Until the Flood at Center Theatre Group, February 2020

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FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

WELCOME TO CENTER THEATRE GROUP This month at Center Theatre Group features four productions that are wonderfully different—a major musical from a rock icon, an outrageous comedy that has been called the best musical of this century, an acclaimed play about American democracy, and a deeply compassionate exploration of a devastating moment in recent history. But what unites these works, and all of us in the audience, are the amazing stories they tell.

At the Ahmanson, Sting stars alongside a top-notch cast in the visually spectacular The Last Ship. I love the songs and the choreography, but I also love the story behind the story—that this musical was created to pay tribute to the shipbuilding community where Sting was born and raised.

Next up, making its Ahmanson debut, is the nine-time Tony Award -winning Best Musical from the creators of South Park, The Book of Mormon. Center Theatre Group has a long relationship with choreographer and co-director Casey Nicholaw, and it is a privilege to feature his work and that of this entire talented team. ®

At the Taper, Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me chronicles the relationship between four generations of American women and the document on which our country was founded. It has, rightfully, been declared one of the most important new plays in recent memory, and it is both timely and, I am sure, will be proved timeless.

At the Douglas, we’re proud to produce Dael Orlandersmith’s stunning Until the Flood, directed by our Associate Artistic Director/Literary Director Neel Keller. Dael traveled to Ferguson, Missouri following the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown to conduct interviews that resulted in a play that goes far, far beyond the headlines to explore race, grief, and community.

Thank you for coming together with us around these stories.

Sincerely,

Michael Ritchie

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around CENTER THEATRE GROUP MATTHEW BOURNE’S SWAN LAKE STUDENT MATINEE We loved welcoming approximately 1,200 students and educators from across Southern California to a special Student Matinee Program performance of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake on December 12, 2019. Although many of the students were first-time theatregoers, they were among the best prepared audience of the run: all participating educators attended a conference beforehand, many classes received pre-show visits from teaching artists who are also members of Bourne’s company, New Adventures, and everyone received resource materials to help them enter the world of the show.

The Student Matinee Program is made possible in part by the Rosenthal Family Foundation.

The Student Matinee Program also receives generous support from Diana Buckhantz & Vladimir & Araxia Buckhantz Foundation, Renee & Meyer Luskin, Deena & Edward Nahmias, Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinoco Foundation, Union Bank, The Walt Disney Company Foundation, Paramount Pictures, and the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation. Presented by the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Los Angeles, Wells Fargo, US Bank, and Center Theatre Group’s Corporate Circle.

LOS ANGELES FALLS IN LOVE ALL OVER AGAIN WITH SWAN LAKE Actors Eric Idle (top left), Conrad Ricamora (bottom left), and Lesley Nicol (top right), director Adam Shankman (bottom right), and Dancing with the Stars and The Talk’s Carrie Ann Inaba (center) were among the rapturous crowd welcoming Matthew Bourne and New Adventures back to the Ahmanson on December 5, 2019, for the opening night of Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake.

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CENTER THEATRE GROUP GIVES BACK! In the spirit of the season, Center Theatre Group closed out 2019 with our annual holiday giving drive to support organizations that help community members in need.

Fundraising and donation drives and two bake sales collected 1,230 items and raised over $650 in donations from our staff to benefit the Children’s Institute, School on Wheels, and the Actors Fund.

NEW WORK BY KIMBER LEE Photos by Cristi Burgos/cbgraphy.

BOYLE HEIGHTS COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS Over five Saturdays this fall, community members participated in a workshop series designed to build on technical theatre skills they had learned in previous sewing and design workshops to create their own quilts (aka quillows, which fold into pockets to become a pillow).

It was wonderful to have members of the community working side-by-side with the Production staff from costumes and props as well as volunteers.

In early December, playwright Kimber Lee and Center Theatre Group Associate Artistic Director/Literary Director Neel Keller, who collaborated on 2014’s different words for the same thing, came together to workshop a new piece by Lee that was commissioned by Center Theatre Group. The currently untitled work features a Lebanese American family and their surprising interaction with a Middle Eastern dictator.

Thanks to the California Arts Council for their support of this program. Friars Charitable Foundation provides additional support.

Photo by Craig Schwartz.

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ON OUR STAGES

IN THE THEATRE

THE BOOK OF MORMON AHMANSONTHEATRE FEB 18 – MAR 29, 2020

LATE SEATING

The New York Times calls it “the best musical of this century.” The Washington Post says, “It is the kind of evening that restores your faith in musicals.” It’s The Book of Mormon, the nine-time Tony Award -winning Best Musical from the creators of South Park. Contains explicit language. ®

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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WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME

LOST & FOUND

MARKTAPERFORUM JAN 12 – FEB 23, 2020 Direct from Broadway, the 2019 Tony -nominated Best Play and Pulitzer Prize finalist from writer Heidi Schreck is a boundary-breaking play that breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will affect the next generation of Americans. ®

UNTIL THE FLOOD KIRKDOUGLASTHEATRE JAN 24 – FEB 23, 2020 Pulitzer Prize finalist and celebrated performer Dael Orlandersmith explores the social uprising in Ferguson, Missouri following the shooting of teenager Michael Brown. Pulling from her extensive interviews with Missouri residents, Orlandersmith crafts a stunning theatrical experience.

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BLOCK PARTY 2020 PUTS A SPOTLIGHT ON L.A.’S INTIMATE THEATRES This Spring We’re Remounting Sacred Fools’ The Art Couple & IAMA’s Canyon at the Douglas

The biggest curtain call in Los Angeles is back again as Center Theatre Group reprises our annual Block Party for the fourth year to celebrate the diversity and ingenuity of our local intimate theatre scene. We’re excited to be remounting two excellent productions that recently made their World premieres here in L.A. at the Kirk Douglas Theatre: Sacred Fools Theater Company’s The Art Couple March 18–29, 2020 and IAMA Theatre Company’s Canyon April 8–19, 2020.

The Art Couple, by Brendan Hunt and directed by Lauren Van Kurin, is an absurdist comedy that follows Neil Simon as he tries to write a new play about the real-life odd couple story of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gaugin’s ill-fated cohabitation.

“If you like silly, funny, relatable work, this is a great night out. If you like history, art, theatre, and the finer things in life, it’s just as compelling,” said Sacred Fools Co-Artistic Director Aviva Pressman. “So much of what we

do is the kind of risky theatre that is almost impossible to premiere outside the 99-seat world in L.A. There’s little that’s more exciting than when that risk and those long hours pay off for our actors and production teams.”

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(Top, clockwise from left) Kristyn Evelyn, Laura Schein, Bryan Bellomo, Joel Scher, and Brendan Hunt in the original Sacred Fools Theater Company production of asThe Art Couple. Photo by Darrett Sanders. (Bottom, L–R) Brandon Scott and Adam Shapiro in the original IAMA Theatre Company production of Canyon. Photo by Dean Chekvala.

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Set in contemporary Southern California, Canyon, by Jonathan Caren and directed by Whitney White, revolves around a young married couple and the Mexican father and son who work for them, who find their morals put to the test when a debilitating injury rocks all of their lives.

“We spent four years workshopping and developing this play with our company,” said IAMA Co-Artistic Director Stefanie Black. “It embodies all the values of IAMA not only as artists, but as a group of people looking to effect change through theatre.”

Both companies are looking forward to the opportunities Block Party will bring for wider exposure and for Los Angeles intimate theatre as a whole.

“Through Block Party, IAMA will get a taste of what it’s like to be a theatrical institution, a level to which we aspire. Our hope is that presenting on this elevated of a stage will bring more awareness to the company and also further our connection to the rest of the L.A. theatre community,” said IAMA Co-Artistic Director Katie Lowes.

Sacred Fools Co-Artistic Director Aviva Pressman echoed the sentiment. “We hope people will check out our other shows,” she said. “We’d love to expand our audience and connect more with the other wonderful companies in L.A.” Indeed, this is one of the primary goals of Block Party for Center Theatre Group as well. The program also includes opportunities for the participating companies to meet with various Center Theatre Group departments and one another to brainstorm, share ideas, and talk about important issues in Los Angeles theatre.

“Block Party offers an exciting opportunity for our organization to connect with other members of the Los Angeles theatre community and celebrate the art and artists and that help make this city such a vibrant theatre town,” said Artistic Director Michael Ritchie. “Nearly four years into the program, we have

strong connections now to 11 companies we had admired previously from across the region. And they are now all connected more closely to one another thanks to the program as well.”

