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Dear Audience Member, This month, we’re proud to have productions at three theatres—plus a bonus live art theatrical experience—that demonstrate our commitment to diversity in every sense of the word. After making its World premiere at the Mark Taper Forum in 1978, Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit became a major hit and the first Chicano play on Broadway. Our historic revival—its first ever in Los Angeles—is an integral part of our 50 Anniversary Season, and continues to be a vital story of our city and nation. TH

Over the past decade, Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home has become a classic of LGBT literature, and in 2015, it became a new classic musical, which is onstage now at the Ahmanson Theatre. Alison Bechdel may be the most groundbreaking and multidimensional lesbian character ever to appear in a major Broadway show. With the World premiere of Ngozi Anyanwu’s Good Grief at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, we’re carrying on a long Center Theatre Group tradition of supporting new work and new voices. This is Anyanwu’s first professionally produced play, and it’s been a pleasure for us to help develop and nurture it. We’re also excited to share Remote L.A., directed and produced by award-winning international documentary theatre team Rimini Protokoll. If you see groups of 50 people swarming out around Downtown Los Angeles wearing headphones… they’re actually participating in this production. Center Theatre Group has been cultivating and building relationships with artists of all backgrounds from around the world for five decades now. We invite you to read more about it in the segment of our 50 Anniversary timeline in this issue, which highlights 1988–1997, and explore more content—including photos, video, music, and newspaper clippings—on our full digital timeline at CenterTheatreGroup.org. TH

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AROUND CENTER THEATRE GROUP (l–r) Manuel Chitay and Gerardo Davalos in Off The Tracks Theater and Center Theatre Group’s presentation of Una Bestia en Mi Jardín by Valentina Sierra. Each month we present three free, open-tothe-public readings of a new play at Boyle Heights libraries, rotating between English and Spanish. PHOTO BY CRISTI BURGOS/CBGRAPHY.

BLOCK PARTY KICK-OFF We kicked off Block Party—our celebration of the vibrant Los Angeles theatre community—with a Block Party party at the Kirk Douglas Theatre featuring tacos, specialty drinks, games, music, and more on January 30, 2017. Members of Coeurage Theatre Company, The Echo Theater Company, and The Fountain Theatre—the three local companies whose shows are being remounted at the Douglas—attended along with Center Theatre Group staff, other L.A. theatre folks, and the public.

Corporate Circle Community Impact Lunch Members of Center Theatre Group’s Corporate Circle—business leaders who support our arts education programs—gathered at the Kirk Douglas Theatre on January 11, 2017 to hear about the impact their philanthropy has made on the community. Former Center Theatre Group intern and August Wilson Monologue Competition participant Angelina Finau, former Student Ambassador and August Wilson Monologue Competition participant Katharine Lauffer, and Alejandra Cisneros (second from right), who attended our Student Matinee program as a child and today is on staff thanks to a Theatre Communications Group fellowship, shared how these experiences changed their lives. 8 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE

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ARTS SCHOLAR AND THINKER DIANE RAGSDALE addressed Southern California theatre community members at the Mark Taper Forum on January 9, 2017 with a thought-provoking talk titled “Transformation or Bust: When Hustling Ticket Sales and Contributions Is Just not Cutting it Anymore.” A roundtable conversation followed among Center Theatre Group, Pasadena Playhouse, and South Coast Repertory about community engagement programs and strategy. The talk and roundtable were supported by the James Irvine Foundation. Watch Ragsdale’s talk at YouTube.com/CTGLA and subscribe to see more videos from Center Theatre Group.

Over four days in February and March, students from across Southern California are attending Zoot Suit Student Matinees at the Mark Taper Forum. Their teachers began immersing themselves in the play a month beforehand, coming together on January 19, 2017 with Center Theatre Group staff and Teaching Artists for an Educator Conference. There they learned more about the themes, ideas, and context of Zoot Suit and were introduced to activities to bring back to their classrooms in advance of coming to see the show.

CELEBRATING ZOOT SUIT AT CITY HALL The Tom Bradley room at City Hall hosted Center Theatre Group supporters for a discussion about the impact of Zoot Suit in advance of our revival at the Mark Taper Forum. Writer/director Luis Valdez (left) joined Michael Ritchie (right) on January 11, 2017 to talk about Valdez’s work as an artist and an activist over the past 50 years in honor of our 50 Anniversary. Listen to a podcast of the conversation at CenterTheatreGroup.org. TH

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Celebrating

Gordon Davidson Artists and Collaborators Paid Tribute to our Founding Artistic Director at the Ahmanson Theatre “Any time any of us walk into a theatre,

whether it’s here in Los Angeles, across the country, even around the world, we walk into that theatre with Gordon Davidson, who has affected not just dozens or hundreds or thousands of people; he’s affected millions of lives by his work, his words, and his spirit.” Center Theatre Group Artistic Director Michael Ritchie opened a celebration of the life and work of Davidson, Center Theatre Group’s Founding Artistic Director, with a potent reminder of how vital Davidson was to the art of theatre. Davidson, who died in October, led Center Theatre Group for nearly four decades from our founding in 1967. Ritchie and the speakers who paid tribute to Davidson on January 9, 2017 at a free public program at the Ahmanson Theatre made it clear that it’s impossible to overestimate Davidson’s contributions and impact:

“The Mark Taper Forum became a crucible for all Americans of color” under Davidson, said Zoot Suit writer/director Luis Valdez. “He opened the doors not just for Chicanos but for everyone.” “Angels in America”—a show Davidson produced and supported from its early stages—“probably affected more policy across America than any political memo,” said former L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky.

“He became a guardian angel for me,” said Angels in America playwright Tony Kushner in a recorded tribute. “I can’t imagine my career in the theatre without him.”

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(above) Center Theatre Group Artistic Director Michael Ritchie. Photo by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging.

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“Angels in America”—a show Davidson produced and supported from its early stages—“probably affected more policy across America than any political memo,” said former L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky. Speeches were interspersed with performances, many of which came from shows Davidson helped shepherd to the stage. Charlayne Woodard performed a portion of her autobiographical solo show Pretty Fire. Andrea Marcovicci sang “Springtime” from Ghetto, which Davidson directed at the Taper in 1986. Harry Groener sang the Gershwins’ “They Can’t Take That Away from Me.” Culture Clash performed their take on “Who’s on First” in a scene from Chavez Ravine, which made its World premiere at the Taper in 2003. And Keith David performed a monologue from August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. The final two speakers of the night were Davidson’s daughter, Rachel, and wife, Judi, who offered emotional remembrances. “I would have treated him better if I’d known how important he was going to be,” quipped Judi, who thanked everyone in attendance and marveled at the outpouring of respect and appreciation for Davidson’s legacy in the months since his death. It’s a legacy Center Theatre Group is proud and honored to continue to carry on.

FROM SoCAL TO BROADWAY & BACK The Journey of from the Ojai Playwrights Conference to the Ahmanson Fun Home makes its Los Angeles debut at the Ahmanson Theatre February 21 – April 1, 2017— but this is actually a homecoming of sorts for a show that began its extraordinary, award-winning journey to Broadway here in Southern California. In 2009, composer Jeanine Tesori and playwright Lisa Kron came to the Ojai Playwrights Conference (OPC) for a focused retreat where they could begin digging deeply into their source material. There they also met their director and close collaborator, Sam Gold. “Issues of sexual identity, exclusion, acceptance, and reaching the fullness of one’s abilities in a polarized America were—and are—some of Fun Home’s thematic concerns,” said OPC Artistic Director/ Producer Robert Egan. “OPC’s mission is to develop new plays for the theatre that care and dare to confront the burning social, political, and ethical issues that challenge us today. OPC was the perfect place for the creators to have a free, supportive, and rigorous arena where they could initiate their investigation into these concerns.” Indeed, Center Theatre Group and OPC—which are celebrating their 50 and 20 anniversaries, respectively, this year—have a long history of collaborating on works that, like Fun Home, “share a deep concern with the world in which we live and how we live in that world with justice, fairness and humanity,” said Egan, who previously served as Artistic Producing Director of the Taper for 20 years. Jon Robin Baitz, Danai Gurira, and Luis Alfaro are just three of the playwrights whose works have flowed from OPC to Center Theatre Group. “Center Theatre Group staff, donors, and audience have all become a significant part of the OPC community, helping to bring new plays into being,” added Egan. TH

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Innovative Lighting Designer PABLO SANTIAGO Wins the 2017 Richard E. Sherwood Award

‘You Have to Find Your Own Voice’ Pablo Santiago speaks slowly and carefully, pausing between phrases as he considers his words. He brings this same thoughtfulness to his lighting design. Santiago’s unique style has been recognized with the 2017 Sherwood Award for emerging artists.

