Scott Krinsky (Kidnapped by Craigslist) has been a member of TheSpyAnts since 2008, and among many other things, he also plays Jeff Barnes in the NBC series Chuck, the third season of which premieres tonight.
Here is a short interview Scott did with Kristin Dos Santos for eonline.com where he talks about what his character will be up to this season:
Link
Scott is also a Stand-Up comic who performs regularly at Laugh Factory and The Comedy Store, as well as many other venues around Los Angeles, and you can keep up with where he'll be performing by subscribing to his fan page on Facebook, and by following him on Twitter.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Saturday, January 9, 2010
TheSpyAnts presents the Los Angeles premiere of Charles L. Mee's "bobrauschenbergamerica" at [Inside] the Ford.
TheSpyAnts presents
the Los Angeles premiere of Charles L. Mee's
bobrauschenbergamerica
at [Inside] the Ford.
written by Charles L. Mee
directed by Bart DeLorenzo
“…brashly and unapologetically entertaining,” - The New York Times
“…a liberating, life-giving work of art…” - Chicago Tribune
“…gleeful orgy of Americana…” – The Village Voice
January 23 – February 28
Thu. – Sat. at 8pm, Sun. 3pm (Pay What You Can at the door) and 7pm
Preview Jan. 21 and 22 at 8pm (Pay What You Can at the door)
[Inside] the Ford
2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, 90068
Tickets at www.FordTheatres.org or 323.461.3673
Group Sales at 323.769.2147 (8 or more)
A limited number of 1/2 price tickets are available at Goldstar, and LA Stage Alliance.
Have you ever wondered what it was like to swim in a giant martini? TheSpyAnts Theatre Company presents the long-awaited Los Angeles premiere of Charles L. Mee's delightful, kaleidoscopic play, bobrauschenbergamerica. Director Bart DeLorenzo teams up with choreographer Ken Roht to dish up Mee's rollicking collage-montage tribute to Robert Rauschenberg that captures the happy, improvisational quality of the artist's singular vision. bobrauschenbergamerica opens at [Inside] the Ford on January 23, with Pay-What-You-Can previews on January 21 and 22.
bobrauschenbergamerica is a wild road trip through our American landscape, a play made as one of America's greatest artists, Robert Rauschenberg, might have conceived it if he had been a playwright instead of a painter. TheSpyAnts create a collage of people and places, of music and dancing, of love stories and picnics and business schemes and shootings and chicken jokes and golfing, and of the sheer exhilaration of living in a country where people make up their lives as they go.
Artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) once said, "A painting is more like the real world if it is made out of the real world." This infatuation with art and everyday life led him to pioneer the idea of "Combines," provocative collages created out of nontraditional materials. Taking a single canvas, Rauschenberg would combine pictures, familiar prints, sculptures and everyday objects (like tennis balls and stuffed goats), blurring the line between art and sculpture, between art and life. In bobrauschenbergamerica, the stage is the canvas, and TheSpyAnts create a living, breathing "Combine." The eclectic group of characters and collage of colorful vignettes and fantastical images may seem to unfold like juxtaposing elements, but when seen as a whole they produce a loving tribute to American life.
starring Breeze Braunschweig, Eric Bunton, Adam Dornbusch, Jennifer Etienne Eckert, Brett Hren, Mari Marks, John Charles Meyer, Danny Parker-Lopes, Mark Slater, Maria Tomas
producer Lori Evans Taylor
lighting design Christopher Kuhl
sound design Cricket Myers
set design Marina Mouhibian
costume design Leah Piehl
choreographer Ken Roht
publicity Lucy Pollak
photography Debi Landrie
graphic design Josh Worth
Thursday, December 17, 2009
‘bobrauschenbergamerica’ - Bart DeLorenzo Directs LA Premiere
‘bobrauschenbergamerica’ - Bart DeLorenzo Directs LA Premiere
from: John Anson Ford Theatres
category: Arts and Entertainment
posted: December 15th, 2009
The SpyAnts presents the Los Angeles Premiere Of Charles L. Mee's ‘bobrauschenbergamerica’ At [Inside] The Ford.
