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Dear Audience Member, On October 2, 2016, the Center Theatre Group family, Los Angeles, and the American theatre community suffered a great loss with the death of Center Theatre Group Founding Artistic Director Gordon Davidson.

Gordon was one of the most renowned and respected artistic directors in American regional theatre, in large part because he was one of the original founders of the entire concept. Under his leadership, Center Theatre Group produced one of the broadest arrays of plays, particularly new plays, of any theatre in the country. Without his prolific vision for Center Theatre Group 50 years ago, the theatrical landscape in Los Angeles, and the country, would be very different.

Indeed, you can see quite clearly Gordon’s footprint via the two plays onstage at Center Theatre Group this month, which represent the incredible breadth of our work and the depth of our relationships with artists from around the world. Director Garry Hynes returns to the Mark Taper Forum with the Druid production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane

by Martin McDonagh. And playwright Jon Robin Baitz and director Robert Egan—both of whom worked with Gordon for many years—bring the World premiere of Vicuña to the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

Gordon remains one of theatre’s great leaders and I was proud to call him a mentor, friend, and colleague. Your presence here, at a theatre Gordon loved, helps us carry on his legacy.

Sincerely,

Michael Ritchie artistic director, center theatre group

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Center Theatre Group Board of Directors 2016/2017 Officers BOARD MEMBERS

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Michael Rogers

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PAST PRESIDENTS

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Monica Rosenthal

Harold Applebaum

Lew R. Wasserman†

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Marshall Berges†

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Elliott Sernel

Phyllis Hennigan

Henry C. Rogers†

Dannielle Campos Ramirez

Darell L. Krasnoff

Jack Simon

Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr.

Richard E. Sherwood†

Jody Lippman

Maggy Simon

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Mara Carieri

Richard Kagan

J. David Haft†

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Sue Tsao

Walter Mirisch

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Vin Di Bona

Kim White Peterson

Matthew Walden

Diane Morton

Richard Kagan

Dante Di Loreto

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Martin Massman†

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Brindell Roberts Gottlieb VICE PRESIDENT

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TICKET INFO

Center Theatre Group is a nonprofit theatre company that produces and presents at the Ahmanson Theatre and the Mark Taper Forum at The Music Center of Los Angeles, and the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. For ticketing, the latest news from our theatres, and more, visit CenterTheatreGroup.org.

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IN THE THEATRE DONATIONS

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LATE SEATING To minimize disruption, patrons not seated when the performance begins will be asked to wait in the lobby until an appropriate break. Latecomers may also be given alternate seats until intermission.

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AROUND CENTER THEATRE GROUP Community Conversations at The Annex

Star Tracks at the Mark Taper Forum

(l–r) Center Theatre Group Resident Teaching Artist Khanisha Foster, USC Norman Lear Center Popular Music Project Director and MacArthur “Genius” Josh Kun, UCLA Associate Professor of Musicology and African American Studies Shana L. Redmond, USC Professor of Music Ronald C. McCurdy, and Director of Social Strategy, Innovation and Impact Leslie K. Johnson at The Music Center Annex on September 21, 2016 for “The Sound and the Soul: Authenticity and Commerce in African-American Music,” a Community Conversation for audiences attending August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Our Community Conversations bring together audiences, artists, scholars, and voices and perspectives from across Los Angeles to discuss how the stories on our stages intersect with the world we live in.

FALL 2016 THEATRE CRASH COURSE FOR STUDENTS BY THE NUMBERS Stars studded the Taper audience throughout the run of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, with Denzel Washington among the celebrities who visited the cast backstage. For more star sightings, follow us on Instagram @CTGLA.

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Donors and members of the 50 Celebration planning committee gathered at SoHo House West Hollywood on September 9, 2016 for cocktails with Sir Matthew Bourne, the choreographer behind Ahmanson Theatre productions including his Swan Lake and, most recently, Sleeping Beauty.

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Discovery Guides written by Center Theatre Group Teaching Artists introduced over 3,500 high school students to August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge in advance of Student Matinee performances in September and October. These resources are just one part of this free comprehensive theatre education experience, which features classroom visits, pre- and post-show activities, and cast Q&As for students across Los Angeles.

Download at CenterTheatreGroup.org.

Congratulations to Center Theatre Group Artistic Development Program Manager Patricia Garza and Community Partnerships Director Jesus Reyes, both of whom have been selected to participate in the Theatre Communications Group Leadership U[niversity] program, which aims to strengthen the field by developing the individuals who are the core and the future of theatre. On behalf of our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion task force, Garza has received a grant to receive training to help Center Theatre Group identify key organizational issues around retention and recruitment of staff.

And Reyes will be mentoring Alejandra Cisneros, who received a grant to research, observe, and work alongside him on our community programs.

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(l–r) Johnny Huynh of Macy’s, Center Theatre Group Associate Director of Corporate Relations Robbie Martin, Center Theatre Group Resident Teaching Artist Debra Piver, and Gilbert Robledo of Macy’s at the Macy’s Santa Anita store on September 8, 2016. Martin and Piver accepted a $10,000 check from Macy’s in support of the Student Matinee program and talked to employees about Center Theatre Group’s education programming before thanking them for the contribution.

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Center Theatre Group Mourns Founding Artistic Director

GORDON DAVIDSON 1933–2016

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enter Theatre Group mourns the loss of our Founding Artistic Director Gordon Davidson, who passed away on October 2, 2016. Davidson led the company for 38 years, transforming Los Angeles into a center of the regional theatre movement and changing the American artistic and cultural landscape in the process.

“Gordon was a giant in the American theatre and a visionary leader. His words, his work, and his wisdom will continue to reverberate and will impact us for years to come,” said Artistic Director Michael Ritchie. “At Center Theatre Group he established a footprint for Los Angeles theatre, for diverse theatre, and for new voices and new audiences. His influence was felt across the country.”

Davidson was just 34 when Dorothy Buffum Chandler tapped him to lead Center Theatre Group in its inaugural 1967/1968 Season at The Music Center.

“I walked into the theatre with a hard hat. The seats were in. Later, I had nightmares about little and some big mistakes or omissions,” recalled Davidson of his first official meeting with Chandler. “But none of it mattered when I stood on the stage and felt the power of an audience sitting there.”

Davidson chose to open the Taper by directing John Whiting’s The Devils. The play’s scandalous depiction of Catholic clergy ignited instant controversy—and set the thought-provoking tone for which Center Theatre Group would become known around the world. Over the next four decades, Davidson produced landmark Taper works like Zoot Suit; Children of a Lesser God and The Shadow Box, both of which he directed at the Taper then moved on to Tony Award®-winning Broadway runs; and The Kentucky Cycle and Angels in America. In 1992 and 1993, Center Theatre Group was distinguished by having The Kentucky Cycle and Angels in America (Part One—Millennium Approaches) receive consecutive Pulitzer Prizes in Drama, the first time for plays produced outside of New York.

In 1989, Davidson took over the programming of the Ahmanson Theatre. Stars appearing in Ahmanson productions included John Lithgow, Laurence Fishburne, Alan Alda, Chita Rivera, Neil Patrick Harris, Ian McKellen, Christopher Plummer, Vanessa Williams, Savion Glover, John Leguizamo, and Lily Tomlin.

In his final season at Center Theatre Group, 2004/2005, Davidson fulfilled a long-held dream with the opening of the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, a home for new and innovative work. In that first season, six plays had their World premieres at the Douglas, including the Davidson-directed inaugural production A Perfect Wedding.

Davidson also oversaw the creation of Center Theatre Group’s award-winning education programming and a robust artistic development program. Generations of young people in Los Angeles were introduced to theatre, and countless artists around the country got their start thanks in large part to his work and support.

Artistic Director Michael Ritchie was well aware of Davidson long before they first met in New York City 35 years ago, when Ritchie was stage manager at Circle in the Square Theatre. “I was walking down the hall one day and I heard a voice yelling, ‘Michael! Michael!

Are you Michael?’” said Ritchie. “I was so impressed that Gordon, who I knew of really well, had heard of me—but more importantly had gone out of his way to chase me down and introduce himself to me. Since I’ve arrived here he’s been one of my key supporters and one of my key sounding boards.”

Ritchie and the rest of our staff—those who worked with Davidson directly, many of whom are still here, as well as those who know him by reputation alone—feel the loss deeply. Our condolences go out to Davidson’s surviving family: his wife, Judi; their children, Adam and Rachel; and five granddaughters.

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(l–r) Arian Moayed and Kevin Tighe in the World premiere of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

Adam Chanler-Berat in the Berkeley Repertory Theatre production of Amélie, A New Musical. Photo by kevinberne.com.

From Center Theatre Group to Broadway

Amélie, A New Musical Carries on a Rich 50-Year Tradition Since our founding in 1967, Center Theatre Group has been sending shows to Broadway. Our very first World premiere at the

Ahmanson Theatre, the musical The Happy Time from songwriting team John Kander and Fred Ebb, directed and choreographed by Gower Champion, and starring Robert Goulet and David Wayne, transferred to The Broadway Theatre, and received eight 1968 Tony Award nominations, winning three. ®

Sutton Foster at the Ahmanson in The Drowsy Chaperone. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

“We admire the classics, we love producing revivals, but any theatre company worth its salt needs also to be in the business of discovering and developing new work. This is a very important part of what we do.”

Amélie, A New Musical (onstage at the Ahmanson December 4, 2016 – January 15, 2017) carries on a tradition that includes nine Neil Simon productions that moved from Center Theatre Group to Broadway over 25 years; landmark Mark Taper Forum plays like Zoot Suit, Children of a Lesser God, Angels in America, The Kentucky Cycle, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; the Kirk Douglas Theatre World premieres Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo; and Ahmanson musicals like Curtains, 9 to 5: The Musical, and The Drowsy Chaperone.