The $10,000 Sherwood Award was established in 1996 in memory of longtime Center Theatre Group Board member Richard E. Sherwood to nurture innovative, adventurous Los Angeles theatre artists. Santiago more than fits the bill with his “unusual” approach to lighting. “Sometimes people question whether what I’m doing is a good idea. But you have to create a way of working and telling a story that is particular to you. You have to find your own voice,” Santiago said. “My mom reminded me recently that I’ve been at this for 22 years. Winning the Sherwood feels like a validation of the approach I have taken.” Santiago, who grew up in Chiapas, Mexico, had a roundabout entry into the world of live theatre. After graduating from UC San Diego with a degree in visual art, he worked in lighting design in film for 15 years. It wasn’t until his wife, a modern dance choreographer, enlisted his help because she couldn’t afford a lighting designer, that he “fell in love with how light works in a live performance.” Determined to better understand live performance, he went back to school to earn a graduate degree from UCLA. For Santiago, the differences between lighting for film and for the stage are striking. “In film you are tied to reality a lot more,” he said. “The lighting is specific to that moment. Onstage, the opposite is true. You can

Pablo Santiago accepts the 2017 Sherwood Award at the Ovation Awards. Photo by Ryan Miller/ Capture Imaging.

be more unrealistic, architectural, or colorful. It can be more emotional. But you also have to be very careful about how you direct the eye and have to account for the whole play from the beginning. In theatre, you do one long take that is an act long.” For him, that’s part of the fun of it. “In theatre, lighting acts like the editor in a movie. You create the cuts of the story.” Santiago is currently at work on Good Grief, a World premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, and Zoot Suit at the Mark Taper Forum. Good Grief presents the challenge and opportunity of being a totally blank slate. Zoot Suit has a different kind of pressure. Apart from the fact that Zoot Suit is mythic in its own right, that Luis Valdez—the legendary Chicano playwright and original director of the 1978 premiere at the Taper—is helming its revival, and that the original production is embedded in the national theatre narrative, Santiago has bigger challenges facing him than high expectations.

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“Luis Valdez is very interested in the idea of the show functioning as a film noir movie, which requires a lot of contrast and shadow,” said Santiago. “The story itself is also challenging. There is a mental space and a mythic space. There is reality and there is song.” Music is integral to Zoot Suit, which is a good thing for Santiago, who feels that lighting and music are closely connected. “Lighting functions best when it has a musical rhythm. Timing is also very important. There is also something visceral about the reaction one has to how a space is lit and that is an interesting way for me to communicate,” he said.

“In theatre, lighting acts like the editor in a movie. You create the cuts of the story.”

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INVESTING IN NEW TALENT Humanitas Prize Winner Ngozi Anyanwu’s First Play will Premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre

Throw a stone in Los Angeles and if you don’t hit a pressed juice bar or an actor, you’re probably going to impale a writer.

The question of how to tap into one of this city’s great natural resources—its pool of writing talent—is in part what drove Center Theatre Group to collaborate on last year’s Humanitas Playwriting Prize recognizing the best new unproduced play by a writer based in Southern California. In February 2016, Ngozi Anyanwu, a recent UC San Diego graduate who was primarily based in L.A., became the first Humanitas winner. Her debut play, Good Grief, makes its World premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre February 26 – March 26, 2017. When Anyanwu won the prize, she was awarded $5,000 toward a Southern California production of Good Grief and a reading of the play at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. She hoped the recognition, the cash, and the reading would lead to a premiere, but it was also her very first play. “I thought I would be doing this in a basement with a bunch of friends,” Anyanwu said. Instead, she now has the stage of one of the country’s largest theatre companies. “Center Theatre Group has been hugely supportive, and it’s amazing to be working with people who have a relationship with this work, because they have been with the piece for so long. They have as much at stake in it as I do,” she said.

Ngozi Anyanwu at a reading of Good Grief. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

She gives a great deal of credit to Center Theatre Group for opening both our own doors and others to a new talent. “When the Humanitas Prize was announced it was everywhere—Variety, Playbill, BroadwayWorld,” she said. “Theatres began asking about my play, and asking to read it. Even if people couldn’t produce it, they were interested in it. Half the battle of a playwright is even getting an organization to read your work.” Currently working on her second play, Anyanwu is also starring in the premiere of Good Grief, which is sure to raise her profile even further. But regardless of where this journey takes her next, she feels a sense of responsibility as a rising young playwright. “The theatre world needs to hold itself accountable for the theatre we are making and who we are making it for,” she said. “We tend to look to New York as the mecca of having things to say, but that’s not true. We need to not treat our playwrights as if they don’t have anything to say on a national scale.” She added, “Local narratives are just as important as national narratives.” Good Grief is deeply personal; the story of a daughter of Nigerian immigrants struggling to process the death of her best friend. “The play is about something everyone goes through— working through grief. It’s healing and beautiful to share that with people,” said Anyanwu.

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Bank of America Supports Southern California Culture—and ‘Zoot Suit’ AN INTERVIEW WITH GREATER LOS ANGELES REGION PRESIDENT RAUL A. ANAYA Zoot Suit is a piece of Los Angeles history, a celebration of the city’s

diversity and creativity, and a great work of art—all reasons why Bank of America is the presenting sponsor for Center Theatre Group’s 50 Anniversary production at the Mark Taper Forum. For Raul A. Anaya, Bank of America Greater Los Angeles region President, the excitement about Zoot Suit resonates not just organizationally but also personally. Anaya was born in Detroit, the son of Mexican immigrants, and grew up in Texas before moving to Arizona and then Los Angeles, where he assumed his current position in 2012. TH

Raul and Vanessa Anaya. Photo by Ryan Miller/ Capture Imaging.

Bank of America is a longtime supporter and partner of Center Theatre Group. “This production is a great expression of the power of arts and culture both creatively and economically for us in Southern California,” added Anaya.

(above, l–r) Rose Portillo, Daniel Valdez, Evelina Fernandez (partially seen), Edward James Olmos, Rachel Levario, and Mike Gomez in the World premiere of Zoot Suit at the Mark Taper Forum. Photo by Jay Thompson.

“What was so empowering to me was to hear the stories about my community and our history featuring people who looked like me and understood me, with lyrics and songs that featured rhythms and sounds that were from my culture,” he said of Zoot Suit’s importance when it premiered in 1978. “The play brought our stories to the mainstream in a way that told the uniquely American story of Chicanos during a very challenging time in our history.” He believes it still has a lot to teach us. “It is one of those shows that will always be timeless for me,” said Anaya. “The need to break down cultural barriers still exists today. Zoot Suit is still opening eyes and knocking down walls and stereotypes.” Indeed, “so much of the connection and understanding of Latino culture around the country and world comes out of Los Angeles,” said Anaya. “Just look at the impact of Angelenos like George Lopez, Cheech Marin, Ozomatli, and Fernando Valenzuela. Zoot Suit is a reminder of the power that our Latino culture has had— and will continue to have.” It’s also a reminder of the cultural influence of Southern California. “L.A. is constantly evolving,” said Anaya. “One wave of immigrants is followed by another group of newcomers. I think L.A.’s fluid nature is a powerful thing. It’s what allows ideas and products from here to move beyond our region—and out to the world. We see that phenomenon with L.A.’s influence on food, fashion, design, music, entertainment, and so much more.” That’s one reason why Bank of America has been investing in the creativity of Los Angeles for over 100 years. “Creativity is an essential element of what makes Los Angeles dynamic and unique,” said Anaya. “We at Bank of America believe that the arts, especially live theatre, are a vital way to connect people, build vibrant communities, and stimulate local economies.” Bank of America is a longtime supporter and partner of Center Theatre Group. “This production is a great expression of the power of arts and culture both creatively and economically for us in Southern California,” added Anaya.

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2016/17

ANNIVERSARY SEASON

FIRST SEASON PRODUCTION

DOUGLAS+ SPECIAL EVENT

FOURTH SEASON PRODUCTION

THROW ME ON THE BURNPILE AND LIGHT ME UP

THE WHOLEHEARTED

BLOCK PARTY

Written and Performed by Lucy Alibar Directed by Neel Keller World Premiere Sep 10 – Oct 2, 2016

Conceived and Created by Stein | Holum Projects Written and Co-directed by Deborah Stein Performed and Co-directed by Suli Holum World Premiere Production Dec 2–11, 2016

SECOND SEASON PRODUCTION

DOUGLAS+ SPECIAL EVENT

VICUÑA

ADLER & GIBB

By Jon Robin Baitz Directed by Robert Egan World Premiere Oct 23 – Nov 20, 2016

By Tim Crouch Directed by Tim Crouch, Andy Smith, and Karl James American Premiere Jan 17–29, 2017 THIRD SEASON PRODUCTION

GOOD GRIEF

By Ngozi Anyanwu Directed by Patricia McGregor World Premiere Feb 26 – Mar 26, 2017

Celebrating Los Angeles Theatre

FAILURE: A LOVE STORY from Coeurage Theatre Company Written by Philip Dawkins Directed by Michael Matthews Apr 14–23, 2017 CITIZEN: AN AMERICAN LYRIC from The Fountain Theatre Written by Claudia Rankine Adapted for the stage by Stephen Sachs Directed by Shirley Jo Finney Apr 28 – May 7, 2017 DRY LAND from The Echo Theater Company Written by Ruby Rae Spiegel Directed by Alana Dietze May 12–21, 2017 FIFTH SEASON PRODUCTION

KING OF THE YEES

By Lauren Yee Directed by Joshua Kahan Brody World Premiere Production Jul 9 – Aug 6, 2017 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P 1

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GIFTS OF $5,000,000 AND ABOVE The Ahmanson Foundation Brindell Roberts Gottlieb

As we celebrate our 50TH Anniversary Season, we would like to take this opportunity to thank the following donors who have made extraordinary investments in Center Theatre Group’s future. Their support will ensure that Center Theatre Group—and Los Angeles audiences and artists— enjoy another 50 years of theatrical excellence.

