Podcasts about lounge theatre

Open-Door Playhouse is proud to announce the opening of METRO, a theatrical audio play starring Justice Davis and Erik Kwasnjuk.  The play was written by Cris Eli Blak and directed by Gary Lee Reed.METRO's Backstory: Our story takes place in the most foreign of lands, a place that only the bravest of the brave go; where courageous adventurers must put plenty of thought into going. Yes, as you may have suspected, our story takes place in New York City - - the wild concrete jungleOpen-Door Playhouse is a 501c3 organization.  Its theater podcasts introduce and showcase new plays, new writers, and a wealth of unknown talent.  These podcast episodes are FREE to listen, and download and your donations are greatly appreciated. To contribute your tax-deductible donations, please visit  www.opendoorplayhouse.org/donate.Theater Reviews From My Seat's Play Review for Replacement Player and The Christensen Brothers: https://bit.ly/3FH46Gl  METRO's Writer, Cris Eli Blak, an award-winning and international producer and playwright, has produced, performed, and published works from around the world.  He continues to create works that reflect the world that we live in with all of its different and diverse colors, creeds, and cultures.METRO's Director, Gary Lee Reed, prior to COVID-19, directed the Gore Vidal play, The Best Man at the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood, and also the critically acclaimed All My Sons for the Theatre Planners.  Other Theatre Planners directing credits include The Andersonville Trial (Grove theatre Burbank); And the World Goes Round (NOHO Arts center); The Story of Alice (Matrix); and Villa Thrilla (Atwater Village).  As an artistic director of actors, he co-oped and directed Godspell; Most Happy Fella; Soldiers Song; Lights; Woman in Black; and To Kill a Mockingbird.Support the show (https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/open-door-playhouse)

7.7 out of 10 - Above Average! June 15 - June 26,2019 Stranded outside of a bar at 2AM on Halloween in L.A., four young women, dressed in what's left of their costumes, deal with an existential crisis, some shenanigans, Magic Mike, and Frankenstein's monster, all while waiting for an elusive Uber that someone was supposed to call…but maybe didn't?!

Suzi and Alan Minsky talk to Katie Halper of WBAI's The Katie Halper Show about the role of independent media and politics in the Trumpian landscape we inhabit. Then Suzi speaks to prolific, award-winning playwright Murray Mednick, whose enigmatic  "Mayakovsky and Stalin" runs until August 19 at the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood. The play examines two lives and two suicides, related but distant, responding to the liberating freedom of revolution in the Soviet Union, but then increasingly strangled and suffocated by the top down brutal dictatorship of Stalin, played by actor Maury Sterling (best known as Max on Homeland), who joins the conversation. The play traces the parallel stories of the giant of Russian poetry, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and his relationship to his love and muse, Lilya Brik (darling of Russia’s avant garde) and her husband, the literary critic Osip Brik. Their relationship exemplifies the freedom from conventional mores in the early years of the revolution. The second life and suicide is that of Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Stalin's young wife who committed suicide during a state dinner in 1932, renouncing her husband and his horrific policies, reflecting her despair and suffocation being married to the supreme dictator while millions perished.

8.8 out of 10 - A GREAT SHOW. June 16 - 24, 2018  www.latheatrebites.com Everyone knows Paris is the city of romance…or is it? Paris Syndrome, a new comedic play from Emmy nominee Ross Buran (Gay of Thrones), explores love lost and a war on Parisian sensibility.  A year removed from his divorce, a young-ish man decides the only way he can overcome the depressive hole he's fallen into is to blame all the romance-mongers in Paris and sets off on an international journey of self-rediscovery… Well, sort of. Basically, he just wants to find the lock he and his ex-wife once hung on a Parisian bridge and cut it off.

8.5 out of 10 - A Great Show!!! June 4 - 20, 2018  Two lifelong friends are about to enter a funeral of a child, a marriage, and their youth. As shift gears toward the future, it's pretty clear that the road ahead will be a lot bumpier than the road behind. http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/5271?tab=details

7.4 out 10 - Average Show!!! June 8 - 22 2018 http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/4894?tab=details Rose, 24, bolts into the family house. After a year's absence, she's back for revenge on her white father. After all, didn't her father's philandering and drinking have an emotional hand in her Chinese mother's death? Her younger sister, Lara, dismisses her theory. So the two ride the bumpy cultural currents of Chinese and American traditions, while clinging to their ties of sisterhood. Will Rose revenge her mother's death, or will the bonds of blood prevail?

6 out of 10 Okay, but it needs work. www.latheatrebites.com A bold evening of mesmerism, clairvoyance, and thought-reading straight from the Victorian parlour! British scientist and sceptic Dr Mark Gasson demonstrates how the most prevalent myths of the Victorian psychics still define what we believe is possible and even challenge our very sense of reality.

7.2 out of 10 Average Show www.latheatrebites.com Actor/musician, Jeremy Ebenstein, through story and song, takes audiences through his humorous, inspiring, yet often heartbreaking story of living a life with Asperger's Syndrome.