“Center Theatre Group is committed to searching out and finding new, inventive, exciting theatrical work. We’ve been doing that our entire 50-year history,” said Center Theatre Group Producing Director Douglas C. Baker. “We admire the

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about these new works. “Our audiences are in

on the development process and are engaged by it,” said Baker. “They are able then to be thought-searchers. They’re out ahead of the game. There’s a sense of discovery, a sense of joy when our audience members are exposed to work that is new and surprising.”

Center Theatre Group Founding Artistic Director Gordon Davidson (front row, center) and the rest of the producers of Angels in America pose with the Tony Award . ®

classics, we love producing revivals, but any theatre company worth its salt needs also to be in the business of discovering and developing new work. This is a very important part of what we do.”

Baker loved the movie Amélie and was immediately intrigued when he heard that a musical was in development. He traveled to

Berkeley Repertory Theatre to see the World premiere last year. “I was entertained, I was delighted by it, and I just had a really, really good time at the show,” he said. “I said to the commercial producers, if they felt they were ready to go to New York, I was happy for them and wished them the very best. But if they would like to come to our theatre to do a bit more work on the show to help take it to the next level, we would happily enter into a conversation about that.” The commercial producers, with input from the creative team, decided that Center Theatre Group was the place to fine-tune the show.

“They recognize that we nurture artists, provide them with a bit of an incubation—room to experiment, and room to grow their work,” said Baker, explaining why the Amélie team and other commercial Broadway producers choose to come to Center Theatre Group before Broadway. “We have more resources available to the artists in terms of not only the rehearsal rooms onsite and a first-rate production staff onsite, but also all of our other personnel who can help them—our excellent publicity, marketing, and ticketing folks.”

Center Theatre Group also has the benefit of knowing our audiences well and anticipating how they’ll feel

This sense of discovery is why Bank of America has been an Ahmanson season sponsor for over a decade.

“We love being able to help bring not only the best theatre in the country to Los Angeles audiences but theatre that also contributes to the local cultural fabric and the economy,” said Raul Anaya, Bank of America’s Greater Los Angeles president. “We’re delighted to help bring the pre-Broadway engagement of Amélie to Los Angeles.”

Thirty-some-odd Center Theatre Group productions have moved to Broadway in Baker’s 26 years at Center Theatre Group, but a few stand out. Baker pointed to 2005’s The Drowsy Chaperone as “one of our really proud moments. We identified a new musical that we felt would be exciting for our audiences, we produced it ourselves, and then off it went to fame and fortune on Broadway and beyond.” The Drowsy Chaperone helped make Sutton Foster the star she is today. “People still talk about her performance in that show,” added Baker.

He also pointed to the success of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph. “It was an unsolicited script that came in, was flagged by our Literary department as an outstanding play, and it was thrilling to watch it develop and grow,” recalled Baker. The play received a lauded and adored World premiere at the Douglas in 2009 followed by a 2010 run at the Taper.

In 2010 it was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and in 2011 it debuted on Broadway with Robin Williams in the title role.

Baker is confident that Center Theatre Group audiences will welcome Amélie as warmly as they did these recent hits. “It’s not only that we want to produce new work, but we want to produce excellent new work,” said Baker.

“We believe that Amélie will meet and even exceed our staff’s and our audiences’ expectations.”

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The Local Theatre Movement

LUIS ALFARO

Writes a New Play, with and About our Neighbors

The Center Theatre Group Play Reading series at Boyle Heights libraries.

When playwright and MacArthur “Genius” Luis Alfaro was a child, his mother would bring him to shows at the Ahmanson Theatre and Mark Taper Forum— but she would wait in the parking lot of the L.A. Department of Water and Power while he sat in the audience, enraptured. Alfaro became an usher in 1979 and eventually became part of Center Theatre Group’s artistic staff. In 2000, his mother made it into the Taper to see his play Black Butterfly, Jaguar Girl, Piñata Woman and Other Superhero Girls, Like Me, which was followed by 2005’s Electricidad (also at the Taper), and 2013’s St. Jude at the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

Alfaro is a Los Angeles native who grew up in the Pico-Union neighborhood. He’s also collaborated with theatres around the country

to create pieces that reflect their community. All this made him the perfect playwright to commission a new work from as part of Center Theatre Group’s 50 Anniversary celebration—one that reflects the community we work in. Over the next two years, Alfaro will be writing in conjunction with our free bilingual Play Reading series at Boyle Heights libraries. He’ll interview community members, including librarians, about their lives and experiences. And he’ll create six mini-plays that will debut as part of the Play Reading series, which may later be woven together into a mainstage production. Center Theatre Group Community Partnerships Director Jesus Reyes, who runs the Play Reading series and our Boyle Heights programming, sat down to talk with Alfaro about the project as they began their work.

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Jesus Reyes: How do you engage a community that is really local? I always thought of it as an earthquake with an epicenter. Where does that earthquake start?

Luis Alfaro. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

Luis Alfaro: Well you know, theatre is a ritual. Theatre is the ancient place where we hear our stories. It’s where we learn to be better people. How do we build this ritual as a great sport, as a live action event? You can convince people that this is a way to hear stories, and to engage yourself and become a better human being.

Reyes: How do I convey to community that they are going to be moved by art, whatever that community is?

Alfaro: I think that if we go back to Indian theatre, which was religious festivals, it’s not emotion so much; it’s catharsis. Tonight you’re going to experience something that is going to be a journey, and in that journey you hear a story, you feel something about that story, and it drives you. It’s the thing that’s going to keep you invested. So I always think, how does community get catharsis? How does it experience that?

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This Fall, our Artistic Staff Developed Nine New Works in New York Throughout the summer and early fall of 2016, Center Theatre Group’s artistic staff worked hard to prepare for the 20 productions that will play our Los Angeles stages in the upcoming season. But they were also traveling 2,500 miles across the country to New York City to participate in workshops and readings of nine different plays and musicals in development that we may or may not produce over the next few years.

Some of these works are commissioned— we’re providing funding to create a work from scratch. In others we have no vested interest, but rather an interest in a new play or musical that a creative team is looking to develop or be produced. In these cases, “we like the writer and the play very much, and want to see where it goes—and if it goes,” explained Center Theatre Group Associate Artistic Director Kelley Kirkpatrick.

Regardless of whether the show is a commission (like Sleep, an adaptation of a Haruki Murakami story by Naomi Iizuka) or part of an upcoming season (like Amélie, A New Musical) or simply a play we’re intrigued by (like Prosthesis from Hand to God team Robert

Askins and Moritz von Stuelpnagel), these workshops and readings all start in the same manner. “Our first question to the playwright is, ‘What do you need?’” said Kirkpatrick.

“It’s artist-driven.”

For writer, composer, and performer Will Power, who is working on a new musical with co-composer Justin Ellington, that meant bringing in an audience before they had much of anything to show. “I had this one idea for a story. All I had was one song,” said Power, who added that most theatre companies would ask artists to wait before showing a single song to the public. “Center Theatre Group said come out, bring your one song, we’ll get an audience together, and tell us what you’re thinking about,” said Power. “I’ve never had that kind of luxury.”

The development process takes many different guises, depending on what the artists tell us they need to bring their piece to the next step.

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Jordan Harrison on Marjorie Prime, the Horton Foote Prize, and Writing for Stage and Screen Jeff Ward and Lois Smith in Marjorie Prime at the Mark Taper Forum.

Photo by Craig Schwartz.

Jordan Harrison is a playwright’s playwright. His work has premiered at some of the most prestigious regional theatres in America—including the Mark Taper Forum, Playwrights Horizons, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and the Humana Festival of New American Plays—and though he’s not yet 40, he has already amassed an impressive number of awards and fellowships. But Harrison has also found success in Hollywood, where he works as a writer and producer on the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black.

In 2014, Harrison’s Marjorie Prime made its World premiere at the Mark Taper Forum and went on to become a 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist.

In September, it also garnered Harrison the 2016 Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play. Marjorie Prime tells the tale of a near future in which artificial intelligence is used to treat dementia and depression in the form of “primes”—humanoid projections that speak with patients in the form of lost loved ones. The play struck such a chord with audiences that it’s since been adapted into a film debuting next year and starring Jon Hamm, Tim Robbins, Geena Davis, and Lois Smith. It seemed like the right time to catch up with Harrison to find out the path that he and Marjorie Prime have taken since their time at the Taper.

How did Marjorie Prime come to have its World premiere at Center Theatre Group?

Center Theatre Group programmed the play without ever doing a reading of it. I’d already been through a fair number of readings and near-misses with Marjorie, so it was wonderful to have Center Theatre Group decide to produce it without an “audition.” I know Center Theatre Group’s Literary Manager Joy Meads was a great

champion of the play, but playwrights don’t see much of what goes into the decision to program something.

I’m sure it didn’t hurt that Lois Smith wanted to do it!

How have the questions at the center of Marjorie Prime evolved in the two years since its World premiere?

I wrote the first draft of the play in early 2012, so I’ve had more than four years to watch the questions of the play evolve. Or really, the play stays the same while the world evolves and gets savvier. For example: the play’s idea of curating your life, curating your memories with the help of a computer, is something I imagine barely looks futuristic to a young person who has grown up scrapbooking their life comprehensively on Instagram.

The conundrum of writing sci-fi or “predictive fiction” is that the more accurate your prediction is, the less inventive the work looks as it ages. It moves toward redundancy. Sometimes the inaccurate predictions age more interestingly.

Lois Smith, who starred in the Center Theatre Group production, has been involved with Marjorie since its very first table read. What has that collaboration been like?

