Award-Winning playwright and performer, Terra Taylor Knudson, (2017 Encore Producer's Award, 2005 Arts Professional of the Year, Long Beach Arts Council), brings her solo show; Willy's Lil Virgin Queen fresh from the boards of the Santa Monica Playhouse to The Garage Theatre in Long Beach for very special three night engagement September 5th, 6th & 7th at 8:00pm.
Santa Monica Playhouse has been a cultural treasure in the seaside community for 60 years. Now, the Playhouse is giving love back with its Fourth Annual Binge Free Festival (BFF), a full month of free performances, workshops, readings, music and poetry in Santa Monica's ONLY fringe festival. The BFF's primary focus will be on Santa Monica and Los Angeles-based artists.
In January 2017, Denver native Diana Varco premiered her solo show Shattered at the Whitefire Theatre SoloFest in Los Angeles to a standing ovation. 'I was nervous to do the show because sexual assault (rape) wasn't a topic most people openly talked about' Varco said. Today, in 2019, it's a conversation hard to avoid.
Queer|Art, New York City's home for the creative and professional development of LGBTQ+ artists, presents a new edition of the After Mentorship series as part of the Food for Thought program at Danspace Project (131 E 10th St, New York, NY) with two evenings of performances by Neil Goldberg & David Antonio Cruz (May 23) and Angela Dufresne & Kerry Downey (May 24).
All her life Diana hasn't hit it off with the fellas. In 3rd grade, she kicked her crush in the crotch and her dating life didn't improve from there.
It was 2014 and actress Jannica Olin lost all her hair, suddenly, in the space of six months. It was Alopecia, the doctors said. 'An autoimmune disease with no known cause or cure.' And so the journey began. Of losing not just her hair, but her identity. How do you deal with losing that which is your beauty and femininity? Does this now mean people will see you as sick? Or worse. Ugly.
Lisa Verlo's solo show and personal journey across Hollywood's unsettling sexual landscape. Directed by and developed with Jessica Lynn Johnson and Produced by Megan Ford-Miller, Hollywoodn't is a musical memoir told with candor and insight into the life of an actress before women dared to speak up. With original songs co-written with Frank Simes, Musical Director for The Who, Lisa Verlo brings humor and a light heart to a heavy subject. Creative visuals and video projections add to the multimedia recounting of her experiences on the casting couches of LA
During the two-year run and tour of her debut solo show Unemployed. Finally., one of the stories audiences responded to most was when artist Heather Dowling shared her personal challenges with fertility. Driven by the heartfelt audience response, Dowling decided to share her story more completely and interviewed dozens of women (and men, too) to discover, uncover and encourage a conversation about procreation as an empowered choice.
Having moved eight times during her childhood as a result of her father's career, from Hong Kong to Buffalo, Vanessa Boss struggled to find a place she called 'home.' With that yearning and confusion came expected early and lingering effects like depression, self-esteem issues and an eating disorder. During those times, Vanessa often sought an escape and an identity for her problems…and some unique characters began their development.
CLEMENTINE is a one woman show written & performed by April Wish and directed & developed by Jessica Lynn Johnson. Coming off of a sold out preview at Whitefire Theatre's SOLOFEST 2019, the largest solo theatre festival on the West Coast, CLEMENTINE has been called 'touching, unique, riveting and very, very important' by NoHo Arts and the Tolucan Times proclaimed that it is 'a moving, dynamic examination of motherhood [...] full of emotion and power...'
Just in time for the anniversary of the birth and death of William Shakespeare Santa Monica Playhouse Benefit Series and Olio Theatre works present a special one-night only performance of Terra Taylor Knudson's Hollywood Fringe Festival favorite Willy's Lil Virgin Queen, Saturday, April 27,2019.
Hot Off the Press is a program of excerpted new solo writings presented by talented women playwrights in staged readings.
When veteran actor Crystal Bush first started developing her one-woman show, she thought it would be about the many sides of love, from falling to being in love to the breakups. But as she got into it, she realized there was another story to tell…a very dark story that she knew would be tough, but necessary to share.
Lisa Verlo performs HOLLYWOODN'T a solo show and personal journey across Hollywood's unsettling sexual landscape. Directed by and developed with Jessica Lynn Johnson in association with Whitefire Theatre for the largest solo theatre festival on the West Coast SOLOFEST 2019.
Lisa Verlo performs HOLLYWOODN'T a solo show and personal journey across Hollywood's unsettling sexual landscape. Directed by and developed with Jessica Lynn Johnson in association with Whitefire Theatre for the largest solo theatre festival on the West Coast SOLOFEST 2019.
Ageless Wonders: A Grown up kids Guide to Growing Newer: is a triumphant one woman performance designed to enlighten people on aging in modern times under the direction of Best National Solo Artist Jessica Lynn Johnson. This musical/dramedy promises to shed light on the benefits of entering the club of senior wonderhood. This one-hour play promises to evoke some tears, guarantee smiles and even laughter. The show has a catchy original score written by Roland Mousaa, Grammy Winner & Mindy Fradkin, both of whom had the privilege of working and befriending the late great Pete Seeger, folk icon/activist.
Santa Monica Group Theatre presents The BFF aka The BINGE Fringe Festival of Free Theatre - the Third Annual Santa Monica Fringe Festival - featuring dozens of artists, companies, workshops and performances by Santa Monica and Los Angeles based artists October 15 through October 28th - with encore performances through November 11.
Ageless Wonders: A Grown up kids Guide to Growing Newer: is a triumphant one woman performance designed to enlighten people on aging in modern times under the direction of Best National Solo Artist Jessica Lynn Johnson. This musical/dramedy promises to shed light on the benefits of entering the club of senior wonderhood. This one-hour play promises to evoke some tears, guarantee smiles and even laughter. The show has a catchy original score written by Roland Mousaa, Grammy Winner & Mindy Fradkin, both of whom had the privilege of working and befriending the late great Pete Seeger, folk icon/activist.
Event brings together experts in various disciplines such as art, design, policy making, and community organizing to discuss issues related to freedom; and features a special performance by the Resistance Revival Chorus
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