Support, connection, and community are hallmarks of Los Angeles theatre.

“We make wildly inventive, fearless, and scrappy art for the sake of bringing life to our individual neighborhoods and saying something that matters,” said Sacred Fools Co-Artistic Director Vanessa Claire Stewart. “Each theatre celebrates and supports the other one because if one succeeds, we all do.

Our voice as a community of storytellers is unique, and we are determined now more than ever to make sure that voice resonates loudly to the rest of the country.”

Block Party receives major support from Aliza Karney Guren and Marc Guren (left) with generous funding also provided by Joni and Miles Benickes (right).

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LOS ANGELES STUDENTS STEP INTO THE SHOES OF PROFESSIONAL DANCERS Center Theatre Group Partners with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures Company on In Our Shoes WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE A PROFESSIONAL DANCER? How do choreographers get their ideas? What is it like to perform at the Ahmanson Theatre? And how do director/choreographer Matthew Bourne and his company, New Adventures, use their unique blend of theatre and dance to create works like Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake (onstage at the Ahmanson December 3, 2019 – January 5, 2020)?

Group Producing Director Douglas C. Baker. “It’s a privilege to have worked closely with a fellow arts organization that shares our values for over two decades now.”

“It’s important to us to get new, younger people in the theatre,” added Alan Vincent, one of the teaching artists who worked with Álvarez’s students. “Dance has become this big thing in television, but not a lot of young people come to see dance. They learn that you can have a lot of storytelling through movement.”

That had quickly become clear to Andrew, one of the participants. “I feel like it’s a different way to communicate,” he said of dancing. A wellperformed step “will get through to the audience, and they’ll understand what you’re trying to do and your message.”

A group of middle and high school students from Tiana Álvarez’s dance classes at Los Angeles Academy of Arts and Enterprise learned the answers That’s one of the lessons that Álvarez, whose students also participated to these questions firsthand. Over two days in early December, they in the In Our Shoes program during last season’s Cinderella, tries to participated in New Adventures’ In Our Shoes program in collaboration instill in her classroom on a daily basis. But the immersive opportunity with Center Theatre Group, where they trained with two New Adventures provided

by Center Theatre Group and New Adventures helps it hit home. dancers/teaching artists, created their own dance inspired by Swan Lake, “These kinds of experiences can be very transformational. It’s access and performed it in front of the entire Swan Lake company onstage at the and it’s equity, and our students don’t have that necessarily,” she said.

Ahmanson. A few days later, the students traded places with the company “Some of my students last year said, ‘I want to pursue dance.’ And if they and sat in the audience for the Student Matinee performance of Swan Lake didn’t have this experience, they wouldn’t have understood what that’s with their peers from across Southern California. like and felt that kind of inspiration.”

Education and community programs like In Our Shoes are central to the Watch the students in action and hear more about their In Our Shoes missions of both Center Theatre Group and New Adventures. experience at YOUTUBE.COM/CTGLA. “One of the great pleasures of our collaboration with New Adventures is bringing theatre and dance to a new generation,” said Center Theatre

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FROM THE STAGE TO THE SCREEN, Applauding our August Wilson Monologue Competition Alumni They’re Marvel superheroes and Broadway ensemble members, award-winning playwrights and emerging filmmakers. They’re also in politics or in school, working in start-ups and on behalf of social justice. They’re the alumni of the August Wilson Monologue Competition at Center Theatre Group, a talented and diverse group of young people who first came through our doors to hone their acting skills and learn about a great American playwright—and are now moving on to do great things.

Center Theatre Group has been the Los Angeles host of this national program for nine years; hundreds of high school students have received an introduction to Wilson’s work and gotten training and feedback from theatre professionals while participating. Each year, about a dozen young people advance to the Los Angeles Regional Finals, performing onstage at the Mark Taper Forum, and a few of those students qualify for the National Finals in New York City, where they make their Broadway debuts. This year’s Regional Finals are on February 25, 2020, and the National Finals will take place on May 4, 2020 at Broadway’s August Wilson Theatre.

But if they’re anything like many of the students who participate, this won’t be the end of their journey with Center Theatre Group. Our alumni stay connected with us and the program in myriad ways, including by helping coordinate auditions, spreading the word about the program’s benefits, and sharing their voices in our Regional Finals as alumni hosts, script writers, judges, and more. What we’re most proud of, however, is the artists and people they’re becoming.

RHENZY FELIZ

Kara Royster, a 2012 Regional Finalist, will be serving as an alumni host at this year’s Regional Finals, and has served as a celebrity judge over the past few years. She’s acted on a number of beloved television shows, including K.C. Undercover, Pretty Little Liars, and The Fosters. Royster also appeared on Marvel’s Runaways alongside another alum: Rhenzy Feliz.

Feliz, who has one of the leading roles in Runaways, served as an alumni host in 2018 and was a 2016 Regional Finalist. “The August Wilson Monologue Competition gave me the confidence to go out in the world and do what I love,” he said. “It showed me the commitment level needed to continue moving up in the world.”

Last year, our 2019 National Finalists got to see two of our alumni in action: 2014 National Finalist Wayne Mackins in The Prom on Broadway and 2015 Regional Finalist Javen K. Crosby in rehearsal for Much Ado About Nothing at The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park. Both young men continue to credit the training and ensemble work they received from Center Theatre Group teaching artists and staff with helping prepare them for the rigors of professional acting careers. They were also happy to have a chance to talk with the next set of students. A post-show Q&A “was like a family reunion, passing on knowledge that I was taught and told to share,” said Mackins.

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We’re grateful to these students for continuing to be a part of our family.

This year, Center Theatre Group gratefully recognizes the Michael Shaw Jacobs Fund and the Dwight Stuart Youth Fund for their increased support in helping to make this program possible.

The August Wilson Monologue Competition is presented by the Center Theatre Group Affiliates. Special thanks to Center Theatre Group’s Corporate Circle and the Rosenthal Family Foundation for their continued commitment and support.

Photos by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging.

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PULITZER WINNER

ANNIE BAKER MAKES HER TAPER DEBUT

The New York Times has called Annie Baker “one of the freshest and most talented dramatists to emerge Off-Broadway in the past decade.” She’s won a Pulitzer Prize (in 2014 for The Flick), the Obie Award for Best New American Play and Performance (in 2010 for Circle Mirror Transformation), and in 2017 was named a MacArthur “Genius.” Now, she’s making her Mark Taper Forum debut with The Antipodes, a play about people telling stories about telling stories. Here are a few takes from Baker on storytelling, her favorite plays, and how to prepare (if at all!) for this “sharp and hilarious” new work (New York Magazine).

You seem interested in the ways that the same stories get told over and over, across cultures and centuries. Where does that interest come from?

Aren’t we all interested in that? Hm…maybe not. I don’t know. I am interested in that. Or maybe actually I’m interested in the fact that they’re not actually the same stories. People say they are, but I think they’re not. I think the stories change, and they should change.

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS WITH THE ANTIPODES PLAYWRIGHT

How do you generally begin writing a play?

I usually start with the setting, which for me is the play’s container. The setting dictates the structure. So I think of some intricate, specific world that I want to see theatricalized, and then within days a character usually follows.

What are five plays you think everyone should read or see?

Everything by Chekhov and most things by Shakespeare, and then, in no particular order: A Number by Caryl Churchill; Antigone by Mac Wellman; The Big Meal by Dan LeFranc; 70 Scenes of Halloween by Jeffrey Jones; The Oresteia (OK, that’s three plays, I’m cheating)

by Aeschylus.

Is there anything you think it would be helpful for audience members to keep in mind heading into the play?

You don’t need to have any prior knowledge of anything to watch this play. An octopus would hopefully be able to watch and enjoy this play. If you feel confused, that’s OK.

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And the

2020 SHERWOOD AWARD Goes to…

Performance Maker

MAT DIAFOS SWEENEY

MAT DIAFOS SWEENEY is a true multi-hyphenate creator: a composer-director-writer-designerchoreographer who makes theatre and performance pieces that defy easy characterizations.

“I talk about the work that I make as ‘junkyard opera,’ both because of the different mediums that I’m working with in visual art and choreography and music and text all happening in a way that’s interspersed, and also because the practice is driven by collaging text and found materials and other source objects that create the piece’s visual and musical world,” he said.

