Performances Magazine | La Mirada Theatre, November 2022

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

6 In the Wings Supernatural thriller 2:22—A Ghost Story at the Ahmanson; Mayan codice at the Getty Museum, Nubian jewels at the Getty Villa; diva Angel Blue plays diva Tosca at L.A. Opera.

12 Just You and Me

Recitals allow musical artists to decide every element of their performances, starting with what is presented. There are no colleagues—except maybe an accompanist.

20 Design

Follow the fabric: After cofounding and building the prestigious national brand Serena & Lily, artist and textile designer Serena Dugan turns to a more personal collection.

26 Dining

Lulu, the first Los Angeles restaurant from legendary Chez Panisse founder Alice Waters, is in an indooroutdoor courtyard at the UCLA Hammer Museum.

32 Parting Thought

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THEATER

GHOST STORY

JENNY BELIEVES HER new home is haunted, but her husband isn’t having any of it. They argue with their first dinner guests, their longtime friend and her new partner. Belief and skepticism clash, but something feels strange and frightening and it’s getting closer; if they stay up until 2:22 a.m., they’ll know what it is. 2:22—A Ghost Story, through Dec. 4 at the Ahmanson Theatre, is an intriguing and brilliantly funny supernatural thriller written by Danny Robins, creator of the BBC podcast “The Battersea Poltergeist,” and directed by Matthew Dunster. All four actors—Constance Wu, Finn Wittrock, Anna Camp and Adam Rothenberg—make their Ahmanson debuts. The show broke box-office records for a new play at London’s Noel Coward Theatre and was hailed as the West End’s theater event of the year. 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown, 213.628.2772, centertheatregroup.org

JOHAN PERSSON / COURTESY WEST END COMPANY

2:22—A Ghost Story is at the Ahmanson

MUSEUM

Nubian and Mayan Treasures

THE GETTY PRESENTS Códice Maya de México at the Getty Museum in Brentwood through Jan. 15 and Nubia: Jewels of Ancient Sudan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades through April 3. Nubia—a region along the Nile River in present-day Egypt and Sudan— was home to some of Africa’s earliest civilizations; the exhibition highlights superbly crafted jewelry

and other precious objects exca vated in Sudan in 1913-32 that viv idly display the grandeur of ancient Nubian society. Around 900 years ago, a Mayan scribe made a sacred book that tracked and predicted the movements of the planet Venus. Today, the Códice Maya de México is the oldest book of the Americas, one of four Mayan manuscripts that predate the arrival of Europeans. 310.440.7300, getty.edu

COURTESY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON. MAYA, BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA E HISTORIA

Page 6 of Códice Maya de México, Maya, ca. 1100. Above: Ancient Nubian treasures from the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts expedition of 1913-32.

OPERA

Diva plays diva

FAMOUS OPERA SINGER Floria Tosca seems to have it all; audi ences cherish her artistry as well as tales of her tempestuous off stage romances. Now she’s forced to play a real-life role she never imagined: Torn between devotion to her lover and the machina tions of a treacherous sociopath, she’s in a predicament with fatal consequences for them all. L.A. Opera presents four leading artists of their generations in Puccini’s Tosca at the Dorothy Chandler

Pavilion Nov. 19-Dec. 10. Soprano Angel Blue plays the glamor ous but tough-as-nails titular heroine; tenors Michael Fabiano and Gregory Kunde share the role of Mario Cavaradossi; bassbaritone Ryan McKinny is the evil Scarpia, who likes nothing more than seeing his victims suffer. In her company debut, Ukrainian conductor Oksana Lyniv leads a production staged by director John Caird. 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown, 213.972.8001, laopera.org

TOP: KEN HOWARD

Previous production of Tosca at L.A. Opera.

Below: soprano Angel Blue

OPPORTUNITIES

It’s Just You and Me

Recitals allow musical artists to determine every element of their performances and to engage more closely with their audiences.

/ BY LIBBY SLATE /

LOS ANGELES OPERA artist in residence Russell Thomas has performed in operas around the world; he stars in L.A. Opera’s Otello at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in the spring.

But when Thomas takes the stage at the Colburn School’s Zipper Hall downtown on Feb. 25, there will be no costumes, sets or opera choristers on hand—only the tenor himself and accompany ing musicians performing works by some of his favorite composers.

“I wish I did more recitals,” Thomas says. “In an opera, you’re doing someone else’s artistic vision.

“In a recital, I get to be the artist, the director, the artistic director. I decide the content—every aspect of that performance is my decision. I find the collaborators I want to work with and I select the repertoire. Recitals allow artists to flex their artistic muscles and show people their point of view.”

That’s a far-flung concept from the original meaning of “recital”—a legal term dating back to the 1500s, and still in use today—referring to a formal statement that often begins with the word “Whereas.”

No such proclamations are needed for artistic recitals, which,

KAUPO

SHERVIN LAINEZ

Pianist HyeJin Kim. Opposite: violinist Randall Goosby

by contrast, are usually less formal than the operas or ensemble performances that more often make up much of a musical career.

Recitals are also more intimate, fostering a closer relationship with attendees usually missing from other performances.

“I enjoy taking the opportunity in such a setting to actually speak, to verbally connect with the audience,” says violinist Randall Goosby. He appears in recital with pianist Zhu Wang at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts’ intimate Samueli Theater in Costa Mesa on Dec. 2 and performs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall downtown Mar. 30-31.

In a recital, Goosby says, “I talk a little bit about the pieces. It’s rare to have that opportunity in a huge concert hall with 80 musicians.”

The scaled-down environment presents its own challenges, Thomas notes. “As there are no big sets and costumes … the mood is

Inna Faliks, head of piano at UCLA, advises her students “to play as though it’s the last thing they will ever do.... The energy it takes to play live comes from this special risk, this commitment, the opening up, the vulnerability.”

set by the artists collaborating on stage. Holding the audience’s attention can be more difficult.”

Captivating music, dynamically performed, helps keep listeners involved. For Goosby, choosing recital repertory always starts with, “What’s the piece you really want to play?” He and Wang have to “feel a real affinity and connection to the music,” he says. “If you don’t feel something as the artist, what can

you possibly have to communicate to an audience?”