Los Angeles - Have you ever wondered what it was like to swim in a giant martini? TheSpyAnts Theatre Company presents the long-awaited Los Angeles premiere of Charles L. Mee's delightful, kaleidoscopic play, bobrauschenbergamerica. Director Bart DeLorenzo teams up with choreographer Ken Roht to dish up Mee's rollicking collage-montage tribute to Robert Rauschenberg that captures the happy, improvisational quality of the artist's singular vision. bobrauschenbergamerica opens at [Inside] the Ford on January 23, with Pay-What-You-Can previews on January 21 and 22.
bobrauschenbergamerica is a wild road trip through our American landscape, a play made as one of America's greatest artists, Robert Rauschenberg, might have conceived it if he had been a playwright instead of a painter. TheSpyAnts Breeze Braunschweig, Eric Bunton, Adam Dornbusch, Jennifer Etienne Eckert, Brett Hren, Mari Marks, John Charles Meyer, Danny Parker-Lopes, Mark Slater, and Maria Tomas create a collage of people and places, of music and dancing, of love stories and picnics and business schemes and shootings and chicken jokes and golfing, and of the sheer exhilaration of living in a country where people make up their lives as they go.
Artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) once said, "A painting is more like the real world if it is made out of the real world." This infatuation with art and everyday life led him to pioneer the idea of "Combines," provocative collages created out of nontraditional materials. Taking a single canvas, Rauschenberg would combine pictures, familiar prints, sculptures and everyday objects (like tennis balls and stuffed goats), blurring the line between art and sculpture, between art and life. In bobrauschenbergamerica, the stage is the canvas, and TheSpyAnts create a living, breathing "Combine." The eclectic group of characters and collage of colorful vignettes and fantastical images may seem to unfold like juxtaposing elements, but when seen as a whole they produce a loving tribute to American life. "The play is a celebration," enthuses DeLorenzo. "It's a collage play written by a collagist about another collagist - an appropriate homage to our crazy quilt of a country."
bobrauschenbergamerica originally premiered at the 2001 Humana Festival in Louisville. Conceived and produced by Anne Bogart and New York's SITI Company, where Mee is resident playwright, it enjoyed limited runs in New York, at Boston's ART, Chicago, France and Germany. The New York Times called it, "Brashly, unapologetically entertaining... a work that will resonate even with someone who has never seen one of Mr. Rauschenberg's famous collages."
Charles L. Mee was born in Barrington, Illinois in 1938. He was stricken with polio in 1953, which he details in his 1999 memoir A Nearly Normal Life. His plays include The Imperialists at the Club Cave Canem, Full Circle, The Trojan Women: A Love Story, Snow in June, Hotel Cassiopeia, True Love, A Perfect Wedding, Big Love, Viena Lusthaus, Orestes 2.0, The Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador, Fetes de la Nuit, Summertime, Wintertime, Agamemnon 2.0, Iphigenia 2.0, Paradise Park, Queens Boulevard, Chiang Kai Shek and First Love. As of February, 2007, he has made all of his plays available on his Web site ( www.charlesmee.org) with an invitation to other artists to use them as copyright-free texts as a "resource" for their own work. However, the Web site indicates that the play texts as they appear on the site are protected by copyright, and that permission from his agent must be obtained before performing them "essentially or substantially as I have composed them." Mee is also an accomplished historian, having written about the Potsdam Conference and World War II. He currently teaches playwriting at the Columbia University School of the Arts.
Bart DeLorenzo is founding Artistic Director of the Evidence Room in Los Angeles where he has directed many shows over the last 14 years including local and world premieres by Charles L. Mee, David Greenspan, Kelly Stuart, Philip K. Dick, Gordon Dahlquist, Martin Crimp, David Edgar, Naomi Wallace, and Edward Bond, as well as his own adaptation of Dickens' Hard Times, The Cherry Orchard, and Don Carlos, among many others. His freelance work includes the world premiere of Donald Margulies' Shipwrecked! An Entertainment at South Coast Repertory, later revived at the Geffen Playhouse; the world premiere of Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress at the Geffen; Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone at South Coast Rep; Racine's Britannicus at Cal Rep; and Around the World in 80 Days at the Cleveland Playhouse. 2009 productions include Adam Bock's The Receptionist and Caryl Churchill's A Number at the Odyssey, and the world premieres of Justin Tanner's Voice Lessons at the Zephyr, and Michael Sargent's The Projectionist at the Kirk Douglas. For his work, he has received five LA Weekly awards and three Back Stage Garlands.
A member of the company since January 2008, Breeze Braunschweig has appeared in TheSpyAnts' The Life and Times of Tulsa Lovechild and What If? Other L.A. theater roles include Peggy in The Women, The Moon in Bloodwedding, Nina in The Seagull, and "The woman who loved to make vagina's happy" in The Vagina Monologues.