GIFTS OF $1,000,000 AND ABOVE The Annenberg Foundation Kirk & Anne Douglas Kiki & David Gindler Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie Aliza Karney Guren & Marc Guren Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. The Los Angeles County Arts Commission Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinoco Foundation Sue Tsao

GIFTS OF $500,000 AND ABOVE Anonymous Amy Forbes & Andrew Murr Jerry & Terri Kohl Deena & Edward Nahmias Michael Ritchie & Kate Burton Elliott Sernel

GIFTS OF $250,000 AND ABOVE Joni & Miles Benickes Diana Buckhantz & the Vladimir and Araxia Buckhantz Foundation Nancy & Eric Garen Vicki King Renee & Meyer Luskin Donna Schweers & Tom Geiser

GIFTS OF $100,000 AND ABOVE Anonymous Derek & Yvonne Bell Mara & Joseph Carieri Cindy & Gary Frischling Jody & David Lippman Bill Resnick & Michael Stubbs Deidra Norman Schumann

Center Theatre Group would also like to thank the following donors for making commitments to the 50TH Anniversary Campaign through increased giving to our Annual Fund and through legacy gifts to our Endowment: Pamela & Dennis Beck, Anne Bruner & Jim Bremner, Nancy & Donald de Brier, Darell & Elizabeth Krasnoff, Jo Muse, Patrick Owen & Norman Dixon, Cheryl A. Shepherd, Sunshine Stone, Hope Landis Warner. Legacy Gifts $1,000,000 AND ABOVE Judith & Thomas Beckmen Diane & Leon Morton $500,000 AND ABOVE Richard & Norma Camp Susan A. Grode Linda S. Peterson Other Legacy Gifts Shirley & Irving Ashkenas, Bill Cohn & Dan Miller, Steven Llanusa & Glenn Miya, M.D., Gloria Lothrop, Carol & Douglas Mancino, Nan Rae, Randy & Bruce Ross P 2 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE

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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 World Premiere of

Written by

Ngozi Anyanwu With

Dayo Ade Wade Allain-Marcus Omozé Idehenre Carla Renata

Ngozi Anyanwu Marcus Henderson Mark Jude Sullivan

Scenic Design

Costume Design

Lighting Design

Sound Design

Stephanie Kerley Schwartz

Karen Perry

Pablo Santiago

Adam Phalen

Music by

Casting

Dramaturg

Associate Producer

Production Stage Manager

Kathryn Bostic

Meg Fister

Joy Meads

Lindsay Allbaugh

Anne L. Hitt

Directed By

Patricia McGregor FEBRUARY 26 – MARCH 26, 2017 KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE

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A Letter From The Playwright This was a play written because I missed someone and I missed myself when I was this young. I conjured him. I thought of him. Conjured my past and wrote the things I might have said or did had I a second chance to walk in this world. So for all intents and purposes, though it feels autobiographical...This is still very much a work of fiction, but for thinking these words. For saying these words for directing these words I thank you. Through you these people live.

WHO’S WHO

CAST (In Order of Appearance)

DAYO ADE (Papa) is a Los Angeles-based actor, producer, and writer. Dayo began his acting career at an early age playing BLT on the long-running hit Canadian teen series Degrassi High, which has become an international franchise. After five seasons on Degrassi, Dayo moved to Los Angeles to further his acting career. Since then, he has guest starred and recurred on shows such as Lost, Bones, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, CSI: NY, Scrubs, Alias, Star Trek, Beauty and the Beast, and Castle. He also played MP Winston in the film Unthinkable, starring Samuel L. Jackson, and Godwin in Phat Girlz, starring Mo’Nique. Dayo splits time in Toronto where he played Leo Beckett on CBC’s hit cop drama Cracked as well as recurred on the critically acclaimed series The L.A. Complex for the CW Network. In addition to acting, Dayo is now producing and has several television and film projects in development.

Nkechi............................................. Ngozi Anyanwu Papa.............................................................Dayo Ade MJG’s Mom........................................Carla Renata Bro..............................................Marcus Henderson JD...............................................Mark Jude Sullivan NeNe..............................................Omozé Idehenre MJG......................................... Wade Allain-Marcus

WADE ALLAIN-MARCUS (MJG) is a Los Angeles native and is thrilled to make his debut at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Off-Broadway: Post No Bills (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater). Regional: Welcome to Arroyo’s (Old Globe). Film: Brooklyn’s Finest, The American Mall, Take Me Home Tonight, Beyond the Lights, French Dirty. TV: HBO’s Insecure, FX’s new drama Snowfall, Gossip Girl, Burn Notice, Single Ladies, Castle.

That’s all I got...now the play.

Intermission Good Grief will be performed without an intermission. Time/Place The play takes place between 1992 and 2005 Also the beginning of time… And the future. We are in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Bensalem to be exact. And it is always night. Stage Manager Brooke Baldwin 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.

NGOZI ANYANWU (Nkechi, Playwright). Theatre: War (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater); Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (understudy, Mark Taper Forum). TV: Deadbeat, Law & Order: SVU, and the upcoming HBO show The Deuce. Producer: Artistic Associate Producer for Now Africa’s Playwrights Festival. She is also on the literary committee of the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (NYC). Playwright: Most recently Good Grief won the inaugural Center Theatre Group/Humanitas Award, was listed in the 2016 annual Kilroys’ List, and was a semifinalist for the Princess Grace Award. Her play Nike was recently presented as part of the National Black Theatre’s Keep Soul Alive Monday Reading Series. Anyanwu was a member of The Fire This Time’s inaugural writers’ group. She most recently workshopped a reading of a new play, The Homecoming Queen, at Yale with Page 73 for their summer residency. Residencies at Djerassi Resident Artists Program, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and LCT3. She is also a finalist for The Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellowship as well as Page 73’s fellowship. Education: UCSD (MFA, acting); Point Park University (BA). MARCUS HENDERSON (Bro) is a St. Louis native and Alabama State/Yale School of Drama graduate who can be seen in such films as Django Unchained, Whiplash, Disney’s remake of Pete’s Dragon, and Jordan Peele’s directorial debut Get Out. TV credits include Starz original series Survivor’s Remorse and FX’s new drama Snowfall. Marcus is happy to be working with

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50 YEARS AT CENTER THEATRE GROUP

Key Shows and Moments in our History

1988–1997 Center Theatre Group continued to cultivate and build relationships with theatrical talent from around the world in our third decade, from August Wilson to Matthew Bourne. A highlight of this decade came in 1992 and 1993, when Mark Taper Forum plays The Kentucky Cycle and Angels in America: Millennium Approaches won back-to-back Pulitzer Prizes. More highlights from our history are featured in our digital timeline at CenterTheatreGroup.org.

Gordon Davidson (center front row) with Tony Kushner (center-left back row, holding Tony Award ) and producers of Angels in America after winning the Tony. ®

OCTOBER 26 – DECEMBER 18, 1988 Frank Langella and Lynn Redgrave star in Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Ahmanson.

Photo by Jay Thompson.

FEBRUARY 19 – APRIL 10, 1988 Christopher Reeve and Christine Lahti star in Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams at the Ahmanson Theatre.

Photo by Jay Thompson.

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JANUARY 11 – MARCH 5, 1989 Charlotte Rae and Robert Duncan McNeill in the first national tour of Into the Woods, which stops at the Ahmanson.

(L–R) Davis Gaines, Sarah Brightman, Michael Crawford, and Robert Guillaume. Photos by Michael Lamont, Clive Barda, and Joan Marcus.

MAY 31, 1989 The Phantom of the Opera begins its record-breaking four-year, $130plus million run at the Ahmanson, becoming the West Coast’s most commercially successful theatrical production of all time. Michael Crawford reprised his Tony - and Olivier-winning role of the Phantom for the first 11 months of the run and then was succeeded by Robert Guillaume and Davis Gaines. During this time, the Ahmanson season takes place at the James A. Doolittle Theatre in Hollywood. ®

Photo by Martha Swope Associates.

MAY 20 – JUNE 25, 1989 After being developed at Center Theatre Group’s New Work Festival and Taper, Too, Stand-Up Tragedy by Bill Cain, directed by Ron Link, makes its World premiere at the Taper.

(L–R) Ray Oriel, Michael DeLorenzo, Anthony Barrile, Marcus Chong, Lance Slaughter, and Marvin Columbus in Stand-Up Tragedy. Photo by Jay Thompson.

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JANUARY 18 – APRIL 1, 1990 August Wilson finishes developing The Piano Lesson at the Ahmanson at the Doolittle before the Yale Repertory Theatre/Center Theatre Group production heads to Broadway. The Piano Lesson goes on to win the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play and receive five Tony nominations. ®

Lou Myers in The Piano Lesson. Photo by Gerry Goodstein.

August Wilson.

OCTOBER 5 – DECEMBER 17, 1989 John Lithgow and Cynthia Nixon in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Ahmanson at the Doolittle.

Photo by Jay Thompson.

NOVEMBER 29 – DECEMBER 30, 1990 (L–R) Richard Thomas and Nathan Lane in the West Coast premiere of Terrence McNally’s The Lisbon Traviata at the Taper.

Photo by Jay Thompson.

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(L–R) Patty Holley, Phyliss Bailey, Obba Babatunde (seated), and Regina Le Vert in Jelly’s Last Jam. Photo by Jay Thompson.