The starting point for Goosby’s program at the Samueli was a Beethoven violin sonata, followed by later works that had a connection to the piece or composer.

For his recital at the Colburn School, Thomas chose a theme of romance, sensuality and sexual ity. He commissioned new pieces or new arrangements by veteran African-American composers and by rising composers teamed with a poet or librettist.

“I noticed that there wasn’t enough vocal chamber music by African-American composers,” Thomas says. “I wanted to sing chamber music, something exquisitely sensual—and the repertoire just did not exist.”

Venue size can help determine the program.

“If it’s a small salon-style hall, I would choose baroque and classical styles, short, /CONTINUED

OPERA

Los Angeles Opera artist in residence Russell Thomas

LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS and McCOY RIGBY ENTERTAINMENT present by

AARON SORKIN

Starring

LEANNE ANTONIO MATTHEW BOHRER GABRIEL BONILLA NOAH COLLINS ISAAC J. CRUZ BRANDON ENGMAN KAROLE FOREMAN DOUG HARRIS KODI JACKMAN COREY JONES SARA KING AARON PAE KLEIN MICHAEL OCAMPO JAMES RIPPLE PATRICK STAFFORD ANDY UMBERGER RODRIGO VARANDAS GREG WATANABE DYLAN WITTROCK

Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design Sound Design Wig/Hair/Makeup Design JOHN IACOVELLI SHON LEBLANC KARYN D. LAWRENCE CRICKET S. MYERS KAITLIN YAGEN MADISON MEDRANO

Properties Design Fight Choreographer Assistant Scenic Design Assistant Costume Design Assistant Lighting Design KEVIN WILLIAMS MICHAEL POLAK MICHAEL J. RIHA CIDNEY EAVEY NITA MENDOZA

Casting Director Production Management Production Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager JULIA FLORES ANA LARA, LINDSAY BROOKS, JOHN W. CALDER, III LISA PALMIRE DAVID NESTOR

Technical Director General Manager Publicist Marketing KEVIN CLOWES THERESA FLEMMING DAVID ELZER / SWEIBEL ARTS DEMAND PR INNOVATION & LEADERSHIP

Directed by

CASEY STANGL

Broadway Production Presented by David Brown, Lewis Allen Robert Whitehead, Roger L. Stevens, Kathy Levin

Suntory International Corporation, The Shubert Organization

A Few Good Men is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc.www.concordtheatricals.com

OPENING NIGHT OCTOBER 28, 2022 LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS www.LaMiradaTheatre.com

THE COMPANY

Leanne Antonio Gabriel Bonilla

Noah Collins

Kodi Jackman Michael Ocampo

Aaron Pae Klein

Andy Umberger

Dylan Wittrock

Isaac J. Cruz

Matthew Bohrer Brandon Engman

Corey Jones James Ripple

Rodrigo Varandas

Karole Foreman Doug Harris

Sara King Patrick Stafford

Greg Watanabe

CAST OF CHARACTERS

MICHAEL OCAMPO Pfc. Louden Downey

Lance Cpl. Harold W. Dawson

BRANDON ENGMAN Lt. j.g. Sam Weinberg MATTHEW BOHRER* Lt. j.g. Daniel A. Kaffee

DOUG HARRIS* Lt. Cmdr. Joanne Galloway

LEANNE ANTONIO* Capt. Isaac Whitaker/Cmdr. Walter Stone

GREG WATANABE* Capt. Matthew A. Markinson

COREY JONES* Pfc. William T. Santiago

RODRIGO VARANDAS* Col. Nathan Jessep

ANDY UMBERGER* Lt. Jonathan James Kendrick PATRICK STAFFORD* Lt. Jack Ross

SARA KING* Cpl. Jeffrey Owen Howard AARON PAE KLEIN Capt. Julia Alexander Randolph

FOREMAN* Cpl. Hammaker

BONILLA* Cpl. Dunn

JAMES RIPPLE

ISAAC J. CRUZ* Tom/MP/Sentry

KODI JACKMAN*, RODRIGO VARANDAS*

GABRIEL BONILLA*, ISAAC J. CRUZ*, MPs, Sentries, Lawyers, et al

UNDERSTUDIES

Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement for the appearance is made at the time of the performance.

For Dawson, Whitaker, Stone: GABRIEL BONILLA*, for Dunn, Lawyer, Sergeant-at-Arms, Hammaker, Orderly, MP, Sentry: NOAH COLLINS, for Santiago, MP, Sentry: ISAAC J. CRUZ*, for Galloway, Ross: KODI JACKMAN*, for Jessep: COREY JONES*, for Kaffee, Weinberg: AARON PAE KLEIN, for Markinson, Randolph: GREG WATANABE*, for Kendrick, Howard, Tom, MP, Sentry: DYLAN WITTROCK.

Production Stage Manager

LISA PALMIRE*

JOHN W. CALDER, III* Assistant Stage Manager

Fight Captain/Military Cadence Coach ISAAC J. CRUZ*

PLACE & TIME

Various locations in Washington, DC and on the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Summer, 1986.

There will be one 15-minute intermission during this performance.

*Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S NOTES

A Play Turned into a Movie… Turned into a Play – The Journey of A FEW GOOD MEN

Aaron Sorkin is that rare playwright whose work commands attention simply because he is the author. How his first play reached the stage… then the screen… and then the stage again… is an unusual tale, best told by Sorkin himself:

“I got out of college where I was a theater major, came to New York, and had a whole bunch of survival jobs,” he said in a TV interview, recalling the mid-1980s. “But mostly, my steadiest survival job was working as a bartender in Broadway theaters. I wrote most of A Few Good Men on cocktail napkins at the Palace Theater during the first act of La Cage Aux Folles” [which was playing the Palace at the time].

By a stroke of luck, the script made it into the hands of David Brown, the legendary producer of The Sting, Jaws, and The Verdict, who was looking for another courtroom drama.

“And here’s where things got really crazy,” Sorkin remembered. “David said, ‘I love this, and I want to option the film rights.’ I’m still a bartender at the Palace Theater. And I said, ‘Well, the thing is, I really want to see this done as a play.’ He said, ‘Well, what if I were to do it as a play first?’