Eric Bunton, a founding member of TheSpyAnts Theatre Company as well as a member of the Elephant Theatre Company, has appeared in TheSpyAnts' hit productions of Kidnapped by Craigslist, Infinite Black Suitcase, Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer, The Reunion, The Birds, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Terminus Americana, Hellcab, La Ronde, and Edmond.
Adam Dornbusch previously appeared with TheSpyAnts as Charlie (the coworker) and Jason (the pothead) in Terminus Americana.
Jennifer Etienne Eckert is a long time member of TheSpyAnts and is also on the board of the Elephant Theatre Company. Recent stage credits include Seven Redneck Cheerleaders, Tooth and Nail, and One Fell Swoop, all of which were original world premiere productions.
Brett Hren has been a member of TheSpyAnts since 2001 and is also a member of the Elephant Theatre Company. For his role in TheSpyAnts 2009 production of Terminus Americana, he was nominated by StageSceneLA.com for Best Performance by a Lead Actor.
Mari Marks has appeared in TheSpyAnts' productions of What If? (original works by company members), Susan Smith Could Talk, and The Reunion. Other L.A. theater roles include Nat in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Rabbit Hole (The Complex), Karla in Wonder of the World (Hollywood Fight Club), the Doctor in Getting Out (Lyric Hyperion), and a year-and-a-half run as the woman who couldn't get no satisfaction in Sex, Relationships and Sometimes Love (Sierra Stages).
A former front man for the rock band Strawman, John Charles Meyer returned to acting three years ago. TV credits include CSI: NY, The Forgotten, iCarly and Zoey 101. Films include upcoming features The Taqwacores and The Millennium Bug; the Emmy-winning USC pilot The Cost of Living; and more than twenty shorts, including In Twilight's Shadow, love/junkie, Lily and Sam, and Frank DanCoolo: Paranormal Drug Dealer.
Danny Parker-Lopes is a founding member of TheSpyAnts and has been on the Board of Directors since its inception a decade ago. He starred in Hellcab, Kidnapped By Craigslist, and The Life and Times of Tulsa Lovechild among others, and directed Infinite Black Suitcase, Terminus Americana and The Reunion, which he also co-wrote and acted in.
Mark Slater has performed in The Reunion (TheSpyAnts); In The Boom Boom Room (Underground Theater); Welcome To The Moon and The Woolgatherer (2nd Story Theater); Working (Ascending Artists Theater); Twelfth Night (Descanso Gardens Outdoor Theatre). A dancer, he was a member of Le Studio Dancecorps.
Maria Tomas has been a member of TheSpyAnts since 2003, performing in critically-acclaimed productions of Terminus Americana, The Birds (LA Weekly Award nomination for Best Comedy Ensemble), Hellcab, and La Ronde, among others. Maria portrayed Gabriela in the Los Angeles premiere of Jose Rivera's References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (directed by Jon Rivera).
Scenic Design for bobrauschenbergamierca is by Marina Mouhibian; Lighting Design is by Christopher Kuhl; Sound Design is by Cricket S. Myers; Costume Design is by Leah Piehl; and Lori Evans Taylor produces for TheSpyAnts.
TheSpyAnts is a 26-member company that started as play reading group and quickly evolved into a formidable theater company that has developed numerous critically acclaimed hit productions including The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, The Birds, Hellcab (1st production) and the co-production with the Elephant Theater Company, Edmond, Infinite Black Suitcase, Rudolph The Red Hosed Reindeer, The Reunion (2006 production and 2007 production) and Kidnapped By Craigslist. TheSpyAnts strive to provide a quality theater experience while challenging the audience to "think outside the box."
bobrauschebergamerica is the second production in the 2009-10 Season at [Inside] the Ford, a three-play, curated series of new works from three L.A.-based theater companies. The 2009-10 Season at [Inside] the Ford is supported by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the Ford Theatre Foundation, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
bobrauschenbergamerica runs Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 3 pm and 7pm, January 23 through February 28. Two previews take place on Thursday, January 21 and Friday, January 22, both at 8 pm. General admission is $20; seniors and full-time students with ID are $12; Pay-What-You-Can tickets are available for previews and all Sunday matinee performances when purchased at the door (subject to availability). [Inside] the Ford is located in the Ford Theatres complex at 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Hollywood, CA 90068, just off the 101 Hollywood Freeway across from the Hollywood Bowl and south of Universal Studios. On-site, non-stacked parking is free. For reservations and information, call the Ford Theatres Box Office at 323.461.3673 (323.GO1.FORD) or go to www.FordTheatres.org.
