Previews For The Falcon Theatre's OEDIPUS THE KING, MAMA Begin 8/12

The Falcon Theatre presents the Troubadour Theater Company's Oedipus the King, Mama!, the first production in its 2009-2010 Subscription Season. It's the Maternal Musical that mashes up Sophocles' “Oedipus the King” with the music of the King of Rock & Roll, Elvis Presley. Oedipus has a Burning Love and he Can't Help Falling in Love with his Mama. So Don't Be Cruel and miss this musical parody by the theater company the Los Angeles Times calls “The Masters of Musical Spoofery.”

Previews: August 12-15 at 8pm; August 16 at 4pm; August 19 & 20 at 8pm

Opening night: Friday, August 21, 2009 at 8pm

Show closes: Sunday, Sep. 27, 2009 at 4pm

Performances: Wednesday-Saturday at 8pm, Sundays at 4pm

Prices are as follows:
Previews $27.50 – $30.00
Opening Night $50.00 – $55.00
Weekdays (Wed/Thurs) $32.50 – $35.00
Weekends (Fri/Sat/Sun) $37.50 – $40.00

For tickets call the Falcon Theatre Box Office at (818) 955-8101.

The Troubadour Theater Company is celebrating its fourteenth year of laughs. Los Angeles' renowned ensemble of actors, comedians and musicians has performed throughout southern California since 1995. Their fast-paced, laugh-filled “adaptations” of classic plays, as well as their original works and hilarious sketch material, make Troubadour a unique and exciting experience for theater-goers of any age. The company is a Not for Profit organization and has performed charitably for many causes including animal conservation, adult rehabilitation, AIDS awareness, California Literacy Night for LAUSD, children with autism and other youth programs. Past productions at the Falcon Theatre include: As U2 Like It; A Charlie James Brown Christmas; JACKson FROST; Much Adoobie Brothers About Nothing; Little Drummer Bowie; Hamlet, the Artist Formerly Known as Prince of Denmark; Santa Claus is Comin' to Motown; It's a Stevie Wonderful Life; OthE.L.O. and Alice in One-Hit-Wonderland 1 & 2. In addition to the Falcon, Troubadour has performed at the Getty Villa, Hollywood's Ford Amphitheatre and Matrix Theatre, Santa Monica's Miles Playhouse, La Mirada Theater for the Performing Arts, Garden Grove Theater Center, the Ojai Shakespeare Festival, the San Francisco Fringe Festival, the Adelaide Fringe Festival (Australia) and in Hailey, Idaho, in conjunction with Company of Fools at the Liberty Theatre.

Matt Walker (Director) has trained with Second City Improvisation, The Royal Shakespeare Company, The San Francisco Mime Troupe, Master Clown Bill Irwin, and is a graduate of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's Clown College. After a short stint as a circus clown with The Greatest Show on Earth, Matt returned to Los Angeles and resumed his post as Artistic Director for Troubadour Theater Company. Matt serves as an adjutant professor of Commedia dell'arte and clowning for The University of California at San Diego's MFA program.