The play opened on Broadway to positive reviews in 1989 and, three years later, Brown produced the film version starring Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise. Eventually, Sorkin determined that the screenplay was better than the play “mostly because I was a better writer when I wrote the screenplay than when I wrote the play. I’d also had the opportunity of watching the play for 14 months on Broadway – to learn from that, to see what’s working. There were things that I was never wild about that I had an opportunity to fix.”

One scene he wanted to fix was final confrontation between the young lawyer and the Colonel. On stage, Sorkin says, “it was a thrilling courtroom scene. There were a lot of pyrotechnics, and it worked theatrically. [But] it was a bit of a lie, the whole thing. I was kind of ‘skilling’ my way through it, really. And [in the movie], I was kind of committed to making sure that we had the same effect but getting to it in a real way. It’s always much more gratifying to get that response when you know that you deserve it.”

Amazingly, Sorkin got another chance at the play itself. “We sent out a national tour of the play after I had finished the screenplay,” he says. “In fact, we were in the middle of shooting the screenplay. And I was so pleased with the work that we were able to do on the screenplay that I went back and rewrote the play. Kind of took it to a third level.”

And now La Mirada Theatre’s crackerjack cast, along with keen-eyed director Casey Stangl and her expert design team, take it to a fourth level with a performance that’s as riveting as one could hope to see. And so, the journey of A FEW GOOD MEN continues.

BT McNicholl Producing Artistic Director

Aaron Sorkin

WHO’S WHO

LEANNE ANTONIO (Lt. Cmdr. Joanne Galloway) is a bicoastal actor/singer. Broadway: The Lion King. Off-Broadway: Black No More (Choreographer: Bill T. Jones, Music: Black Thought). TV: “The Equalizer” (Nia, Ep.7, Director: Christine Moore). Other credits include Muriel’s Wedding (Rhonda, Director: Simon Phillips, Writer: PJ Hogan), Lempicka (La Jolla Playhouse, Director: Rachel Chavkin, Choreographer: Raja Feather Kelly), Disaster (Levora, Starring/Writer: Seth Rudetsky, Director/ Writer: Jack Plotnick, CRT), One Hit Wonder (Ashley, Director: Hunter Foster; Choreographer: Jennifer Jancuska), All Shook Up (Lorraine, Director/ Choreographer: Scott Michaels, Wagon Wheel). She is represented by Stagecoach Entertainment and Harden Curtis Kirsten Riley Agency.

MATTHEW BOHRER ( Lt. j.g. Sam Weinberg) Theater:  Marjorie Prime  (World Premiere, Mark Taper Forum),  The Sunshine Boys, opposite Danny DeVito and Judd Hirsch (Ahmanson),  Disasteroid!  (Sacred Fools),  The UMPO: Clueless  (Rockwell),  Step Into the Night and Jason and Claire (Playwrights Project at The Old Globe), Who Could Ask for Anything More?  (Rubicon),  Falsettos (Diversionary). Television: “Lucifer,” “Modern Family,” “Grownish,” “Goliath,” “Masters of Sex,” “Successful People,” “I Didn’t Do It,” “General Hospital,” “House of Lies,” “Scandal,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Workshop.” Film:  Unfriended ,  Elie’s Overcoat, D’Arline. Training: Harvard (BA). Matthew created and stars in Teach Me, Bitch!, streaming soon. Love to Emily, his family, and his reps. www.matthewbohreractor.com

GABRIEL BONILLA (Cpl. Hammaker, Orderly, MP, Sentry, u/s Dawson, u/s Whitaker, u/s Stone) Last seen in Anna in the Tropics (Cheche, A Noise Within Theatre). Broadway Factor: The Amparo Experience. Broadway On Demand: Jenna and the Whale. Miami New Drama: Our Town, The Golem of Havana, Terror, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, The Cubans. New Theatre: A Bird in the Hand, Twelve Angry Men. Gables Stage: Julius Caesar, The Tempest. Film/TV: John Leguizamo’s Critical Thinking, OWN’s “David Makes Man,” HBO’s “Westworld”. Gabriel is a proud Cuban American and Miami native. He would like to give special thanks to his parents, family and friends for their continued love and support. @gabrieljosebonilla

NOAH COLLINS (u/s Dunn, u/s Lawyer, u/s Sergeant-at-Arms, u/s Hammaker, u/s Orderly, u/s MP, u/s Sentry) is a graduate of USC’s BFA acting program and is very excited to be joining La Mirada for the first time. He was most recently seen onstage in Tim Venable’s The Beautiful People at Rogue Machine Theater. You can catch him on screen in  Alta Valley,  an official selection of the Nashville Film Festival. Many thanks to his friends, family, and girlfriend Jamie!

ISAAC J. CRUZ (Cpl. Dunn, Lawyer, Sergeantat-Arms, u/s Santiago, u/s MP, u/s Sentry, u/s Downey, Fight Captain) was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Acting from The American Musical & Dramatic Academy.

He earned his status as an Actors Equity Association member by performing offBroadway in New York City. He earned his status as a SAG-AFTRA member performing as a guest star and co-star on several network television shows. He has also starred in several feature films which have had theatrical and VOD distribution. He has also starred in many short films which have received acclaim at international film festivals such as in Cannes, France.

BRANDON ENGMAN (Pfc. Louden Downey)

Regional credits:  A Christmas Carol  (ACT Theatre Seattle),  Newsies (Connecticut Rep). He recently wrapped a lead in the upcoming feature film Discussion Materials and voiced the lead role of Hodaka in Makoto Shinkai’s anime film Weathering with You. TV/Film credits: “Law & Order: SVU,” “New Amsterdam,” “Hunters,” “Hightown,” “Dietland,” “The Oath,” “Girl at a Bar,” and Empathy Inc. Voiceover: Belle, Young David. Brandon graduated with a BFA in Drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts - New Studio on Broadway & Stonestreet Studios. Love to Sarah, his family, and all those who helped get him here! @brandonengman

KAROLE FOREMAN (Capt. Julia Alexander Randolph) Theatre: Lady Day Emerson’s Bar & Grill (2019 Ovation - freeFall, ICT, Ebony Rep, PCPA); Blues in the Night (ICT/Ebony Rep); Little Night Music, Stupid F’ing Bird (Cygnet); Porgy and Bess, Sweeney Todd, Intimate Apparel (ETC); Fences (PCPA/ICT); Wedding Band (Antaeus); Next to Normal (OC Weekly Award); Caroline or Change (PCPA);