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We’re proud to announce that Sweeney is our 2020 Dorothy and Richard E. Sherwood Award recipient, a $10,000 prize Center Theatre Group awards to an innovative and adventurous Los Angeles theatre artist at a catalytic moment in their career.

Since 1996, the Sherwood Award has been given annually in honor of longtime Center Theatre Group supporters Dorothy and Richard E. Sherwood. Richard was President and then Chairman of the Center Theatre Group Board, and Dorothy was deeply involved in the award’s selection and curation process before her passing in 2018. This year their son, Ben Sherwood, was part of the internal panel that selected Sweeney.

Sweeney creates new work collaboratively, primarily with an ensemble he founded in 2008 called four larks. “My work is dependent on the virtuosity and variety of the performing collaborators I work with,” he said. “There is such an incredible, diverse multiplicity of artistic communities in Los Angeles that are typically sort of separate—like the city, they can be really spread out and disconnected—but the pleasure of my work is bringing in collaborators from different performance modes and creating unexpected artistic synapses.”

Four Larks has created a number of pieces in nontraditional spaces, including katabasis at the Getty Villa, which Sweeney described as “part-art installation, part-roving opera,” and a new, ongoing site-specific series of contemporary music with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra called session. This month, he opens his “first major theatre commission in L.A.” from the Wallis: an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. As a result, the moment feels particularly catalytic for him.

“I’ve established my work by creating new opportunities across forms and in unexpected locations,” he said. “I’m excited to bring my practice back into established theatrical spaces, with an expanded spectrum of resources and support.”

His Frankenstein takes “the methodologies I’ve been working with in my site-specific practice and moves it into a traditional theatre space,” he said. “We’re using Mary Shelley’s text but collaged, to create a new piece that reexamines the questions she raised in 1818 alongside the scientific ethics of our generation and the use of new technologies in our daily lives.”

A Los Angeles native who studied theatre at UCLA, Sweeney feels that the city makes his work possible. “I spent some time traveling and living other places, but I was drawn back here by the community of artists and the collaborative spirit happening here that I think is really unique,” he said. “L.A. definitely feels like the center of the artistic universe that I want to be a part of.”

Photo of Mat Diafos Sweeney by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging.

Production photo from katabasis courtesy of Sweeney.

To honor the passion and dedication of the Sherwood family to the arts, the Richard E. Sherwood Award was renamed the DOROTHY AND RICHARD E. SHERWOOD AWARD last year. “My mother was an avid supporter of the arts in Los Angeles. She was particularly devoted to Center Theatre Group, where she and my father enjoyed the best of contemporary theatre for decades,” said Ben Sherwood. “She was deeply interested in young theatre artists and championed innovative and adventurous new work, which is why she first established an award in her husband Richard’s name to encourage and support emerging theatre artists with exceptional talent. My sister Elizabeth and I hope to honor this legacy with the Dorothy and Richard E. Sherwood Award that will now carry both of their names.”

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“WHAT’S IT LIKE TO PUNCH SOMEONE IN THE FACE?” playwright Ngozi Anyanwu asked mixed martial artist Ashlee Evans-Smith. They were sitting in the Douglas rehearsal room, where the 2019/20 L.A. Writers’ Workshop had just kicked off with its annual Salon. From a clinical psychologist and Jesuit priest to an anthropologist and African American art curator, nearly a dozen experts from around Los Angeles dropped in on the three-day event to help seven local playwrights gain insight into the subjects of the new works they’re developing with Center Theatre Group’s support.

But what is also exciting about the weekend is that the playwrights gain additional knowledge about subjects they never anticipated exploring—a phenomenon that seems to happen every year, noted Keller. He said the playwrights often end up incorporating the ideas of the experts who were invited by other members of the cohort.

“I felt that some of the topics the other experts spoke on correlated so brilliantly to my own work—and even if they didn’t have anything to do with my own work, all of them were so captivating,” said Daniel, who even thinks the On Friday, November 8, 2019, introductions and dinner conversation between Evans-Smith and Anyanwu will find welcomed the group to this artistic community. “The opening its way in her work. “Her stories about being a woman in weekend gives everyone the sense of safety and excitement the mixed martial arts world were awesome.” that promotes fearlessness and creativity. Our goal is for Anthony felt the same. “Hearing from other people’s everyone to feel valued and supported by the group,” said experts was beneficial because it sparked other story/ Associate Artistic Director/Literary Director Neel Keller. “To character possibilities for me,” said Anthony. “I know I spend a weekend together sharing meals and ideas—along have so much to synthetize and process creatively over with having wild, varied, and interesting conversations—is a great way to start the year.” Each playwright is allotted about the coming months—and that’s a good feeling to have.” an hour to lead a Q&A session with one or two experts in the The L.A. Writers’ Workshop is supported in part by the National topic the playwright has chosen.

There was no inquiry the experts couldn’t answer—for instance, in response to Anyanwu’s initial question, EvansSmith went on to explain that, for her, throwing a punch is methodical and tactical, rather than emotional.

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Playwright Dionna Michelle Daniel, who is working on two plays—a theatrical revision of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and a semi-autobiographical play about family secrets—said the most “mind-blowing” thing she learned at the Salon was that New York City’s iconic nightclub, the Cotton Club, was highly segregated. Daniel also said talking with experts “made the ideas and themes of my play much more personable—it’s a much better experience to speak with the experts than scouring Google for information.”

Adelina Anthony, who is working on a sci-fi play that incorporates Nahuatl codex imagery and mexihcatl tradition, was excited to discover that there are plans to make the Florentine Codex (which translates and transcribes Aztec history) accessible online. “Speaking to my own experts made me realize the terrain I want to explore in my play are vast areas of knowing and not-knowing,” she said.

“This liminal space is always attractive to me as an artist, because it’s in the shades of gray that I find affirmation of our collective humanity.”

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(Top, L–R) Playwrights Boo Killebrew, Jonathan Caren, Dionna Michelle Daniel (back), Ngozi Anyanwu, Kemp Powers (back), Kenneth Lin, and Adelina Anthony. (Bottom, L–R) Dionna Michelle Daniel, Ngozi Anyanwu, Jonathan Caren, and Kenneth Lin.

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KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE

2019/20 SEASON FIRST SEASON PRODUCTION

ON BECKETT Conceived & Performed by Bill Irwin Sep 13 – Oct 27, 2019 SECOND SEASON PRODUCTION

UNTIL THE FLOOD Written & Performed by Dael Orlandersmith Directed by Neel Keller Jan 24 – Feb 23, 2020 THIRD SEASON PRODUCTION

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Written & Performed by

Dael Orlandersmith Scenic Design

Costume Design

Lighting Design

Takeshi Kata

Kaye Voyce

Mary Louise Geiger

Sound Design & Composer

Projection Design

Production Stage Manager

Justin Ellington

Nicholas Hussong

Brooke Baldwin

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Neel Keller Until the Flood was originally commissioned and produced by The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (Steven Woolf, Artistic Director; Mark Bernstein, Managing Director).

Until the Flood received its New York Off-Broadway premiere at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.

Until the Flood is produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

Until the Flood will be performed without an intermission.

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FERGUSON, MISSOURI: A TIMELINE Five and a half years ago, Ferguson, Missouri, became the focus of national attention following the shooting of teenager Michael Brown. This timeline recounts the tumultuous time period that serves as the backdrop of Until the Flood.

AUGUST 9, 2014 Michael Brown, an unarmed, black 18-year-old, is shot dead by an unnamed white police officer on Canfield Drive in Ferguson.

Witnesses offer varying testimonies of the altercation.

AUGUST 10 At a news conference, St. Louis County Police Chief Joe Belmar says Brown attacked the officer and tried to take his gun. Others, including Darian Johnson, who was on the scene, say no struggle took place. Belmar states that one shot was fired inside the vehicle and another outside the vehicle. Protests begin, peaceful at first.

However, some demonstrators smash car windows and loot local stores. This is met with heavy response from local police dressed in riot gear.

AUGUST 11 Ferguson police announce they will release the name of the officer.

The FBI announces it will join the investigation. Unrest continues, with police using tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters.

AUGUST 12 President Barack Obama addresses the shooting for the first time, calling Brown’s death “heartbreaking,” but urging Ferguson residents to remain calm. Ferguson police cancel plans to name the officer who killed Brown, citing death threats.

AUGUST 13 The fourth night of protests results in protesters throwing Molotov cocktails while heavily armed police deploy armored vehicles.

