Performances Magazine | Pasadena Playhouse, October 2022

By MARTYNA MAJOK Directed by ZI ALIKHAN

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P1 Program

Cast, performances, who’s who, director’s notes and donors

6 In the Wings

Gustavo Dudamel leads the LA Phil in The Tristan Project; the Norton Simon Museum pairs portraits by Picasso and Ingres; the Grammy Award-winning Pacific Chorale looks at Leonardo da Vinci.

12 At Last, OCMA

After years of fits and starts, the $94 million Orange County Museum of Art opens in a gleaming new home in Costa Mesa designed by Pritzker Award-winning architect Thomas Mayne.

20 Design

New Soho.Home.Studio in West Hollywood presents home furnishing collections that reflect the lifestyle at Soho House social clubs around the world.

26 Dining

New Magari in Hollywood calls its cuisine Tokyo-Italian, yet it never feels like fusion— more like expert Italian fare enhanced by prime Japanese ingredients and sensibilities.

32 Parting Thought

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LOVE-DEATH

TRISTAN UND ISOLDE is an immense operatic poem, a song of love and death inspired by the medieval legend Tristan and Iseult. The work marks a turning point in Richard Wagner’s works, and in the history of Western music, for its audacious harmonies and rhythmic overlays. Gustavo Dudamel leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in The Tristan Project, a production directed by Peter Sellars with video by artist Bill Viola; three-day sequences, one act per performance, take place at Walt Disney Concert Hall Dec. 9-11 and Dec. 16-18. The celebrated cast includes Michael Weinius and Miina-Liisa Värelä. Sellars explores the intense emotions of the two protagonists while, suspended like an altarpiece, Viola’s video portrays the inner world of the profound psychological drama that unfolds onstage. 111 S Grand Ave, downtown, 323.850.2000, laphil.com

IN THE WINGS

OPERA

Tristan’s Ascension from Bill Viola video for the Tristan Project

Face to Face at Norton Simon

THE NORTON SIMON Museum brings together two extraordinary, interrelated paintings—Pablo Picasso’s Woman with a Book (1932) and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s Madame Moitessier (1856) —for the first time at Picasso Ingres: Face to Face. A partnership with the National Gallery, London, the exhibition explores Picasso’s fascination with Ingres Oct. 21Jan. 30. Ingres depicts Madame Moitessier in an armchair surround ed by luxurious trappings, balancing the sitter’s imperious pose with an

illogically angled reflection. Ingres’s propensity to bend naturalistic rep resentation appealed to many mod ernists, notably Picasso. Depicting his young lover Marie-Thérèse Walter, Picasso reprised the pose but transformed and amplified the sitter’s eroticism. Here, Moitessier’s incongruent reflection in the mirror gains an extra dimension: An androgynous profile alludes both to Walter and to the artist himself, a ghostly voyeur on the scene. 411 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, 626.449.6840, nortonsimon.org

ART

Picasso Ingres at National Gallery, London, prior to its opening at Norton Simon Museum

Choral ode to Leonardo da Vinci

THE PACIFIC CHORALE and artistic director Robert Istad this year became the first Orange County-based classical music organization ever to win a Grammy Award. Joined by the Pacific Symphony, the ensemble launches its 2022-23 season with a multimedia concert Oct. 15 at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa, adja cent to the new Orange County Museum of Art (see page 12). Jocelyn Hagen composed The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci to honor the Renaissance artist’s legacy on the 500th anniversary of his death in 2019. The nine-movement choral work is set to text from his notebooks about art, science, nature and technology, brought to life by Muséik video syncing technology. The concert also features Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem; the composer’s greatest work is a rich tapestry of human emotions fusing Gregorian chant with 20th-century musical concepts. 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa, 714.662.2345, pacificchorale.org

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Grammy Awardwinning Pacific Chorale and, below, its artistic director Robert Istad

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Exterior detail at Morphosis-designed Orange County Museum of Art

SEVENTEEN DESIGNS IN 14 years?

Most people would think that’s a bad thing.

But Heidi Zuckerman, CEO and director of the new $94 million Orange County Museum of Art, says the project’s long and lurching journey was a good thing.

“It actually benefited from its 17 designs over 14 years,” Zuckerman says. “It continued to get better.”

Designed to showcase OCMA’s California-centric collection of

modern and contemporary art, the 53,000-square-foot museum fills the last open space of Orange County’s cultural hub, Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa.

It debuts Oct. 8. Admission for the first 10 years is free.

THE ARCHITECTURE

THE STRUCTURE’S undulating white design comes from the global architecture firm Morphosis, founded by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne.

This is the first art museum in Mayne’s large portfolio. The Pritzker jury had singled him out for his “original architecture, one that is truly representative of the unique, somewhat rootless, culture of Southern California.”

Mayne says the Orange County Museum of Art “takes an urban idea to Orange County. We gave the space … back to the public by intro ducing a grand stair, allée of trees, and an upper-level plaza.”

THE BACKSTORY

THE MUSEUM BEGAN modestly 60 years ago when 13 women opened the Balboa Pavilion Gallery. In 1968, that small art gallery became the Newport Harbor Art Museum and by the 1990s was renamed the Orange County Museum of Art, hidden in plain sight near Fashion Island in Newport Center.

Almost from the get-go, the goal was to expand its exhibition space.

Paralleling that discussion was the development of Segerstrom Center for the Arts (initially called the Orange County Performing Arts Center). The center debuted in 1986, expanding over time into a multi-building complex showcasing theater, music and dance.

About an acre was earmarked for an art museum. In 2007, Morphosis won the competition to design the project; its location would be the grassy area adjacent to the center’s towering Richard Serra sculpture Connector.

JOSHUA WHITE, TOP, AND MARK HANAUER

Nearly complete museum and adjacent Richard Serra sculpture Connector. Below, museum CEO/director Heidi Zuckerman

Starring Teri Hatcher as Morticia Addams

Brickman

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SONDHEIM CELEBRATION

SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE

FEB 14 – MAR 19, 2023

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by James Lapine

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

APR 25 – MAY 28, 2023

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by Hugh Wheeler

BERNADETTE PETERS IN CONCERT

JUN 10 – JUN 11, 2023 at the Civic Center

STEW

JUL 11 – AUG 6, 2023

By Zora Howard

WELCOME!