Parade, Jelly’s Last Jam (Suzi Bass Award, Mark Taper/Alliance); Mamma Mia! (Las Vegas). TV: “Dahmer,” “Good Trouble,” “NCIS,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “Crazy Ex,” “Rebel,” “The Young & The Restless,” “Stitchers,” “Rizzoli & Isles,” “Grey’s Anatomy.” Film: The Banality, I’ll Be Next Door for Christmas, 42, Rebirth, Buddy Solitaire. www.karoleforeman.com

DOUG HARRIS (Lt. j.g. Daniel A. Kaffee, he/ him), actor/writer based in New York City. NYC: New Golden Age (Primary Stages), Disco Pigs (Drama League), The Rape of The Sabine Women by Grace B. Matthias (Playwrights Realm), The Glass Menagerie (Masterworks Theater Co). Regional:  Still Life (Ancram Opera House), Sheepdog (CATF), A Few Good Men (The Pittsburgh Public), It’s Only a Play (George Street), We’re Gonna Be Okay (B Street), 10x10 (Barrington Stage Co), Oh, Gastronomy! (Humana). Has developed works with Playwrights Realm, NYTW, The Lark, Actors Theatre of Louisville, NY Classical, Ensemble Studio Theater, Pipeline, and more. Films: Spooky Action, December 1, 1969, The Wait, Viking Funeral. www.dougharrisactor.com

KODI JACKMAN (Lawyer, MP, Sentry, u/s Galloway, u/s Ross) is a graduate of The Guildford School of Acting. Favorite recent stage credits include Cassie in The Wickhams (Ensemble Theatre Company), Lavatch in All’s Well That Ends Well (A Noise Within), The Duke in Measure for Measure (Shakespeare on the Deck), Agrippa in Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare Orange County), Judith in Front (Guildford School of Acting), Charlatan

in Woyzeck (New Orleans Fringe), and was also a member of New Orleans Shakespeare Festival’s touring company Shakespeare on the Road. Jackman is the co-host of  Shake Shake Shake – a podcast on Classics, Cocktails and Conscious Casting.

COREY JONES (Capt. Matthew A. Markinson, u/s Jessep) is thrilled for his La Mirada debut and to work with this fantastic cast/creative team. Broadway: 1st and 2nd National Tours,  The Book of Mormon. Regional:  Million Dollar Quartet , Our Town (South Coast Repertory), Grinch (The Old Globe),  How to Fight Loneliness , King John ,  Titus Andronicus,  Tempest (Utah Shakespeare),  Wild with Happy (Pittsburgh City Theater),  The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Dallas Theater Center), The Color Purple (Celebration Theater), Gee›s Bend (Arkansas Repertory),  Othello (Shakespeare Santa Cruz),  Macbeth, Ragtime (PCPA),  roles at the Williamstown Theatre and Illinois Shakespeare Festivals. Education: University of Texas at Austin, Washington University in St. Louis.

SARA KING (Lt. Jack Ross) is delighted to return to the La Mirada family after a few years away. Broadway:  Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Cynthia Weil, Marilyn Wald OBC),  HAIR  (Tribe). Tours: HAIR (Sheila), Beautiful (Cynthia Weil), The Great American Trailer Park Musical  (Pippi, 1st National/UK premiere). Select Regional: Singin’ in the Rain (Lina Lamont, 2020 Ovation Award Best Actress),  RENT  (Maureen),  Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat  (Narrator),  Footloose  (Ariel). TV: “Blindspotting,” “Mr. Robot,” “Boardwalk Empire,”

HBO’s “High Maintenance,” “Smash.” Love to her LA, NYC and Texas families and thanks to everyone coming out to support live theater and the arts. Instagram: @saraeking.

AARON PAE KLEIN (Cpl. Jeffrey Owen Howard, u/s Weinberg, u/s Kaffee, he/him) is thrilled to be making his La Mirada Theatre debut. He holds a BFA in acting from the University of Michigan SMTD. Recent theatre credits include Junk (Power Center for the Performing Arts), Sense and Sensibility (Arthur Miller Theatre), Incognito (Newman Studio), Prodigal Son (The Actors Group). Aaron also received the 2022 Kennedy Center, Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award (runner up), the 2022 Avery and Jule Hopwood Drama Award (first prize), and the 2022 Dennis McIntyre Prize for Distinction in Undergraduate Playwriting. Aaron is represented by Stagecoach Entertainment.

MICHAEL OCAMPO (Lance Cpl. Harold W. Dawson) Born in Miami and raised in Houston, Michael has always loved the performing arts. He began his acting performances at school events and church productions at a very young age. Since then, his career has given him the opportunity to star in studio feature films and network television shows. He can be seen in shows like “9-1-1,” “NCIS: New Orleans” and most recently guest starring in his own episode of “Law and Order: SVU.” A Few Good Men will be his first professional theatre production and he’s excited for the opportunity to work with a great cast and crew.

JAMES RIPPLE (Tom, MP, Sentry) A recent graduate of The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, James won the Margaret Gordon Award for Best Theatrical Performance. He has performed in theatre and television, in plays and shows (including Bad Roads, another play from school), and “The Bold and the Beautiful” (CBS). He is extremely grateful for this opportunity and would like to send love to his parents and mentors who have supported him in his journey.

PATRICK STAFFORD (Lt. Jonathan James Kendrick) LA: Equus and Amadeus (The Production Company, LA Drama Critics Circle Award Nomination), As Is (New American Theatre), Red (International City Theatre, LA Drama Critics Circle Award, Best Supporting Actor), Cock (The Rogue Machine, LA Drama Critics Circle Award, Lead Actor and Best Ensemble, West Coast Premiere), Smoke (The Rogue Machine, Stage Raw Nomination, West Coast Premiere) NYC: The Hand That Feeds You and Eric Bogosian’s Humpty Dumpty Regional: Big River and Red. TV: “Modern Family,” “Criminal Minds,” “CSI,” “Supernatural,” “Perception,” “NCIS,” “Glee,” “Frequency,” “Major Crimes.” Education: Neighborhood Playhouse, NYC and BFA from The Boston Conservatory. Proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA.