AUGUST 14 President Obama addresses the nation, calling for peace and an “open and transparent” investigation. Governor Jay Nixon announces the Missouri Highway Patrol, led by Captain Ron Johnson, will take over security in Ferguson to ease tensions between protesters and police.

AUGUST 15 Ferguson police name Darren Wilson, 28, as the officer who shot Brown. Police also release a surveillance video of Brown and Darian Johnson allegedly robbing a convenience store prior to the shooting.

Johnson’s lawyer confirms his involvement. Brown’s family accuses the police of trying to assassinate Brown’s character.

AUGUST 16 Governor Nixon declares a state of emergency and establishes a curfew in Ferguson, making it illegal to be out after midnight.

AUGUST 17 The Justice Department authorizes a federal autopsy of Brown’s body and an independent investigation.

SEPTEMBER 4 The Justice Department announces a civil investigation of the Ferguson police.

SEPTEMBER 16 Wilson testifies before a grand jury.

OCTOBER 10 Four days of peaceful demonstrations known as “Ferguson October” begin.

OCTOBER 21 Governor Nixon announces a special commission to examine the social and economic conditions in Ferguson.

OCTOBER 22 A leaked autopsy in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reveals Brown was shot at close range in the hand and six times total, appearing to support Wilson’s claim that there was a struggle in his car. A toxicology report also shows that Brown had marijuana in his system.

NOVEMBER 24 Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch says no indictment will be filed against Wilson. A wave of protests follow. President Obama calls on the nation to accept the decision and protest peacefully. Though most protests are peaceful, more than a dozen buildings are burned, as are dozens of vehicles and two police cars. Local police arrest more than 60 people.

NOVEMBER 29 Wilson, who has been on administrative leave since the shooting, resigns from the Ferguson Police Department.

DECEMBER 1 Hundreds of protesters march through the streets of Berkeley and Oakland, California, to protest grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers in the deaths of two unarmed black men—Brown and Eric Garner of New York, who died in a police choke hold on July 17, 2014.

DECEMBER 13 Thousands of demonstrators, led by Reverend Al Sharpton, call for judicial reform, special prosecutors at the federal level, and body cameras on police nationwide during a “Justice for All” march and rally in Washington, D.C. MARCH 3, 2015 The Justice Department review finds that the Ferguson Police Department engaged in a broad pattern of racially biased law enforcement that permeated the city’s justice system, including the use of unreasonable force against black suspects.

AUGUST 18 Continued protests lead Governor Nixon to deploy the National Guard. Seventy-eight people from as far away as California and New York are arrested. Amnesty International deploys human rights teams to Ferguson, the first time the organization has done so in the US. Police officers appear to use both Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRADs) and tear gas to suppress protesters.

APRIL 7 Ferguson elects two additional black city council members, transforming racial composition in local politics.

AUGUST 20 A grand jury begins investigating whether Wilson should be criminally charged. President Obama sends US Attorney General Eric Holder to Ferguson.

JULY 22 Ferguson appoints a black interim police chief, who says his first goal is “simply to build trust” within the community.

APRIL 23 Brown’s parents file a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Ferguson, former Police Chief Thomas Jackson, and Wilson.

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WHO’S WHO DAEL ORLANDERSMITH (Playwright & Performer) previously collaborated with Center Theatre Group on 2010’s Bones (a Center Theatre Group commission and World premiere) and Stoop Stories, and 2014’s Forever (a World premiere production). In 2015, Forever was performed at the Long Wharf and New York Theatre Workshop. There was also a production of the play at Oregon’s Portland Center Stage in 2016. In 2017, Forever was onstage at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. She first performed Stoop Stories in 2008 at The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival and Apollo Theater’s Salon Series; Washington, D.C.’s Studio Theatre produced its World premiere in 2009. She developed Black N Blue Boys/Broken Men as a co-commission between the Goodman Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theatre, where it was staged in May 2012. Her play Horsedreams was developed at New Dramatists and workshopped at New York Stage and Film Company in 2008, and was performed at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in 2011. Ms. Orlandersmith premiered The Blue Album, in collaboration with David Cale, at Long Wharf Theatre in 2007.

Yellowman was commissioned by and premiered at McCarter Theatre in a co-production with The Wilma Theater and Long Wharf Theatre. Ms. Orlandersmith was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and Drama Desk Award nominee for Outstanding Play and Outstanding Actress in a Play for Yellowman in 2002. The Gimmick, commissioned by McCarter Theatre, premiered in their Second Stage OnStage series in 1998 and went on to receive great acclaim at Long Wharf Theatre and New York Theatre Workshop; Ms. Orlandersmith won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for The Gimmick in 1999. Her play Monster premiered at New York Theatre Workshop in November 1996. She has toured extensively with the Nuyorican Poets Café (Real Live Poetry) throughout the United States, Europe, and Australia. Yellowman and a collection of her earlier works have been published by Vintage Books and Dramatists Play Service. Ms. Orlandersmith attended Sundance Institute Theatre Lab for four summers and is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, a Guggenheim, and the 2005 PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award for a playwright in mid-career. She is the recipient of a Lucille Lortel Foundation Playwriting Fellowship and an Obie Award for Beauty’s Daughter. In fall 2016, Ms. Orlandersmith wrote and performed Until the Flood, which was commissioned by The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. In 2018, it arrived at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in New York, Milwaukee Rep, the Goodman, and ACT Seattle. Ms. Orlandersmith is currently working on two commissions. Her play Lady in Denmark opened in fall 2018 at the Goodman, and prior to arriving at the Douglas, Until the

Flood was onstage at Portland Center Stage and the Galway Arts Festival in 2019. This year, she’ll be performing the play not only at the Douglas, but at the Denver Arts Festival and Spoleto Festival in South Carolina. She is working on a new play called New Age for Milwaukee Rep and another play for the Goodman.

Ms. Orlandersmith is also in the process of writing a book of autofiction.

NEEL KELLER (Director & Center Theatre Group Associate Artistic Director/Literary Director) has enjoyed a long and happy collaboration with Dael Orlandersmith. They originally met almost 30 years ago when they worked together on a production of Romeo and Juliet. Over the last six years, they have collaborated closely on the creation and production of Dael’s acclaimed plays Until the Flood and Forever, presenting them at theatres across the country as well as in Ireland, Scotland, and England. Neel’s other recent productions include the World premieres of Eliza Clark’s Quack, Julia Cho’s Office Hour, Jennifer Haley’s The Nether, Kimber Lee’s different words for the same thing, and Lucy Alibar’s Throw Me On the Burnpile and Light Me Up. More distant—but fondly remembered—productions include Jessica Goldberg’s Good Thing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (staged in a prickly Berkshire meadow), Howard Gould’s Diva, and the American premiere of David Greig’s The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union. Beyond Center Theatre Group, Neel has directed at many theatres, including The Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Long Wharf Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and Portland Center Stage. He is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and the Directors Guild of America.

TAKESHI KATA (Scenic Designer). His recent credits include Derren Brown: Secret (Broadway); Office Hour (Public Theater); Man From Nebraska (Second Stage); The Great Leap (Atlantic Theater Company); Angels in America: Parts I & II (Berkeley Rep); Cambodian Rock Band (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse); Quixote Nuevo (Huntington Theatre Company, Hartford Stage). Kata has won an Obie and has been nominated for Drama Desk, Ovation, San Francisco Critics Circle, TBA, and Barrymore Awards. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, School of Dramatic Arts.

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KAYE VOYCE (Costume Designer). For Center Theatre Group: Luna Gale. Broadway: Sea Wall/A Life, True West, The Nap, Significant Other, The Real Thing, The Realistic Joneses, and Shining City. Recent Off-Broadway includes Marys Seacole (LCT3), Hurricane Diane (NYTW), Dying City and Mary Page Marlowe (Second Stage), Harry Clarke (Vineyard), At Home at the Zoo, The Antipodes, Signature Plays, and The Wayside Motor Inn (Signature Theatre), Coriolanus, Hamlet, and Measure for Measure (Public Theater). Recent opera includes La fanciulla del West (NCPA Beijing), Drowning (World premiere by Philip Glass, Days & Nights Festival), and Il turco in Italia (Festival d’Aix, Teatro Regio Torino, Opéra de Dijon, Teatr Wielki Warsaw).

MARY LOUISE GEIGER (Lighting Designer).