MARCH 7 – APRIL 21, 1991 The World premiere of Jelly’s Last Jam at the Taper is directed by George C. Wolfe, who also wrote the book for this musical based on the life and career of Jelly Roll Morton. The following year, Jelly’s Last Jam debuts on Broadway and receives 13 Tony nominations, winning four. ®

1991 Student Matinees (then known as the Young Audiences Program) begin, bringing Los Angeles-area students to free fulllength matinee productions at the Taper and Ahmanson theatres.

Lois Nettleton and John McMartin in A Little Night Music. Photo by Jay Thompson.

Photo by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging.

APRIL 18 – JUNE 30, 1991 Gordon Davidson directs a revival of Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music at the Ahmanson at the Doolittle.

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JANUARY 16 – MARCH 29, 1992 (L–R) Roscoe Lee Browne and Laurence Fishburne in August Wilson’s Two Trains Running at the Ahmanson at the Doolittle.

FEBRUARY 2 – MARCH 29, 1992 Robert Schenkkan’s The Kentucky Cycle, which was developed at the Taper Lab New Work Festival, plays as part of the Taper’s 25 Anniversary Season. The Kentucky Cycle receives the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, becoming the first play that had not already been presented in New York City to win. TH

(L–R) Erik Kilpatrick, Ronald Hippe, and Scott MacDonald in The Kentucky Cycle. Photo by Jay Thompson.

Photo by Jay Thompson.

1992 Center Theatre Group celebrates our 25 Anniversary, in part by the founding of the Inner Circle, which today numbers thousands of donors. TH

NOVEMBER 8 – DECEMBER 6, 1992 Tony Kushner’s landmark play, Angels in America, opens at the Taper. Part One—Millennium Approaches was workshopped at Center Theatre Group and goes on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. ®

(L–R) Ellen McLaughlin and Kathleen Chalfant in Angels in America. Photo by Jay Thompson.

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JUNE 13 – JULY 18, 1993 Anna Deavere Smith in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, a Center Theatre Group commission that makes its World premiere at the Taper before moving to Broadway.

(L–R) Marabina Jaimes, Pamela Winslow, Patty Holley, Lettie Ibarra (seated front), A Martinez, Michele Mais, Linda Lopez, and Linda Kerns in Bandido! Photo by Jay Thompson.

Photo by Jay Thompson.

APRIL 15 – JUNE 27, 1993 Alan Alda stars in Neil Simon’s Jake’s Women at the Ahmanson at the Doolittle.

JUNE 9 – JULY 24, 1994 Zoot Suit writer/director and El Teatro Campesino founder Luis Valdez returns to the Taper with the World premiere of the musical Bandido!

Photo by Jay Thompson.

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MAY 18 – JULY 1, 1995 The pre-Broadway production of The Master Class at the Taper features Zoe Caldwell and Audra McDonald (below), who went on to win Tony Awards along with playwright Terrence McNally. ®

(L–R) Nancy Dussault, Constance Hauman, and Roland Rusinek in Candide. Photo by Craig Schwartz/ Jay Thompson.

Photo by Jay Thompson.

JANUARY 25 – OCTOBER 15, 1995 A nine-month run of Miss Saigon reopens the Ahmanson after a nearly 17-month renovation.

NOVEMBER 8 – DECEMBER 24, 1995 Gordon Davidson directs Leonard Bernstein’s Candide to celebrate the reopening of the Ahmanson.

Photo by Michael Le Poer Trench/Joan Marcus.

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1996 The Richard E. Sherwood Award to honor emerging artists is founded in memory of longtime Center Theatre Group supporter and Board President Richard E. Sherwood.

JANUARY 17 – MARCH 10, 1996 Keith David stars alongside a powerhouse cast including Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Viola Davis in the pre-Broadway production of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars at the Ahmanson. The Broadway production goes on to earn eight Tony nominations and one win. ®

Viola Davis and Keith David in Seven Guitars. Photo by Joan Marcus.

SEPTEMBER 28, 1997 – JANUARY 18, 1998 The Ahmanson hosts the first national tour of Rent, featuring Neil Patrick Harris as Mark.

Adam Cooper in Swan Lake. Photo by Hugo Glendinning.

APRIL 25 – JUNE 15, 1997 Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake makes its American premiere at the Ahmanson, beginning an ongoing relationship between the Tony - and Olivier Awardwinning choreographer/director and Center Theatre Group. His work has appeared on the Ahmanson stage 10 times over the past two decades. ®

Photo by Joan Marcus.

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Center Theatre Group again and looks forward to many more collaborations. Eyethemartist.tumblr.com OMOZÉ IDEHENRE (NeNe). Regional: Runboyrun (Magic Theatre); Gem of the Ocean, The Convert, Seven Guitars (Marin Theatre Company); The Comedy of Errors and Richard III (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); The Winter’s Tale, Spunk, Macbeth (California Shakespeare Festival); Clybourne Park, Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Scorched, A Doll’s House, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (American Conservatory Theater). Film: On the Road. Truly grateful for this opportunity to play with this tremendous director, cast, and crew at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. CARLA RENATA (MJG’s Mom). Broadway: Avenue Q, The Lion King, The Life, We Will Rock You, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Who’s Tommy. National tours: Avenue Q, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, The Who’s Tommy. TV: Superstore (recurring), Beerfest (recurring), Powerless, The Odd Couple, Young & Hungry, Modern Family, CSI, Bones, Hart of Dixie (recurring), Shake It Up! (recurring), Wabbit, and New Girl. MARK JUDE SULLIVAN (JD). Broadway: To Be or Not To Be (Manhattan Theatre Club). L.A.: Immediate Family (Mark Taper Forum); Casa Valentina (Pasadena Playhouse); Amadeus, The Whipping Man, The Liar, Romeo and Juliet (L.A. Theatre Works); Private Eyes, Lobby Hero, Betrayal (InHouse Theatre); Mary’s Wedding (Malibu Playhouse). NY: The Dining Room (Keen Company, Drama Desk Award); Surface to Air (Symphony Space); Vertebrae (NYTW). Regional: The Whipping Man, The Sisters Rosensweig (Old Globe Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Actors Theatre of Louisville); The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Measure for Measure, Melissa Arctic (Folger Shakespeare Theatre); The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Shape of Things (Studio Theatre); Big Death and Little Death, After Ashley (Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Helen Hayes Award nom); The Master and Margarita, Family Stories (Rorschach Theatre). Film: Bear With Us. TV: Google’s Sing It!, ABC’s Pan Am, ABC Family’s Ms. Education, CBS’s As the World Turns. PATRICIA McGREGOR (Director) has twice been profiled by The New York Times for her direction of World premieres. Recent credits include Hamlet (The Public Theater), Measure for Measure (Old Globe), The Parchman Hour (Guthrie Theater), Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout Underground), brownsville song (b-side for tray) (LCT3), and Holding It Down (Metropolitan Museum). Other credits include A Raisin in the Sun, The Winter’s Tale, and Spunk (California Shakespeare Theater),

Adoration of the Old Woman (INTAR), The House That Will Not Stand (Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre), Blood Dazzler (Harlem Stage), and the World premiere of Hurt Village (Signature Theatre Company). She served as associate director of Fela! on Broadway. For many years she has directed The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway. She co-founded Angela’s Pulse with her sister, choreographer and organizer Paloma McGregor. Ms. McGregor attended the Yale School of Drama, where she was a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow and Artistic Director of the Yale Cabaret. STEPHANIE KERLEY SCHWARTZ (Scenic Design). Previously for Center Theatre Group she designed the costumes for Randy Newman’s Harps and Angels and The Lieutenant of Inishmore, both at the Mark Taper Forum. She is Resident Designer for Rogue Machine where her scene design includes The Super Variety Match Bonus Round!, Honky, Pocatello, One Night in Miami, and Treefall among many others. For Theatre @ Boston Court, she designed scenery for Stupid F*cking Bird and Shiv and costumes for The Golden Dragon. At Pasadena Playhouse she designed scenery and costumes for Twelve Angry Men and scenery for the recent Pygmalion. At South Coast Repertory she designed costumes for Reunion. She also designed the sets for Circle X’s production of Trevor, scenery for The Who’s Tommy and Free Outgoing at East West Players, and Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea at Skylight Theatre, among many other productions at theatres around Southern California. Her work for the theatre has attracted multiple nominations and awards. skerleys@gmail.com KAREN PERRY (Costume Design). Porgy and Bess (Ensemble Theatre Company at the New Vic Theater); Sunset Baby (TheatreWorks Hartford); The Lion in Winter (Guthrie Theater); Clybourne Park, A Raisin in the Sun, Dreamgirls (Dallas Theater Center); Lives of Reason, Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine, Guadalupe in the Guest Room, Third, Trouble in Mind, and August Wilson’s Jitney, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Two Trains Running, and Seven Guitars (Two River Theater); The Happiest Song Plays Last (Second Stage); Stop. Reset. and The Piano Lesson (Signature Theater); Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (dir. Phylicia Rashad, Mark Taper Forum); the 10TH anniversary production of Crowns, written and dir. by Regina Taylor (Goodman Theatre); Blues for an Alabama Sky (Pasadena Playhouse); John Grisham’s A Time to Kill and Daniel Beaty’s Resurrection (Arena Stage); The Trip to Bountiful, The Fall of Heaven (Cincinnati Playhouse); The Brother/Sister Plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney (The Public); Things of Dry Hours by Naomi Wallace (NYTW). PABLO SANTIAGO (Lighting Design) is a lighting designer originally from Chiapas, Mexico who designs for theatre, opera, dance, and gallery work. Santiago found a home in Los Angeles while he worked in the film industry for 15 years before obtaining an MFA in lighting design from UCLA and transitioning into live stage design. He is the winner of Center Theatre Group’s 2017 Richard Sherwood Award. His design in Premeditation was nominated for an Ovation Award in 2014 and he won a Stage Raw Award for Brother’s Size in 2015. Recent highlights include the opera Breaking the Waves at the Perelman Theater for OperaPhila and Skirball Center in NYC for the PROTOTYPE festival, A Mexican Trilogy at LATC, and Zoot Suit PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P 5