ANDY UMBERGER (Col. Nathan Jessep) last appeared at LMT as John Adams in 1776. Broadway: Passion, City of Angels, Company Off-Broadway: Manhattan Theatre Club, LaMama ETC, Triangle Theatre Co. Regional:

Geffen Playhouse, Huntington Theatre Co., Old Globe Theatre, American Shaw Festival, Virginia Stage Co. and Actor’s Rep. Locally he has appeared with Reprise, Rubicon Theatre Co. and Musical Theatre West. Film: The Accountant, Unstoppable, The Rum Diary, Déjà Vu, Nine Lives, First Daughter. Guest starred in 80+ TV shows and has recurred on “Mindhunter,” “Bosch,” “Waco,” “GLOW,” “Mad Men,” “The West Wing,” “Boston Legal,” “ER,” “24,” and as D’Hoffryn on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” www.AndyUmberger.com

RODRIGO VARANDAS ( Pfc. William T. Santiago, MP, Sentry ) One War for Another (Choreography), Waiting for Godot (Director), Romeo and Juliet (Choreographer), Broadway to the Rescue (Choreographer). Peter Pan (Saudi Arabia Tour), Mamma Mia!, Shrek The Musical, Kinky Boots, 42nd Street (3-D Theatricals), West Side Story, Legally Blonde (Candlelight Pavilion), Singin’ in the Rain, In the Heights, White Christmas (Musical Theatre West), Children of Eden, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (5-star Theatricals), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, (Musical Theatre Guild), Mamma Mia!, Empire, Cabaret, 1776, Young Frankenstein, Singin’ in the Rain (MRE). David Robinson, thank you for existing, you are my port, you are my home.

GREG WATANABE (Capt. Isaac Whitaker, Cmdr. Walter Stone, u/s Markinson, u/s Randolph) Recently he appeared in Our Town and The Great Leap at Asolo Rep. He made his Broadway debut in Allegiance. Other credits include Off-Broadway appearances in Ballad

of Yachiyo (Public Theater) and Golden Child (Signature Theater). Regionally, he performed in Cambodian Rock Band (Victory Gardens, City Theatre, Merrimack Rep), Romeo and Juliet (OSF), The Summer Moon (A Contemporary Theater, South Coast Rep), Extraordinary Chambers (The Geffen Playhouse), The Happy Ones (South Coast Rep), and Hold These Truths (Virginia Stage Company). Some television credits include “Madam Secretary,”  “Criminal Minds,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” and “Reno 911!”

DYLAN WITTROCK (u/s Kendrick, u/s Howard, u/s Tom, u/s MP, u/s Sentry) began acting at an early age, performing alongside his father and brother at Shakespeare & Co. in Lenox, Massachusetts. He attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA) and went on to study acting at the Atlantic Acting School in New York. This is his first time working at La Mirada Theater. TV Credits: “Feud: Bette and Joan,” “Power.” Film: The Long Weekend, A Mouthful of Air. LA Theater: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Open Fist), The Red Dress (Odyssey Theater), Othello (A Noise Within). Other Theater: The Pillowman, Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of Venice, Edward II.

AARON SORKIN (Playwright) Broadway and Off-Broadway: To Kill A Mockingbird, A Few Good Men (Broadway debut, John Gassner Award for Outstanding New American Playwright), Making Movies, The Farnsworth Invention. Film: Molly’s Game (Director and Writer, Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, BAFTA, and Writers Guild Award nominations for Best Screenplay), Steve Jobs (Golden

Globe Award for Best Screenplay), Moneyball (Academy, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Writers Guild nominations for Best Screenplay), The Social Network (Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Writers Guild for Best Screenplay), Charlie Wilson’s War (Golden Globe nomination for Best Screenplay), The American President (Golden Globe nomination for Best Screenplay), Malice, A Few Good Men (Golden Globe nomination for Best Screenplay). Television: writer and producer of “The Newsroom,” “The West Wing” (Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for four consecutive seasons, Golden Globe, Humanities Prize), “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” “Sports Night” (Television Critics’ Award for Best Comedy, Humanities Prize).

CASEY STANGL (Director) is thrilled to return to La Mirada after directing Arsenic and Old Lace in 2020. Named 2019 Director of the Year by StageScene LA, she’s worked at theaters across the country including South Coast Repertory, American Conservatory Theater, The Guthrie Theater, Arizona Theater Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Everyman Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Jungle Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Portland Stage and Cleveland Playhouse. Casey is Associate Artistic Director for Ojai Playwrights Conference, and she has developed new plays at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Humana Festival, Pacific Playwrights Festival, PlayPenn and Berkeley Rep’s GroundFloor. Casey proudly serves on the Executive Board of SDC, the national labor union for stage directors and choreographers.

JULIA FLORES (Casting Director) Celebrating our 28th  season with McCoy Rigby Entertainment. Past MRE productions include touring productions of Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby,  Camelot starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Jesus Christ Superstar and The Little Mermaid. Additional credits include productions for Boston Court Theatre, The REV Theatre Company, Ensemble Theatre Company, TheatreWorks, Denver Center Theatre, A Noise Within, The Pasadena Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, B Street Theatre.

JOHN IACOVELLI (Scenic Designer ) has designed 20 productions for Tom McCoy & Cathy Rigby here at La Mirada since their inaugural production of To Kill A Mockingbird in 1994. Then with them onto Broadway with Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby (Emmy Award) and the National Tour of Camelot. Other Broadway: The Twilight of the Golds. Regional: over 450 productions — Steppenwolf, Geffen Playhouse, South Coast Repertory, Pasadena Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, McCarter, Denver Center, Long Wharf, Seattle Rep, Center Theatre Group. He won the Distinguished Achievement Award in Scenic Design from the US Institute of Theatre Technology. MFA: NYU Tisch. Website: www.iacovelli.com.

SHON LEBLANC ( Costume Designer ) celebrates 38 years designing costumes in California and nationwide. He has designed shows for The Fountain Theatre, The Colony Theatre, 3D-Theatricals, Odyssey, Matrix, Theatre 40, Hudson, No Ho Arts, The El Portal, Open Fist Theatre Co., Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities, Ogunquit Playhouse

(ME), Sierra Madre Playhouse, The Rubicon, Actors Co-Op, Greenway Court, and Kentucky Shakespeare. Shon has taught Costume Design for the Academy of Art in SF, is a multi-award-winning Costume Designer, with multiple Ovation, Drama Critics Circle, LA Weekly and Garland awards and nominations. He is a partner at Valentino’s Costume Group, Inc., in North Hollywood.

