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2019 Summer Season at Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum

Dates: (6/15/2019 - 9/29/2019 )

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Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum


1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd.
Topanga,CA 90290

Phone: 310-455-3723

Tickets: $10-$42

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Summer has arrived! The 2019 repertory season at Theatricum Botanicums magical, outdoor Topanga amphitheater includes Twelfth Night, with original music that lends Shakespeares joyous romantic comedy a refreshing new sound and lifts the elevated language to even greater heights; Theatricums signature production of A Midsummer Nights Dream, in which the Topanga woods are once again transformed into an enchanted forest inhabited by lovers both fairy and human; Moby DickRehearsed, adapted by the great Orson Welles from the novel by Herman Melville an action-packed adventure in which an acting troupe, working between performances of King Lear, transforms a bare stage into the yardarms, sails, masts and deck of a ship hunting the great white whale; a new adaptation, by Theatricum artistic director Ellen Geer, of An Enemy of the People, which resets Henrik Ibsen's powerful play in a small town in South Carolina in the 1980s; The Skin of Our Teeth, Thornton Wilders Pulitzer Prize-winning satirical tribute to the indestructibility of the American nuclear family; and D.L Coburns Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning The Gin Game starring real life husband and wife Alan Blumenfeld and Katherine James in a coproduction with the Sierra Madre Playhouse. All productions perform in repertory through Sept. 29 at Theatricums spectacular outdoor venue in the heart of Topanga check online or call for a performance schedule. Other programming includes Family Fun Days with Creative PlayGround and Peter Alsops Kids Koncerts on Sunday mornings; a Family Barn Dance on July 4; the annual Under the Oaks salon series on Friday nights in September; comedy improv from Off the Grid; Theatricum BOO-tanicum in Oct.; and more. Patrons are welcome to arrive early and picnic before a performance. Will Geers Theatricum Botanicum, 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga, CA 90290; $10-$42; (310) 455-3723; www.theatricum.com

News About 2019 Summer Season at Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum

Photos: First Look At The World Premiere of TROUBLE THE WATER At Theatricum
Photos: First Look At The World Premiere of TROUBLE THE WATER At Theatricum
July 23, 2022

 Inspired by the little-known, larger-than-life true story of Robert Smalls, the first African American hero of the Civil War, Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum presents the world premiere of Trouble the Water, freely adapted by Ellen Geer from the 2019 award-winning historical novel by Rebecca Dwight Bruff.

World Premiere Of TROUBLE THE WATER Recounts Extraordinary Story Of African American Hero Robert Smalls
World Premiere Of TROUBLE THE WATER Recounts Extraordinary Story Of African American Hero Robert Smalls
June 15, 2022

Inspired by the little-known, larger-than-life true story of Robert Smalls, the first African American hero of the Civil War, Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum presents the world premiere of Trouble the Water, freely adapted by Ellen Geer from the 2019 award-winning historical novel by Rebecca Dwight Bruff. Longtime.

Theatricum Botanicum Presents New Version of Henrik Ibsen's AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
Theatricum Botanicum Presents New Version of Henrik Ibsen's AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
June 04, 2019

Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum continues its mission to resist and struggle against the forces of inequality and injustice by presenting socially conscious classics that speak to today. A new version of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, freely adapted by artistic director Ellen Geer and co-directed by Geer and Melora Marshall, joins Theatricum's 2019 summer repertory season beginning Saturday, June 22.

Theatricum Botanicum Presents MOBY DICK--REHEARSED By Orson Welles
Theatricum Botanicum Presents MOBY DICK--REHEARSED By Orson Welles
May 16, 2019

A celebration of one of the greatest novels ever written and a triumph of theatrical imagination. Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum presents Moby Dick-Rehearsed by Orson Welles.

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