I remember walking into the rehearsal room for that first reading, and Lois was already there a half hour early, highlighting her script with a marker. I had met her before, but only very briefly, and I confessed to her that I had written the play with her in mind. Writing a role for an actor can very easily result in heartbreak (and it has for me before). So it was my great fortune that she responded not only to the role, but to the strangeness of the play. Because of Marjorie Prime’s twisty journey in the world, she and I have worked with four different directors on it (including Michael Almereyda, the director of the film adaptation), all of them quite wonderful. Lois and I have been the only constant.

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Recently I heard Gloria Steinem say that it’s been difficult for her to enter her 80s because she doesn’t have role models that age. When I heard that, I felt lucky to have this vibrant, occasionally saucy, 80-something friend.

What’s it like to move from stage to screen and back? What does theatre give you that television might not?

When I first started looking for TV work, I wondered if I’d feel like a hack; if I wouldn’t be invested in what I was writing. But Orange Is the New Black asks me to be as creative and obstinate and individual in its way as I am when I write my own plays. It still feels like a passion project, just one that I make with seven or eight other writers. What I get from theater that I don’t get from TV is, of course, the immediate relationship with an audience—the satisfaction of a laugh detonating, or a gasp, or a murmur of understanding as the play’s traps close. On a TV set, there’s a camera rehearsal where the gaffers and grips are essentially just watching where the actors stand—to know how to light them, etc. They’re not really watching for the writing. They’re doing their jobs. But every now and then they’ll laugh at something in rehearsal, and it’s one of the best feelings, because the TV set becomes a theater for an instant.

What does a prize like the Horton Foote mean to you?

What was most special to me was that people still thought of me as a theater artist.

Theater can have a cruelly short memory, and it’s scary to step off the daily treadmill of opening nights and readings and such. Because of my work on television the last three years, I’ve never been farther away from the theater world—so it was wonderful to be thought of.

What is next for you?

I’m adapting my play Maple and Vine, about 1950s reenactors, as a television show for TNT. I have two very different new plays, The Amateurs and Log Cabin, and I’m starting down the long road to getting them produced. And we’re closing in on writing the last episodes of Orange Is the New Black season five. So the most important next step for me is taking my husband to Italy in December to thank him for six months of long-distance marriage. It’s the perfect country to slow down in.

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(l– r) Jordan Harrison and Lois Smith on the opening night of Marjorie Prime. Photo by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging.

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The community can be part of the art-making in that they are community dramaturgs. They’re telling you about language, they’re telling you about the appropriateness of events and environments.

Our art, our stories are the most valuable things we have. It’s the way we don’t die, through our oral histories. We learn about ourselves and our cultures, and we learn about our rituals through stories. That’s amazing. The other side of it is that when we bring it to the theatre, it becomes the art that you want to see in a fully produced, professional environment. But I think we are always battling to make both of those things happen. How do we speak to the man on the street and how do you speak to the person who’s going to spend $112 for a ticket? Both of those people should get the same thing out of the experience. If we were just talking to our people, our people being Latinos, I think we would be doing ourselves a disservice. I think the language of our people is the most beautiful poetry, but this play has to be the language of Los Angeles, and it also has to speak to the people on the Westside the same way it speaks to people on the Eastside. How do you do that? That’s the challenge.

Reyes: That’s why it’s been important for me with the library Play Readings that our partners are made up of theatre companies and groups throughout Los Angeles— from Watts Village Theater Company to Off The Tracks Theater Company to Artists at Play. It’s a slew of Los Angeles.

Alfaro: You know, East L.A. was once Jewish, and before that it was Chinese, and before that it was Japanese, so you see the Buddhist temples, you see the corner of Brooklyn and Soto, now Cesar Chavez. All of that is underneath the land. All we’re doing is excavating. You and I are just pulling back the end of the rug to see what’s underneath. That’s all we do with our playwriting. We aren’t even digging a tunnel; we’re just lifting up a corner because in Los Angeles, our histories are really recent.

Reyes: And we see that history in the makeup of the people who decide to listen to our stories at each library reading. Where does this fit into your history with Center Theatre Group?

Alfaro: My years here at the Taper were my most productive. I think building story then was about influencing the regional theatre movement. Now we have a goal to build something for the local community. How do you keep coming back to something much more local, much more community-oriented? The play we are working on has to take place somewhere around here. And that’s one way of saying we’re not going to run away from it, and if we center it here, we have to deal with what’s going on here.

Reyes: I think part of where Center Theatre Group is moving in the next 50 years is toward that localization.

Alfaro: One of the biggest challenges we face is that the 50 Anniversary has to be a sort of charge. How do you reinvent theatre so it speaks to everybody in Los Angeles County? If you tell the stories of this time and this place, you become central or essential to the history and the vitality of the city, but also, you become the central organization to filter the story of Los Angeles. I think that’s where social and political will and change happen. And that’s where theatre becomes interesting again.

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Groundbreaking Director GARRY HYNES Is Back (l– r) Marie Mullen, Aisling O’Sullivan, and Marty Rea in the Druid production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane.

Photo by Stephen Cummiskey.

Garry Hynes.

Garry Hynes has been breaking new ground in theatre since the 1970s, when she,

along with two friends from the National University of Ireland founded Druid in Galway—the country’s first professional theatre company to be based outside Dublin. Two decades later, Hynes discovered an unsolicited script in Druid’s in-box by a young, unknown playwright named Martin McDonagh: The Beauty Queen of Leenane. After directing the play’s World premiere in Ireland to rapturous praise, Hynes and Druid brought it to Broadway. In 1998, the production earned four Tony Awards , including one for Hynes—making her the first woman to win Best Direction of a Play. ®

“I knew there was something in this play, straightaway, when I read it for the first time,” recalled Hynes. “It was clear that Martin could

write dialogue. Now you’d think this is the most obvious and basic requirement for any writer, but in fact it’s a real skill. And I remember very clearly that it was the first thing that hit me—his ability to write dialogue and create characters through it. And then, when I read his plays for the second and third time, I begin to appreciate the skill and craft of his plotting.”

The 2016 Druid production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, onstage at the Mark Taper Forum November 9 – December 18, 2016, is special for a number of reasons. For one thing, it’s the 20 anniversary of Druid’s original production. Hynes is excited “to bring it to a new generation of people who have never seen it before.”

For another, Druid co-founder Marie Mullen, who won a Tony playing Maureen Folan two decades ago, is now taking on the role of Maureen’s mother, Mag. “To have premiered a play with Marie 20 years ago that became such a significant one, and then to be able to work with TH

the same actor 20 years later in a different role—that’s a privilege beyond compare,” said Hynes.

Hynes and Mullen first met in the early 1970s, when Mullen auditioned for a play Hynes was directing at college. “I don’t think either of us ever thought we’d still be collaborating over 40 years later,” said Hynes.

“Maybe we have a shorthand now, having worked together for so long, and there’s obviously a deep understanding there. I often say that we would never have been friends if it wasn’t for making theatre together, so I’m grateful that we’re still friends and still working together!”

Another important artistic relationship—though not quite as long—that underlies this production at the Taper is the one between Hynes and Center Theatre Group. In 2011, she directed the Druid production of The Cripple of Inishmaan at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, and made her Taper debut directing 2015’s The Price. “I always look forward to returning, and I know the whole company does too,” said Hynes. “It’s great to be in such

a fantastic cultural complex in the heart of such a vibrant city. It’s so different from where we come from and yet we always feel at home here.”

Hynes is confident that Los Angeles audiences will embrace The Beauty Queen of Leenane just as New York audiences did in the 1990s. “There are a lot of cultural references in this play which are quintessentially Irish and get a huge reaction when we perform at home, but American audiences still find this play hilarious,” she said. Center Theatre Group is delighted to be launching the laughter as Druid kicks off their U.S. tour at the Taper.

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INSPIRING OUR FUTURE Special Thanks to Center Theatre Group’s Most Generous Annual Patrons Center Theatre Group wishes to thank the following donors for their significant gifts and for their belief in the transformative power of theatre.

$1 MILLION AND ABOVE The Ahmanson Foundation Annenberg Foundation Brindell Roberts Gottlieb Elisabeth Katte Harris Trust $500,000 AND ABOVE Jerry & Terri Kohl Deena & Edward Nahmias Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinoco Foundation $250,000 AND ABOVE Anonymous (1) Center Theatre Group Affiliates Kirk & Anne Douglas Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. The James Irvine Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation $150,000 AND ABOVE Anonymous (1) Bank of America The Blue Ribbon Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie JPMorgan Chase & Co. The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation Jody & David Lippman Deidra Norman Schumann Donna Schweers & Tom Geiser The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Wells Fargo Foundation $100,000 AND ABOVE Cindy & Gary Frischling Kiki & David Gindler Aliza Karney Guren & Marc Guren Los Angeles County Arts Commission Renee & Meyer Luskin Lloyd E. Rigler — Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Eva & Marc Stern Sue Tsao

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MICHAEL RITCHIE Artistic Director | STEPHEN D. ROUNTREE Managing Director | DOUGLAS C. BAKER Producing Director GORDON DAVIDSON Founding Artistic Director

presents the Druid production of

By

Martin McDonagh With

Aaron Monaghan

Marie Mullen

Aisling O’Sullivan

Set & Costume Design

Lighting Design

Sound Design

Francis O’Connor

James F. Ingalls

Greg Clarke

Composer

Fight Director

Associate Producer

Paddy Cunneen

Bryan Burroughs

Lindsay Allbaugh

Marty Rea

Directed By

Garry Hynes Presented in association with David Eden Productions, Ltd.