We dive into our 2022/23 Season with an extraordinary new play, Sanctuary City. Since our founding in 1917, the Playhouse has championed new voices that move the American Theater forward. From Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill to Suzan-Lori Parks and Lauren Yee, we have been a home to new work. That tradition continues today as we launch this season with one of the most thrilling new voices of today’s theater scene, Martyna Majok.

Martyna not only has the gift of an extraordinary storyteller, but she shines her spotlight on characters that have rarely been seen on stage and finds a way to make us feel deeply connected to them and their experiences. Sanctuary City is a powerful story about two young people and their experience growing up in this country. It is a deeply American story bringing us into the inner lives of people we rarely examine and yet are part of our everyday lives here in Los Angeles. The play is stunningly brought to life on our historic stage by director Zi Alikhan and an extraordinary group of designers along with a talented young cast of Los Angeles actors.

After Sanctuary City, we pause through the rest of the fall as we continue our preparations for the most ambitious project we’ve ever attempted, our Stephen Sondheim Celebration beginning in January 2023. This six-month festival honoring and exploring the work of the greatest musical theater composer of all time promises to be the theatrical event of the year. We can’t wait to share it with you. The season will be capped off by another thrilling new play, Zora Howard’s breathtaking Stew.

You won’t want to miss any of it.

DANNY FELDMAN Producing Artistic Director

Presents

Written by MARTYNA MAJOK

Directed by ZI ALIKHAN

Starring

ANA NICOLLE CHAVEZ MILES FOWLER and KANOA GOO

Scenic Design CHIKA SHIMIZU Costume Design JOJO SIU

Associate Producer JENNY SLATTERY

Casting THE TELSEY OFFICE

RYAN BERNARD TYMENSKY, CSA ROSE BOCHNER, CSA

Stage Manager BRANDON HONG CHENG

Lighting Design SOLOMON WEISBARD

Sound Design JOHN NOBORI

Playhouse Technical Director/ Production Supervisor BRAD ENLOW

Intimacy Coordinator AMANDA ROSE VILLARREAL

Press Representative DAVIDSON & CHOY PUBLICITY

This production is partially underwritten by our very generous Honorary Producers, who are all part of the THE BRAD & PAMELA KING HONORARY PRODUCERS CIRCLE

Sanctuary City presented through special arrangement with and all authorized performance materials are supplied by TRW Plays 1180 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 640, New York, NY 10036. www.trwplays.com

Pasadena Playhouse sits on the land of the Gabrielino-Tongva and Kizh people, who historically inhabited the area around present-day Pasadena. We honor their contribution to this region and give thanks for the opportunity to live, work, and perform on their unceded ancestral lands.

sep 14 - oct 9

Opening Night: SEP 22, 2022

CAST

G ANA NICOLLE CHAVEZ B MILES FOWLER

Henry KANOA GOO

STAGE MANAGEMENT

Stage Manager

BRANDON HONG CHENG

Assistant Stage Manager LYDIA RUNGE

PLACE

Newark and thereabouts. 2001-2006.

Sanctuary City is performed without an intermission.

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Pro fessional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

MILES FOWLER

KANOA GOOANA NICOLLE CHAVEZ

If you’ve come within 30 feet of me in the past two years, you’ve heard me talk about The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio. Karla is a couple years younger than me, was born in Ecuador, and believes she is one of the first undocumented folks to graduate from Harvard (as of 2020, she was also pursuing a PhD from Yale).

Karla’s book sits somewhere between a Valentine and an alarm clock, a call to attention for us all to recognize the position of undocumented folks, undocumented brains, hearts, and bodies, as some of the central threads that hold our country together, that allow us to eat, to breathe, to drive to work, to sit in this theatre together and take a breath. What Karla brings to light is how much the cost of our security is the insecurity of these communities, how what makes our days feel easy is often what makes someone else’s day feel dire, or even question if a day, here, beyond this one exists. What Karla’s book centers on is the fundamental humanity of all people who live in this country, who occupy this globe: a yearning to love, a yearning to express, a yearning to simply be without apologizing. Coming away from The Undocumented Americans, it is impossible not to recognize that we are all the same humans, operating in fundamentally different sets of given circumstances imposed by those in power to make us feel different from one another.

And this is where Martyna, in Sanctuary City, carries these conversations into the theatrical sphere in a way I can only describe as miraculous. What is so powerful about Martyna’s writing, about B and G and Henry, is their essential humanity, is their hearts that beat on the page, their ordinariness in a set of extreme circumstances that make them feel like our brothers, sisters, and best friends caught in a matrix we’d never want them caught in, without the tools to escape, handcuffs imposed on them by a country that has only ever known how to operate when some have and many don’t. Another one of my favorite writers, Sanaz Toossi, recently said that ‘writing a trauma play makes (her) want to dry heave’, and I think that’s what is so sensational about Martyna’s work here: all Martyna wrote is the truth, and it’s our work as artists and audiences to present that truth, to feel with and through it, and then to act.

It has been our responsibility, in making Sanctuary City here in Pasadena, to pursue this truth, in all its colors, to pay respect to these characters and their stories and the real life folks who occupy these spaces by venturing, as authentically as we could, into their grief, their joy, their most precious moments of connectivity, and their most cataclysmic moments of regret. So, here we are, embarking on these ninety minutes together that sit somewhere between and Valentine and an alarm clock—I encourage you to carry this time forward with you, outside this theatre, outside of today, to recognize the fundamental humanity in all folks who live and breathe together in this country, and to recognize that the fight to live and breathe and simply be seen here is one that continues for so so many.

DIRECTOR'S LETTER

2001 – 2006: A TIMELINE

By Katie Craddock; Courtesy of Berkeley Repertory Theatre

The events of Sanctuary City take place in and around Newark, New Jersey between 2001 and 2006. While that is the not-so-distant past, it’s a time distinct from our present moment in ways that are germane to the story, from the sociopolitical to the cultural. We compiled this list of select goings-on in that period to jog your memory (or, for our Gen Z friends, to illuminate a period when you were too little to pay attention to such things!)

POLITICS

– The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules anti-gay laws against same-sex marriage unconstitutional in Massachusetts.

POLITICS

– George W. Bush is sworn in as the 43rd President, and Dick Cheney as the Vice President.

– U.S. Senators Durbin and Hatch propose the first Development, Relief and Education of Alien Minors (DREAM) Act , which would provide a pathway to legal status for Dreamers, undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents as children. The bill doesn’t pass.