KARYN D. LAWRENCE (Lighting Designer) is an award-winning theatrical and event lighting designer based in LA. She’s delighted to return to La Mirada Theatre after having designed the lighting for Arsenic and Old Lace (2019). Theater: South Coast Repertory, Center Theater Group, East West Players, Boston Court Pasadena, The Pasadena Playhouse, Ebony Repertory Theatre, Rogue Artists Ensemble, International City Theatre, Arizona Broadway Theatre. She’s the resident Lighting Designer for the The New Swan Shakespeare Festival in Orange County. Additionally, she’s one of Radiance Lightworks’ Lead Lighting Designers for Universal Studios’ Halloween Horror Nights. She currently teaches Lighting Design at California State University, Los Angeles. www.kdlightingdesign.com

CRICKET S. MYERS (Sound Designer) On Broadway, Cricket earned a Tony Nomination and a Drama Desk Award for her design of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. Regional designs include La Jolla Playhouse, The Ahmanson, The Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, The Denver Center for Performing Arts, The Kirk Douglas Theater, Pasadena Playhouse, and the Geffen Theater. She has

earned 24 Ovation Nominations, as well as winning The Ruth Morley Award from the League of Professional Theater Women, The Kinetic Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatrical Design, an LADCC and a Garland Award in Los Angeles. www.cricketsmyers.com

KAITLIN YAGEN (Wig/Hair/Makeup Designer) is excited to be designing A Few Good Men for McCoy Rigby Entertainment. Her recent design credits include Carousel for Sacramento Music Circus, and Young Frankenstein, Clue, In The Heights, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Man of La Mancha, Peter Pan, Les Misérables, Miss Saigon, Carrie the Musical for MRE. She has also supervised on numerous national tours. Kaitlin loves the work she does and the joy it brings to the audience. Thank you to Trevor and baby Harvey and my family for your continuous love and support.

KEVIN WILLIAMS ( Properties Designer )

Recovering actor and LA native, Kevin has spent over two decades working as a designer, fabricator, and consultant for clients such as Walt Disney Imagineering, HUB Network, Red 5 Studios and Twentieth Century Fox among many others. Notably, he was the resident Production Designer for interactive theatre company, Delusion, for seven years: Lies Within (2014), His Crimson Queen (2016), Lies Within VR series (2017), The Blue Blade (2018) and Reaper’s Remorse (2021.) Kevin is the Prop Department Supervisor for UCLA’s School of Theater, Film & Television, and lives in Orange County with his incredible family. Proud member of S.P.A.M.

MICHAEL POLAK (Fight Choreographer) has choreographed stage violence for numerous shows at La Mirada Theatre, including Newsies, Cabaret and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. His work has been featured at 3-D Theatricals, North Coast Repertory Theatre, New Swan Shakespeare Festival, CSUF and other venues as well. As an actor he has worked in New York at the Mint Theatre. Regional credits include Pioneer Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare, ACT, Playmaker’s Rep and Ensemble Theatre Company, to name a few. He most recently appeared on “Bel-Air” and in MidCentury. MFA from Penn State University and BA from CSUF. www.michaelpolakactorfd.com

JOHN W. CALDER, III (Production Stage Manager ) MRE/LMT: Young Frankenstein , In The Heights , Grumpy Old Men , 1776 ,  Murder on the Orient Express , South Pacific , End of the Rainbow , West Side Story ,  Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Tours: A Chorus Line (12  times, Donna McKechnie),  Dreamgirls (Jennifer Holliday), Hello, Dolly!  (Madeline Kahn), Annie (10 times), The Sound of Music (10 Times), Les Misérables ,  Dial M For Murder (Roddy McDowall), Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story , The Odd Couple (Tim Conway/Tom Poston), Hal Prince’s  Showboat , White Christmas (7 years). Regionally: Ragtime (MTW), Anything Goes (Chita Rivera), The Secret Garden , Into The Woods . JWCalder3@gmail.com

DAVID ELZER (Publicist) represents La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, 5-Star Theatricals, Ensemble Theatre Company, Laguna Playhouse, Road Theatre Company,

Rubicon Theatre Company. He is also an Ovation, Drama Desk, LADCC, LA Weekly, and Garland Award-winning theatrical producer and recipient of the LADCC Joel Hirschhorn Award for Outstanding Achievement in Musical Theatre. Productions include  Justin Love ,  Having it All ,  The Marvelous Wonderettes and  Winter Wonderettes at the El Portal and  Life Could Be a Dream, at the Hudson, among others. He also produced the Off-Broadway run of  The Marvelous Wonderettes. Many thanks to BT, Jane, Tom, and Cathy and thank you for supporting La Mirada Theatre!

ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFLCIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org

McCOY RIGBY ENTERTAINMENT (Tom McCoy & Cathy Rigby McCoy, Executive Producers) Broadway: Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby, Jekyll and Hyde starring Deborah Cox. National Tours: Peter Pan starring Cathy Rigby, Camelot starring Michael York and Lou Diamond Phillips, Jesus Christ Superstar starring Carl Anderson, Annie Get Your Gun starring Cathy Rigby, Happy Days The

Musical by Gary Marshall and Paul Williams, Seussical The Musical starring Cathy Rigby. International: Miss Saigon (Macau), Dreamgirls (Tokyo), Peter Pan (Macau & Riyadh), Awards: Emmy Awards and Nominations, Tony Award Nominations, countless Ovation Awards and Nominations. La Mirada Theatre: 28th season having produced over 100 musicals, plays, concerts, special events. Television: Peter Pan (A&E), A Night with Janis Joplin and Peter Pan (Broadway HD).

LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS The Tony-nominated theatre has been hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “one of the best Broadway-style houses in Southern California.” This beautiful state-of-the-art theatre has been producing quality productions since 1977. The theatre has produced several national tours and is the recipient of many accolades, including Tony, Emmy and Ovation Award nominations. For its 2012-13 season, it won the LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Best Season of the Year.