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CAST

WHO’S WHO

in order of appearance

AARON MONAGHAN (Ray Dooley). Druid: Waiting for Godot, DruidShakespeare, The Colleen Bawn, DruidMurphy—Plays by Tom Murphy, The Silver Tassie, Penelope, The Playboy of the Western World, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Empress of India, The Year of the Hiker, The Walworth Farce, DruidSynge. Other theatre: King Lear, Translations, 16 Possible Glimpses, Arrah na Pogue, Christ Deliver Us, Romeo and Juliet, Drama at Inish, The Shaughraun, She Stoops to Conquer, The Burial at Thebes, I Do Not Like Thee, Dr. Fell, The Wolf of Winter, Finders Keepers (Abbey Theatre). Film & Television: Maze, The Foreigner, Assassin’s Creed, The Tudors, Pan, Vikings, Inspector Jury, Clean Break, Sacrifice, The Other Side of Sleep, Single-Handed, Jack Taylor, Love/Hate, Little Foxes, Ella Enchanted, LSD ’73!. Awards: Obie, Lucille Lortel, and Manchester Evening News Best Actor Awards for his performance as Cripple Billy in The Cripple of Inishmaan; Irish Times Irish Theatre Award, Best Supporting Actor (DruidMurphy—Plays by Tom Murphy).

Mag Folan..................................... Marie Mullen Maureen Folan........................ Aisling O’Sullivan Ray Dooley...............................Aaron Monaghan Pato Dooley........................................Marty Rea

druid company manager

Danny Erskine stage managers

Michelle Blair Ann Kyle intermission

The Beauty Queen of Leenane is performed with one intermission. setting

Leenane, a small town in Connemara, County Galway.

Please turn off all electronic devices such as cellular phones, PDAs, beepers, and watch alarms. The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, with or without flash, is strictly prohibited.

MARIE MULLEN (Mag Folan). Druid: Marie is a founding member of Druid and has appeared in numerous productions including DruidShakespeare, Conversations on a Homecoming, Brigit, Bailegangaire, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Long Day’s Journey into Night, DruidSynge, and The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Other theatre: Testament (Landmark Productions and Dublin Theatre Festival); The Man Who Came to Dinner, King Lear, The Man of Mode (RSC); The Last Days of a Reluctant Tyrant, The Power of Darkness (Abbey Theatre). Film & television: Clean Break, When Brendan Met Trudy, Dancing at Lughnasa, Circle of Friends. Awards: Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, Special Tribute Award; Best Supporting Actress (DruidMurphy—Plays

by Tom Murphy); Best Actress (DruidSynge); Tony Award®, Obie—Best Actress Award (Beauty Queen of Leenane).

AISLING O’SULLIVAN (Maureen Folan).

Druid: Big Maggie, DruidShakespeare, Bailegangaire, The Colleen Bawn, The Playboy of the Western World. Other theatre: The Wake, Marble, Lay Me Down Softly, The Cavalcaders, Famine (Abbey Theatre); Crestfall (Gate Theatre); Miss Julie (Haymarket Theatre, London); The Duchess of Malfi (Royal Shakespeare Company); Liola, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Mutability (National Theatre, London); The Maids (Young Vic); Slavs! (Hampstead Theatre); Hysteria (Royal Court & Duke of York’s). Film & television: The Secret Scripture, Snap, The Butcher Boy, Raw, The Clinic, Cracker. Awards: Irish Times

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Irish Theatre Award, Best Supporting Actress (Playboy of the Western World); IFTA Best Actress for The Clinic (RTÉ).

MARTY REA (Pato Dooley). Druid: Waiting for Godot, DruidShakespeare, Brigit, Be Infants In Evil, The Colleen Bawn, DruidMurphy— Plays by Tom Murphy. Other theatre: Juno and the Paycock, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Caretaker, An Ideal Husband, My Cousin Rachel, Little Women, Hay Fever, Arcadia, Salomé, The Glass Menagerie (Gate Theatre); Othello, She Stoops to Conquer, The Hanging Gardens, Major Barbara, John Gabriel Borkman, The Rivals, Only An Apple, An Ideal Husband, The Big House, Saved, The Importance of Being Earnest (Abbey Theatre); Improbable Frequency (59E59 Theaters, New York); Pentecost, Spokesong (The Lyric Theatre/Rough Magic Theatre Co.); Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Hamlet (Second Age Theatre Co.); Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Livin’ Dred Theatre Co./NOMAD Theatre Network); Philadelphia, Here I Come! (ART NI). Film & television: Barbarians Rising; The Devil’s Pool; The Man Inside. Awards: Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, Best Actor (Hamlet), Best Actor (DruidShakespeare).

MARTIN MCDONAGH (Writer). Martin McDonagh is an award-winning writer and director. Druid: The Beauty Queen of Leenane, A Skull in Connemara, The Lonesome West (Druid Theatre/ Royal Court/Broadway); The Cripple of Inishmaan (Druid Theatre/Atlantic Theater NY/US tour). Other theatre: The Cripple of Inishmaan (National Theatre, London/West End/Broadway), The Pillowman (National Theatre, London/Broadway), The Lieutenant of Inishmore (RSC/Garrick/Broadway), A Behanding in Spokane (Broadway), Hangmen (Royal Court/West End). Film (as writer/ director): Six Shooter (short), In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Awards: Olivier Award for Best New Comedy (The Lieutenant of Inishmore), Olivier Award for Best New Play (The Pillowman), Olivier Award for Best New Play (Hangmen), Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film (Six Shooter), BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay (In Bruges).

GARRY HYNES (Director). Garry co-founded Druid in 1975 and has worked as its Artistic Director from 1975 to 1991, and from 1995 to date. From 1991 to 1994 she was Artistic Director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Garry has also worked with the Abbey and Gate Theatres (Ireland); the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Court (UK); Second Stage, Signature Theatre, and the Manhattan Theatre Club in

New York; the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.; the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles; and the Spoleto Festival (USA).

Awards: Irish Times Irish Theatre Award; UK Theatre Award; the Joe Callaway Award (New York); Tony Award®; honorary doctorates from University College Dublin (2011), University of Dublin (2004), National University of Ireland (1998), and the National Council for Education Awards (1988). In January 2011, Garry was appointed Adjunct Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at NUI Galway.

FRANCIS O’CONNOR (Set & Costume Design). Francis is a regular collaborator with Garry Hynes and Druid. His designs for plays, musicals, and opera have been seen in Ireland, the UK, throughout the US, Europe, and Asia. Druid: Waiting for Godot, Big Maggie, DruidShakespeare, Brigit, Bailegangaire, The Colleen Bawn, DruidMurphy—Plays by Tom Murphy, The Silver Tassie, The Gigli Concert, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Leaves, Empress of India, The Year of the Hiker, DruidSynge, The Well of the Saints, The Tinker’s Wedding, Sharon’s Grave, Sive, The Good Father, My Brilliant Divorce, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Lonesome West, A Skull in Connemara, The Leenane Trilogy, The Country Boy, The Way You Look Tonight, Shadow and Substance, Wild Harvest. Awards: Three Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, two for Best Design, one for Best Costume Design (with Doreen McKenna); Boston Critics Circle; Dora Mavor Moore Award; and, most recently, a nomination for the Faust Prize, Germany.

JAMES F. INGALLS (Lighting Design). James trained at the Yale School of Drama and the University of Connecticut. He often collaborates with Melanie Rios Glaser and the Wooden Floor Dancers, Santa Ana, California. Druid: Waiting for Godot, DruidShakespeare. Other theatre: Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The Price (Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles), The Second Girl (Huntington Theatre Company, Boston). Opera: John Adams’s The Gospel According to the Other Mary and Henry Purcell’s The Indian Queen, both directed by Peter Sellars (English National Opera, London); Kát’a Kabanová, directed by Garry Hynes (Spoleto Festival).

Dance: Celts, choreographed by Lila York (Boston Ballet); Sea Lark and Death and the Maiden (Paul Taylor Dance Company, NYC); Don Quixote (Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle) and The Sleeping Beauty (American Ballet Theatre, NYC), both choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky.

GREG CLARKE (Sound Design). Druid: Waiting for Godot, DruidShakespeare, Brigit, Bailegangaire, Penelope, The New Electric Ballroom, The Hackney Office. Other theatre: The Twits, The Ritual Slaughter Of Gorge Mastromas (Royal Court); Misterman (Galway Arts Festival & Landmark Productions); Medea, The Doctor’s Dilemma, Twelfth Night, No Man’s Land, Tristan & Yseult, The Emperor Jones, Earthquakes in London PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P 5

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(National Theatre, London); The Merchant of Venice, Cloud Nine (Almeida); All’s Well That Ends Well, The Heart of Robin Hood, Great Expectations, Coriolanus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Tantalus, Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company). London West End credits: My Night with Reg, Goodnight Mr. Tom, The Vortex, A Voyage Around My Father, And Then There Were None, Some Girls, Waiting for Godot, What the Butler Saw, Journey’s End, Equus. Awards: Tony Award® Best Sound Design for Equus (2009), Drama Desk Award for Journey’s End (2007).

PADDY CUNNEEN (Composer). Paddy is a composer, sound designer, writer, and director. He is the author of seven plays including Fleeto, which was performed at The Abbey, Dublin, under the title Deadly. As a member of the original creative team for The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Paddy is delighted to be back with Druid for this revival. Druid: Silverlands, The Leenane Trilogy, The Country Boy, On Raftery’s Hill, The Hackney Office.

Other theatre: Some 200-plus productions across many major companies including the Abbey Theatre, Cheek by Jowl, National Theatre (London), RSC, Donmar Warehouse, Almeida, Old Vic, Citizens Theatre Glasgow, and Liverpool Everyman. He has worked on Broadway and wrote the music for the recent Shakespeare In Love (West End & Stratford Festival, Ontario).