MAJOR EVENTS

– Almost 3,000 people are killed in four suicide attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City; the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia; and in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania, launching the global War on Terrorism

– A series of anthrax attacks commence as letters are mailed from Princeton, New Jersey to major news sources, including ABC and the New York Post.

– The United States invades Afghanistan, accompanied by other nations, in Operation Enduring Freedom

POLITICS

–Congress authorizes the Iraq War Resolution.

– President Bush signs the No Child Left Behind act into law.

– Queen Elizabeth II gives Rudy Giuliani an honorary knighthood.

MAJOR EVENTS

– President Bush signs the Homeland Security Act into law, establishing the Department of Homeland Security, marking the largest American government reorganization since 1947.

– The first detainees arrive at Guantanamo.

– The Supreme Court declares sodomy laws unconstitutional.

– The U.S. Census Bureau announces that with 37 million, Hispanics constitute the largest minority (compared with 36 million African Americans).

– President Bush concedes there is no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the 9/11 attacks. He requests $87 billion from Congress for military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

MAJOR EVENTS

– The new Department of Homeland Security begins operations, absorbing the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the Customs Service, and the Secret Service.

– The U.S.-led Iraq War begins. About $1 billion is taken from Iraq’s Central Bank by Saddam Hussein and his family, just hours before the U.S. begins bombing Baghdad.

– In Newark, Sakia Gunn, a 15-yearold Black lesbian, is murdered while waiting for the bus downtown; her murder is deemed a hate crime and sparks protests and demands for Mayor Sharpe James’ office to do more to protect queer youths.

2001 20032002

POP CULTURE & TECHNOLOGY

– Apple releases the first iPod.

– Shrek, Monsters, Inc., Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone, and The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring premiere.

– Hanging by a Moment by Lifehouse, Fallin by Alicia Keys, and All for You by Janet Jackson are the year’s top singles.

POP CULTURE & TECHNOLOGY

– Halle Berry is the first Black actress to win the Best Actress Academy Award.

– Lilo & Stitch, Star Wars: Episode II –Attack of the Clones, Ice Age, City of God, and Gangs of New York premiere.

– How You Remind Me by Nickelback, Foolish by Ashanti, and Hot in Herre by Nelly top the charts.

POP CULTURE & TECHNOLOGY

– In da Club by 50 Cent, Ignition by R. Kelly, and Get Busy by Sean Paul top the charts.

– Finding Nemo, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, and The Matrix Reloaded are released.

– Myspace launches.

TIMELINE

POLITICS

– President Bush is elected for a second term, defeating John Kerry.

– 11 American states ban gay marriage.

– The City and County of San Francisco begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples as an act of civil disobedience.

– Massachusetts legalizes same-sex marriage.

– New Jersey governor James McGreevey announces he is “a gay American” and resigns.

MAJOR EVENTS

– Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse is revealed on 60 Minutes.

– Hurricanes Ivan, Jeanne, and Frances cause deaths, injuries, and widespread damage.

– The U.S.-led coalition occupying Iraq transfers sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government.

POLITICS

– The 11th Circuit of Appeals refuses to stop the euthanasia of Terri Schiavo.

– John Roberts is confirmed to the Supreme Court, replaces William Rehnquist after his death.

– Ten years after reaching the million mark, the U.S. prison population reaches 2.5 million.

MAJOR EVENTS

– Ten people are killed in the Red Lake shootings, the worst school shooting since Columbine.

– Hurricane Katrina devastates the U.S. Gulf Coast, becoming the costliest hurricane in U.S. history.

– The U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 2,000. People worldwide protest the Iraq War.

– Wholesale inflation increased by the highest amount since 1990.

POLITICS

– Cory Booker becomes mayor of Newark.

– A Maryland judge strikes down a state law banning same-sex marriage.

– Midterm elections result in Democrats gaining control of both houses of Congress.

MAJOR EVENTS

– Saddam Hussein is executed.

– The housing bubble bursts, starting a chain of events that eventually develop into a full-blown market meltdown.

– The Great American Boycott takes place as millions of people protest a proposed change to immigration policy, which would raise penalties for illegal immigration and classify undocumented people and anyone who helped them enter or remain in the U.S. as felons. Protestors call for a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.

2004 2005 2006

POP CULTURE & TECHNOLOGY

– Facebook launches.

– Google becomes a publicly traded company.

– Yeah! by Usher featuring Lil Jon & Ludacris, Burn by Usher, and If I Ain’t Got You by Alicia Keys top the charts.

– Shrek 2, Spider-Man 2, The Passion of the Christ, and The Incredibles are the top-grossing movies.

– The final episodes of Friends air.

POP CULTURE & TECHNOLOGY

– YouTube goes online.

– Reddit launches.

– Top-grossing movies include Wedding Crashers, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, War of the Worlds, and Mr. & Mrs. Smith; The Office debuts on NBC.

– We Belong Together by Mariah Carey, Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani, Let ME Love You by Mario, and Since U Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson top the charts.

POP CULTURE & TECHNOLOGY

– Bad Day by Daniel Powter, Temperature by Sean Paul, Promiscuous by Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland, and You’re Beautiful by James Blunt top the charts.

– Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, The Da Vinci Code, Ice Age: The Meltdown, and Casino Royale are the highest-grossing films.

– Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion.

WHO’S WHO

PASADENA PLAYHOUSE

Pasadena Playhouse is a place where people have gathered for over 100 years to experience bold and important theater. As the State Theater of California, our mission is to enrich people’s lives through theater, community programs, and learning.

ANA NICOLLE CHAVEZ

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Ana Nicolle Chavez, an actress born and raised in Arizona, is over the moon to be joining this production of Sanctuary City . She's a graduate of the State University of New York, Purchase College Acting Conservatory (BFA 2021). Television credits: Season 3 character arc on Truth Be Told on Apple TV+. Film work: Forgotten Lovers . A huge thank you to my mother, my dad, my brother, and my closest friends for their endless support along the way.

MILES FOWLER

Miles Fowler can next be seen in MGM's Orion Picture's feature film Bottoms directed by Emma Seligman. His past credits include HBO's Winning Time , FOX's The Resident , and the ABC Limited Series Women of the Movement . Miles studied at USC, where he received a BA in the Dramatic Arts. Miles Fowler is represented by Authentic Talent and Literary Management.