When:
Previews: January 21 and 22 Performances: January 23 through February 28: - Thursdays at 8 pm: January 21 (preview), 28; February 4, 11, 18, 25 - Fridays at 8 pm: January 22 (preview), 29; February 5, 12, 19, 26 - Saturdays at 8 pm: January 23 (opening night), 30; February 6, 13, 20, 27 - Sundays at 3 pm: January 24, 31; February 7, 14, 21, 28 - Sundays at 7 pm: January 24, 31; February 7, 14, 21, 28
Where: [Inside] the Ford (the 87-seat indoor theater in the Ford Theatres complex) 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East Hollywood, CA 90068 (just off the 101, across the freeway from the Hollywood Bowl and south of Universal Studios) How: (323) 461-3673 (GO 1-FORD) or www.FordTheatres.org
Tickets:
General admission: $20 Students with ID and Seniors: $12 Pay-What-You-Can . Tickets are available for previews and all Sunday matinee performances when purchased at the door (subject to availability). Parking: Free on-site (non-stacked)
from: John Anson Ford Theatres
category: Arts and Entertainment
posted: December 15th, 2009
The SpyAnts presents the Los Angeles Premiere Of Charles L. Mee's ‘bobrauschenbergamerica’ At [Inside] The Ford.
Los Angeles - Have you ever wondered what it was like to swim in a giant martini? TheSpyAnts Theatre Company presents the long-awaited Los Angeles premiere of Charles L. Mee's delightful, kaleidoscopic play, bobrauschenbergamerica. Director Bart DeLorenzo teams up with choreographer Ken Roht to dish up Mee's rollicking collage-montage tribute to Robert Rauschenberg that captures the happy, improvisational quality of the artist's singular vision. bobrauschenbergamerica opens at [Inside] the Ford on January 23, with Pay-What-You-Can previews on January 21 and 22.
bobrauschenbergamerica is a wild road trip through our American landscape, a play made as one of America's greatest artists, Robert Rauschenberg, might have conceived it if he had been a playwright instead of a painter. TheSpyAnts Breeze Braunschweig, Eric Bunton, Adam Dornbusch, Jennifer Etienne Eckert, Brett Hren, Mari Marks, John Charles Meyer, Danny Parker-Lopes, Mark Slater, and Maria Tomas create a collage of people and places, of music and dancing, of love stories and picnics and business schemes and shootings and chicken jokes and golfing, and of the sheer exhilaration of living in a country where people make up their lives as they go.
Artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) once said, "A painting is more like the real world if it is made out of the real world." This infatuation with art and everyday life led him to pioneer the idea of "Combines," provocative collages created out of nontraditional materials. Taking a single canvas, Rauschenberg would combine pictures, familiar prints, sculptures and everyday objects (like tennis balls and stuffed goats), blurring the line between art and sculpture, between art and life. In bobrauschenbergamerica, the stage is the canvas, and TheSpyAnts create a living, breathing "Combine." The eclectic group of characters and collage of colorful vignettes and fantastical images may seem to unfold like juxtaposing elements, but when seen as a whole they produce a loving tribute to American life. "The play is a celebration," enthuses DeLorenzo. "It's a collage play written by a collagist about another collagist - an appropriate homage to our crazy quilt of a country."
bobrauschenbergamerica originally premiered at the 2001 Humana Festival in Louisville. Conceived and produced by Anne Bogart and New York's SITI Company, where Mee is resident playwright, it enjoyed limited runs in New York, at Boston's ART, Chicago, France and Germany. The New York Times called it, "Brashly, unapologetically entertaining... a work that will resonate even with someone who has never seen one of Mr. Rauschenberg's famous collages."
Charles L. Mee was born in Barrington, Illinois in 1938. He was stricken with polio in 1953, which he details in his 1999 memoir A Nearly Normal Life. His plays include The Imperialists at the Club Cave Canem, Full Circle, The Trojan Women: A Love Story, Snow in June, Hotel Cassiopeia, True Love, A Perfect Wedding, Big Love, Viena Lusthaus, Orestes 2.0, The Investigation of the Murder in El Salvador, Fetes de la Nuit, Summertime, Wintertime, Agamemnon 2.0, Iphigenia 2.0, Paradise Park, Queens Boulevard, Chiang Kai Shek and First Love. As of February, 2007, he has made all of his plays available on his Web site ( www.charlesmee.org) with an invitation to other artists to use them as copyright-free texts as a "resource" for their own work. However, the Web site indicates that the play texts as they appear on the site are protected by copyright, and that permission from his agent must be obtained before performing them "essentially or substantially as I have composed them." Mee is also an accomplished historian, having written about the Potsdam Conference and World War II. He currently teaches playwriting at the Columbia University School of the Arts.