Film and television: Scores for seven short films, two TV series, and four television features, including a BAFTA nomination for the score to Channel Four’s Boy A. Awards: Brighton Argus Angel Award 2012, Adelaide Critics Circle Award 2012, Brighton Fringe Emerging Talent Award 2011, Holden Street Edinburgh Theatre Award 2011, for his play, Fleeto. Paddy has also won numerous awards for composition.

DAVID EDEN PRODUCTIONS, LTD. (US Tour Producer). The US tour of The Beauty Queen of Leenane is produced by David Eden and Tim Smith. David Eden Productions has been one of the leading American organizations devoted to producing international work in the US for over 25 years. Most recently, DEP has produced US tours of The Maly (2015/16), Bouffes du Nord’s The Suit (2013/4), Batsheva Dance Company (2012, 2009, 2004, 1998), Théâtre de la Ville’s production of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros (2012), the Republic of Georgia’s Ensemble Basiani (2012 & 2016), Gate Theatre Dublin’s Endgame/Watt (2011) and Krapp’s Last Tape (2012, 2011), Maly Drama Theatre’s Three Sisters (2012) at BAM, as well as North American tours of Druid Theatre’s Cripple of Inishmaan (2011), The Walworth Farce (2009), and DruidSynge: The Shadow of the Glen and The Playboy of the Western World (2008). David Eden has worked extensively with major presenting institutions on special projects, including Lincoln Center and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts.

MICHELLE BLAIR (Stage Manager) has worked on over 30 productions for Center Theatre Group. Some highlights include Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Mystery of Love & Sex, The Christians, Bent, Immediate Family, What the Butler Saw, Marjorie Prime, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Sunshine Boys, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Backbeat, Red, Vigil, Leap of Faith, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Parade, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Nightingale, all wear bowlers, Flight, Nothing But The Truth, Stones in His Pockets, Topdog/ Underdog, and “QED” at Lincoln Center Theater. Other favorites include The Pee-wee Herman Show at Club Nokia, A Long Bridge Over Deep Waters with Cornerstone Theater Company, and Jersey Boys in Las Vegas. Graduate of the University of Southern California and the University of Amsterdam. Mom to eight-year-old Liam and four-year old Imogen.

Center Theatre Group MICHAEL RITCHIE (Artistic Director) is in his 12TH season as Center Theatre Group’s Artistic Director, and has led over 190 productions to the Ahmanson Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, and Kirk Douglas Theatre stages including the premieres of six musicals that moved to Broadway—The Drowsy Chaperone, Curtains, 13, 9 to 5: The Musical, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and Leap of Faith—and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama finalist Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. STEPHEN D. ROUNTREE (Managing Director) joined Center Theatre Group in 2014 as its new Managing Director. He was previously the President and CEO of The Music Center (2002– 2014) and concurrently the CEO of the Los Angeles Opera (2008–2012). He served the J. Paul Getty Trust for 22 years, starting in 1980 as Deputy Director of the Getty Museum, then Director of the Getty Center Building Program, and in 1998, the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the Getty Trust. He currently serves as a trustee of Occidental College, The Ahmanson Foundation, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, and Polytechnic School.

DOUGLAS C. BAKER (Producing Director) is now in his 27TH season at Center Theatre Group. He is an active member of the Broadway League, the Independent Presenters Network, and is a proud member of the Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers. In May 2013, Doug received the Broadway League’s prestigious Outstanding Achievement in Presenter Management Award.

LINDSAY ALLBAUGH (Associate Producer) is a member of Center Theatre Group’s artistic staff and has served in varying capacities for the past 12 years. Currently, Lindsay is developing and producing the inaugural Block Party program for Center Theatre Group, bringing three 99-seat theatre productions to the Douglas 2016/17 Season. Lindsay also

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serves as the artistic coordinator for Center Theatre Group’s Sherwood Award. Selected producing credits include— Mark Taper Forum: Bent, What the Butler Saw, Steward of Christendom, Waiting for Godot; Kirk Douglas Theatre: Throw Me On the Burnpile and Light Me Up, Endgame, Women Laughing Alone With Salad, Chavez Ravine, Race, different words for the same thing, The Nether. Co-Artistic Director of the Elephant Theatre 2004–2014.

NAUSICA STERGIOU (General Manager, Mark Taper Forum and Kirk Douglas Theatre) has worked professionally supporting artists in theatres of all shapes, sizes, and locales including many seasons at Center Theatre Group as General Manager and, previously, as Audience Development Director. She oversees mainstage productions at the Taper and Douglas, as well as new play commissions and developmental

CREDITS Costume support provided by the Center Theatre Group Costume Shop.

Resident Assistant Lighting Designer—Heather Graff.

ADDITIONAL DRUID STAFF FOR THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE General Manager .................................................................................... Sarah Lynch Production Associate .......................................................................... Craig Flaherty Production Manager ........................................................ Barry O’Brien, Eamonn Fox Assistant Stage Manager ....................................................................... Sophie Flynn Costume Supervisor ....................................................................... Doreen McKenna Wigs and Make-up ................................................................................. Val Sherlock Chief Electrician .................................................................................. Shannon Light Production Electrician ................................................................................ Paul Kelly Production Sound .................................................................................. Mike Nestor Master Carpenter ..................................................................................... Gus Dewar Stage Carpenter...................................................................................... Pete Nelson Set Construction .................................................................................................. TPS Scenic Artists ........................................ Liz Barker, Jason McCaffrey, Louise Roache Set Crew ....................... Frank Commins, Marcus Molloy, Paul O’Connor, Ger Mallon, .......................................................... Ausias Navarro Millet, Sean Walsh, Gill Christie Transport ................................................................................................. Trevor Price Communications & Development Associate ........................................... Róisín Stack Publicist .............................................................................................. Kate Bowe PR Graphic Design ..................................................................................... Gareth Jones Publicity Image ........................................................................... Matthew Thompson Production Images .................................................................... Stephen Cummiskey Promotional Video ........................................................................................... Moose DAVID EDEN PRODUCTIONS Producers: David Eden and Tim Smith General Management: Tim Smith for Pemberley Productions Visa Coordination: Elise Ann Konstantin Druid gratefully acknowledges the support of the many people who helped with this production and all those who helped after this program went to print.

productions through Center Theatre Group’s New Play Development. Nausica has taught at USC’s School of Dramatic Arts, and advises and works with local nonprofits including Hollywood Orchard.

GORDON DAVIDSON (Founding Artistic Director) led the Taper throughout its first 38 seasons, guiding over 300 productions to its stage and winning countless awards for himself and the theatre—including the Tony Award for theatrical excellence, Margo Jones Award, The Governor’s Award for the Arts, and a Guggenheim fellowship. The Kentucky Cycle and Angels in America (Part One) won the Pulitzer in consecutive years and, in 1994, three of the four plays nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play were from the Taper (Angels in America won).

In 1989, Gordon took over the Ahmanson and, in 2004, he produced the inaugural season in the Kirk Douglas Theatre.

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The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are appearing with special permission of Actors’ Equity Association.

This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

The following employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Machine Operators, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States, its Territories and Canada, AFL-CIO, CLC: Stage Crew Local 33; Local Treasurers and Ticket Sellers Local 857; Wardrobe Crew Local 768; Makeup Artists and Hair Stylists Local 706.

The scenic, costume, lighting, and sound designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829.

The Press Agents, Company and House Managers employed in this production are represented by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers.

The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Inc., an independent national labor union.

Center Theatre Group is a member of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), the American Arts Alliance, the Broadway League, Independent Producers’ Network (IPN), LA Stage Alliance, National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT) and the Theatre Communications Group (TCG).

THANK YOU Zoey Bond, Fergal McGrath and the staff of the Town Hall Theatre, Alan Gordon (Gordon Stoves), Jim Treacy, Vincent Fahy, Tony Walsh, Michael Fox, Tony Smith (Goodwood Fuel Drogheda), Gavin Morgan, Morgan Rynn, Dymphna Tate, Odie Sherwin, Trevor McEntee, Jim Faulkner, Promptside, Darach O’Rourke, Padraig Ryan, Mike O’Halloran, Peggy and John Lynch, Síomha Nee, iSupply.