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at the Mark Taper Forum. Upcoming projects include Destiny of Desire at the Goodman Theater and Flight for Opera Omaha. ADAM PHALEN (Sound Design). Select shows include Other Desert Cities, Marjorie Prime (Mark Taper Forum); The New Electric Ballroom, The Word Begins (Rogue Machine Theatre); 9 Circles (Bootleg Theater; LADCC nominee, Best Sound Design), Against Oblivion (South Coast Repertory); Tempest Redux (Odyssey Theatre); Throw Me On the Burnpile and Light Me Up, St. Jude, Facing Our Truth, Titus Redux, The Paris Letter, Flight (NAACP Award, Best Sound Design), ¡Gaytino!, Taking Flight, Of Equal Measure, Taking Over, Eclipsed, Bones (Kirk Douglas Theatre). Phalen is the Head Audio at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. KATHRYN BOSTIC (Music). Broadway: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Richard Rogers Theatre), Gem of the Ocean (Walter Kerr Theatre). Regional: Gem of the Ocean, Radio Golf, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Eclipsed, Of Equal Measure (Center Theater Group); Radio Golf, The Brothers Size, brownsville song (Seattle Repertory Theatre); Home (Signature Theatre, Court Theatre); Harlem (Kennedy Center); Death and the King’s Horseman (Syracuse Stage); Little Women (Cornell University Schwartz Center); The Ballad of Emmett Till (The Goodman Theatre); Emergency (The Geffen Playhouse). Other productions include Crossroads Theatre, Center Stage, The Huntington, The Children’s Theatre. Awards: Sundance Fellowship for film scoring, Sundance Time Warner Fellowship, BMI Conducting Fellowship. Nominations: Ovation Awards, NAACP Theatre Award. Performance credits include: Ronnie Scott’s (London), Blue Note (Tokyo and Osaka), Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Pori Jazz Festival, Birdland, JVC Jazz Festival NY, Catalina’s (Los Angeles). Kathryn is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. MEG FISTER (Casting). Previous casting credits include Vicuña by Jon Robin Baitz and Women Laughing Alone With Salad by Sheila Callaghan at the Kirk Douglas Theatre; Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) by Suzan-Lori Parks, The Mystery of Love & Sex by Bathsheba Doran, Appropriate by Branden JacobsJenkins, and The Price by Arthur Miller at the Mark Taper Forum; Collective Rage at Theatre @ Boston Court; Blueberry Toast by Mary Laws, One of the Nice Ones by Erik Patterson, Dry Land by Ruby Rae Spiegel, and Bed by Sheila Callaghan at the Echo Theater Company; The Christians by Lucas Hnath, brownsville song (b side for tray) by Kimber Lee, The Grown Ups by Jordan Harrison, and Partners by Dorothy Fortenberry at the Humana Festival of New American Plays; and The Mountaintop by Katori Hall at Actors Theatre of Louisville. JOY MEADS (Dramaturg) is Literary Manager/Artistic Engagement Strategist at Center Theatre Group. Her Center Theatre Group dramaturgy credits include Appropriate by Branden JacobsJenkins, Forever by Dael Orlandersmith, Marjorie Prime by Jordan Harrison (2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist), A Parallelogram by Bruce Norris, The Royale by Marco Ramirez, and Radiate by Daniel Alexander Jones. Previously, Joy was Literary Manager at Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Associate Artistic Director at California Shakespeare Theater. Joy has also developed plays with

NYTW, Berkeley Rep, Denver Center, the O’Neill, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Portland Center Stage, South Coast Rep, & Campo Santo, among others. Joy is a proud member and co-founder of The Kilroys (www.thekilroys.org). ANNE L. HITT (Production Stage Manager) is delighted to return to the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Anne most recently worked at The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts (Merrily We Roll Along) and The Geffen Playhouse (Barbecue and In & Of Itself). Other Center Theatre Group credits include the Ahmanson (An Act of God), the Kirk Douglas Theatre (Women Laughing Alone With Salad), and the Mark Taper Forum (Appropriate, Bent, and The Price). Anne also holds an MFA in stage management from UC Irvine. Love and thanks to Jeff for his unwavering support. www.annehitt.com BROOKE BALDWIN (Stage Manager). Center Theatre Group: 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, Second City’s A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens, Venice, Burn This, The Night Watcher, Waiting for Godot. Dodger Theatricals: Duck Commander Musical at the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas. Cabrillo Music Theatre: Bye Bye Birdie, In the Heights, Kiss Me, Kate. Moonlight Stage Productions: The Wizard of Oz, The Most Happy Fella, Cats, The Foreigner, Swingtime Canteen. Geffen Playhouse: Shipwrecked, Time Stands Still, Through the Night, and Love, Loss, and What I Wore. She was also on the stage management team at Universal Studios Hollywood. Love to my family and Cullen! 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 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

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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 13 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 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 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.

ADDITIONAL STAFF FOR GOOD GRIEF Fight Director................................................................................................ Ahmed Best Assistant Lighting Designer....................................................................... Meghan Hong Assistant Costume Designer......................................................... Whitney Oppenheimer Automation Operator...................................................................................Corwin Evans Scenic Artists......................................................... Jacquelyn Gutierrez, Katie Polebaum Carpentry Crew..................... Richard Dunn, Bo Foxworth, Kate Harrow, Connor Hayes, .................................................................. Kirsten Monson, Randall Pound, Philip Rossi Electrics Crew...................Daniel del Busto, Lucas Garrity, Jack Herndon, Juan Lozano, .................................................................................Lunchbox, Alif Marchi, Brent Oakes Sound Crew.......................................................................................... Matthew Colleran Prop Artisan.......................................................................................................Eric Babb Soft Goods Artisan.......................................................................................Mara Holland Prop Carpenter............................................................................................Patrick Smith Prop Shopper..................................................................................................Erin Walley Production Assistant...................................................................................... Nidia Flores Tailor....................................................................................................... Swantje Tuohino Draper.......................................................................................................Blaze Tiburious First Hand..................................................................................................... Pamela Walt Stitchers.......................................Suzanne Mayberry, Stephanie Molstad, Jennifer Wolff Stock Attendant......................................................................................... Heidi Johnson FRONT-OF-HOUSE LEADS Trevor Algatt, Bradford Barnes, Stephen Lydic, AJ Meijer, Eduardo Fernandez-Bauman, Tarah Pollock CONCIERGES Olivia Choate, Eric Eberle, Carmen Echevarria, Amber Espinosa-Jones, Angela Garcia, Joan Kubicek, Sarah Lindsley, Adrienne Marquand, Chelsey Maus, Janice Motuapuaka, Nicole Naito, Daniel Rashid, Denise Reynoso, Leve Ross, Diana Spieller, Jor-el Vaasborg DISCUSSION LEADERS Chase Anderson-Shaw, Candice Clasby, Eduardo Fernandez-Baumann, Jay Lee, Stephen Lydic, Isabella Petrini, Tarah Pollock CONCESSIONS Abilene Gonzalez, Monica Greene, Mike Lanahan, JoAnn Mendelson, Jason Vaughn

STAGE DOOR ATTENDANTS Ben Durham, Michael Hanson, Ian Ray, Cory Aycock SPECIAL THANKS Peter Macon CREDITS Costumes, Props, and Sets provided by the Center Theatre Group Shop. Rehearsal and production photography by Craig Schwartz.

ONLINE Center Theatre Group #GoodGriefCTG Like us on Facebook Center Theatre Group Follow us on Twitter @CTGLA Subscribe on YouTube CTGLA Follow us on Instagram @CTGLA The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers of the United States. 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 Director and choreographer are members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Inc., an independent national labor union.