Bart DeLorenzo is founding Artistic Director of the Evidence Room in Los Angeles where he has directed many shows over the last 14 years including local and world premieres by Charles L. Mee, David Greenspan, Kelly Stuart, Philip K. Dick, Gordon Dahlquist, Martin Crimp, David Edgar, Naomi Wallace, and Edward Bond, as well as his own adaptation of Dickens' Hard Times, The Cherry Orchard, and Don Carlos, among many others. His freelance work includes the world premiere of Donald Margulies' Shipwrecked! An Entertainment at South Coast Repertory, later revived at the Geffen Playhouse; the world premiere of Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress at the Geffen; Sarah Ruhl's Dead Man's Cell Phone at South Coast Rep; Racine's Britannicus at Cal Rep; and Around the World in 80 Days at the Cleveland Playhouse. 2009 productions include Adam Bock's The Receptionist and Caryl Churchill's A Number at the Odyssey, and the world premieres of Justin Tanner's Voice Lessons at the Zephyr, and Michael Sargent's The Projectionist at the Kirk Douglas. For his work, he has received five LA Weekly awards and three Back Stage Garlands.
A member of the company since January 2008, Breeze Braunschweig has appeared in TheSpyAnts' The Life and Times of Tulsa Lovechild and What If? Other L.A. theater roles include Peggy in The Women, The Moon in Bloodwedding, Nina in The Seagull, and "The woman who loved to make vagina's happy" in The Vagina Monologues.
Eric Bunton, a founding member of TheSpyAnts Theatre Company as well as a member of the Elephant Theatre Company, has appeared in TheSpyAnts' hit productions of Kidnapped by Craigslist, Infinite Black Suitcase, Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer, The Reunion, The Birds, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Terminus Americana, Hellcab, La Ronde, and Edmond.
Adam Dornbusch previously appeared with TheSpyAnts as Charlie (the coworker) and Jason (the pothead) in Terminus Americana.
Jennifer Etienne Eckert is a long time member of TheSpyAnts and is also on the board of the Elephant Theatre Company. Recent stage credits include Seven Redneck Cheerleaders, Tooth and Nail, and One Fell Swoop, all of which were original world premiere productions.
Brett Hren has been a member of TheSpyAnts since 2001 and is also a member of the Elephant Theatre Company. For his role in TheSpyAnts 2009 production of Terminus Americana, he was nominated by StageSceneLA.com for Best Performance by a Lead Actor.
Mari Marks has appeared in TheSpyAnts' productions of What If? (original works by company members), Susan Smith Could Talk, and The Reunion. Other L.A. theater roles include Nat in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Rabbit Hole (The Complex), Karla in Wonder of the World (Hollywood Fight Club), the Doctor in Getting Out (Lyric Hyperion), and a year-and-a-half run as the woman who couldn't get no satisfaction in Sex, Relationships and Sometimes Love (Sierra Stages).
A former front man for the rock band Strawman, John Charles Meyer returned to acting three years ago. TV credits include CSI: NY, The Forgotten, iCarly and Zoey 101. Films include upcoming features The Taqwacores and The Millennium Bug; the Emmy-winning USC pilot The Cost of Living; and more than twenty shorts, including In Twilight's Shadow, love/junkie, Lily and Sam, and Frank DanCoolo: Paranormal Drug Dealer.
Danny Parker-Lopes is a founding member of TheSpyAnts and has been on the Board of Directors since its inception a decade ago. He starred in Hellcab, Kidnapped By Craigslist, and The Life and Times of Tulsa Lovechild among others, and directed Infinite Black Suitcase, Terminus Americana and The Reunion, which he also co-wrote and acted in.
Mark Slater has performed in The Reunion (TheSpyAnts); In The Boom Boom Room (Underground Theater); Welcome To The Moon and The Woolgatherer (2nd Story Theater); Working (Ascending Artists Theater); Twelfth Night (Descanso Gardens Outdoor Theatre). A dancer, he was a member of Le Studio Dancecorps.
Maria Tomas has been a member of TheSpyAnts since 2003, performing in critically-acclaimed productions of Terminus Americana, The Birds (LA Weekly Award nomination for Best Comedy Ensemble), Hellcab, and La Ronde, among others. Maria portrayed Gabriela in the Los Angeles premiere of Jose Rivera's References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (directed by Jon Rivera).