KANOA GOO Henry —

Kanoa Goo is an actor who recently starred in the film I Was A Simple Man , which premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival and is now streaming exclusively on Criterion. He can currently be seen in a major recurring arc as Chris Sanford on ABC's The Rookie Other films include Other People opposite Jesse Plemons, Velvet Buzzsaw , Endings, Beginnings , and I Am Michael . Past television includes the NBC pilot Someone Out There , City On A Hill (Showtime), NCIS: Hawai'i (CBS), The Fairly OddParents (Paramount+), Hawai'i Five-0 (CBS), and Dwight In Shining Armor (Paramount Worldwide/BYUtv). Kanoa was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai'i. He would like to thank Zi, and Pasadena Playhouse for this incredible opportunity.

ZI ALIKHAN Director

Zi Alikhan is a queer, first-generation South Asian-American, culturally Muslim theater director. Directing: On That Day in Amsterdam (Primary Stages), Snow in Midsummer (Classic Stage Company), The Great Leap (Portland Center Stage), Manik Choksi’s The Ramayan (currently in development at Ars Nova), Ragtime (Playmakers Repertory Company). Upcoming: Somewhere at Geva Theatre, A Nice Indian Boy at Olney Theatre Center, and Rent at Paper Mill Playhouse. Zi was named one of TCG’s Rising Leaders of Color in 2021, and is thrilled to return to Pasadena Playhouse, where he was an SDC Observer in 2012.

CHIKA SHIMIZU Scenic Designer

Chika Shimizu is a New York based scenic and projection designer. Theatre: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, The Irish Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre (CT Critics Circle Award Nomination), TheatreSquared, The Barrow Group, The Pond Theatre Company, Yangtze Repertory Theatre, Epic Theatre Ensemble, Artists at Play.

Installation: Another Dream , Un(re)solved (Ado Ato pictures, 2022 SXSW Innovation Award). MFA in Design from YSD. She is a faculty member of NYU Tisch School of the Arts. chikashimizu.com

WHO'S WHO

JOJO SIU

Costume Designer

Jojo Siu’s work has been featured both nationally and internationally at Pasadena Playhouse, Deaf West Theatre, The Chance Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, Sierra Madre Playhouse, Santa Fe Opera, Perseverance Theater, and Singapore Repertory among others. Her work has been recognized by Stage Scene LA, and the OC Theatre Guild. She is an advocate for Asian diversity and representation in her work. New Works: North , The Trial of Dedan Kimathi , The Madres . Other projects: Oedipus , Midsummer Night’s Dream , King of the Yees , Joy Luck Club , Eurydice , Head Over Heels , Spring Awakening , Bright Star , Into the Woods , and Fun Home , Kim’s Convenience , Our Town .

SOLOMON WEISBARD

Lighting Designer

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Solomon has created original works in drama, opera, dance, installation, and music across the U.S., Canada, Dominican Republic, Germany, Greece, Italy, Russia, and Slovenia. Highlights include Otello (Festspielhaus Baden Baden, Germany); Il Trovatore (Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Teatro Regio di Parma, Italy);  Oedipus (Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, Greece; Ancient Theatre of Pompeii, Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza, and Teatro Mercadante di Napoli, Italy) all with Robert Wilson; Macbeth (directed by John Doyle at Classic Stage Company, NYC); The Shape of Things (created by Carrie Mae Weems at the Park Avenue Armory, NYC); Duat (Soho Rep, NYC); and Men on Boats (World Premiere: Playwrights Horizons/Clubbed Thumb, NYC).

Solomon earned his MFA from the Yale School of Drama and is on the faculty at Portland State University.

JOHN NOBORI Sound Designer —

John Nobori is a California-based sound designer, composer, and ensemble member of Cornerstone Theater Company. His work has been heard in plays produced by such organizations as The Getty Villa and Oregon Shakespeare Festival.  Other recent credits include Center Theatre Group’s production of Elliot: A Soldier’s Fugue and South Coast Repertory’s production of Our Town . He has been nominated for several awards for excellence in sound design and is the recipient of an Ovation Award for his work on The Golden Dragon at Boston Court Pasadena. BA University of California, Irvine.

AMANDA ROSE VILLARREAL Intimacy Coordinator

Amanda Rose Villarreal is an intimacy choreographer and immersive artist. They are an associate faculty with Theatrical Intimacy Education and both founder and managing editor of the Journal of Consent-Based Performance. Amanda Rose earned their MA in Theatre Production with an emphasis in Directing from Central Washington University and their PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Colorado Boulder. They recently choreographed intimacy for Pasadena Playhouse’s Uncle Vanya and Geffen Playhouse’s The Inheritance Part 1 and Part 2 , and led consent-based trainings for faculty at the Lee Strasberg Institute and the Groundlings Theatre & School. Other recent intimacy choreography credits include work with The Catamounts and Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company, as well as creating consent mechanics for, and performing in, playable performances at Sinking Ship Creations in NYC and Moonrise Larp in Chicago.

BRANDON HONG CHENG

Stage Manager

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Brandon is excited to help bring Sanctuary City to Pasadena Playhouse. He is a San Francisco native and a graduate of California State University, Long Beach, with a B.A. in Technical Theatre. Premiere credits include The Great Leap -Pasadena Playhouse/East West Players, The Chinese Lady -Artists at Play, and Interstate & Man of God- East West Players. Selected credits include Grease Musical Theatre West, Assassins and Mamma Mia! -East West Players, The Root Beer Bandits -Garry Marshall Theatre, Allegiance Japanese American Cultural & Community Center/East West Players, Vampire Lesbians of Sodom -Door Ajar Theatre, 2012 -The MusicalSan Francisco Mime Troupe, and Conf(USED) Youth for Asian Theater. He always wants to thank his family and friends for all their love and support. Enjoy the show!

LYDIA RUNGE Assistant Stage Manager

Lydia Runge is returning to Pasadena Playhouse after previously working on Head Over Heels and The Great Leap . Select credits include: Grease and Ragtime (Musical Theatre West); Our Town (South Coast Repertory); Assassins , Mamma Mia , Man of God , As We Babble On , Allegiance : LA Premiere (East West Players); Two Mile Hollow (Artists at Play). She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin –La Crosse with a B.S. in Stage Management. Member of Actors’ Equity Association.