LA MIRADA CITY COUNCIL

ANTHONY OTERO Mayor

STEVE DE RUSE, D. MIN Mayor Pro Tem ED ENG Councilmember JOHN LEWIS Councilmember

ANDREW SAREGA Councilmember

JEFF BOYNTON

BT McNICHOLL

City Manager

SPECIAL THANKS

City of La Mirada and Friends of the La Mirada Theatre

LA MIRADA THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS STAFF

Producing Artistic Director

DEVIS ANDRADE .House Manager

JANE LYNCH Theatre Operations Supervisor

HELENE DUARTE Contracts Associate

ELIZABETH CARLOCK Ticket Services Manager

SARAH PETHER-HAMILL

ROBERT FELIX

Assistant Audience Development Coordinator

Master Electrician

JOSH BESSOM Audio Engineer

STEVE BEARD, FLAVIO DIAZ, JONATHAN GUERRERO, LETICIA HERNANDEZ, CARI NOEL, ANDREW RIVAS, PAIGE ROBITAILLE, JAVIER RUIZ, MELISSA SKAU, JOHNNY STEIN, AARON STEVENS, JAHAN WATKINS Stagehands

JENNIFER REILLY

ADRIENNE MEDRANO

KAREN LIU, DONNA THEECK

Marketing Associate

Designer

Administrative Assistants

DAVID ELZER Publicist

SWEIBEL ARTS INNOVATION & LEADERSHIP:

ROBERT SWEIBEL, CECILE ORESTE

Marketing Consultants

ALYSSA ADKINS, MARY DUNNE, MICAH JOHNSON, BEVERLY KIRTON, BEATRIS LOERA, MEGAN SINGER, ALEXANDRA VARESI, CATHERINE VARTAN

ALEXANDRA BRACCIO......................................................................................

Box Office Staff

Assistant House Manager

DIANE MARKWELL, DANA MARTIN, PAT WRIGHT, CANDACE ZAK. Lead Ushers

MERCY BLUMBERG, HAZEL BUSCAINO, JENNIFER DE LEON, NORRIE FAULKNER, SONJA JOHNSON, TREVOR JONES, NOA MARTIN, TATIANA MARTINEZ, MARCIA TOTTEN, GARY WONG, DELIA YBARRA

Ushers

KYLE DURAN Theatre Facilities Coordinator

LUIS DIAZ, ANTHONY GONZALES, JEREMY HUME, EDUARDO LOERA, REYMUNDO MORENO, RAY ROMERO, KATRINA SCHMIDT

McCOY RIGBY ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTION STAFF

Maintenance

TOM McCOY AND CATHY RIGBY Executive Producers ANA LARA

DAVID NESTOR

THERESA FLEMMING

JENNIFER KROON-NELSON, DAVID NESSL

Office Manager

Company Manager

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Assistants to the Scenic Designer

ADAM RAMIREZ Wardrobe Supervisor

KAITLIN YAGEN Wig/Hair Running Head

MADISON MEDRANO Wig/Hair Assistant

HAILEY GOLD......................................................................................... Head Props/Production Assistant TIM WOODS

Production Assistant

MOSELLE DAVIS-KAUFMAN Casting Assistant

PATRICK BIRMAN Military Protocol Consultant

GABE GURBER Military Uniform Consultant

ISAAC J. CRUZ Military Cadence Coach

ELISSA SZIEFF

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The Condesa line from the Serena Dugan rug collection by Erik Lindström. Opposite: artist and textile designer Serena Dugan.

Follow the Fabric

After building a prestigious national brand, artist and textile designer Serena Dugan now creates collections with a more personal connection. by ROGER GRODY

SERENA DUGAN, CO-FOUNDER and former chief creative officer of Serena & Lily—whose beachinspired collections fill retail show rooms from the Palisades to the Hamptons—departed in 2017 to launch Serena Dugan Studio. The transition provided an opportunity to focus on her painting, ultimately leading to creative expressions with textiles, wall coverings and rugs.

“I wanted to reconnect with my roots as a painter,” says Dugan of her initial inspiration for Serena

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Dugan Studio, which is emerging as a leading name in high-end fabrics. “My collections reflect escape and travel, capturing the spirit of jetsetting before jet-setting was fancy,” says Dugan. “There’s a breezy, opti mistic quality to my compositions and patterns.” Sausalito is home to the artist/designer’s eponymous studio, but Dugan maintains a strong presence in Los Angeles.

As an artist, she finds textile design to be a natural outlet for her creativity and dramatic flair. Aside from the designer’s acclaimed Indian block prints, which bear the personal stamps of the artisans who print them, many Serena Dugan Studio fabrics are handcrafted in Los Angeles using solvent-free inks on Belgian linen. Significantly improved performance fabrics, originally designed for outdoor use, are now used indoors as well, particularly val ued by families with children or pets.

After decades of disregard, wallpaper is again a prominent medium that innovative designers are reimagining. “Remembering some of the wallpaper I grew up

with, I’d roll my eyes, thinking it was hopelessly out of style. But now no room is off limits for wallpaper,” she says. Dugan notes today’s consum ers appreciate the luscious, tactile qualities of woven grasscloth and the paperweave coverings to which she affixes her modern, abstract motifs.

“I always assumed that more out landish color combinations would be hard to sell, but that’s not necessar ily the case,” she continues. “People have an appetite for bold colors that are well executed.” According to Dugan, designers and homeowners are exploring greens as a departure from prevailing blues; she suggests the next trend may involve oranges, reds and terra-cottas or shades of peach and apricot, as they are natu ral counterpoints to blues.

Dugan’s art, fabrics and wallpa per are offered in Los Angeles at Hollywood at Home, the showroom of designer Peter Dunham in the La Cienega Design Quarter; she is also collaborating with Erik Lindström, one of the most influential rug mak ers in the nation.

“Erik’s rugs are true works of art .... the prospect of blending my own

Here and below: fabrics and wall papers by Serena Dugan Studio

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art into these beautifully crafted pieces had me thrilled,” recalls Dugan.

Though aware of Dugan’s work as a fabric designer, Lindström was particularly attracted to her art: “Serena’s paintings are colorful and graphic, two things that I look for when designing a rug collection,” he explains.

Dugan’s rug designs are the only products literally transferred from her paintings. The Serena Dugan collection by Erik Lindström reflects abstract creations inspired by the art and architecture of Mexico City and are named after three iconic neighborhoods: Condesa, Polanco and Roma.