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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 BEATRICE BASSO ..........................................New Work Advisor JOY MEADS ..... Literary Manager/Artistic Engagement Strategist ANDREW LYNFORD ........................................Casting Associate 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 ELIZA CLARK, FRANCES YA-CHU COWHIG, DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU, DAVID MYERS, QUI NGUYEN, HERBERT SIGUENZA, DEBORAH STEIN ................................. L.A. Writers’ Workshop Members 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 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) CASEY MCDERMOTT............... General Management Associate MEGAN ALVORD........................................... Company Manager (Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre) 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) 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) KRYSTIN MATSUMOTO............... Assistant Production Manager CHAD SMITH.................................. Associate Technical Director LEE O’REILLY.................................. Assistant Technical Director SEAN KLOC.......................................................... Shop Foreman 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 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.......................... Associate Director of Special Events ROBBIE MARTIN.........Associate Director of Corporate Relations JENNIFER CHAN.............................. Special Events Coordinator DONALD JOLLY............................Donor Experience Coordinator JAZMINE JONES .............................Donor Relations Coordinator PAUL LUOMA ....... Artist and Entertainment Relations Specialist KIM OKAMURA ................................................. Grants Manager EMILY GIBSON.....Institutional Advancement Research Associate ERIN SCHLABACH.............. Manager of Major Gifts Stewardship ERIC SEPPALA..............Board Liaison and Executive Assistant to the Director of Institutional Advancement

Center Theatre Group would like to thank its exceptional staff for their ongoing commitment, dedication and extraordinary efforts. MATTHEW SUTPHIN.......... Institutional Advancement Associate KRISTIN YAMAKA...................... Corporate Relations Coordinator EDUARDO MOLLINEDO-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 GARRETT COLLINS...........................Senior Marketing Manager, ........................................................................... Strategy & CRM ARIE LEVINE......................................Senior Marketing Manager, ..................................................Ahmanson & Mark Taper Forum KIYOMI EMI................ Marketing Manager, Promotions & Events 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 CYNTHIA AYALA, DERIK BELTRAN, ELENA DOLE, TARA GRIFFO, JALISA JACKSON, FATIMA JIMENEZ, CAROLINA MEZA, KRISTINE NGO, ASHLEY NNEBE, AMMY ONTIVEROS, ARIANNE OUSLEY, TIFFANY SLAGLE, BRITNEY THAI, JONATHAN VON MERING, MAYA WILLIAMS

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celebrates our year of art education

Walt Disney Motif Award 2016 Recipient Selected as One of the Top Five Art Programs in the Nation.

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 FEBRUARY 1, 2017) Anonymous (2)

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Chloe, Age 17, Colored Pencil

Why learn to draw and paint?

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 FEBRUARY 1, 2017)

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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 FEBRUARY 1, 2017)

CORPORATE CIRCLE CABINET Jonathan Axel, Chair Anthony Amendola Christopher Bissonnette Erin Burke

Dannielle Campos Ramirez

Jody Kelley

Antonio Manning

Nick Donovan

Jeff Levy

Ed Nahmias

Douglas Mancino

Stephen Sherline

Michael Jung

CORPORATE CIRCLE MEMBERS STERLING CIRCLE

2017 Plays

PLATINUM CIRCLE

June 29 – October 21 As You Like It Shakespeare in Love Romeo and Juliet Guys and Dolls A Midsummer Night’s Dream Treasure Island

GOLD CIRCLE

The Tavern William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged) How To Fight Loneliness

SILVER CIRCLE

The Greater Escape.

HBO

Muse Communications

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP

Northrop Grumman Corporation

BRONZE CIRCLE American Business Bank

Macy's

SoCalGas

Broadway Federal Bank

Neiman Marcus Beverly Hills

Sally J. Thomas & James A. Thomas

Northern Trust

Union Bank

Patina Group

Walt Disney Imagineering

Chubb City National Bank The Friedman Group

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The Walt Disney Company

Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation Jones Day KLH & Associates LAGRANT COMMUNICATIONS

Payden & Rygel Perry, Neidorf & Grassl, LLP

Wells Fargo Insurance Services

Sidley Austin LLP Sony Pictures Entertainment

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Center Theatre Group Inner Circle 2016/17 SEASON “Explores the contradictions in human nature that snap at the heels of idealism.” — Financial Times

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 JANUARY 16, 2017.)

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

Annual Donors

Susan & Stephen Chandler Dreux & Lynn McNairy

Phyllis Kupferstein & Donald O. Farkas

Anonymous

Helen & Morgan Chu

Louise Moriarty

Michael & Sandy Leahy

Shelley & Rick Bayer

Corbell Family

Carrie & Ben Mui

Pamela & Dennis Beck

Rhonda C. Evans

Joyce & Deane Ross

Lynn Booth

Donald W. Grant

Kim & Bill Wardlaw

Maynard & Linda Brittan

Susan A. Grode

Mary J. Witt

Kelly Sutherlin McLeod & Steven B. McLeod Family Foundation

BENEFACTOR CIRCLE ($12,000+) Multi-Year Donors

MAR 23-26

AT THE JAMES BRIDGES THEATER/UCLA

by Timberlake Wertenbaker

Jonna Bollenbacher

Jerrie D. Whitfield & Richard W. Motika

Mr. & Mrs. James L. Hunter

Hon. Mary Lou Byrne & Gary W. Kearney

Annual Donors

James Jennings

Anonymous

Natalie Roberts & Dr. & Mrs. Jack Kavanaugh David Roberts z”l

Bill Cohn & Dan Miller

Robert C. Anderson

Sheila Krasnoff

Connie Elliot

Betsy & Harold Applebaum

Joanna Exacoustos

Jackie & Howard Banchik

Sandra Krause & William Fitzgerald

Sam Ho, M.D.

Carole Black

Gail & Stanley Hollander

Diana Rogovin Davidow

Ellen & Jerry Jacobson

Nancy & Donald de Brier

Debra & Robert Kasirer

Michael A. Enomoto

Thea & Neal Koss

Roslyn & Abner Goldstine

Joan Kroll & In Memory of Irving Kroll

Manuela Goren

Marlene & Sandy Louchheim

In Memory of Salem Ludwig

Annie Gross In Loving Memory of Georges Gross

Janice & Bruce Miller

Stone Family

Mildred M. & Earl Moon

Ms. Dana Guerin

Andy & Laura Mintzer

Tracy A. Stone

Arline M. Nakanishi

Lorrie & Richard Gurewitz

Joanne & Joel Mogy

Donna & John Sussman

Nina & Steven Sheldon

Sharon & Joe Hernandez

Sheila Muller

Terence Tchen & Emily Breckenridge

The Sugimoto Family Foundation

Shirley J. Hess

Lee Levin Steven Llanusa & Glenn Miya, M.D.

Robert & Sally Neely

Janet Salter in Memory of Maxwell Hillary Salter Wes Schaefer & Cathy King-Schaefer Rosemary Simmons Marcia & David M. Spaid Phyllis J. & Steven F. Spierer Stanley Iezman & Nancy Stark Eugene & Marilyn Stein

Elinor & Rubin Turner

Peter & Susan Van Haften

Chris & Dick Newman/ C & R Newman Family Foundation

Roberta & James Vigneau

Lorraine & Jesse Hizami

Christine Marie Ofiesh

Arthur L. Zussman

Jennifer L. Jackman & John P. Hott

Greg Scott

Regina & Todd Brown

Alan & Sharon Kane

Deborah E. Small, M.D. Clumeck Stern Schenkelberg & Getzoff

Rose Marie Browning & Michael Fletcher

PATRON CIRCLE ($8,000+)

UPCOMING

Multi-Year Donors Russi Taylor Allwine

ACT ONE

Dr. & Mrs. Martin S. Lasky

David Quigg

The Jim Hicks Family Foundation

You say you want a Revolution? The story of America’s struggle for independence is told with a fresh slant and theatrical inventiveness.

APR 27-30

Alice & Nahum Lainer

Jack & Jane Pollock

Mark & Jody Barnhill Yvonne & Derek Bell

Gary W. Kearney In Memory of Lynn Kinikin

Louis & Harold Price Foundation

Julia Voce Marilyn Ziering

John J. Byers Kathleen & Milton Campbell

by James Lapine from the autobiography by Moss Hart

I. Mark Bledstein Family Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin & Stan Tatkin

Harvey & Ellen Knell Foundation

MAY 25-28

Pamela Herman Broussard & J. Garfield Broussard

J. Koenig Vicki & Seth Kogan

Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Busuttil

David & Tam Lachoff

Lynne Campbell

Edward Lewis

Virginia Yeager

Catherine & Anthony Chanin

Sandra & Kenneth Malamed

Martin & Rosalind Zane

Anne M. Dougherty & David B. Dobrikin

Annual Donors

Lynda & Al Fadel

Ruth Choi

Jeff Mandel

Anonymous (4)

Alan & Barbara Faiola

Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence J. Cohen

Emily & Phillips Marshall

Robert & Sara Adler

Melanie McDaniel

Geraldine & Harold Alden

Dennis L. Field & H. Douglas Galt

Donald & Zoe Cosgrove

Janis B. McEldowney

Laura & Harvey Alpert

Ms. Anita H. Dymant & Mr. Richard Drooyan

Ron & Lee Miller

Liz & Lou Altman

Mr. & Mrs. Homer Garten

Joan I. Moe

Mr. Domenic Andreone

Kari L. Nakama

Deanna & Richard Ashby

Michael R. Oppenheim

Melanie & Gregory Barbee

Marylyn Ginsburg & Chuck Klaus

Dennis J. Perrone

Linda Barnett

Eleanor Gorman

Melissa Louise Rhone

Mr. & Mrs. Michael Haines

Leonard J. & JoAnn Roth

Elliot, Roberta, Dayna, & Alison Berkowitz

Dana Saladen & Linda Walters

Charles Berney & Family

Cynthia & Dr. Solomon Hamburg

Ms. Virgina Blywise

Sam Harris

In Memory of Honey Sanders

Robert Brook & Jackie Kosecoff

Steve & Toya Harrison

THE TUG OF WAR ORIGINAL COMMISSION by David Rambo The fate of the world rests in the hands of an untested president. Can the world trust his judgment? Does the president have the temperament to deal with a nuclear crisis? UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL L.A. Theatre Works has entertained the world for over 40 years with our signature radio theatre format. No costumes, no sets, just great performances.