THE TELSEY OFFICE Casting

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With offices in both New York and Los Angeles, The Telsey Office casts for theater, film, television, and commercials. The Telsey Office is dedicated to creating safe, equitable, and anti-racist spaces through collaboration, artistry, heart, accountability, and advocacy.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Chairs Dennis Cornell Erin Baker

Treasurer Ken McCormick

Secretary Sheri Ball

CHAIR EMERITI

David M. Davis David DiCristofaro Michele Dedeaux Engemann Kerry McCluggage

BOARD MEMBERS EMERITI

Valerie Amidon Carol Burnett Linda Griffey Ralph Hirschmann Frank Kleemann Dennis Lowe

Tad Lowrey Rao Makineni Abel Ramirez Kathy Arntzen Roat Anne Rothenberg Lyn Spector Elliot Stahler Corky Hale Stoller Mike Stoller

Greg Stone Leslie Tolan Martha Williamson

TRUSTEES

Erin Baker

Sheri Ball MaryLou Boone Dennis Cornell Brandon Dickerson Peggy Ebright Danny Feldman Beth Fernandez Sheila Grether-Marion Julie A. Gutierrez Cristina Hernandez Melanie Holden Jane Kaczmarek Brad King Harmon Kong Jim McCarthy Ken McCormick Leigh T. Olivar Bingo Roncelli Jeff Smith Lilah Stangeland Ann Sunshine Patricia Barajas Tavera

IN MEMORIAM

David Angell

Theodore Fitch Behr Betty Ann Koen Brooks Albert Lowe Margaret Sedenquist Roger Stangeland James Watterson

Special thanks to Corky Hale Stoller and Mike Stoller for their extraordinary support.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

MEMBERS

Donations reflect gifts given between September 1, 2021, and August 7, 2022. Contributions received after August 7, 2022, will be acknowledged in the next program.

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PARTNERS

INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS

Ahmanson Foundation

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California Arts Council

California Community Foundation

City of Pasadena

The David Lee Foundation

Fitzberg Foundation

The Green Foundation

The Helen & Will Webster Foundation Jess & Palma Morgan Foundation

The Kenneth T. & Eileen L. Norris Foundation L.L. Foundation for Youth

Los Angeles County Arts Commission

Los Angeles County Supervisor

K athryn Barger, 5th District

Milo W. Bekins Foundation

Pasadena Community Foundation

The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation

The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation

The Shubert Foundation

The Wallace Foundation

CORPORATE SPONSORS

Benny Boy Brewery East West Bank

Friends of the Pasadena Playhouse Haute Picnic Hudson Pacific Properties Kaiser Permanente

US Bank SPACES

Contributions received after August 7, 2022 will be acknowledged in the next program.

GILMOR BROWN SOCIETY

The Gilmor Brown Society recognizes legacy givers who have honored the Playhouse by including the theater in their own will or trust. We are grateful for the legacy of the following individuals whose generosity allows this organization to continue serving our community.

Anonymous

Lenore Almanzar

Ellen Bailey*

In Memory of Judie Bartell

Estate of Evelyn Bray

Darrell Brooke Marjorie Cates

Ross Clark

Gary Dahle & Derek Whitefield

Estate of Agnes Duncan

Peggy Ebright

Estate of Harriet L. Freeman

Estate of Ada Gory Linda & Jay Griffey

Virginia Hawkins Sue Haynie-Horn & John Horn* Sheila Grether-Marion & Mark Marion

Doug Jones & John Sanger* Annelies Kischkel

Estate of Pauline Ledeen* The Joanie Marx Trust Adele Morse William & Adele Nevins Shirli Nielson*

Estate of Charles Pierce Shirley Reed Trust* Frederick Ricci*

Estate of Constance Ropolo A. Jerald Saldana

Estate of Margaret H. Sedenquist* Sandra Shaw* Lyn Spector Lilah & Roger* Stangeland Estate of Bill Watters

Jim Watterson Barbara Jean Wolpert

*Gift Realized

Producing Artistic Director

Danny Feldman

ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE

Chief Financial and Administrative Officer

Lisa Whitney Controller

Czarina Luna Business Manager Kristen Hammack-Eaton Operations Manager

J. Bailey Burcham Lead Custodian Rosa Salcedo Custodian Maria Lupe Flores

PRODUCTION/ARTISTIC

Associate Producer

Jenny Slattery

Technical Director / Production Supervisor

Brad Enlow

Producing Assistant Bonnie McHeffey

Producing Assistant

Amanda Tralle

Executive Assistant/Office Manager

Lara Gold

DEVELOPMENT

Chief Development Officer

Alex Wang

Assistant Director of Major Gifts

Becky Birdsong

Assistant Director of Development

Nora DeVeau-Rosen

Assistant Director of Events

Sam Palmer

Development Associate  Pedro Armendariz

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Chief Marketing & Communications Officer

Kory P. Kelly

Associate Director of Marketing & Communications Jessica Hird

Communications Manager Omar Avedanke Marketing Manager Nelly Mueller Communications Coordinator  Brandon Karrer Marketing Coordinator

Abby Green Graphic Designer

Spencer Berry Video Production Specialist  Nathaniel Peterson Press Representative Davidson & Choy Publicity

PATRON SERVICES

Director of Patron Services  & Sales Rachyl Spacca

Patron Services Manager

Kevin Lauver Patron Services Supervisor Shelby Amses

Patron Services Associates  Ani Cohen, Rafael Goldstein, Amanda Kochey, Hannah Tamkin, Theresa Wegher-Thompson, Kyndal Zakarian Audience Engagement  Carol Osborn House Managers  Emily Minnotte, Tammi Steren, Mark Walter, Steven Garry

SANCTUARY CITY   PRODUCTION STAFF

Stage Manager

Brandon Hong Cheng Assistant Stage Manager Lydia Runge Production Assistant Shani Hogan Assistant Costume Designer Ashley Medina Deck Chief Matt Petosa Deck Carpenter Nicolas Chamberlin Head Electrician Vsevolod Krawczeniuk Lead Audio Corey Charness  A2

Marcos Friedman Programmer / Board Op Keannak Parvaz Props Head Hannah Olsen-Mansoor Lead Scenic  Johnny LeBlanc Head Carpenter Sean Lewellyn Carpenters

Dwight Ortiz, Marcos Friedman, Nicolas Chamberlin, Jason Maradiaga, Nicholas Covarrubias  Electricians  Keannak Parvaz, Sal Flores, Matt Petosa, Evan Drane, Chastity Lindsay, Fiona Jessup

FRIENDS OF THE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE

Board of Directors

President Beth Fernandez 1st Vice President  Barbara Cruse 2nd Vice President Nancy Ashcraft Treasurer Lawrence Yu Secretary Sharon Zaslaw

STAFF

Directors

Doris Arima, Raquel Burgess, Maggie Chatman, Ross Clark, Charles Hay, Barbara Jacoby, Lillias Krezel, Patti La Marr, Art Leos, Beverly Meissner, Shirley Miller, Patrick Oliva, Fran Olson, Betty Parnell, Natalya Pashkova, Sienna Salce, Tammi Steren, Jayne Thomas, Valerie allas, Lawrence Yu

Advisory

Lenore Bond Almanzar, Carolyn Di Pane

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

This theater 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 technical employees of the Pasadena Playhouse are represented by the INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES, MOVING PICTURE TECHNICIANS, ARTISTS AND ALLIED CRAFTS, OF THE UNITED STATES, ITS TERRITORIES AND CANADA, AFL-CIO,CLC: Local 33 Stagehands, Local 706 Make-up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Local 768 Theatrical Wardrobe Local 800 Art Director’s Guild. The scenic, costume, lighting, and sound designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE.