Even as Dugan's reper tory expands, she is a painter at heart; though proud of the Serena & Lily brand she helped build, she does not envision another all-encompassing line. Her current venture, she says, “is more personal, more attuned with my passions.”

Serena Dugan Studio 415.384.1178, serenadugan.com

Erik Lindström 3717 W. Jefferson Blvd., L.A., 310.306.8700, eriklindstrom.com

Hollywood at Home 703 N. La Cienega Blvd., L.A., 310.273.6200, hollywoodathome.com

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Alice Waters’ Lulu at the UCLA Hammer Museum. / by jenn tanaka /

Lulu, the first Los Angeles restaurant from Chez Panisse founder Alice Waters, opened one year ago in the courtyard of UCLA’s Hammer Museum.

To complete their vision of the restaurant business model that would become Lulu, legendary chef and food activist Waters and Hammer Museum director Ann Philbin sought a chef who would not only celebrate seasonality and sustainable farming but who could also create a gathering place for art lovers and students.

In addition to his kitchen qualifications,

chef David Tanis, a 25-year veteran of Chez Panisse, has written cookbooks and penned a column for The New York Times Enhancing the experience, Jesse McBride, former food and beverage head at Chateau Marmont and the Standard hotel group, came on as director of operations.

In keeping with her core philosophies, Waters’ restaurant advocates regenerative farming. Even the decor is an ode to sustain ability; designer Sean Daly collaborated with artist Christina Kim to create the indooroutdoor courtyard using local materials.

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David Tanis, chef at Alilce Waters’ Lulu at the UCLA Hammer Museum, and, above, a Tanis spread.

Angel City Lumber sourced wood from fallen trees including a 50-yearold bunya-bunya tree found two miles from the museum; it was repur posed to create table

tops. Craft Landscape Architecture introduced native plant species such as deer grass, toyon, milfolia and Sierra mint.

The space is an amal gam of non-invasive

Lulu’s housemade chiocciole pasta. Left: The restaurant is in an indoor-outdoor courtyard at the UCLA Hammer Museum.

SoCal flora punctuated with a Jorge Pardo mosaic wall. Other elements for the dining room include ceramic bowls and plates by Shoshi Watanabe from L.A.-based Bauer Pottery,

established in 1910.

The museum is part of UCLA’s School of the Arts and Architecture. Collections include 50,000 works from classic to contemporary;

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exhibition admission is free. A Lulu repast is ideal after strolling the galleries.

Sourcing for the threecourse prix fixe midday menu follows Tanis’s ethos of “market cooking”: Offerings change daily and ingredients shine.

Appetizers might include wine country classics such as baked Sonoma goat cheese with garden lettuce or a California halibut carpaccio with sweet Meyer lemon.

Focaccia sandwiches are stuffed with mozza rella, arugula and Casella prosciutto; an eggplant banh mi reflects the area’s surging plant-based dining scene.

Mains might include a seafood stew with Dungeness crab and local rock cod or a North African lamb tagine with saffron couscous. An olive oil walnut cake is topped with pomegranate seeds.

Bistro-inspired starters at dinner include a yellow carrot soup with ginger cream and a curly endive salad with bacon, egg and mustard vinaigrette.

Entrees lean toward Cal-Italian comfort food. Grilled Baja striped bass finished with salsa verde and aioli dots evokes a Southern Californian fish ing trip. Grass-fed beef tagliata, aka Italian grilled steak, is simply sliced and served atop Parmesantopped peppery arugula.

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House-made pastas tossed with zucchini, squash blossoms, ricotta, basil and Parmesan cheese may not be groundbreaking but thoughtful preparation puts the spotlight on the craftsmanship of this region’s farmers, dairies and cheesemongers.

Desserts such as an apple rhubarb crumble or cherry clafoutis are nostalgic, even homey.

Biodynamic wines are a particular focus, as are female winemakers and small-production winer ies. Rosés by the glass include the first certified regenerative California

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A homey apple rhubarb crumble at Lulu.

rosé from Tablas Creek.

Cocktails by Rosemary West feature spirits from family-owned small producers and they, too, evidence a thoughtful sourcing ethos.

One libation is made with blue-agave Arette Blanco Tequila from a fifth-generation distiller in Tequila, Jalisco, another features a new label from San Zanj, one of the oldest family-owned rum distilleries in Haiti.

Chef Tanis plans to create an apprenticeship program for students from UCLA and other schools.

Waters, Philbin and Tanis hope that a handson experience at Lulu will plant a seed, as it were, inspiring a new generation of regenerative-minded farmers and chefs to find their calling and feed the people.

10899 Wilshire Blvd., West L.A., 424.999.4870, lulu.restaurant

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lyrical and storytelling pieces rather than robust pieces,” says HyeJin Kim, a regular recitalist as well as resident pianist of the Salastina chamber ensem ble, which performs at the Edye at the Broad Stage in grand romantic pieces, Russian music [and oth ers] that can fill the space and the acoustics with the atmosphere and sound.”

Whatever the scale, I always consider is find like dinner courses—from the lovely appetizer-like piece to the brilliant and impressive main piece to the sweet dessert-like of a learning curve when it comes to performing

instructor, Goosby real ized the importance of emotional connection to a piece as a young teen.

Thomas, a professor at Indiana University, asks his students to write a statement of artistic purpose when program ming their recitals.

Inna Faliks, head of piano at UCLA’s music department, recently played a recital at the Wallis in Beverly Hills. She advises her students “to play as though it’s the last thing they will ever do, to be deeply committed to the music and to the mes sage they are sending.

“There is no point in playing, otherwise—there are plenty of recordings and videos. The energy it takes to play live comes from this special risk, this commitment, the opening up, the vulnerability. If one is not willing to do that, there is no point.”

Inna Faliks, head of piano at UCLA

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reprogrammed !

Performances Magazine unveils a digital program platform for shows and concerts

DROP DOWN MENU Table of app contents.

REGISTER

Stay arts-engaged, access past programs.

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

CONTRIBUTORS

Donors and sponsors who make it all possible—you!

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.

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Find whatever it is you want to know—easily.

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Link to your performing-arts companies and venues.

THE PLAYERS

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