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Arthur & Katheryn Chinski

Rocky & Deborah Gentner Dr. Stuart & Adrienne Green Lisa Guerin Chet & Sheila Hasday Dr. & Mrs. Randy W. Hawkins Elizabeth A. Hoage

Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Wallace

In Memory of John W. Carner

Barbara & Edmund Wilkinson

Reverend Daniel J. Coyle

David Williamson

Kenneth Donaldson

Louise & Jeffrey Davis

Judith R. Forman & Richard N. Weiner Lora Fremont Jay & Donna Gallagher

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FLAWLESS BRENTWOOD PARK MEDITERRANEAN

PATRON CIRCLE (CONTINUED) Tanna Handley Havlick

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Hays & Clark Family

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Walmilly Foundation

Janie & Allan Orenstein

Ellen & Tom Hoberman

Gregory Pickert & Beth Price

Roslyn & Warren Jacobson Lawrence J. Jaffe, M.D. Marcia S. Jones Linda R. Kaplan Cari & Marty Kavinoky Diane Kessler Janice A. Kido Karen & Bob Knapp

Michael Powell & Dr. Sheila Philips Paula F. Reach Kay & Bob Rehme Dr. Peggy Renner & Dr. Robert Nelson William & Sue Roen Craig E. Rogers

Joanne C. Kozberg

June Caldwell & Jaye Rogovin

Anne & Michael Landsburg

Lois Rosen

Dr. & Mrs. David Lask Craig Lawson & Terry Peters Barbara & Andrew Leigh Mrs. Gayle Leventhal Charlotte P. Levine Janell & Randall Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Lodmer

June & Samuel Sale Nancy & Ted Sanborn Lora A. Sandroni Drs. Joan & Harry Saperstein Peter & Susan Schwab Joan & Arnold Seidel Christine Shaner The Sheldon Family

The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

Loretta Hirsch Shine

Michael S. Lurey & Laurie Hasencamp

Mr. & Mrs. Randy Snyder

Doris Luster

Judy Stone

Debra Gastler & Andrew Malloy Carol & Douglas Mancino Janice E. Mangerino Dorrie & Paul Markovits Mrs. Gloria McCardle

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Doug & Ellen Weitman

Barbara & Fred Miller

Jenene J. Wilson & Kristiana A. Wilson

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Allen Blue & Kira Snyder

Ralph M. & Molly Wolveck

Diane Morton Ron Myrick

FELLOW CIRCLE ($4,000+) Multi-Year Donors: Anonymous (2), Brenda & Alan Abramson, Ignacio Alfaro, Helen Allan, Carol L. Archie & Edward L. Keenan, Jill Banks Barad, Dr. Martine Bauwens, Beth Bennett & Larry McAdams, Drs. Jack & Barbara Berman, Bill Bohnert, Karlyn & Chuck Boppell, Neil H. & Karen Hochman Brown, Anne Bruner & James Bremner, Todd Michael Buchner, David Burch, Allen B. Cagle, M.D., The Castaldo Family, Rita Chenoweth, The Honorable Judith C. Chirlin, Nancy Cypert, Robin C. Dumas, David & Joyce Evans, Laura E. Fox, M.D. & John D. Hofbauer, M.D., Sylvia Fredricks, Ellen Fujikawa, Howard & Suzanne Furst, Freddi & Marvin Gelfand, Maggi Phillips & Mario Gerla, Jeri & Keith Gertzman, Mr. & Mrs. Efrain Gonzalez, Edith Gould, Mr. Jeffrey L. Hall & Mr. Kevin A. Yoder, Johnny Ruth Harrison, M.D., Al & Sandy Haveson, Elyse & Stanley Katz, Judith G. Kelly, Michael & Deborah Klein, Joan & Chris Larkin, Karen & Tim Lavrouhin, Allen J. Law, Ron & Pat Lebel, Drs. Anu & Ali Leemann, James & Karen Lefever, In Loving Memory of Anna Strahlman, Amy & Harold Masor, Gordon & Dale McWilliams, Gretchen & Marshall Milligan, Steven Modglin, Mary Lou Mooney, Loula Moschonas & James Edgerton, Wendy A. Moss, Richard Newcome, Marianne & Michael Newman, Marc I. Nishino, D.D.S., Mary Rose & Edward Ortega, Tye Ouzounian & Karyn Wong, Norman Dixon & Patrick Owen, Mr. Peter T. Paterno, Mr. Stephen Pescetti, Dr. & Mrs. Irv Posalski, The Reynolds Family,

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MAR 6 - MAR 12 Celebrate the work of legendary choreographer Trisha Brown. In collaboration with visual art institutions across the city, join us for a week of live site-specific performances by the Trisha Brown Dance Company.

MONDAY, MARCH 6 THE BROAD

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FELLOW CIRCLE (CONTINUED) Jennifer & Matthew Rowland, John Salter, Francine E. Sanders, Gail Sandford & Beatrice Castillo, Stephen J. Sass & Dr. Steven Hochstadt, Scott Shagrin, James & Alexis Sheehy, Howard & Stephanie Sherwood, Steven E. Shulem, Jan & Carl Siechert, Charlene & Mike Sievers, Louis & Mary Silver Foundation, Kurt & Keli Skarin, Stephen & Judith Slagle, Drs. Debra & Philip Sobol, Judith & Stan Solomon, Alfred & Bett Spivak, Jacque & Herb Spivak, Diane & James Staes, Sullivan & Hargreaves Court Reporters, Mr. & Mrs. Mitchell Sussman, Dr. Allan & Roslyn Holt Swartz, Norman & Barbara Weiler, Leilani Whitney, Lori Williams & Stephen Schulte, Valerie & Nathaniel E. Williams | Annual Donors: Anonymous (5), Gay & Harry Abrams/Abrams Artists Agency, Richard Alonso, Dr. O. Allen Alpay, Merryl & David A. Alpert, Paula & Douglas Anderson, James Asperger & Christine Adams, Suzanne & Bill Attig, Cheryl & Elliott Balbert, Eric & Jasna Baron, Norma Barretta, Lois Barth & Michael Schubach, Barbara Bauer & Lawrence Cox, Susan Baumgarten, Chris & Rose Bauss, James P. Bennett & Company, Fran R. Berger, Leah M. Bishop & Gary M. Yale, Nathalie Blossom & Howard Levy, Yvonne Bogdanovich & Family, Alice Desobry Bowens, Ms. Susan M. Brewer, Dr. Leon & Rochelle Brooks, Willie & Charlene Brownlee, The Burleigh Family, Mr. Peter Chapa, Mr. & Mrs. Larry Chernoff, Mrs. James L. Chew, Nicholas Chrisos, Mary Coates, Nadege & Jay Conger, Dr. Frederic H. Corbin MD, Leah M. Coulter, Christine & Kevin Crombie, Dr. Allison Diamant, Julia Donoghue, Dr. & Mrs. William Duxler, Regina L. Echols, Earl & Karen Enzer, Larry Field, Frances & Terry Flanagan, Pat Fleming, The Franke Family Trust, John Gallardo, Dr. & Mrs. Jerry Garrett, Dr. Robert Gasway & Mrs. Kristen Wong, Lesley & Kenneth Geiger, Kate Geller, Lori Glickman, Linda & Gary Goldfein, Lenore S. & Bernard A. Greenberg Fund, Pam Grissom, Beverly & Felix Grossman, Claudia & Tom Grzywacz, Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Guerin, Shirley Guy, Roberta L. Haft, Carolyn & Bernard Hamilton, Sara & John Harms, Harris Family Foundation, Mark & Julie Harrison, Gail & Murray Heltzer, Dr. Stephen D. Henry & Rudy Oclaray, Don Herman, Ofer B. Ho, Rand Hoffman & Charlotte Robinson, Mr. & Mrs. William H. Hurt, Harold Igdaloff, Susan & Larry Ivanjack, Lee Ann & Riley Janek, Judy K. Jeanson, Audrey & Edgar Jessup, Bruce Johnston, Mary Quon Jung & Michael Galindo, Gary & Denise Kading, Mark A. Kadzielski, Judith & Russell Kantor, Dr. Karen Kartun & Dr. Ronald Shiell, The Katz Family Foundation, Michael Keir, Jackie A. Kern, In Memory of Mille Kern, Annette & Dr. Charles Kleeman, Genni Klein, William Kobin & Frances Goodman, Norman & Leslie Koplof, Mr. & Mrs. Stan Krasnoff, Sharon & Joel Krischer, Jale Kutay, The Kwon Family Foundation, Laura N. La Shelle, Nita Whitaker LaFontaine, Patricia W. Lambson, Mr. & Mrs. Jack D. Lantz, Sharon Lapid/ LFCF, Christine Lee, Gloria D. Lee, Bob Leibowitz, M.D., Curtis Lelash, Ronald Levenson & Marcia Gold Levenson, Michael Levin & Michael Wiener, Lisa Hinchliffe & Dave Link, Jananne LoCasale, Philip LoGiudice, M.D., Mary Anne Lucero, M. Michele Martin, Margaret L. Mathews, James A. Zapp & Elizabeth A. McGlynn, Lary & Mary Anne Mielke, Sue & Monty Mohrman, Toni & Tom Morgan, In Loving Memory of Harvey S. Morse, Patty & John Nickoll, Cindy & Ken Norian, Becky Novy, Bob & Renee Nunn, Norman & Margrit Oberstein, Valerie Oishi, Christina Owen & Marvin Isaacson, Jennifer N. Owens & Jay T. Ornellas, John Paley, Helen Pekny, The PolingerCohen Foundation, Paulene Popek, Mrs. Eleanor Pott, Cheryl & Joel Prell, Gail & Gary Rachelefsky, F. Ronald & Deborah Rader, Lee Ramer, Rollin A. Ransom & Chris Lacroix, Michele & Dudley Rauch, Rona Cele Resnick, Dr. Harry E. Rice MD, In Loving Memory of Adam Rice, Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Ring, Ellen & Mike Rosenberg, Barbara & Peter Rosenthal, In Honor of Robert Edward Sabol, June Sanders Sattler, Linda & Clifford Schaffer, Marlene & Roger Schaffner, Malcolm Schneer, Mr. & Mrs. John Schulte, Carol (Jackie) & Charles H. Schwartz, Robert & Cathy Sevell, Linda M. Sherman, Nancy Signer, Debra J. Silvera-Sheehan, Bruce & Nancy Silverman, Dr. & Mrs. Robert J. Simon, Shani Smolens & In Memory of Dr. Bernard Smolens, Christine Helppie-Soldate, Sue & Steve Soldoff, Carol Stein Sterling & James Sterling, Bobbie Stern, Susan R. Stockel, Jayashree & Jeff Sung, Robin & David Swartz, Michael & Arlene Taylor, Laney & Thomas Techentin, Michelle Tesoro, Linda & Harris Toibb, The Toppino Family, Ms. Andrea Valcourt, Mr. & Mrs. Robert