Broadway: The Constant Wife (American Airlines Theatre). Center Theatre Group: Forever, The Goat, Nickel and Dimed, Tongue of a Bird. L.A.: Tosca, La Rondine, Luisa Fernanda, The Grand Duchess (LA Opera).

NYC: Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven (Atlantic); Proof of Love, Sakina’s Restaurant (Audible Theater); Until the Flood, Draw the Circle (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); X: Or, Betty Shabazz v. The Nation (Acting Company tour and NYC); Nat Turner in Jerusalem, Forever, Oedipus at Palm Springs (NYTW); This Bitter Earth, Les Carillons (NYCB); Kindness, The Blue Door, The Busy World Is Hushed (Playwrights Horizons). Regional: ACT Theatre, Center Theatre Group, DCPS, 5th Avenue Theatre, Goodman, Guthrie, Huntington, Milwaukee Rep, St. Louis Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre, OSF. Awards: Helen Hayes, IRNE, NYSCA grant. Training: Yale.

Faculty: NYU/Tisch. mlgeiger.com JUSTIN ELLINGTON (Sound Designer & Composer). Broadway: Other Desert Cities.

Off-Broadway: Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Playwrights Horizons), The Rolling Stone, Pass Over, and Pipeline (Lincoln Center), Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie (Ars Nova), The House That Will Not Stand and Fetch Clay, Make Man (New York Theatre Workshop), He Brought Her Heart Back in a Box and The Winter’s Tale (Theatre for a New Audience). Additional: Floyd’s, Trouble in Mind (Guthrie), Father Comes Home From the Wars and How to Catch Creation (Goodman Theatre), Familiar (Steppenwolf), Kill Move Paradise (Wilma Theater), As You Like It (Stratford Shakespeare Festival), and The American Clock (The Old Vic).

NICHOLAS HUSSONG (Projection Designer).

Off-Broadway credits include Until the Flood (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Goodman Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, ACT Seattle), These Paper Bullets! (Atlantic Theater Company, Drama Desk nomination; Geffen Playhouse, Yale Repertory Theatre), White Guy on the Bus (59E59 Theaters, Delaware Theatre Company), Skeleton Crew (Atlantic Theater Company), and Chix 6 (La MaMa).

Regional credits include Kleptocracy (Arena Stage), Grounded (Alley Theatre), A Streetcar Named Desire (Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre), Two Trains Running (Arden Theatre Company), The Mountaintop (PlayMakers Repertory Company), Ella: First Lady of Song (Delaware Theatre Company), and many others. He was an Artistic Associate at Triad Stage in Greensboro, North Carolina, where he continues to design new works based on Appalachian life written by Preston Lane. Nickhussong.com BROOKE BALDWIN (Production Stage Manager).

Center Theatre Group credits: For The Love Of (or, the roller derby play), School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play, Bloodletting, Spamilton, Big Night, Good Grief, Vicuña, Disgraced, Women Laughing Alone With Salad, Kansas City Choir Boy, Girlfriend, Chavez Ravine, Luna Gale, Race, different words for the same thing, The Nether, The Convert, and The Second City’s A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens. Geffen Playhouse: Mysterious Circumstances. LA Philharmonic & The Industry: Europeras 1 & 2. Rio Hotel in Las Vegas: Duck Commander Musical. The Wallis/For The Record: Love Actually Live. Moonlight Stage Productions: Newsies, The Little Mermaid, Wizard of Oz, and Cats. Cabrillo Music Theatre: Bye Bye Birdie, In the Heights, and Kiss Me Kate. She’s also worked at Universal Studios Hollywood and many small theatres all around Los Angeles. Thanks for supporting the arts! Love to my family and my new husband Cullen!

CENTER THEATRE GROUP MICHAEL RITCHIE (Artistic Director) is in his 15 season as Center Theatre Group’s Artistic Director, and has led over 200 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. TH

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MEGHAN PRESSMAN (Managing Director) joined Center Theatre Group as Managing Director in 2019. Previously, she served as Managing Director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (D.C.), Director of Development for Signature Theatre (N.Y.), and Associate Managing Director of Berkeley Rep, in addition to working at numerous other theatre and arts organizations across the country. She is the Vice-Chair of the National Board for the Theatre Communications Group (TCG).

DOUGLAS C. BAKER (Producing Director) is now in his 30 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.

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NAUSICA STERGIOU (General Manager) 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 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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ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR UNTIL THE FLOOD Associate Lighting Designer (N.Y.).......................................Jenn Burkhardt Resident Assistant Lighting Designer...................................Julien V. Elstob Resident Assistant Costume Designer.....................................Kat Patterson Light Board Programmer...............................................................R.S. Buck Scenic Painter...............................................................................Erin Walley Prop Carpenter.........................................................................Ryan Howard Carpenters.............................Eduardo Fernandez-Baumann, Ryan Fischer, Joseph Flores, Bo Foxworth, Katherine Harfouch, Melissa Hartman, Ryan Howard, Joe Kidowski Electricians.............Shannon Barondeau, Lunch Box, Katrina Coulourides, Eduardo Fernandez-Baumann, Maggie Darago, Jennifer Gonzalez, Brian Guy, Chris Kramer, Juan Lozano, Eric Mitchell, Damien Perard, Taylor Shaw Projection Engineers...............................Derek Christiansen, Corwin Evans Production Photography.........................................................Craig Schwartz CONCIERGES Trevor Algatt, Hanna Anderson, Barnes Bradford, Lily Brown, Fallon Christian, Eric Eberle, Amber Espinosa-Jones, Yanki Evliyaoglu, Abey Fenbert, Jill Galbraith, Angela Garcia, Dean Grosbard, Elliott Hanson, Ren Harris, Henry Kelly, Heather Klinke, Natasha LaGrone, Noah Lashly, Sophia Lewis, Stephen Lydic, Rachael McNamara, Sean McSweeney, Rachel McVay, Janice Motuapuaka, Shawn Nabors, Nicole Naito, Twon Pope, Tessa Rao, Denise Reynoso, Hayley Samartin, Sam Sherry, Michayla Van Treeck ASSISTANT HOUSE MANAGERS Chase Anderson-Shaw, Olivia Choate, Adrienne Marquand, AJ Meijer, Tarah Pollock DISCUSSION FACILITATORS Johnathon Jackson, Isabella Petrini, Eduardo Fernandez-Baumann, Khanisha Foster

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members 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 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).

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MICHAEL RITCHIE ♦ Artistic Director | MEGHAN PRESSMAN Managing Director | DOUGLAS C. BAKER♦ Producing Director GORDON DAVIDSON Founding Artistic Director Center Theatre Group would like to thank its exceptional staff for their ongoing commitment, dedication, and extraordinary efforts.

ARTISTIC LINDSAY ALLBAUGH♦.................................................. Associate Artistic Director NEEL KELLER♦................................. Associate Artistic Director/Literary Director KELLEY KIRKPATRICK♦............................................... Associate Artistic Director PATRICIA GARZA♦ ..................................Line Producer, Special Artistic Projects MICHAEL DONOVAN CASTING................................................Casting Consultant SUZANNE HEE MAYBERRY .................................................Casting Coordinator TIFFANY SLAGLE ...................................................................... Literary Assistant MATTHEW BOURNE, DANAI GURIRA, ANNA D. SHAPIRO ......................................................................Associate Artists MAT DIAFOS SWEENEY....................................Sherwood Award Recipient, 2020 EDUCATION, ENGAGEMENT, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS KATHRYN MACKENZIE ................................................ Director of Administration TYRONE DAVIS.....................................................Audience Engagement Director TRACI KWON♦................................................. Arts Education Initiatives Director JESUS REYES ♦.................................................Community Partnerships Director CAMILLE SCHENKKAN..................................Next Generation Initiatives Director CARLA JACKSON....................................................................... Program Manager JAQUELYN JOHNSON...........................................Audience Engagement Manager FELIPE M. 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DAVID ADJMI JON ROBIN BAITZ STEVE CUIFFO LISA D’AMOUR WILL ENO JENNIFER HALEY

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CHICK COREA TRILOGY

AIN GORDON

Thu, Oct 3 | Royce Hall

Fri, Oct 11 & Sat, Oct 12 | Freud Playhouse

With Christian McBride & Brian Blade

217 Boxes of Dr. Henry Anonymous

SANKAI JUKU

Meguri

Sun, Oct 6 | Royce Hall

PAM TANOWITZ/BRICE MARDEN/KAIJA SAARIAHO Four Quartets

OCTAVIA E. BUTLER’S PARABLE OF THE SOWER Created By Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon

