Artistic Director Blaire Baron to Step Down from Shakespeare Youth Festival
by Blair Ingenthron
- Aug 6, 2023
After seventeen years with Shakespeare Youth Festival, Blaire Baron is leaving Los Angeles as well as her position as Artistic Director of the youth arts non-profit that she founded. She will continue to serve on the Board of Directors and as a global ambassador from her new location in Staunton, Virginia (home of American Shakespeare Center).
Los Angeles Drama Club Partners With Auma Obama Foundation Sauti Kuu
by Stephi Wild
- Apr 17, 2019
Los Angeles Drama Club - the country's youngest Shakespeare company - is proud and honored to be invited by director, Dr. Auma Obama, as guest artists-in-residence at the Sauti Kuu Foundation (SKF) based in Alego Nyangoma, Siaya County, Western Kenya, August, 2019. Sauti Kuu - meaning "powerful voices" - is partnering with Los Angeles Drama Club to further their mission of enabling children and young people in Kenya and beyond to find and use their voice to positively change their lives.
BWW Review: Characters Defend Their Worth in UNSPOKEN: SHAKESPEARE'S PERSONAE IN PERIL
by Ellen Dostal
- Jun 6, 2017
Los Angeles Drama Club jumps into the controversy about rewriting Shakespeare for modern audiences in UNSPOKEN: SHAKESPEARE'S PERSONAE IN PERIL. Part II of a trilogy exploring what has become a sore subject among Shakespeare circles, it takes a strong stand and presents persuasive food for thought in this year's Hollywood Fringe Festival.
Los Angeles Drama Club presents Fringe Scholarship Selection UNSPOKEN
by A.A. Cristi
- May 18, 2017
Los Angeles Drama Club, a local 501(c)3 nonprofit organization presents a diverse cast of 11 actors to stir the stage this June with the World Premiere of UNSPOKEN: Shakespeare's Personae in Peril by award-winning playwright, Blaire Baron. Special press preview Saturday, June 3 at 4:00 to 5:00 PM (PST) at the Underground Theatre in Hollywood. Production dates: 6/3 at 4:00 PM, 6/9 at 9:00 PM, 6/11 at 7:00 PM, 6/17 at 5:30 PM. For more information, please visit:www.LosAngelesDramaClub.com.
Alex Kingston & Diedrich Bader to Perform with Students at LA Drama Club Fundraiser
by Tyler Peterson
- Apr 12, 2016
Following in the footsteps of Mayor Eric Garcetti who recited Shakespeare for LA Drama Club's last fundraiser, celebrated Hollywood actors will soon take the stage opposite the Country's Youngest Shakespeare troupe on April 15 to launch the 10th season of the Los Angeles Drama Club bi-annual Shakespeare Youth Festival L.A.
Shakespeare's Loudmouths Speak Out on Hollywood's Theatre Row
by Tyler Peterson
- Sep 8, 2015
OUTSPOKEN: SHAKESPEARE IN SHACKLES will make its national debut on Hollywood's Theatre Row at Studio C Artists on September 25th, 2015, with a large cast playing Shakespeare's most gregarious characters from multiple plays in the Canon. Penned by Blaire Baron Larsen (The Milk Meetings), OUTSPOKEN was workshopped last year at the famed Los Angeles Drama Club, where Larsen serves as Artistic Director.
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