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The Old Man and The Old Moon By PigPen Theatre Co. Co-directed by Stuart Carden and PigPen Theatre Co.

FELLOW CIRCLE (CONTINUED) D. Volk, Jean Walsh, Hope Landis Warner, Wendie Warwick & Ken Pierce, Jessica M. Weisel, Lauri Weiss, Pat West, Ms. Jean M. Wilkinson, Denise & Andrew Winner, Karen & Bill Wolett, Ed Wolkowitz Family, Virginia & Greg Young, Arnold H. & Tricia L. Zane, Myrna & Stanley Zimmerman

ADVOCATE CIRCLE ($2,400+)

May 13 – June 18

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Now, after delighting audiences in New York, Chicago, and Boston, The Old Man and The Old Moon makes its West Coast premiere. Discover why BroadwayWorld dubbed the production “a glorious fusion of music and theatrics,” and TheaterMania called it “extraordinarily imaginative—a rare example of true theatre magic!” (619) 23-GLOBE (234-5623) www.TheOldGlobe.org

Multi-Year Donors: Anonymous (3), Harriet Rossetto & Rabbi Mark Borovitz, The Saul Brandman Foundation, Hon. Candace Cooper (Ret), Mr. & Mrs. Laurie Blumin & Moe Blumin, Rosalie Friis-Ross, Dr. Patricia Harrison, Gaylen Kobayashi, Julien Minard, Helene G. Mochedlover, Rob & Leslie Nagby, Cynthia Ann Petty, Charles Reinhart, Leslie Smith, Paulette Toumazos & Michael Lorenz | Annual Donors: Anonymous (7), Amy & Bob Abramson, David Abshier, Steve & Karen Adolph, James & Marsha Alexander, W. Lee Bailey, M.D., Angela Allen, Deborah G. Baine, Phyllis M. Berger, Susan & Adam Berger, Mr. & Mrs. Steven B. Bergjans, Jeffrey & Susan Berman, Jamie & Joel Berman, Bob Besser, Cheryl Bledin, John S. Borsum & Mark Ehrenstein, Sandra & Robert Braun, Geri Brawerman, Judy & David Breitstein, Devra Breslow, Janice R. Brittain, Constance Burg, Beth Burnam, Joan & Allan Burns, Vera A. Campbell, Carol & Ken Carlson, Torino Carr, Sandra L. Carter, Don & Ellen Castleman, Mr. & Mrs. Brenton Chinn, Terry Cole, MD, Ted Cordes & Bill Derby, Mr. & Mrs. Richard Crook Jr., Kathryn Crown, Trisha Curry, Maurie Davidson, Linda Vanwinkle Deacon, Mrs. George DeRoy & Cathy DeRoy, Norma & Al Diaz, Mike & Jamie DiFiori, Ms. Nancy Gerrish, Gerald & Sandra Dorfman, The Dougher Family, Ken & Kathi Ellis, Louise & Charles Escoffery, Ellen Eubanks, Victoria I. Evers, Jim Bright & Lucy Farber, Edward & MaryAnn Feo, Ruth Fleming-Stephens, Joan Franzen, Joanne Freed & Richard C. Mendelson, Sharon & Mark E. Friedman, Brady Frome, Mr. John Fukuoka, Dr. & Mrs. Humberto A. Galleno, The Gelfand Family, Jeanne K. Gerson, Karen & Michael Gilbert, Stephen Glick & Sylvia Turk, Gary Jackson & Linda Globerman, M.D., The Gold Family, Donna & Lee B. Gold, M.D., Dr. Irene Goldenberg, Myles & Barbara Goodson, Bill & Sue Gordon, Linda & Pete Gorman, Jackie & Stan Gottlieb, Dr. Sudha & Dr. Gopal Govindarajan, Marsha Grant, Peggy A. Grant, In Honor of My Mother, Consuelo Lopez, Scott Hall & Rhonda Church, Betsy Hamilton, Jack & Janet Harootun, Margaret Harrington, Gene Hawkins, Phyllis & J. Michael Hennigan, Scott & Flora Herman, Karen Hirshan/Hirshan Family Foundation, Dorothy Hoffman, Marcia & Gary Hollander, Jim & Gloria Hopper, Dorothy K. Hull, Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Itami, Karen & Jake Jacobs, Adrienne Grant & Paul Jennings, In Memory of Wayne Jervis, Jr., Barbara Schnell & Gordon Johnson, Charline Jones, Roz & Jerry J. Joseph, Sandy & Stanley Kahan, Janet & Steve Kahane, Cynthia & Jerry Kay, Claudia E. Kazachinsky & Richard A. Sherer, Sharon Kerson, Neal Hersh & Lynda Klein, Irene & Marvin H. Kleinberg, Paul & Sharon Kleiter, Gail J. Levine, V. P. Sessions, Owen & Sari Kustner, Rosalind LaBriola, Mrs. Frumeh Labow, Lena, Mark, Jodi & Emily Labowe, Holly R. Lake, Katherine L’Amour, Sally Landau, Richard & Ruth Lavine Family Foundation, Dr. & Mrs. John F. Lawrence, Julie Lawrence, Janeen & David Lee, Lucille Leiba, Constance Leonard, Dinny & David Lesser, Pam, Amanda, Lianna & Eddie, Allyn & Jeffrey Levine, Richard & Vivian Levy, Dr. Dianne Long, Mr. & Mrs. Mark S. Louchheim, Sondra Murr Love, Mr. & Mrs. Roger Mairs, Denise M. Mamishian, Mr. & Mrs. Dennis G. Martin, Susan D. Martynec, Ms. Jacqueline H. Matlock, Michael & Marian Kleinman, Cheryl McConaughey, David & Kathleen McDonald, Tony Melia, Arthur Melville, Ph.D. & Marsha Utain, M.S., Robert L. Mendow, Lorraine & Craig Meyer, Carolyn Miller, Delores Charlene Miller, Nicole L. Miner & Celia Ruskin, Arleen Miya, Donn Nelson, Dr. Anthony Nesburn, Patricia Newcomb, Isabel Friend Newman, Russell Noel, Roberta Novick & Martin Gardner, Michelle Nuttall, Dr. David Oh & Schuyler Smith, Mr. & Mrs. Mark M. Panatier, Thomas Payne, Carol Phillips & Bob Shapiro, Barry & Jane McCullough, Frank & Arlene Pirolo, Mr. & Mrs. Albert Praw, Sandra & John Radine, Mary Lynn & John Rallis, Tracy L. Ramont, Mrs. Mark A. Resnik, Susan & Walter Reutimann, Ms. Carlene Ringer,

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ADVOCATE CIRCLE (CONTINUED) Belinda Robins, Lynne Rosenberg, Rosa M. Salazar, Jean L. Scroggy, John R. Sealy, M.D., Ruth A. Seigle, Ruth & Mitchell Shapiro, Gloria Sherwood, Mary Louise Shnier, Karen & Gordon Silverstein, Kathleen A. Siu, Nancy Horii, Mr. Ricardo Sosapavon, Tom & Kerstin Stempel, David & Lenora Stewart, Deborah K. Streiber, Dr. Wenjay Sung, I.H. Sutnick, Mr. David Tarlow, Mary & Peter Tennyson, Sheila & Lawrence Teplin, Greg Tirabasso & Joseph Krause, Rob & Dinah Titcher, Phillip & Eileen Tremonti, Joyce Huyett Turner & Craig Turner, Carol Vernon & Robert Turbin, Claire Hawthorn Vincent, M. June Walden, Denise & Peter Walsh, Alan Wilson & Ina Coleman, Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Wilson, Bonnie L. Wong, Janis K. Yerkey, Wally T. Zajac, The Zolkover Family

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