Sat, Feb 15 & Sun, Feb 16 | Royce Hall

Sat, Mar 7 | Royce Hall

SAMIN NOSRAT IN CONVERSATION WITH LINDY WEST Sun, Oct 13 | Royce Hall

RACHEL FULLER’S ANIMAL REQUIEM FLY HIGHER:

MAYA BEISER/WENDY WHELAN/ LUCINDA CHILDS/DAVID LANG

A Concert to Celebrate and Honor All Animals CHARLIE PARKER AT 100 With special guest Pete Townshend Featuring Rudresh Mahanthappa, Terri Lyne Sat, Oct 26 | Royce Hall Carrington, Charenée Wade, Adam O’Farrill, Kris Davis, Larry Grenadier & Kassa Overall Thu, Mar 26 | Royce Hall

THE DAY PHILIP GLASS & Fri, Oct 18 & Sat, Oct 19 | Royce Hall JERRY QUICKLEY

Whistleblower

Sat, Mar 21 | The Theatre at Ace Hotel

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John Ballinger & Rod Davis Melanie & Gregory Barbee Christopher & Anadel Barbour Chris & Rose Bauss Dr. Martine Bauwens Charles Berney & Family Mr. & Mrs. John Bettfreund Ms. Rhian Beutler Peter & Helen Bing Cheryl Bledin Michael Blend Mr. Moe Blumin Yvonne Bogdanovich & Family Bill Bohnert Richard & Pat Bongeorno Nancy Brandel The Saul Brandman Foundation Sandra & Robert Braun Marti Breier Sandy & Mayer Brenner Stu Brower Rick Buche & Vin Reilly Dr. Lisa Bukaty & Mr. Raymond M. Bukaty Beth Burnam Linda Stafford Burrows Edward J. Butorac & Paul R. Kaiser Christine Cahill Kelly Campbell Sandra L. Carter Eric Chien Nicholas Chrisos Suzanne & John Clark Mary Coates Lauren Firestone & Chris Cookson Hon. Candace Cooper (Ret) Corbell Family Dr. Frederic H. Corbin, M.D. Ted Cordes Judy Tishkoff & Keith Crasnick Margo Cross Mary Levin Cutler ♦

Steve & Linda Darling Eunice David Bill & Ellie D’Elia James & Lynne DeWitt Dr. & Mrs. Donald E. Dickerson The Dong Family Ms. Laurie Dubchansky Mr. & Mrs. Gene B. Duncan Jack & Cynthia Edelstein Jill & Bob Eisfelder It’s A Wrap Motion Pictures Joyce A. Esposito Ellen Eubanks Victoria I. Evers Johanna & Gene Felder Edwin & MaryAnn Feo Robert Finkel & Adelle Gross Darcy Fleck Ruth FlemingStephens Laura E. Fox, M.D. & John D. Hofbauer, M.D. Carolyn Hope Fried Susan R. Friedman Rosalie Friis-Ross Howard J. Fulfrost Dr. Robert Gasway & Kristen Wong Lesley & Dr. Kenneth H. Geiger Kate & Dr. Stephen Geller Jeanne K. Gerson Jeri & Keith Gertzman Catherine Gessner Laura Gibson Patrick & Frank Gibson-McMinn Howard Gleicher Dr. Irene Goldenberg Tanya & David Goodman Dr. Sudha & Dr. Gopal Govindarajan Terry Grossman Scott Hall & Rhonda Church Diane & J.P. Harris Gene Hawkins

“Tapestries of Music”

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Suzanne & David Robinson Murphy & Ed Romano Bingo Roncelli Nathalie & Jim Rosen Rabbi & Mrs. Moshe Rothblum Ron & Sharon Ryan Jay & Linda Sandrich Linda & Clifford Schaffer Carmen & Gordon Schaye Greg Scott Drs. T.V. Scott & Karen Hill Scott Scott Shagrin Ruth & Mitchell Shapiro James & Alexis Sheehy Loretta Hirsh Shine Steven E. Shulem Jan & Carl Siechert In Memory of Ruth & Leon Sirkin Scott Sigman Karen & Gordon Silverstein Kurt & Keli Skarin Martin & Leah Sklar Stephen & Judith Slagle Leslie Smith Roberta Smith Drs. Debra & Philip Sobol Mason A. Sommers & Rami Aizic James & Diane Staes Carol Stein Sterling & James Sterling David A. Steinberg Tom Stempel Bobbie Stern Lynn Bider & Daniel Stone ♦

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Center Theatre Group gratefully appreciates all of our donors who, due to space constraints, could not be listed here. The above list reflects donations made as of December 12, 2019. If your name was misspelled or omitted from this list in error, please contact the Advancement Department at 213.972.7654. Thank you.

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We are endlessly grateful to recognize those contributors who have provided support that extends well beyond this current season and safeguards the future of Center Theatre Group.

Thank you to all of our endowment and Ovation Circle donors for your commitment to sustaining our great work.

AS OF SEP 1, 2019.

SYMPHONY CLASSICS SERIES

AT A M B A S S A D O R A U D I T O R I U M

DAVID LOCKINGTON MUSIC DIRECTOR

VI VAL DI F O U R S E AS O N S JANUARY 25, 2020 DAVID LOCKINGTON, conductor SIMONE PORTER, violin

M OZA RT & M C GE GA N MARCH 21, 2020 NICHOLAS MCGEGAN, conductor YERIN YANG, piano

G E R S HW I N P O R GY & B ESS FEBRUARY 15, 2020 DAVID LOCKINGTON, conductor NICK KENDALL, violin

R ACHM AN I N O F F PIANO CONCERTO NO. 3 APRIL 18, 2020 DAVID LOCKINGTON, conductor INON BARNATAN, piano

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ENDOWMENT GIFTS $500,000+ The Ahmanson Foundation Gordon Davidson Tribute Fund Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation Renee & Meyer Luskin Martin Massman John S. Surabian, Jr. and in memory of Faith and Sharon Ann Surabian

Dr. Adrienne Brandriss Linda Brown Allan & Joan Burns Richard & Norma Camp Bill Cohn & Dan Miller Earl & Christine Cory Mary Levin Cutler Susan D. Clines & Charles Dillingham Kirk & Anne Douglas Elisabeth Katte Harris Trust Amy Forbes & Andrew Murr Mr. & Mrs. Walter E. Grauman Susan A. Grode Virginia Hayes $250,000+ The Michael Shaw Jacobs Fund Mr. Kim L. Hunter Deborah M. Hyde Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie The Doug Jones and John Mr. & Mrs. Jack Simon Sanger Theater Ticket Fund Richard & Julie Kagan $100,000+ Arlene M. Kageyama-Chikami Betsy & Harold Applebaum Sarah & Andy Kane Judith & Thomas Beckmen Debra L. Karrenbrock The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Jack Kavanaugh Maynard & Linda Brittan— The Paul Kowal Traub-Brittan Family Trust Charitable Foundation Center Theatre Group Affiliates Darell L. Krasnoff Kenneth Corday Sandra Krause & William Fitzgerald Regina Fadiman Joyce & Kent Kresa Barbara & Peter Fodor Steven Llanusa & Ava & Charles Fries Glenn Miya, M.D. Brindell & Milton Gottlieb Carol & Douglas Mancino The Hearst Foundation, Inc. George Manet Vicki King Meg McComb Gloria Lothrop Richard G. & Virginia L. Martin Betty McMicken in honor of Jeanette Shammas Louise Taper Diane & Leon Morton Merle & Peter Mullin $50,000+ Bob & Renee Nunn Deborah M. Hyde Linda S. Peterson Ellen & Michael S. Korney Sally & Frank Raab Dorothy & Richard Sherwood Edward L. Rada $25,000+ Nan Rae Abbott Brown Stuart & Laurie Rice In Loving Memory of Adam Rice Linda Brown Bruce & Randy Ellen Ross Greve Foundation Eileen B. Salmas Dr. Tom Hickey Wes Schaefer & Levine Foundation Cathy King-Schaefer Diane & Leon Morton The Estate of Anita Mae Hirsh The Estate of Frank J. Sherwood $10,000+ Sue & Steve Soldoff I.H. Sutnick A and J Davidson Skipper Award Fund Paulette Toumazos & Michael Lorenz George A. V. Dunning Sue Tsao Carolyn & Kit Lokey Carol Vernon & Robert Turbin Betty & Sanford Sigoloff Peter & Susan Van Haften Planned Gifts Magda & Frederick R. Shirley & Irving Ashkenas Waingrow W. Lee Bailey, M.D. Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Wallace Angela Bardowell Pat Warford Chris & Rose Bauss Susan & William Weintraub Pamela & Dennis Beck Margaret H. White Judith & Thomas Beckmen The Bennetts

To invest in our future and make a gift toward our endowment, please call Terra Goulden at 213.972.3189.