The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

IN THE THEATER

FOR EVERYONE’S SAFETY

We take your health very seriously and want to ensure you have a safe, as well as fun visit to the Playhouse. We con tinue to follow the safety protocol set forth by Los Angeles County and the City of Pasadena. All patrons, regardless of vaccination status, will be required to wear a mask fully covering their nose and mouth at all times while inside the theater. For more details on our COVID-19 policy, and for our most upto-date guidelines, visit pasadenaplay house.org/covid-19..

FOR EVERYONE’S ENJOYMENT

As a courtesy to the artists and pa trons, we ask you to please turn off cell phones, all electronic devices and any thing that may light up the area around you prior to the performance. Please refrain from talking and any disruptive noise-making during the performance. Neither photography nor the use of electronic recording devices is allowed during performances.

LATE ARRIVALS

In consideration of our artists and pa trons, late seating will take place during the first appropriate break in the perfor mance at the discretion of Management. House Management may need to direct late arrivals to alternate seats. For the convenience of latecomers, the perfor mance in progress may be viewed and heard on the monitors in the lobby.

RESTROOMS

Restrooms, including accessible facil ities, are available in the lobby 45 min utes before each performance. We invite you to use whichever restroom you are comfortable using. We offer all-gender restrooms upstairs in the Carrie Hamilton lobby. Please see House Management if you would like to be directed to these restrooms at any time during your visit.

AGE RESTRICTIONS

Children under age 6 will not be admit ted into the theater. We ask that every one in your party, regardless of age, be able to sit quietly through a performance without disrupting other patrons or the artists. Patrons of all ages must have a ticket to enter the theater and must sit in the seat indicated on the ticket.

ACCESSIBILITY

We are committed to making theater accessible to all patrons. Assisted-lis tening devices can be checked out in the lobby before the performance using a photo ID. The third Sunday matinee per formance for every Mainstage produc tion offers Open Captioning. For more information regarding accommodations and services, please contact Patron Ser vices or ask the House Manager.

PRODUCTION ADVISORY

We do not offer advisories about the subject matter for each production, as sensitivities vary from patron to patron. If you have any inquiries regarding the content, age-appropriateness or stage effects (such as strobe lights or theatrical fog) that may affect patron comfort, please contact Patron Ser vices or a House Manager before the performance begins.

CONTACT PATRON SERVICES

Email boxoffice@pasadenaplayhouse.org Phone 626-356-7529

PHONE HOURS

Tuesday - Saturday 12 PM - 6 PM

Sunday 12 PM - 4 PM

BOX OFFICE HOURS

Tuesday - Saturday 12 PM - 6 PM

Sunday 12 PM - 4 PM

On performance days, the Box Office windows will remain open 15 minutes after the show begins.

Please note hours are subject to change due to observed holidays.

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SOCIAL DESIGN

club noted for its plush rooftop lounge. Its Melrose Avenue neigh bors include the studios of celebrity interior designers Martyn Lawrence Bullard and Adam Hunter.

reinforces the brand’s signature sense of community.

SOHO HOUSE is a global brand of upscale private social clubs whose locations from Malibu to the Arts District accommodate trend-con scious Angelenos. Now the mem bership-format brand has brought its Soho.Home.Studio home furnishings showroom to West Hollywood, pre senting lifestyle collections inspired by the diverse designs at some 40 Soho Houses around the world.

The 9,300-square-foot show room is in the shadows of the Pacific Design Center and a short drive from Holloway House, a Soho House

Lighting is a specialty. Buyers appreciate that many of the items are unique, thanks to the artisanal craftsmanship of its collaborating Murano glassmakers. Hanging from a whitewashed ceiling in the soaring skylit showroom are amber-hued Treviso chandeliers, whose petal-like sugar-glass designs reference light ing at Soho House Barcelona. Seed ceiling fixtures are informed by light ing concepts at two London clubs.

Vignettes and fully furnished rooms present the various Soho Home products in an approachable two-story residential setting. Though club members are most conscious of the brand, the showroom is certain to draw a wider audience of aspira tional buyers and interior designers seeking buzz-worthy pieces.

Should they need to take a break from the search, they can do so at an in-house coffee lounge that

The Soho Home ethos is rooted in the fashionable lifestyle of the clubs bearing its name. Products seen in Soho House lounges, restaurants or guestrooms were first offered online to respond to members’ interest.

“Our members began asking where they could buy the pieces they admired in the Houses, and the collection is inspired by the bespoke furnishings from those clubs,” recalls James Patmore, the company’s head of design. “Every time we open a new Soho House, we incorporate new items into the retail collection.”

The curvilinear form of the threeseat Cartmel sofa ($3,295), which is based on seating at Soho House Berlin, rests on dark hardwood bun feet and is upholstered in hypoallergenic linen. Playfully circular Rolland armchairs reminiscent of Soho House Rome are crafted from supple Italian bouclé fabric.

The sleek Murcell dining table ($4,695) consists of a Carrara marble top supported by a solid-

West Hollywood’s new Soho.Home.Studio presents home furnishing collections that reflect the lifestyle at Soho House social clubs around the world. by ROGER GRODY

Soho Home dining vignette. Opposite: Nelson side tables, top, and sculptural Oxley coffee table

oak pillar base; it's influenced by London’s White City House. Inspired by London’s 180 House, the Curve is a midcentury-themed floor lamp anchored by a ballfooted tripod. It emits a soft, dif fused light through a hand-pleated parchment shade at the end of a graceful blackened brass arm.

