durrie, Dan Ellis, Javier Flores, Barbera Ann Howard, Sean James, Corey Klemow, Katy Laughlin, Ignacio Navarro, Alejandro Baquero Sanchez, Scottie Smith, Luke Sookdeo, and Bart Tangredi. Opening is set for Friday, November 29, at 8pm and the engagement will continue through Sunday, December 22 only.

Loft Ensemble in North Hollywood has announced the third production of its eighth season, The Gayest Christmas Pageant Ever! by Joe Marshall. Under the direction of Bree Pavey, the cast will feature (in alphabetical order) Cassandra Carmona, Matt Caudel, Noah Copfer, Andrew Cottrell, Madylin Sweeten Durrie, Dan Ellis, Javier Flores, Barbera Ann Howard, Sean James, Corey Klemow, Katy Laughlin, Ignacio Navarro, Alejandro Baquero Sanchez, Scottie Smith, Luke Sookdeo, and Bart Tangredi. Opening is set for Friday, November 29, at 8pm and the engagement will continue through Sunday, December 22 only.

May 18th, May 19th, May 21st & May 26th, The Vagrancy announces BLOSSOMING: a new play reading series. The Vagrancy annually selects six playwrights with diverse perspectives to join their playwright's group. Beginning each fall, the writers meet regularly as they craft their plays. The Vagrancy hosts two development workshops wherein the plays are explored with the playwright, actors and a director in a rehearsal setting. BLOSSOMING is the first public reaching of the six original plays. Come be inspired, have a glass of wine, and help the play's development along with post-reading audience talk-backs.

LOFT ENSEMBLE announces another world premiere play, the last in their 6th Season of programming.

LOFT ENSEMBLE announces another world premiere play, the last in their 6th Season of programming.

Members of the 'Pro99' movement of Actors' Equity Association have issued an open letter to AEA's newly elected president, Kate Shindle, in response to her victory and to her inaugural address as president of the national union for actors and stage managers. The open letter is signed by over 400 Equity members (listed below), including such notable names as Ed Asner, Francis Fisher, Sally Kirkland and Alfred Molina. The 'Pro99' movement formed in late 2014 in opposition to AEA's rollout of a new plan that will effectively force 'intimate theaters' in Los Angeles to pay Equity actors minimum wage, go 'non-union' or even close - despite an overwhelming vote against the plan by 66% of the Los Angeles membership on an advisory referendum. 'Pro99' members around the nation, who take their name from the current AEA '99 Seat Plan' that allows members to volunteer in smaller venues, oppose AEA's new promulgated plan. They are requesting that Equity leadership put a moratorium on the plan until local members' voices can be heard, and that the union work with its members to develop an alternative plan that will more realistically address the needs of the Los Angeles theater community.

Due to overwhelming popularity, David Bertolino's new play THE DEEP THROAT SEX SCANDAL about the making of the famed, groundbreaking, 1970s pornographic film "Deep Throat" and the subsequent controversy surrounding the film, is extending its West Coast Premiere run at the Zephyr Theatre through Sunday, April 14 with performances on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 7 p.m.

The Syzygy Theatre Group (Martin Bedoian, Artistic Director and Katherine Bedoian, Managing Director) announced today that they are presenting the West Coast Premiere of SMUDGE by Emmy Award-winning writer Rachel Axler (NBC's Parks and Recreation and Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart). Darin Anthony (Syzygy's My Thing of Love and Furious Theatre Company's U.S. Drag), resident director and literary manager of the Syzygy Theatre Group, directs this dark comedy about the complicated nature of love, what it means to truly be a parent, and the resilience of the human spirit. SMUDGE opens on January 14, 2011 at GTC Burbank (1111-B West Olive Avenue).

The Syzygy Theatre Group (Martin Bedoian, Artistic Director and Katherine Bedoian, Managing Director) announced today that they are presenting the West Coast Premiere of SMUDGE by Emmy Award-winning writer Rachel Axler (NBC's Parks and Recreation and Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart). Darin Anthony (Syzygy's My Thing of Love and Furious Theatre Company's U.S. Drag), resident director and literary manager of the Syzygy Theatre Group, directs this dark comedy about the complicated nature of love, what it means to truly be a parent, and the resilience of the human spirit. SMUDGE opens on January 14, 2011 at GTC Burbank (1111-B West Olive Avenue).

The Syzygy Theatre Group (Martin Bedoian, Artistic Director and Katherine Bedoian, Managing Director) announced today that they are presenting the West Coast Premiere of SMUDGE by Emmy Award-winning writer Rachel Axler (NBC's Parks and Recreation and Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart). Darin Anthony (Syzygy's My Thing of Love and Furious Theatre Company's U.S. Drag), resident director and literary manager of the Syzygy Theatre Group, directs this dark comedy about the complicated nature of love, what it means to truly be a parent, and the resilience of the human spirit. SMUDGE opens on January 14, 2011 at GTC Burbank (1111-B West Olive Avenue).

The Syzygy Theatre Group (Martin Bedoian, Artistic Director and Katherine Bedoian, Managing Director) announced today that they are presenting the West Coast Premiere of SMUDGE by Emmy Award-winning writer Rachel Axler (NBC's Parks and Recreation and Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart). Darin Anthony (Syzygy's My Thing of Love and Furious Theatre Company's U.S. Drag), resident director and literary manager of the Syzygy Theatre Group, directs this dark comedy about the complicated nature of love, what it means to truly be a parent, and the resilience of the human spirit. SMUDGE opens on January 14, 2011 at GTC Burbank (1111-B West Olive Avenue).