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THANK YOU for being a part of our history

The Affiliates have supported Center Theatre Group since 1971. Through volunteering and fundraising, members introduce young people and their peers to the magic of live theatre. We are forever grateful for their long-term support.

AS OF SEP 1, 2019.

EXECUTIVE BOARD Anne Bruner* Ilene Eisenberg Roberta Haft* Christine Harte Thea F. Koss Diane Lesser Jerri Nagelberg Diane Neubauer*

Kim White Peterson* Sheila Poncher* Sharon Reisz Marsha Tauber Sallai June Sanders Sattler* Joyce Sheingold Maggy Simon Carole Solomon Marilyn Stambler* Janice Brock Wallace* Janice Weiner Rosalind Zane*

MEMBERS Gail Ann Andrews Arthe P. Anthony Sandy Avchen Tere Baker Janet Barnet* Sue Bass Judith Beckmen* Marjorie Bender Marjorie Ann Beradino Lanie Bernhard Deena Blum Lestrita Boardman Audrey L. Bornstein Roanna Araneta Brown Elnora Guerrero Campos Marlene Theresa Charbonnet Barbara Mansfield Cheyne* Jan Cobert Victoria Cushey Mary Levin Cutler Judi Davidson Cariline Davis Dyer Babe Eagle Gloria H. Ellwood* Lynda Wolfson Fadel Stephanie Fisher-White Ruth Flinkman-Marandy Joey Freed Carolyn H. Fried Ava O. Fries* Myra Gabbay Stephanie Germeraad Carole A. Gillie Linda Goldfein Linda Goldman Dina Goldstein Debra C. Gordon Brindell Gottlieb Beth Grant Carol Halperin Stephanie J. Hibler Audrey V. Jessup Tobé Karns Melinda J. Kelly Diane Kessler*

Barbara Krasnoff Beau Lavine Rita Lee Annie Maria Lehrer Marilyn Levin Helen Gordon Lowy Dr. Elizabeth Lu Marianne Mandel Phyllis Massing Ph.D Leah Mendelsohn Jacqueline Nach Deena Nahmias Olivia Neece Phyllis Parvin Gina Russ Posalski* Courtney Rangen Anne Reismann Irene Ribner Harriett Chatters Rose Lois Rosen Marla Rubin Gaile Gray Ryan Bonnie Sachs Carole Schiffer Kelly Schiffer* Zrelda Sealey Suzanne M. Shapiro Robbie J. Solomon Marilyn Lee Stark Carol Stein Debbie Stein Judy Stone Betsy Straszheim Gloria Stroock-Stern Donna Sussman* Rosalyn Holt Swartz Louise Taper Phyllis Teller Katherine L. Todd* Sue Tsao Roberta Turkat Elinor Turner Carol Le-Veque-Uri Barbara Van Orden Donna Marie Venick* Sue Wittner

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OUR SUPPORTERS: CAMPAIGN SUPPORT

THANK YOU for your campaign support CRUISE LIKE A LOCAL Seize the day the SoCal way! Find fun & sun-filled cruises in LA or Orange County, even in winter.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank the incredibly generous donors who have contributed leadership gifts in support of Center Theatre Group’s 50 Anniversary Campaign.

Your loyalty to our theatre and support in honor of our history paves the way for the next 50 years. AS OF DEC 1, 2019.

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$5,000,000+ Brindell Roberts Gottlieb Ahmanson Foundation Kirk & Anne Douglas

Book online at Hornblower.com/WhereLA 855.290.0383

$1,000,000+ Anonymous (2) The Annenberg Foundation Edgerton Foundation Kiki & David Gindler Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie Aliza Karney Guren & Marc Guren Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. Renee & Meyer Luskin The Louis and Harold Price Foundation Laura & James Rosenwal & Orinoco Foundation Rosenthal Family Foundation Sue Tsao $500,000+ Amy Forbes & Andrew Murr Jerry & Terri Kohl Louise Moriarty Deena & Edward Nahmias Michael Ritchie & Kate Burton Donna Schweers & Tom Geiser Elliott Sernel $250,000+ Anonymous Thomas Beers Joni & Miles Benickes

Diana Buckhantz & The Vladimir and Araxia Buckhantz Foundation Cindy & Gary Frischling Center Theatre Group Affiliates Cindy & Gary Frischling Nancy & Eric Garen Vicki King Jody & David Lippman The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Thomas Safran Glenn & Andrea Sonnenberg Judie Stein & J R Stein Family Foundation Matt & Dana Walden $100,000+ Yvonne & Derek Bell The Campagna Family Mara & Joseph Carieri Friars Charitable Foundation Manuela & James Goren Bill Resnick & Michael Stubbs Deidra Norman Schumann Cheryl A. Shepherd Donna & John Sussman Hope Landis Warner $50,000+ Anonymous Anne Bruner & Jim Bremner Carol & Stephen Rountree Sunshine Stone Peter & Iona Tompkins

We would also like to thank the following donors for making commitments to the 50 Anniversary Campaign through legacy gifts to our Endowment.

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OTHER LEGACY GIFTS Linda & Maynard Brittan – Traub Brittan Family Trust Steven Llanusa & Glenn Miya, M.D. Gloria Lothrop Carol & Douglas Mancino Renee & Robert Nunn Nan Rae Randy & Bruce Ross Wes Schaefer & Cathy King-Schaefer Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Wallace Margaret White

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Center Theatre Group thanks Theatre Forward for their continuing support. †

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Acknowledges a member of our Corporate Circle.

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Bank of America Delta Air Lines Edgerton Foundation Rosenthal Family Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. $50,000+

California Arts Council Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Dwight Stuart Youth Fund Wells Fargo $25,000+

The Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation Center Theatre Group Affiliates JP Morgan Chase & Co. Disney Theatrical Group Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP Lockton Insurance Brokers, Inc. City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs National Endowment for the Arts The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation The NoMad Hotel The Perkins Charitable Foundation The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Theatre Forward U.S. Bank

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Sascha Brastoff Foundation The Brookside Fund Chubb City National Bank Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation GI Energy Lear Family Foundation Paramount Pictures Payden & Rygel Perry, Neidorf & Grassl, LLP SoCalGas Sally J. Thomas & James A. Thomas USI Insurance Services

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$5,000+

Anonymous Culver City Unified School District The DigiTrust Group, LLC The Walt Disney Company Foundation KPMG The Liberty Company Dale S. & Shideh Miller The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation

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$15,000+

The Ahmanson Foundation Annenberg Foundation

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LEGENDS

A Pointer Sister Collection

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF ICON FASHION

WARDROBE DESIGNS COSTUMES MEMORABILIA AND CULTURE

$1,000+

Northern Trust Polinger-Cohen Charitable Trust Foundation

CORPORATE CIRCLE CABINET

Sheri Biller, Founding Chair

BACK TO THE FUTURE TRILOGY: THE EXHIBIT

Jonathan Axel, Co-Chair Erin Burke, Co-Chair Anthony Amendola Christopher Bissonnette Dannielle Campos Ramirez Hany Haddad Michael Jung Jody Kelley Soma Samanta Brian Zimmer

THANK YOU TO THE FILMS’ PRODUCER, WRITER AND CO-CREATOR, BOB GALE FOR HIS PARTICIPATION IN THIS HISTORIC EXHIBIT

THE FIRST EVER “BACK TO THE FUTURE” TRILOGY EXHIBIT IN THE USA

The Corporate Circle is comprised of companies that support Center Theatre Group’s education and community partnership programs.

Members receive VIP concierge service, complimentary and discounted tickets to our shows, business development opportunities, and more. For more information, call Louie Anchondo at 213.972.3192.

PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE 59

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Meet

The Music Center of the 21st Century The Music Center is one of the nation’s largest performing arts centers and a cultural anchor in Los Angeles County.