Referencing the lounge décor at Soho House Nashville, the Kingsley bar cabinet ($6,995) is crafted from ribbed oak, and its honed grey marble top and antiqued brass hardware bring a vintage vibe to the versatile piece. Details are thought fully conceived, even within the decorative doors: A mirrored back panel and LED lighting showcase the cabinet’s precious contents.

Upstairs, the West Hollywood

showroom provides customdesigned consultation rooms, where clients can explore an extensive library of fabrics and hardware, much of it integrated into finished pieces. With assistance from onsite

designers, customers can create their own made-to-order products and envision their home’s reimag ined spaces.

“Some of our sculptural state ment pieces, such as the Oxley coffee table"—which incorporates three formidable marble spheres— "appeal to our customer’s braver instincts,” Patmore observes.

With Soho Houses attracting world-class tastemakers from Paris to Hong Kong, Soho Home’s Member Market highlights products and brands that were founded by club members. Specific lines include intriguingly sculpted lighting prod ucts by Spanish artist Marta Bonilla and fine art by Kay Gasei.

8540 Melrose Ave., West Hollywood, 310.621.4500, sohohome.com

KATE BERRY. OTHERS COURTESY SOHO HOME

From left: Rolland armchair in Italian bouclé; Kingsley bar cabinet; Soho.Home.Studio illuminated by Seed chandeliers

TOKYO ITALIAN

Despite its dual sensibilities, new Magari in Hollywood never feels like a fusion restaurant. / by hadley tomicki /

Spread at new Magari

Whether baseball or lowriding, Japan reshapes everything it imports into its own art form, satisfying both the country’s appetite for the novel and its passion for perfection.

Which is why the debut of Magari, a self-proclaimed “TokyoItalian” restaurant in Hollywood, doesn’t come across as another stunt-food shocker. Frequent visitors to Japan’s largest city know that Tokyo is a superior destination for pasta as well as for ramen and pristine sushi.

Magari’s hyphenated sensibilities unite two of L.A.’s favorite cuisines on astoundingly pretty plates in a fashionable roost. Chef Enrico Merendino and California’s Ozumo Concepts present Italian cuisine enhanced with Japanese ingredients.

Production-house co-workers and their dates fill tables tucked well away from the sounds of Hollywood Boulevard. It’s a rarity, a restaurant that has the foresight to add soundproofing to its modern mixedmaterial walls; on the walls are art deco and Japanese embellishments.

Dinner might commence with a

beautifully balanced cocktail such as the Fiore Forte, a take on an Old Fashioned using olive oil-washed Toki whisky and Sicilian chai, or an Italian red, white or orange wine from a tightly curated list.

The dinner menu itself is broken into four sections.

From the crudo section come sweet, fresh Hokkaido scallops slicked with Calabrian chile oil and topped with cara cara orange and shaved fennel. Wedges of akami tuna interplay with milky burrata and smoky Japanese eggplant.

Antipasti translates to crisp, gold

en fritto misto and luscious maitake mushrooms from the wood-fire grill with a togarashi-spiked fonduta.

Among pasta plates is a yuzuaccented tagliatelle full of peekytoe crab and crunchy poppyseeds and resplendent with uni. Mafaldine with pork ragu, pecorino and plum gremolata offers another master class in balance.

The final section showcases the wood-burning grill: a tidy row of lamb ribs made sticky with kurozu caramel; grilled whole orata across fresh focaccia; and a Prime ribeye set off by sake kasu and salsa verde.

Every bite astutely balances salin ity, sweetness, spice and umami. Each ingredient stands out and none are superfluous. The cuisine never feels fusion-y; it’s expertly overseen Italian fare enhanced by prime Japanese ingredients and sensibility.

Dessert might bring cannoli filled with white chocolate sudachi cream and yuzu gel—and perhaps an amaro or cappuccino. Columbia Square, 6115 Sunset Blvd., L.A., 310.256.3555, magarirestaurant.com

Akami tuna and, below, yuzu tagliatelle with uni

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Why did it take 14 years? OCMA went through different regimes with different visions. At times the econo my sputtered. COVID-19 happened. And the price tag kept increasing.

Since joining OCMA in 2019, Zuckerman has raised close to $30 million; her goal is to launch with zero debt. Which is now.

“The Orange County Museum of Art is the final step in the decades-long journey,” says Anton Segerstrom, a top OCMA donor, member of the its board of trustees

Rendering of the museum’s entry atrium; right, architect Thom Mayne

and son of philanthropist Henry Segerstrom.

This completes Henry’s broad cultural vision, Anton says: “His real passions were the performing arts, architecture and sculpture.”

THE ASYMMETRICAL SHAPE

WHAT SEGERSTROM CALLS an “architectural gem” derives from Mayne’s concept, executed by the Morphosis team, led by project principal Brandon Welling.

Much of the exterior is covered with glazed terracotta panels—each

an individual size and shape, assem bled like a massive jigsaw puzzle to create the wavy appearance.

Noticeable from outside is a mul tilevel atrium exposing three steel bridges with translucent glass floors.

Perhaps the most prominent feature, inspired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Colosseum in Rome, is a broad and swooping staircase designed as a public gathering spot.

FREE FOR ALL

THE MUSEUM HAD previously had an admission fee; Zuckerman wanted entry to be free.

Contemporary art can be “weird or scary or off-putting,” Zuckerman acknowledges. “It’s important to remove as many barriers as possible. The first one is the admission price.”

A $2.5 million gift from Lugano Diamonds, a retailer based in Newport Beach, underwrites admission for the next decade.

ENCOUNTERING THE ART

THE NEW MUSEUM doubles the size of its former location. Gallery space increases by 50 percent.

“The museum has a diversity of

spaces for different types of art and different scales of art, smaller photographic works versus large sculptural works,” Welling says.

Several peek-throughs allow visitors to peer into a gallery from elsewhere, allowing them to experi ence art from different perspectives.

Works of art like natural light, Zuckerman says; the main exhibition areas have an ambient white glow beneath a scalloped fabric ceiling.

WHAT YOU’LL SEE THE PERMANENT collection, much of it stored off-site, features nearly 5,000 works from the 20th and

21st centuries by mostly California and Pacific Rim artists. They include John Baldessari, Barbara Krueger, Chris Burden, Vija Celmins, Richard Diebenkorn, Catherine Opie, Charles Ray and Ed Ruscha.