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MICHAEL RITCHIE Artistic Director | STEPHEN D. ROUNTREE Managing Director DOUGLAS C. BAKER Producing Director ARTISTIC NEEL KELLER.................................... Associate Artistic Director KELLEY KIRKPATRICK...................... Associate Artistic Director DIANE RODRIGUEZ.......................... Associate Artistic Director LINDSAY ALLBAUGH.................................. Associate Producer PATRICIA GARZA .........Artistic Development Program Manager JOY MEADS .... Literary Manager/Artistic Engagement Strategist IAN-JULIAN WILLIAMS ......... Program Coordinator, Block Party DAVID ADJMI (FADIMAN), SHEILA CALLAGHAN (FADIMAN), STEVE CUIFFO, JUSTIN ELLINGTON, WILL ENO (FADIMAN), MATT GOULD, DANAI GURIRA, JENNIFER HALEY, DAVID HENRY HWANG, JOE ICONIS, NAOMI IIZUKA, BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS, RAJIV JOSEPH, KIMBER LEE, GRIFFIN MATTHEWS, LAURAL MEADE, RICHARD MONTOYA, DAN O’BRIEN, DENIS O’HARE, LEE OVERTREE, LISA PETERSON, PLAYWRIGHTS ARENA, WILL POWER (FADIMAN), RIMINI PROTOKOLL, RAINPAN 43, MARCO RAMIREZ, KEN ROHT, MATT SAX, ROGER GUENVEUR SMITH, RIPE TIME, TRACEY SCOTT WILSON (FADIMAN)...... Commissioned Artists

WILLIAM MORNER....... Master Electrician (Mark Taper Forum) BONES MALONE.......... Master Soundman (Mark Taper Forum) DENNIS SEETOO..... Wardrobe Supervisor (Mark Taper Forum) RICK GEYER....................................Hair & Make-up Supervisor

(Mark Taper Forum) LINDA WALKER .............. House Manager (Mark Taper Forum) CHRISTY WEIKEL .......................................Production Manager

(Kirk Douglas Theatre) CHRISTOPHER REARDON......... Assistant Production Manager

(Kirk Douglas Theatre) AARON STAUBACH....................................... Master Electrician

(Kirk Douglas Theatre) ADAM PHALEN .................. Head Audio (Kirk Douglas Theatre) SEAN MEYER ............... Light Board Programmer and Operator

(Kirk Douglas Theatre) KATIE POLEBAUM....... Stage Supervisor (Kirk Douglas Theatre) CAMBRIA CHICHI......................................Wardrobe Supervisor

(Kirk Douglas Theatre)

ELIZA CLARK, FRANCES YA-CHU COWHIG, DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU, DAVID MYERS, QUI NGUYEN, HERBERT SIGUENZA, DEBORAH STEIN ............................... L.A. Writers’

Workshop Members

KRYSTIN MATSUMOTO............. Assistant Production Manager CHAD SMITH................................ Associate Technical Director LEE O’REILLY................................. Assistant Technical Director SEAN KLOC.........................................................Shop Foreman

EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS LESLIE K. JOHNSON........................ Director of Social Strategy,

Innovation and Impact KATHRYN MACKENZIE ........... Department Operations Director TRACI KWON........................ Arts Education Initiatives Director CAMILLE SCHENKKAN........ Next Generation Initiatives Director JESUS REYES........................ Community Partnerships Director ADAM NICOLAI...................... Arts Education Program Manager FELIPE M. SANCHEZ........Emerging Arts and Arts Professionals Program Associate JENNIFER HARRELL................................. Operations Assistant KHANISHA FOSTER............................ Resident Teaching Artist DEBRA PIVER...................................... Resident Teaching Artist

ANDREW THIELS...................................................Prop Director MERRIANNE NEDREBERG.................. Associate Prop Manager JON WARD........................................... Associate Prop Manager CANDICE CAIN............................................... Costume Director BRENT M. BRUIN.................................Costume Shop Manager MADDIE KELLER.........................................Costume Generalist WHITNEY OPPENHEIMER.................................. Shop Assistant SWANTJE TUOHINO.......................................................... Tailor ELIZABETH LEONARD................................... Facilities Manager JULIO A. CUELLAR...........................................Driver/Custodian BO FOXWORTH, BRIAN SLATEN ................................... Drivers PETER WYLIE........................................ Production Coordinator

MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION NAUSICA STERGIOU...................................... General Manager

(Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre) JEFFREY UPAH ............ General Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) KATIE SOFF........................................... Asst General Manager

(Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre, NPD) JAMES VIGGIANO.........................................Company Manager

(Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre) CASEY MCDERMOTT...............General Management Associate SAM LINDEN.............................................. Management Fellow ERIC SIMS.................................. Director of Theatre Operations

(Kirk Douglas Theatre) TOM BURMESTER....................... Audience Experience Design/

Front of House Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) MAX OKEN...................Facility Manager (Kirk Douglas Theatre) JAQUELYN JOHNSON................Associate Audience Experience ...................Designer (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Mark Taper Forum) LAUREN BAXA....................... Assistant Performance Manager

(Kirk Douglas Theatre) SONDRA MAYER.....................................Concessions Manager

(Kirk Douglas Theatre) ALANA BEIDELMAN................................... Executive Assistant

to the Artistic Director EVELYN STAFFORD.................................... Executive Assistant

to the Managing Director SUZANNE MAYBERRY.................... Interim Casting Coordinator PRODUCTION DAWN HOLISKI...... Production Department Operations Director JOE HAMLIN................................................ Technical Director/

Ahmanson Production Manager SHAWN ANDERSON...... Master Carpenter (Ahmanson Theatre) STAN STEELMON.... Master Propertyman (Ahmanson Theatre) JIM BERGER................. Master Electrician (Ahmanson Theatre) ROBERT SMITH............Master Soundman (Ahmanson Theatre) MICHAEL GARDNER................................ Wardrobe Supervisor

(Ahmanson Theatre) PATRICE K. MADRIGAL.............. Hair and Make-up Supervisor

(Ahmanson Theatre) CHRISTINE L. COX........... House Manager (Ahmanson Theatre) JONATHAN BARLOW LEE.......................... Production Manager

(Mark Taper Forum) KATE COLTUN........................... Associate Production Manager

(Mark Taper Forum) EMMET KAISER.............. Master Carpenter (Mark Taper Forum) ROBERT RUBY......... Master Propertyman (Mark Taper Forum)

FINANCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND HUMAN RESOURCES CHERYL SHEPHERD................................Chief Financial Officer SUZANNE BROWN..................................................... Controller JANIS BOWBEER........................................ Assistant Controller XOCHITL RAMIREZ..................... Accounts Payable Coordinator ALEGRIA SENA............................................... Staff Accountant SHYNASTY WILKES......................................... Staff Accountant AMEETA SHARMA........................................... Payroll Manager JEFF LOUIE .................................................... Payroll Specialist STAN GRUSHESKY.................. Director of Information Systems MANDY RATLIFF.................. Sr. Database & Web Administrator ASH LEWIS.......................................... Help Desk Administrator JODY HORWITZ........................... Director of Human Resources PJ. PHILLIPS......................Senior Human Resources Generalist SINGER LEWAK, LLP..................................................... Auditor MICHAEL C. DONALDSON, LISA A. CALLIF........ Legal Counsel GIBSON, DUNN & CRUTCHER............................ Legal Counsel INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT YVONNE CARLSON BELL.......................................... Director of

Institutional Advancement PATRICK OWEN............................................ Deputy Director of

Institutional Advancement NATALIE BERGESON................. Director of Donor Engagement LIZ LIN................................................. Director of Development

Artist and Entertainment Relations CHARITY WU...................... Director of Major Gifts Stewardship BECKY BIRDSONG........ Major Gifts and Planned Giving Officer KATY HILTON............................................ Associate Director of

Foundation and Government Support LAURA HITE...........................................Manager of Major Gifts DANIELLE LESNER..... Associate Director of Donor Engagement MANDI OR........................................... Special Events Manager ROBBIE MARTIN....... Associate Director of Corporate Relations JENNIFER CHAN............................. Special Events Coordinator DONALD JOLLY........................... Donor Experience Coordinator JAZMINE JONES ........................... Donor Relations Coordinator KIM OKAMURA ................................................ Grants Manager ERIN SCHLABACH..............Manager of Major Gifts Stewardship ERIC SEPPALA............ Board Liaison and Executive Assistant to

the Director of Institutional Advancement MATTHEW SUTPHIN.........Institutional Advancement Associate

Center Theatre Group would like to thank its exceptional staff for their ongoing commitment, dedication and extraordinary efforts.

KRISTIN YAMAKA.....................Corporate Relations Coordinator EDUARDO MOLLIENDO-PIÑÓN...................Donor Membership Coordinator MIKE RATTERMAN.............................Donor Advisor Supervisor AL BERMAN, JOHN COPELAND, ELIZABETH DELLORUSSO, DAVID GARVER, BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ, NICOLE SCIPIONE, PAUL VITAGLIANO ............. Donor Advisors KARLA GALVEZ, JUSTINE PEREZ..... Donor Services Associates WAUKENA CUYJET, MURRAY E. HELTZER, JULIE NADAL....................................... Development Volunteers MARKETING DEBORAH WARREN..................................Director of Marketing KYLE HALL............................Advertising & Promotions Director ARIE LEVINE.......................... Marketing & Advertising Manager KIYOMI EMI............................. Audience Development Manager GARRETT COLLINS.......................... Audience Loyalty Manager JOHN POTTER ............................................ Executive Assistant DEANNA McCLURE................................................. Art Director IRENE T. KANESHIRO........................... Senior Design Manager JAVIER VASQUEZ............................................ Graphic Designer TARA NITZ...................................................... Graphic Designer COMMUNICATIONS JAMES SIMS...................................Director of Communications JASON MARTIN.............................................. Head of Publicity PHYLLIS MOBERLY........................................... Senior Publicist KRISTI AVILA......................................................Junior Publicist SAVANNAH L. BARKER......................................Junior Publicist SARAH ROTHBARD...............Senior Manager, Communications ............................................................................... and Editorial JOHN JOHNSON..........................Communications Coordinator ARIELLE LAUB..............................Communications Coordinator SARAH GOLDBAUM.............................. Digital Media Specialist HAL BANFIELD..........................................Multimedia Producer TICKET SALES AND SERVICES SHAWN ROBERTSON............................... Ticket Sales Director SKYPP CABANAS........................... Ticket Operations Manager RACHYL UNDERWOOD...............Ticket Operations Coordinator MICHAEL ZOLDESSY............................ Account Sales Manager SANDY CZUBIAK............................... Audience and Subscriber

Services Director JENNIFER BAKER, CHERYL HAWKER, RICHARD RAGSDALE............... Audience Services Supervisors ALICE CHEN...................... Audience Services Asst. Supervisor GARY HOLLAND, DEBORAH REED............. Audience Services