Our programming engine, TMC Arts, convenes artists, communities and ideas to deepen the cultural lives of all. With relevant, engaging arts experiences and arts education programs, TMC Arts reflects the diverse voices and interests of the many communities of Los Angeles.

The Music Center is home to and the force behind some of the most creative expression today.

2019/2020 MUSIC CENTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS Cindy Miscikowski Board Chair

Robert J. Abernethy Darrell Brown Vice Chairs Rachel S. Moore President and Chief Executive Officer

Diane G. Medina Secretary

Susan M. Wegleitner Treasurer William Taylor Assistant Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer

MEMBERS AT LARGE Charles F. Adams William H. Ahmanson Wallis Annenberg Jill Baldauf

Richard K. Roeder Melissa Ann Romain Maria Salinas Lisa See Matthew J. Spence Marc I. Stern Philip A. Swan Walter F. Ulloa Timothy S. Wahl Alyce Williamson Jay Wintrob Rollin A. Ransom General Counsel ^

Leave of absence

DIRECTORS EMERITI Peter K. Barker Judith Beckmen Eli Broad Ronald W. Burkle

Susan Baumgarten

Amb. (ret.) John B. Emerson*

Phoebe Beasley

Richard M. Ferry

Thomas L. Beckmen

Brindell Gottlieb

Kimaada M. Brown

Bernard A. Greenberg

Dannielle Campos

Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr.

Greg T. Geyer

Amb. (ret.) Glen A. Holden

Lisa Gilford

Stuart M. Ketchum

General Information (213) 972-7211 | musiccenter.org

Kiki Ramos Gindler

Amb. (ret.) Lester B. Korn

Maria Rosario Jackson

Kent Kresa

Carl Jordan

Robert F. Maguire, III

Support The Music Center (213) 972-3333 | musiccenter.org/support

Glenn Kaino

Ginny Mancini

Stefanie Kane

Edward J. McAniff

Terri Kohl

Walter M. Mirisch

Cary J. Lefton

Fredric Roberts

David Lippman

Claire L. Rothman

Richard Lynn Martinez

Joni J. Smith

Bowen “Buzz” H. McCoy

Lisa Specht*

Mattie McFadden-Lawson

Cynthia A. Telles

Elizabeth Michelson

James A. Thomas

Darrell D. Miller

Andrea L. Van de Kamp*

Shelby Notkin

Paul M. Watson

Michael Pagano

Thomas R. Weinberger

Cynthia M. Patton

Rosalind W. Wyman

Karen Kay Platt

* Chairman Emeritus

Welcome to The Music Center! @musiccenterla

Be a Music Center Docent If you love the arts and enjoy sharing this enthusiasm with the public, we invite you to join the Symphonians , The Music Center’s volunteer docents. musiccenter.org/symphonians symphonians@musiccenter.org

Max Ramberg^ Joseph Rice

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Featured Events at

The Music Center WED 05 FEB / 11:00 a.m.

LUNCH À LA PARK: Food Trucks @ Grand Park Every Wed–Friday

SAT 01 FEB / 2:00 p.m.

Sting starring in The Last Ship CENTER THEATRE GROUP @ Ahmanson Theatre Thru 2/16

FRI 07 FEB / 8:00 p.m.

The Weimar Republic: Germany 1918–1933 Weill’s Violin Concerto with Salonen LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 2/09

SAT 01 FEB / 2:00 p.m.

All-Strauss LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 2/02 SAT 01 FEB / 2:30 p.m.

What the Constitution Means to Me CENTER THEATRE GROUP @ Mark Taper Forum Thru 2/23 SAT 01 FEB / 7:30 p.m.

Eurydice LA OPERA @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Thru 2/20 SAT 01 FEB / 8:30 p.m.

Simone Forti REDCAT @ Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater SUN 02 FEB / 7:30 p.m.

Hespèrion XXI: La Capella Reial de Catalunya LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall TUE 04 FEB / 8:00 p.m.

Bjarnason & Ólafsson LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall WED 05 FEB / 12:15 p.m.

LUNCH A LA PARK: Yoga reTREAT @ Grand Park Every Wed–Friday

SAT 08 FEB / 2:00 p.m.

American Youth Symphony LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall SAT 08 FEB / 8:30 p.m.

Jacqueline Bobak REDCAT @ Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater THU 13 FEB / 8:00 p.m.

The Weimar Republic: Germany 1918-1933 Salonen Conducts The Seven Deadly Sins LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 2/16 FRI 14 FEB / 7:00 p.m.

Grand Park Lovers Rock @ Grand Park TUE 18 FEB / 8:00 p.m.

The Book of Mormon CENTER THEATRE GROUP @ Ahmanson Theatre Thru 3/29 TUE 18 FEB / 8:00 p.m.

Yuja Wang LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

Visit musiccenter.org for additional information on all upcoming events. @musiccenterla

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THU 20 FEB / 8:00 p.m.

Ives 1 & Dvořák 7 with Dudamel LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 2/21 THU 20 FEB / 8:30 p.m.

Tabaimo & Maki Morishita REDCAT @ Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater Thru 2/23 SAT 22 FEB / 8:00 p.m.

Ives 2 & Dvořák 8 with Dudamel LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 2/23 SAT 22 FEB / 7:30 p.m.

Roberto Devereux LA OPERA @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Thru 3/14 SUN 23 FEB / 7:30 p.m.

Wayne Mashall LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall WED 26 FEB / 8:00 p.m.

Hélène Grimaud LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall THU 27 FEB / 8:00 p.m.

Ives 3 & Dvořák 9 with Dudamel LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

Illustrations by: Down The Street Designs

SAT 01 FEB / 11:00 a.m.

Toyota Symhonies for Youth: Peter and the Wolf LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall

FRI 28 FEB / 11:00 a.m.

Ives 4 & Dvořák 9 with Dudamel LA PHIL @ Walt Disney Concert Hall Thru 2/29 SAT 28 FEB / 8:30 p.m.

Tim Feeney REDCAT @ Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater

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Join us on the Plaza for drinks before or after the show!

The Mullin Wine Bar 205 N. Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012 (213) 972-8084 TheMullinLA.com

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Wines and cocktails

curated by L.A. experts and a seat with the best views in the house!

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EXPERIENCE THE ONLY L.A. AND O.C. PERFORMANCES. MARCH 18 – 22

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

Supporting Sponsor of The Music Center and Ailey’s National Tour Sponsor

The Music Center’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

musiccenter.org/ailey | (213) 972-0711

Groups of 10+: (213) 972-8555 | mcgroupsales@musiccenter.org Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Solomon Dumas. Photo by Andrew Eccles.

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BOARD OF SUPERVISORS COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES Support from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors plays an invaluable role in the successful operation of The Music Center.

HILDA L. SOLIS

MARK RIDLEY-THOMAS

First District

SHEILA J. KUEHL Third District

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Second District

JANICE HAHN Fourth District

KATHRYN BARGER Fifth District, Chair

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BALLET BC ROMEO+JULIET FEBRUARY SELMA WITH LIVE SCORE by JASON MORAN NEW WEST SYMPHONY Sat Feb 1 | 8PM

Ballet’s take on the most famous love story of all time.

Sat Feb 29 | 8PM Sun Mar 1 | 3PM Prices start at $39* (Parking Included)

BALLET WEST’S GISELLE Tue Feb 4 | 8PM TETZLAFF PLAYS BEETHOVEN LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Fri Feb 7 | 8PM LUIS CORONEL Y LEONARDO AGUILAR Sat Feb 8 | 8PM MAVIS STAPLES WITH SON LITTLE Thu Feb 13 | 8PM STOMP Sat Feb 15 | 3PM & 8PM Sun Feb 16 | 3PM STEP AFRIKA! Sun Feb 23 | 3PM

MARCH ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS JOSHUA BELL, MUSIC DIRECTOR and VIOLIN Wed Mar 4 | 8PM CAMILA MEZA & THE NECTAR ORCHESTRA Onstage Sessions Jazz Club Sat Mar 7 | 8PM MELISSA ALDANA Onstage Sessions Jazz Club Thu Mar 12 | 8PM Fri Mar 13 | 8PM LOS ANGELES JEWISH SYMPHONY Sun Mar 22 | 8PM ROTTERDAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA LAHAV SHANI, CONDUCTOR Wed Mar 25 | 8PM LA MARISOUL Sat Mar 28 | 8PM YAMATO - THE DRUMMERS OF JAPAN Sun Mar 29 | 3PM

*Prices subject to change

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