Zuckerman had planned to add 60 new pieces in honor of the museum’s 60 years of existence; that goal was surpassed midsum mer. A focus of the new acquisitions has been on more works by women and artists of color.

FRONT AND CENTER, A COMMISSION FOR ITS OPENING, OCMA com

missioned a large-scale work by Los Angeles artist Sanford Biggers that can be seen from both the center’s plaza and from inside.

The 24-foot-wide, 16-foot-tall steel and aluminum interactive sculpture Of many waters… is described as “an archetype of a European reclining male figure with a 19th-century Baule double-face mask made from metal sequins.”

INAUGURAL EXHIBITIONS

OCMA OPENS WITH four shows.

13 Women is curated as a nod to the founders and features rotating works by women, and some men, central to the OCMA collection.

The return of the museum’s California Biennial, presented from 1984 to 2006, explores the latest developments in contemporary art and identifies emerging artists.

Fred Eversley: Reflecting Back (the World) expands on the muse um’s 1978 exhibition featuring the sculptor.

Peter Walker: Minimalist Landscape pays homage to the landscape architect who worked with the Segerstrom family starting in the 1970s; he’s best known today as a co-designer of the National 9/11 Memorial in lower Manhattan.

THE URBAN VIBE

THE MUSEUM BRINGS the outside in and the indoors out. The terra cotta exterior wraps into the build ing; natural light floods the welcome desk.

Passersby experience art, too. The Window Gallery facing Avenue of the Arts, for instance, opens with a new mural by Alicia McCarthy in

Clockwise from top left: Art at the museum’s inaugural exhibitions includes Mary Heilmann, Surfing on Acid, 2005; Fred Eversley, Untitled (parabolic lens), 2020; Barbara Kruger, Untitled, 1989; and Ed Ruscha, Annie, 1965.

COURTESY OCMA. EVERSLEY, JEFF M C LANE

the California Biennial.

The terrace level expands onto the plaza, which can be configured for installations and events. It’s bordered on two sides by 25 oak and Palos Verdes trees—inge niously deeply planted despite their elevation— and gardens of mostly succulents.

The plaza’s tile has no grout so rainwater can be captured for the trees.

TAKE A BREAK

EVEN THE MOST avid museum-goer can need a break. Offerings include a gift shop, a coffee bar and plenty of benches and sit ting areas inside and out.

Open for lunch on the terrace level, Verdant offers a seasonal, local, plant-forward menu.

The restaurant, a full bar and the lobby coffee station are developed by chefs Ross Pangilinan and Nicholas Weber, both Patina Group alumni.

Pangilinan is known for his Mix Mix restaurants; in June, he and Weber opened bistro Populaire at South Coast Plaza.

YOUNG VISITORS

THE EDUCATION HALL serves as more than just an on-site classroom.

“The education pavilion is this ener gized organic form that cantilevers out over the entrance,” Zuckerman points out. “It says to the community that we prioritize learning, that education is at the core of what we do.”

The space can be configured as a black-box theater or light-filled stu dio. The first outreach is to Santa Ana students. A Mom’s Lounge is for par ents of kids taking classes.

WHAT’S NEXT?

WHEN ZUCKERMAN gives tours of the site, she stops to points out 10,000 square feet on the terrace available for a museum expansion.

No plans for that just yet.

3333 Avenue of the Arts, Costa Mesa. Open Thursday-Saturday 10 a.m-8 p.m.; Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. ocma.art

FEATURE

Rendering of terrace and grand stair

Mark Morris Dance Group The Look of Love An Evening of Dance to the Music of Burt Bacharach October 20–23, 2022 BroadStage Commission

World Premiere

Photo credit: Jim Coleman: Mark Morris’ Grand Duo

Presenting Patron Sponsor: Laura Stevenson Maslon broadstage.org

Following the roaring success of his Beatles tribute Pepperland, Mark Morris teams up again with musical collaborator Ethan Iverson (The Bad Plus) for The Look of Love, a wistful and heartfelt homage to the chart-topping songs of Burt Bacharach.

reprogrammed !

Performances Magazine unveils a digital program platform for shows and concerts

DROP DOWN MENU Table of app contents.

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Stay arts-engaged, access past programs.

THE ESSENTIALS Acts, scenes, synopses, repertory and notes.

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NO RUSTLING PAGES, no killing trees . . . Of all the innovations to have come out of the pandemic, the new Performances program platform, accessed on any digital device, may be least likely to disappear in the foreseeable future. Not only had its time come—it had been long overdue.

Performances provides the programs for 20 SoCal performingarts organizations, from the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Ahmanson to San Diego Opera, where the app made its debut.

The touchless platform provides cast and player bios, donor and season updates and arts-centric features. Audiences receive a link and code word that instantly activate the app; QR codes are posted, too.

Screens go dark when curtains rise and return with the house lights. Updates—repertory changes, understudy substitutions, significant donations—can be made right up to showtime, no inserts necessary.

Other features include video and audio streams, translations and expanded biographies.

SIGN IN Link to your performing-arts companies and venues. SEARCH Find whatever it is you want to know—easily.

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Bios and background for cast, crew and creators.

WHAT’S ON

What’s coming at a glance and ticket information.

For those who consider printed programs keepsakes, a limited number, as well as commemorative issues for special events, continue to be produced. Collectibles!

Meanwhile, there is less defores tation, consumption of petroleum inks and programs headed for land fills. For the ecologically minded, the platform gets a standing ovation.

Theaters and concert halls reopened after a long intermission. Stages are live, the excitement is back. Activate your link and enjoy the shows. —CALEB WACHS

An evening of firsts – the Israel Philharmonic makes a historic Soraya debut with new music director Lahav Shani who inherited the role from Los Angeles’ beloved Zubin Mehta. Shani will provide The Soraya another milestone – the first ever Mahler symphony to resound in the Great Hall.

Dedicated to uplifting Israel’s creative artists and composers, the orchestra will open the concert with the foremost Israeli composer of classical music, Paul Ben-Haim whose works uplifted Jewish life as the nation of Israel was first forming in the shadow of World War II.

Thu Oct 13

Malpaso

Sat Oct 22

O’Farrill

8pm

Enrique with Nella

C4 Trio Sat Oct 29 | 8pm

Soweto Gospel Choir

Nov 5 | 8pm

Israel Philharmonic

Lahav Shani

Wed Nov 9 | 8pm

An Acousting Evening with John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett

Sun Nov 13 | 7pm Concierto para Dolores: A Musical Tribute to Dolores Huerta

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