Sales Associates SAM AARON, JEREMIE ARENCIBIA, KIMBERLY ARENCIBIA, VICKI BERNDT, CARLOS D. CHAVEZ, JR., MICHAEL ESPINOZA, ANASTASHIA GARCIA, EILEEN PEREZ, LEX SAVKO, TEVIN WILLIAMS..................... Audience Services ......................................................................... Representatives DANUTA SIEMAK...................... Subscriber Services Supervisor CHRISTINA GUTIERREZ . Subscriber Services Asst. Supervisor IRENE CHUANG, LIGIA PISTE, PETER STALOCH........................................ Subscriber Services

Senior Representatives SARAH K. GONTA .................................... Box Office Treasurer ANGELICA CARBAJAL, KISHISA ROSS...... Assistant Treasurers MICHAEL KEMPISTY, KEVIN LAUVER, LEROY PAWLOWSKI, MICHAEL SALTZMAN, CRIS SPACCA.................................................... Box Office Staff KERRY KORF...................................... Priority Services Director SUSAN F. TULLER.......... Priority Services Operations Manager CANDICE WALTERS.................. Priority Services Sales Manager PAUL CUEN...................................... Priority Services Manager KRISTEN SCHRASS......... Priority Services Assistant Supervisor BEALENE AHERN, ADRIENNE BROWN, ESTEBAN CRUZ, MAGGIE DODD, NIC DRESSEL, SOFIJA DUTCHER, MARC “BYRON” DROTMAN, FRANK ENSENBERGER, LOU GEORGE, SHEP KOSTER, SARAH MARCUM, MICHAEL SMITH, JEFFREY STUBBLEFIELD, DIANE WARD......................... Representatives INTERNS BRENZY SOLORZANO, KERRY LARICK, JANETH GARCIA, AURORA NUNEZ, MELLISA OLIVARES, ARIANA GARCIA, BENINA STERN (FELLOW), JOSEPH GALLOWAY, GABRIELLE BON DURANT, REBECCA WEAR (FELLOW)

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DONOR RECOGNITION

2016/17 SEASON “Charming, smart... and impossibly well-spoken.”

— The New York Times

Special Thanks to Artistic Director’s Circle Members for Supporting Center Theatre Group The Artistic Director’s Circle, founded by Brindell and Milton Gottlieb, is comprised of individuals supporting specific areas of Michael Ritchie’s artistic vision for Center Theatre Group. Since its founding in 2005, members have aligned their support with over 50 productions on our stages. The following individuals have made commitments of $100,000 and above. (DONORS LISTED AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2016) Anonymous (2)

Dale S. & Shideh Miller

Judith & Thomas Beckmen

Deena & Edward Nahmias

Margaret M. Bloomfield

Olivia & Anthony Neece

Diana Buckhantz & Vladimir & Araxia Buckhantz Foundation

Bill Resnick & Michael Stubbs

Jackie & Arthur Burdorf Joseph & Mara Carieri Cástulo de la Rocha & Zoila Escobar Erica & Vin Di Bona Kirk & Anne Douglas Louise & Brad Edgerton Amy Forbes & Andrew Murr Cindy & Gary Frischling Eric & Nancy Garen Kiki & David Gindler Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie

Lloyd E. Rigler - Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinoco Foundation Deidra Norman Schumann Donna Schweers & Tom Geiser Maggy & Jack Simon Judie Stein & Stein Family Foundation Eva & Marc Stern Sue Tsao Sheila & Wally Weisman Misty Widelitz

Brindell Roberts Gottlieb Aliza Karney Guren & Marc Guren Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. June & Gareth Hughes

NOV 17-20

AT THE JAMES BRIDGES THEATER/UCLA

Marvin Jubas & Janet Wald Jubas Eileen & Ken Kaplan Terri & Jerry Kohl The Labowe Family Foundation The Eugene La Pietra Foundation

by Richard Greenberg Should auld acquaintance be forgot? In a sprawling Upper West Side apartment, a family favored with every blessing rings in New Year’s 1980 in high style. Twenty years on, they must come to terms with a very different way of life.

2013 Drama Desk Award Winner for Best Play and recipient of three Tony Nominations.

UPCOMING JAN 26-29

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Artists & Educators Forum ($20,000+) The Artists & Educators Forum, founded by Joni and Miles Benickes, is comprised of individuals dedicated to providing significant funding for Center Theatre Group’s New Play Production and Education and Community Partnerships programs.

(DONORS LISTED AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2016)

Melissa & Bob Alvarado

Vicki King

Joni & Miles Benickes

Harry & Arlette Lumer

Joan & Rob Blackman

Carol & Douglas Mancino

Annette Blum

Linda S. Peterson

Linda Brown

Bruce & Randy Ross

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Elliott R. Sernel

Dorskind Family

Jane Rissman & Richard Sondheimer

WORLD PREMIERE

Aliza Karney Guren & Marc Guren

by David Rambo

Heather & Paul Haaga

Sunshine Stone

In Memory of Morris A. Hazan

Peter & Iona Tompkins Karen & William Timberlake

In Support of New Theatre Artists

Robin & Gary Ungar

UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL

Mr. & Mrs. Gerald W. Kehle

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No costumes, no sets, just great performances.

Kelton Fund/Lenny & David Kelton

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by Timberlake Wertenbaker

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For more information about leadership gifts, please call Erin Schlabach at 213.972.3069.

Donors who have made additional gifts to Center Theatre Group’s Endowment or Planned Gifts programs.

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DONOR RECOGNITION

Center Theatre Group Inner Circle

Frances Flanagan, Inner Circle Chair

The Inner Circle is an organization of community leaders who provide outstanding support to Center Theatre Group. In appreciation, members enjoy a host of special benefits, including meet-the-artist receptions, backstage tours, premium theatre seating, and much more. Thank you to our multi-year donors, whose gifts ensure a secure base for our future. For information, call Donor Engagement at 213.972.7564.

(DONORS LISTED AS OF SEPTEMBER 16, 2016.)

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GUARDIAN CIRCLE ($18,000+) Multi-Year Donors

Annual Donors

Helen & Morgan Chu

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Betsy & Harold Applebaum

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Bill Cohn & Dan Miller Connie Elliot Joanna Exacoustos Sam Ho, M.D. Gail & Stanley Hollander Ellen & Jerry Jacobson Debra & Robert Kasirer Thea & Neal Koss Joan Kroll & In Memory of Irving Kroll In Memory of Salem Ludwig Arline M. Nakanishi Nina & Steven Sheldon The Sugimoto Family Foundation Lynda Thomas

Annual Donors Anonymous Robert C. Anderson Jackie & Howard Banchik Carole Black

Dr. & Mrs. Jack Kavanaugh Marcia & David M. Spaid Phyllis J. & Sandra Krause & Steven F. Spierer William Fitzgerald Alice & Nahum Lainer Dr. & Mrs. Martin S. Lasky Lee Levin

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Center Theatre Group appreciates the support of the following agencies: The City of Culver City City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Los Angeles County Arts Commission National Endowment for the Arts U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Center Theatre Group wishes to acknowledge the California Arts Council’s many years of generous support.

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DONOR RECOGNITION

Entertainment Circle Center Theatre Group wishes to acknowledge our generous supporters in the Entertainment Circle, who are leaders in the entertainment industry. Thank you to our multi-year donors, whose gifts ensure a secure base for our future. For information, call Donor Engagement at 213.972.7564.

(DONORS LISTED AS OF SEPTEMBER 16, 2016.)

Multi-Year Donors Florence C. Agcawili Paula Brand Norman Buckley & Davyd Whaley Nick Dudzak Greg H. Dunn

Alicia Hirsch & Jesse Russo It’s A Wrap Motion Pictures Cleaning & Equipment Rental Sean Johnson & Alex Ocampo

Michael Hanel & Steven Linder

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Annual Donors Anonymous (2) Mr. Irving H. Anderson Amy Aquino & Drew McCoy G.W. Bailey Corinne Baldassano Greg Basser & Kiera O’Neill Robert Berens Ms. Rachel Bloom John Bowab Diane & Dorothy Brooks Foundation

Mr. Theodore K. Martinez Tina J. Miller Lawrence A. Mirisch

Justin Okin Patty & Mike Post Mr. Steven H. Purvis James Radin Michael Reisz Jay & Linda Sandrich Jill Sattinger Nina Shaw & Wallace Little Jessica Stone

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Mr. Ryan Flynn & Mr. David Hernandez

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Barry Gordon David Goren Karen Caffee & Manuel Grace Marcy & Edgar Gross Ms. Karen B. Hermelin Winifred C. Hervey Karen & Stephen Hillenburg

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DONOR RECOGNITION

Foundation Support These institutions support Center Theatre Group’s operations, arts education programs, artistic development program, or specific projects.

For more information, call our grants information line at 213.972.3022.

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DONOR RECOGNITION

Center Theatre Group Affiliates Kim White Peterson, President

The Affiliates have supported Center Theatre Group since 1971. Through volunteering and fundraising, members introduce young people to the magic of live theatre.

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DONOR RECOGNITION

Ovation Circle Planned Gifts Center Theatre Group is grateful to these donors, whose irrevocable deferred estate gifts to our endowment ensure the organization’s financial well-being for generations to come.

$1,000,000+

$100,000+

Shirley & Irving Ashkenas

W. Lee Bailey, M.D.

Judith & Thomas Beckmen

Angela Bardowell

Kirk & Anne Douglas

Allan & Joan Burns

Richard & Julie Kagan

Deborah M. Hyde

Martin Massman

Sarah & Andy Kane

Betty McMicken in honor of Jeanette Shammas

Dr. & Mrs. Jack Kavanaugh

Diane & Leon Morton

The Paul Kowal Charitable Foundation

Carol Vernon & Robert Turbin

Darell L. Krasnoff

$500,000+

Sandra Krause & William Fitzgerald

Richard & Norma Camp

Joyce & Kent Kresa

Mary Levin Cutler Susan Grode

Steven Llanusa & Glenn Miya, M.D.