Scenic Design for bobrauschenbergamierca is by Marina Mouhibian; Lighting Design is by Christopher Kuhl; Sound Design is by Cricket S. Myers; Costume Design is by Leah Piehl; and Lori Evans Taylor produces for TheSpyAnts.
TheSpyAnts is a 26-member company that started as play reading group and quickly evolved into a formidable theater company that has developed numerous critically acclaimed hit productions including The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, The Birds, Hellcab (1st production) and the co-production with the Elephant Theater Company, Edmond, Infinite Black Suitcase, Rudolph The Red Hosed Reindeer, The Reunion (2006 production and 2007 production) and Kidnapped By Craigslist. TheSpyAnts strive to provide a quality theater experience while challenging the audience to "think outside the box."
bobrauschebergamerica is the second production in the 2009-10 Season at [Inside] the Ford, a three-play, curated series of new works from three L.A.-based theater companies. The 2009-10 Season at [Inside] the Ford is supported by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the Ford Theatre Foundation, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
bobrauschenbergamerica runs Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 3 pm and 7pm, January 23 through February 28. Two previews take place on Thursday, January 21 and Friday, January 22, both at 8 pm. General admission is $20; seniors and full-time students with ID are $12; Pay-What-You-Can tickets are available for previews and all Sunday matinee performances when purchased at the door (subject to availability). [Inside] the Ford is located in the Ford Theatres complex at 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Hollywood, CA 90068, just off the 101 Hollywood Freeway across from the Hollywood Bowl and south of Universal Studios. On-site, non-stacked parking is free. For reservations and information, call the Ford Theatres Box Office at 323.461.3673 (323.GO1.FORD) or go to www.FordTheatres.org.
When:
Previews: January 21 and 22 Performances: January 23 through February 28: - Thursdays at 8 pm: January 21 (preview), 28; February 4, 11, 18, 25 - Fridays at 8 pm: January 22 (preview), 29; February 5, 12, 19, 26 - Saturdays at 8 pm: January 23 (opening night), 30; February 6, 13, 20, 27 - Sundays at 3 pm: January 24, 31; February 7, 14, 21, 28 - Sundays at 7 pm: January 24, 31; February 7, 14, 21, 28
Where: [Inside] the Ford (the 87-seat indoor theater in the Ford Theatres complex) 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East Hollywood, CA 90068 (just off the 101, across the freeway from the Hollywood Bowl and south of Universal Studios) How: (323) 461-3673 (GO 1-FORD) or www.FordTheatres.org
Tickets:
General admission: $20 Students with ID and Seniors: $12 Pay-What-You-Can . Tickets are available for previews and all Sunday matinee performances when purchased at the door (subject to availability). Parking: Free on-site (non-stacked)
Saturday, December 5, 2009
TheSpyAnts Holiday Boutique December 13, 2009
We will be having a Holiday Boutique on Sunday December 13, 2009 from 11am to 4pm at the Lillian Theatre in Hollywood. A variety of goodies will be for sale to help us produce bobrauschenergamerica at [Inside] The Ford (opening January 23, 2010).
Come join Santa and TheSpyAnts as we shop and enjoy complimentary cocktails.
Click on the photo for a larger view and more information.
Thanks, and we'll see you at The Lillian
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Help TheSpyAnts produce "bobrauschenbergamerica" at [Inside] The Ford!
Dear Esteemed Friends, Family and Fans:
Thank you for your continued interest in and support of TheSpyAnts Theatre Company. We are proud to announce our next production: bobrauschenbergamerica by Charles L. Mee was selected to be part of the [Inside] the Ford Winter Partnership Program by the L.A County Arts Commission. This amazing opportunity at such a special venue, within the Ford Amphitheater complex, will be our most adventuresome endeavor to date! Running from January 23rd through February 28th, 2010 bobrauschenbergamerica will certainly be the most expensive show we've ever done. Due to the high production costs we are looking for supporters, like you, to assist us in the funding of our show. Your tax-deductible donation at our secure PayPal Link will help us to create this spectacular production.
As you may know, TheSpyAnts began in the year 2000 as a small group of passionate actors that met weekly to read plays. After meeting for several months, we grew tired of sitting and reading plays. As a result, we decided to take the next step and formed our own theater company. Since then we have produced 23 shows, including the smash hit Kidnapped By Craigslist the LA Weekly award nominated production of The Birds and Paul Rudnick’s The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, and now bobrauschenbergamerica. We have also gained non-profit status, been nominated for multiple LA theater awards, earned a loyal fan base of more than 1,000 people, and donated time and money to numerous local charities.