Television star Stephanie Zimbalist (Remington Steele) discusses her co-starring role in Steel Magnolias at the Laguna Beach Playhouse in Laguna Beach, CA. Theatre and Television’s Shelley Morrison (“Rosario” on the long running NBC hit series Will & Grace) and her husband Walter Dominguez are interviewed about their latest venture as documentary filmmakers with Weaving the Past: Journey of Discovery (www.weavingthepast.com); Sterling reviews the world premiere musical Falling for Make Believe (the life of Lorenz Hart) at The Colony Theatre in Burbank, CA. The Live Arts Calendar highlights Beirut a drama at the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood focusing on an unnamed disease infecting the lower east side of New York and the right of individuals to choose the manner in which they live or die. Morrison and Dominguez share tales of embarrassing moments during their careers. Sponsored by Breakdown Services (http://www.breakdownexpress.com/)

Television star Stephanie Zimbalist (Remington Steele) discusses her co-starring role in Steel Magnolias at the Laguna Beach Playhouse in Laguna Beach, CA. Theatre and Television’s Shelley Morrison (“Rosario” on the long running NBC hit series Will & Grace) and her husband Walter Dominguez are interviewed about their latest venture as documentary filmmakers with Weaving the Past: Journey of Discovery (www.weavingthepast.com); Sterling reviews the world premiere musical Falling for Make Believe (the life of Lorenz Hart) at The Colony Theatre in Burbank, CA. The Live Arts Calendar highlights Beirut a drama at the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood focusing on an unnamed disease infecting the lower east side of New York and the right of individuals to choose the manner in which they live or die. Morrison and Dominguez share tales of embarrassing moments during their careers. Sponsored by Breakdown Services (http://www.breakdownexpress.com/)

My guests are: Producer, Racquel Lehrman ("Theatre Planners") Actress, Laura Manchester ("The Lounge Theatre") Actress, Mandi Moss ("Food For Fish") Actress, Lauren Dobbins Webb ("Random Creepy Guy") Actor, Jaime Robledo ("Hearts Like Fists") To hear this show: http://www.latalkradio.com/Sheena.php For more info: http://www.sheenametalexperience.com

My guests are: Producer, Racquel Lehrman ("Theatre Planners") Actress, Laura Manchester ("The Lounge Theatre") Actress, Mandi Moss ("Food For Fish") Actress, Lauren Dobbins Webb ("Random Creepy Guy") Actor, Jaime Robledo ("Hearts Like Fists") To hear this show: http://www.latalkradio.com/Sheena.php For more info: http://www.sheenametalexperience.com

Obie and Peabody Award winning actor/writer Roger Guenveur Smith (A Huey P. Newton Story) discusses his latest work Juan and John at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in downtown Los Angeles. Sterling coerces Stroili to talk about his weekend road trip to Arizona and a close encounter of the fudge kind. Popular radio show host Sheena Metal (LA Talk Radio.com) is interviewed about her co-starring role in Last Summer at Bluefish Cove and its reopening at the Lounge Theatre in Los Angeles. The Live Arts Calendar highlights the Blank Theatre Company’s hilarious holiday offering of The Santaland Diaries. Sterling reviews A Sentimental Journey, The Story of Doris Day at the historic El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood. Smith and Metal divulge awkward on stage moments. Sponsored by Breakdown Services (http://www.breakdownexpress.com/)

Comedic actor Monroe Makowsky (AKA "Whopper Sr." in a continuing series of commercials for Burger King), chews the fat with Sterling and Stroili about his checkered professional life ... from Oprah to Liza and James (Cameron, that is)... to his current co-starring role in the LA hit comedy drama Dsynomiaat the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood. The Live Arts Calendar features SeaGlass Theatre’s fall production of Steven Berkoff’s hilarious comedy Kvetch at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks, CA, and the Deborah Laufer comedy End Days at The Odyssey Theatre in West Los Angeles. Makowsky shares his most embarrassing moments on stage. Sponsored by Breakdown Services (http://www.breakdownexpress.com/)

Daytime television star Judith Chapman (The Young and the Restless) joins Sterling & Stroili to discuss her career in television and theatre, including her critically acclaimed performance as Vivien Leigh in Vivien for Rogue Machine Theatre Co. and Troubadours of Daytime at Theater Theatre in Los Angeles. Israeli superstar and Broadway performer Mike Burstyn discusses his theatrical history and his one man concert Jolson at the Winter Garden at North Hollywood’s El Portal Theatre. The Live Arts Calendar highlights the Los Angeles Stage Alliance’s "Ovation Recommended" production of Dysnomia at the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood. Sterling reviews the James Sherman comedy Beau Jest at the Glendale Centre Theatre. Chapman and Burstyn recall unusual moments during their performances. Sponsored by Breakdown Services (http://www.breakdownexpress.com/)

A hair-raising side of Sterling & Stroili is revealed. Theatre and television star Marcia Wallace (The Bob Newhart Show and The Simpsons) discusses her co-starring role as the Wicked Step Mother in Rodgers & Hammerstein???s Cinderella at Cabrillo Music Theatre in Thousand Oaks, CA. She is joined by Derek Klena who portrays Prince Charming, and the production???s title star Melissa Mitchell. Stage and television actress Megan McNulty is interviewed about her role in The Baby Dance at the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood. Sponsored by Breakdown Services (http://www.breakdownexpress.com/)