Virginia Hayes

Carol & Douglas Mancino

Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr.

Nan Rae

Merle & Peter Mullin

Bruce & Randy Ellen Ross

Linda S. Peterson

$50,000+

Sue Tsao Magda & Frederick R. Waingrow

The Moira Byrne Foster Foundation Mr. Kim L. Hunter

$250,000+

Sally & Frank Raab

Pamela & Dennis Beck

$25,000+

Bill Cohn & Dan Miller Amy Forbes & Andrew Murr Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie

Charles Dillingham & Susan D. Clines Mr. & Mrs. Walter E. Grauman

Edward L. Rada Susan & William Weintraub

Endowment Gifts These gifts ensure a stable source of support for new work and Center Theatre Group’s many initiatives to make theatre accessible to underserved audiences.

$500,000+

The Hearst Foundation, Inc.

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Vicki King

Renee & Meyer Luskin John S. Surabian, Jr. and in memory of Faith and Sharon Ann Surabian

$250,000+

Richard G. & Virginia L. Martin Louise Taper

$50,000+ Maynard & Linda Brittan Ellen & Michael S. Korney

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$100,000+

$25,000+

Betsy & Harold Applebaum

Abbott Brown Linda Brown

Judith & Thomas Beckmen

Greve Foundation

The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation

Diane & Leon Morton

Center Theatre Group Affiliates Kenneth Corday Regina Fadiman Barbara & Peter Fodor Ava & Charles Fries Brindell & Milton Gottlieb

Dr. Tom Hickey

$10,000+ A and J Davidson Skipper Award Fund Levine Foundation Carolyn & Kit Lokey Betty & Sanford Sigoloff

For more information on making a planned or endowment gift, call Becky Birdsong at 213.972.7532.

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DONOR RECOGNITION

Theatre Forward Theatre Forward advances the American theatre and its communities by providing funding and other resources to the country’s leading nonprofit theatres, including Center Theatre Group. Theatre Forward and its theatres are most grateful to the below funders. (DONORS LISTED AS OF AUGUST 2016.)

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working for two days a week for a longer period of time.

“We provide them with the resources necessary to continue their work: a producer, dramaturg, rehearsal space, actors, musicians, props, you name it. Whatever the creative team requires to further develop the show,” said Kirkpatrick

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Many playwrights and directors also rely on their actors for feedback. “It truly is a collaborative process most of the time,” said Kirkpatrick. “They’ll read a scene, and then they’ll talk about it. Actors will have lots of questions. They’ll want to know why they’re saying something or how they should say it. Or they’ll point out things that don’t track with what their character has said earlier.”

For playwright Robert Askins, “having actors in the room is essential. My stuff tends to be kind of out there, and tonally [my plays] vary, so without actors interpreting the words, it’s difficult to get a handle on what we really have,” he said. In the three workshops he’s done with us, “each time the play has grown by leaps and bounds.”

Kirkpatrick explained that this growth doesn’t typically involve seismic changes. “Usually the idea of the play or the foundation of the idea of the play remains constant,” said Kirkpatrick. “Changes will take the form of a character getting trimmed or added or repurposed. Three or four storylines might be whittled down to one. What’s very valuable for

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being told correctly and clearly in a manner that the audience understands.”

Askins said that with Prosthesis, “The difficulty with this play is it begins from a place of ideas colliding with emotion….

We’ve been trying to excavate the human from the intellectual, which I think is the journey in a lot of playwriting.”

We frequently support writers and workshops in Los Angeles, but we maintain a development footprint in New York for a number of reasons. “If it’s an L.A.-based team of artists, we develop the play here in L.A. because it’s where they live, and they know what actors are going to be best for the reading,” said Kirkpatrick. “The same holds for New York artists. We go for what’s best for the creative team.”

That was the case for Power with a workshop in June 2016. “It was better for the creative team to do it in New York City, and Center Theatre Group was really gracious and flexible,” he said, “which was just fantastic.”

New York readings and workshops have the additional benefit of bringing members of the theatre community into the audience to get them excited about a play as early in its development process as possible.

But ultimately, what’s most important is giving the artists the tools they need to move forward with the work. That’s certainly been the case for Askins.

“I don’t think it’s extreme to say that without Center Theatre Group this play would not be in the shape that it’s in,” he said.

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DONOR RECOGNITION

Center Theatre Group Corporate Circle Sheri Biller, Founding Chair

The Corporate Circle is comprised of companies that support Center Theatre Group’s education and community partnership programs. Members receive VIP concierge service at theatres in Los Angeles, New York, and London, complimentary and discounted tickets to our shows, business development opportunities, and more. For more information, call 213.972.3192.

(DONORS LISTED AS OF SEPTEMBER 30, 2016)

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THE MUSIC CENTER 2016-2017 BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS

Lisa Specht BOARD CHAIR Robert J. Abernethy Michael J. Pagano VICE CHAIRS Rachel S. Moore PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER Karen Kay Platt SECRETARY Susan M. Wegleitner TREASURER Lisa Whitney ASSISTANT TREASURER AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

MEMBERS AT LARGE William H. Ahmanson Wallis Annenberg Darrell Brown Kimaada M. Brown Dannielle Campos Greg T. Geyer Lisa Gilford David Gindler Kiki Ramos Gindler Julie Goldsmith Brindell Gottlieb Glenn Kaino Arthur D. Kraus Cary J. Lefton David Lippman Nigel Lythgoe Richard Martinez Bowen “Buzz” H. McCoy Mattie McFadden-Lawson^ Diane G. Medina Elizabeth Michelson Darrell D. Miller Cindy Miscikowski Shelby Notkin Diane B. Paul Rory Pullens Max Ramberg Joseph Rice Richard K. Roeder

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ROY AND EDNA DISNEY CALARTS THEATER REDCAT | 8:30 PM

Grand Park | All Day | Thru 11/6

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¡LUNCHTIME! YOGA RETREAT

GNARWHALLABY: HETEROPHONIC AVANT-GARDE

Grand Park | 12:15 PM | WED/FRI | Thru 5/31

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ROY AND EDNA DISNEY CALARTS THEATER REDCAT | 8:30 PM

PAT GRANEY: GIRL GODS

DVOŘÁK & SIBELIUS

ROY AND EDNA DISNEY CALARTS THEATER REDCAT | 8:30 PM | Thru 11/6

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL LA Phil | 8:00 PM | Thru 11/13

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SLEEPLESS: THE MUSIC CENTER AFTER HOURS

DOROTHY CHANDLER PAVILION The Music Center | 11:30 PM

AKHNATEN

DOROTHY CHANDLER PAVILION LA Opera | 7:30 PM | Thru 11/27

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AN EVENING WITH JOAN BAEZ

WE ARE LOS ANGELES EXHIBITION

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL LA Phil | 8:00 PM

Grand Park | All Day | Thru 11/17

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KAMASI WASHINGTON THE LANGSTON HUGHES PROJECT ASK YOUR MAMA: 12 MOODS FOR JAZZ FEAT. THE RON MCCURDY QUARTET

CHAMBER MUSIC

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REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE

L’ARPEGGIATA TEATRO D’AMORE

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL LA Phil | 8:00 PM

MUSICA ELETTRONICA VIVA (MEV)

ROY AND EDNA DISNEY CALARTS THEATER REDCAT | 8:30 PM

THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE

MARK TAPER FORUM Center Theatre Group | 8:00 PM | Thru 12/18

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20 C E L L U L O I D L . A .: C A S A B L A N C A

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL LA Phil | 8:00 PM

21 DEBORAH STRATMAN: THE ILLINOIS PARABLES

ROY AND EDNA DISNEY CALARTS THEATER REDCAT | 8:30 PM

22 ALICEʼS ADVENTURES

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL LA Phil | 8:00 PM

S T U D I O : F A L L 2016

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL LA Phil | 8:00 PM

ROY AND EDNA DISNEY CALARTS THEATER REDCAT | 8:30 PM

ROY AND EDNA DISNEY CALARTS THEATER REDCAT | 8:30 PM | Thru 11/20

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL LA Phil | 8:00 PM | Thru 11/27

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XU HAOFENG: THE FINAL MASTER

EYEWORKS FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ANIMATION

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ROY AND EDNA DISNEY CALARTS THEATER REDCAT | 8:30 PM | Thru 11/14

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BERLINER PHILARMONIKER

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL LA Phil | 8:00 PM

GARRICK OHLSSON

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL LA Phil | 7:30 PM

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL LA Phil | 7:30 PM

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MOZART & BRAHMS

26 TOYOTA SYMPHONIES FOR YOUTH: TCHAIKOVSKYʼS NUTCRACKER SUITE

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL LA Phil | 11:00 AM

27 ORGAN RECITAL: PHILIPPE LEFEBVRE

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL LA Phil | 8:00 PM

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL LA Phil | 7:30 PM

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ON THE WATERFRONT FILM WI TH LIVE ORCHESTRA

GRAND PARK LIGHTS UP THE HOLIDAYS

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL LA Phil | 8:00 PM

EYVIND KANG

ROY AND EDNA DISNEY CALARTS THEATER REDCAT | 8:30 PM

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Grand Park | All Day | Thru 12/25

L.A. COUNTY CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY

The Music Center Campus | 5:00 PM

LET IT BE KNOWN

ROY AND EDNA DISNEY CALARTS THEATER REDCAT | 8:30 PM

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