We have been thrilled to bring you many amazing productions over the last nine years; however, now we need your help in order for us to take a giant leap forward for our company. We ask you to make a tax-deductible donation to TheSpyAnts at our secure PayPal Link to show your support and help us reach our goal to raise enough money to create what we know will be our most dynamic, vital, and exciting production to date, bobrauschenbergamerica. You will also be able to track your donation from our website and watch as the mercury in our thermometer rises to the top on the way toward our goal. Thank you for being a continued supporter and fan of TheSpyAnts. We appreciate your help and support and hope to see you at the show!
Our non-profit tax identification is: EIN # 95-4853522.
Sincerely,
TheSpyAnts
Thank you for your continued interest in and support of TheSpyAnts Theatre Company. We are proud to announce our next production: bobrauschenbergamerica by Charles L. Mee was selected to be part of the [Inside] the Ford Winter Partnership Program by the L.A County Arts Commission. This amazing opportunity at such a special venue, within the Ford Amphitheater complex, will be our most adventuresome endeavor to date! Running from January 23rd through February 28th, 2010 bobrauschenbergamerica will certainly be the most expensive show we've ever done. Due to the high production costs we are looking for supporters, like you, to assist us in the funding of our show. Your tax-deductible donation at our secure PayPal Link will help us to create this spectacular production.
As you may know, TheSpyAnts began in the year 2000 as a small group of passionate actors that met weekly to read plays. After meeting for several months, we grew tired of sitting and reading plays. As a result, we decided to take the next step and formed our own theater company. Since then we have produced 23 shows, including the smash hit Kidnapped By Craigslist the LA Weekly award nominated production of The Birds and Paul Rudnick’s The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, and now bobrauschenbergamerica. We have also gained non-profit status, been nominated for multiple LA theater awards, earned a loyal fan base of more than 1,000 people, and donated time and money to numerous local charities.
We have been thrilled to bring you many amazing productions over the last nine years; however, now we need your help in order for us to take a giant leap forward for our company. We ask you to make a tax-deductible donation to TheSpyAnts at our secure PayPal Link to show your support and help us reach our goal to raise enough money to create what we know will be our most dynamic, vital, and exciting production to date, bobrauschenbergamerica. You will also be able to track your donation from our website and watch as the mercury in our thermometer rises to the top on the way toward our goal. Thank you for being a continued supporter and fan of TheSpyAnts. We appreciate your help and support and hope to see you at the show!
Our non-profit tax identification is: EIN # 95-4853522.
Sincerely,
TheSpyAnts
Monday, October 12, 2009
Buy your 2009-10 [Inside] the Ford Theater season subscription now
Hello,
Here is how you can buy a subscription to all three shows (including ours, bobrauschenbergamerica) at [Inside] the Ford this season right now.
Thanks!
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Save money this season and be a part of an adventurous line-up in 2009-10 at [Inside] the Ford.
For more information or to order, call the Ford Box Office at 323 461-3673 or download and complete the subscription form below. Fax and mail instructions are on the order form.
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
An Evening w/ "Born to Run" author Christopher McDougall Thursday, October 8, 2009 2:12 PM at Traveler's Bookcase
Our longtime member Natalie Compagno (The Reunion, Hellcab) is also the owner of Traveler's Bookcase, and we wanted to pass along information about a cool event going on at her store. So if you get a chance, check it out.
Thanks!
TheSpyAnts
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AUTHOR READING & SIGNING
Wednesday, October 14 at 7:00pm.
The Washington Post says Born to Run is "thrilling... an operatic ode".
The Oregonian calls it "spellbinding".
Traveler's Bookcase says "a fascinating read that spans the globe, from the Kalahari Desert to the Rocky Mountains to central Mexico. This is the kind of book that makes you want to strap on a backpack and just go!"
BORN TO RUN: A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about our feet is wrong.
We are pleased to welcome author Chris McDougall to the store! If you've ever been curious about phenomenal endurance athletes, improving your health, or tribes who live in complete serenity as if the modern world never intruded, we invite you to the store.
Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico’s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. The author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country.
BORN TO RUN is for anyone who loves adventure tales (from Endurance to Krakauer), Mexico, the outdoors, or is interested in travel, health, nutrition, meditation or serenity.
