THEATER / SNEAK PEEK : A NEW NOHO THEATER STARTS WITH `DREAMER'.Several members of North Hollywood's American Renegade Theatre Company are opening a new NoHo theater called the Bitter Truth, which they are launching with a production of John Patrick
John Patrick (May 17, 1905 – November 7, 1995) was an American playwright and screenwriter. Shanley's ``The Dreamer Examines His Pillow.'' David A. Cox, one of the new theater's partners and one of the driving forces behind the creation of the NoHo Arts District
The Arts District , said that among their reasons for opening the Bitter Truth is ``to continue the arts district and make it more healthy.'' The new 45-seat theater at 11050 Magnolia Blvd. is about 200 yards east of American Renegade's planned new site at 11136 Magnolia Blvd. Its partners are Cox, American Renegade's artistic director; Leslie deBeauvais, executive director of its Theatre of Hope for Abused Women outreach program; and actors Gary and Cecilia Collier. They will operate the new for-profit theater independently of the nonprofit American Renegade. They are producing ``Dreamer'' and the upcoming family show ``The Christmas Dragon.'' Comedy and improv A multidimensional Windows spreadsheet from Lotus that allows for easy switching to different views of the data. Data are referenced by name as in a database, rather than the typical spreadsheet row and column coordinates. Improv was originally developed for the NeXt computer. may find a place on the schedule, too; and the theater will be available for rental by outside producers. In addition to its stage, the Bitter Truth will house a nonprofit community art gallery and sculpture garden A sculpture garden is an outdoor garden dedicated to the presentation of sculpture, usually several permanently-sited works in durable materials in landscaped surroundings. . Previews of ``Dreamer'' begin tonight, and the show opens Nov. 8. Call Theatix, (818) 953-9993 or (213) 466-1767. Meanwhile, the long-delayed renovation of American Renegade's new site is expected to begin within two weeks, Cox said. The company has been in transition for the last year, since moving from its rental digs in an earthquake-damaged site that subsequently was demolished. Cox expects the new site - which will house 99-seat and 49-seat theaters - to open in spring '97. ``I have this vision that Actors Alley'' - a nearby company also on a long road to earthquake recovery - ``and us are going to open our doors at the same second,'' Cox said, laughing. In the interim, American Renegade is presenting Joyce Carol Oates' ``I Stand Before You Naked,'' beginning previews Nov. 14 and opening Nov. 16 in temporary digs at 5303 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood. Call (818) 763-4430. The stuff of history: California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an , will revisit a turbulent chapter in its history with ``The Times of the Furnaces,'' to be performed at 12:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday in the Campus Theater of the Speech-Drama Building, on the campus' southwest corner. CSUN CSUN California State University Northridge student T-Fox performs this one-man show about the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. State 19, who took over a floor of the Administration Building of what was then San Fernando Valley State College on Nov. 4, 1968, to protest the institution's treatment of minority students. The at-times violent standoff resulted in the harshest criminal penalties for students involved in any campus protest in American history, but it also led to the eventual creation of Pan-African and Chicano studies departments at CSUN. Admission is free, no tickets required. Call (818) 677-3311. Casting: Jane Carr, best known as the British-accented singles support-group leader on NBC's old ``Dear John'' sitcom, is set to star in the Pasadena Playhouse's production of ``Lettice & Lovage lovage, tall perennial herb (Levisticum officinale) of the family Umbelliferae (parsley family), native to the mountains of S Europe and cultivated elsewhere. Its aromatic fruits are used in soups and as a flavoring for confectionery and for some liqueurs. ,'' which begins previews Nov. 8 and opens Nov. 17. ... James Barbour, who replaced Terrence Mann as the furry star of the Los Angeles production of ``Beauty and the Beast Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale (type 425C -- search for a lost husband -- in the Aarne-Thompson classification). The first published version of the fairy tale was a meandering rendition by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in ,'' portrays Jesus in the revival of ``Godspell,'' playing Tuesday through Nov. 10 at the Alex Theatre in Glendale and Nov. 19-24 at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza The Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza is a performing arts and administrative center located in Thousand Oaks, California. It was built in 1994 on the former site of "Jungleland" at a cost of $63.8 million. . Here 'n' there: You may recall that before his huge success with the screenplay for ``The First Wives Club,'' Robert Harling wrote a little play - which then became a movie - called ``Steel Magnolias.'' The beauty shop inhabitants
The game is based loosely on the concepts from SameGame. of the earlier work live again in a revival at the Actors Co-op in Hollywood, continuing through Nov. 17. Call (213) 964-3586. ... John Rubinstein will stage Stephen Sondheim's fractured fairy tale ``Into the Woods'' with North Hollywood's Interact Theatre Company, opening Dec. 6. Rubinstein has a strong Sondheim connection: He played the jaded composer in the legendary 1985 revival of ``Merrily We Roll Along'' at the La Jolla Playhouse  La Jolla Playhouse is a not-for-profit, professional theatre-in-residence on the campus of the University of California, San Diego. and the murderous political aspirant in ``The Doctor Is Out'' in 1995 at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre and then on Broadway (where the title changed to ``Getting Away With Murder''). For advance reservations, call (213) 466-1767. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Evelyn Iocolano, left, C.J. Bau and Michael Cerenzie perform a scene from ``The Dreamer Examines His Pillow'' at the new Bitter Truth theater in the NoHo Arts District. Previews begin tonight. Tom Mendoza/Daily News |
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