Christopher McDougall is a former war correspondent for the Associated Press and is now a contributing editor for Men’s Health. A three-time National Magazine Award finalist, he has written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Men’s Journal, and New York. He does his own running among the Amish farms around his home in rural Pennsylvania.
Born to Run makes a great gift book
WHAT: Author reading & signing
Refreshments provided.
WHEN: Thursday October 14th at 7pm
WHERE: Traveler's Bookcase
8375 West Third Street
Los Angeles, CA 90048
(limited parking in back)
Thanks!
TheSpyAnts
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AUTHOR READING & SIGNING
Wednesday, October 14 at 7:00pm.
The Washington Post says Born to Run is "thrilling... an operatic ode".
The Oregonian calls it "spellbinding".
Traveler's Bookcase says "a fascinating read that spans the globe, from the Kalahari Desert to the Rocky Mountains to central Mexico. This is the kind of book that makes you want to strap on a backpack and just go!"
BORN TO RUN: A Hidden Tribe, Super Athletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, Christopher McDougall sets off to find a tribe of the world’s greatest distance runners and learn their secrets, and in the process shows us that everything we thought we knew about our feet is wrong.
We are pleased to welcome author Chris McDougall to the store! If you've ever been curious about phenomenal endurance athletes, improving your health, or tribes who live in complete serenity as if the modern world never intruded, we invite you to the store.
Isolated by the most savage terrain in North America, the reclusive Tarahumara Indians of Mexico’s deadly Copper Canyons are custodians of a lost art. For centuries they have practiced techniques that allow them to run hundreds of miles without rest and chase down anything from a deer to an Olympic marathoner while enjoying every mile of it. Their superhuman talent is matched by uncanny health and serenity, leaving the Tarahumara immune to the diseases and strife that plague modern existence. The author was able not only to uncover the secrets of the Tarahumara but also to find his own inner ultra-athlete, as he trained for the challenge of a lifetime: a fifty-mile race through the heart of Tarahumara country.
BORN TO RUN is for anyone who loves adventure tales (from Endurance to Krakauer), Mexico, the outdoors, or is interested in travel, health, nutrition, meditation or serenity.
Christopher McDougall is a former war correspondent for the Associated Press and is now a contributing editor for Men’s Health. A three-time National Magazine Award finalist, he has written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Men’s Journal, and New York. He does his own running among the Amish farms around his home in rural Pennsylvania.
Born to Run makes a great gift book
WHAT: Author reading & signing
Refreshments provided.
WHEN: Thursday October 14th at 7pm
WHERE: Traveler's Bookcase
8375 West Third Street
Los Angeles, CA 90048
(limited parking in back)
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Jennifer Eckert in "Mix Tape"
Jennifer Eckert, who most recently wrote and directed Life's A Bitch for our What If? evening of one acts earlier this year, is appearing in Mix Tape: Taking Flight, an original one act festival, at the Elephant Space Theater in Hollywood, 6322 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90038.
It runs Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays and 8pm and Sundays at 2pm until October 17th. So go check this out!
You can buy tickets online by clicking here, and see the attached flyer for more information.
Thanks!
TheSpyAnts
Friday, September 18, 2009
SAVE THE DATE - October 7 at [Inside] the Ford
SAVE THE DATE
OCTOBER 7, 2009
from 6 PM - 9 PM at the Ford Theatres in Hollywood, CA
FREE!
You and a guest are invited to the Ford Theatres for an exclusive, intimate evening at L.A.'s urban oasis as we kick-off an adventurous [Inside] the Ford winter season with Ensemble Studio Theatre-LA, TheSpyAnts Theatre Company and
Circle X Theatre Co.
Mingle and munch under the stars in the Hollywood Hills! Meet other theatre aficionados, get the [Inside] scoop on the 2009-10 season and explore the historic Ford complex.
We hope you will join us for light refreshment, lively conversation and to meet and greet with producing theatre companies of the 2009-10 Winter Season
Specific details on this event will follow by invitation only.
For more information, please email communications@arts.lacounty.gov or 213.202.5941.
For more general season information, click here.
[INSIDE] THE FORD
2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Hollywood, CA 90068
www.FordTheatres.org
323.461.3673
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Post show Q & A with playwright Matt Pelfrey Sunday August 9th
Just a reminder that on Sunday August 9th at 7pm, following our performance of Terminus Americana, we will have a post show Q & A with playwright Matt Pelfrey.
It is also a pay what you can show.
We'll also be up Friday and Saturday evenings at 8pm. There are only six more shows, so call (323) 860-8786 and make your reservations now!
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