SUDDENLY LAST
SUMMER This melodrama/
mystery by Ten- nessee
Williams
revolves around a wealthy
harridan,
Violet Venable (im- mortalized on film in 1959 by Katherine Hepburn who was nominated for an Oscar for the role,) as she attempts to bribe the original film’s Montgomery Clift character of Dr.
who is
Cukrowicz, a
young
psycho-surgeon from a New Orleans mental
hospital.
Desperately in need of funds, the offer
of lobotomizing her niece Catherine Holly (portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor, also nominated for an Oscar) is enticing. Aunty Violet wants the operation performed immediately, in order to prevent Catherine’s recollections from defiling the memory of her son Sebastian, the poet. Catherine has been having horrific flashes relating to said death she was witnessed, while on holiday together in Spain the previous summer. Runs: March 25 through April 15 at Theatre Out at The Empire Theatre, 202 N. Broadway in Santa Ana’s Artist Village. Tickets: 714.826.8700 or
TheatreOut.com
BETWEEN US CHICKENS SCR is mounting a production by a newer playwright, Sofia Alvarez, a Brook-
lyn resident who is currently enrolled in a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fel- lowship at The Juilliard School. She is an alumnus of the Royal Court Theatre’s Young Writer’s Program in London, where she developed her play Life Drawing. She was recently awarded Lincoln Center Theater’s Lecomte du Nouy, a prize for playwriting awarded by the French Academy. She presents a story about Meagan and Sarah, small-town girls who are new to L.A. Meagan is so all about retail and the celebrity scene while Sarah is a complete computer-surfing homebody. A smooth-talking opportunist named Charles crashes on their couch and shakes things up, he takes Sarah out on the town and threatens to upset the balance of her lifelong friendship—especially when Sarah’s secret life (wonder what that could be?) comes to light. Runs: March 25 through April 3 at South Coast Repertory, 655 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. Tickets: 714.708.5555 or
scr.org
WICKED The New York Times hails Wicked as “Broadway’s big- gest blockbuster”. That legacy also holds true for OC’s cherished and newly renamed Segerstrom Center For The Arts. In 2006 it broke all box office records by selling out in record time. There are currently seven productions playing around the planet, there are two North American tours, it is on Broadway, in London and Australia, including Japanese and German-language productions. Long before Dorothy dropped in from Kansas, two other girls met in the Land of Oz. One was born with emerald-green skin; smart, fiery and misun- derstood - the other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. Wicked tells the story of their extraordinary odyssey, and how the two unlikely friends grow to be- come the spellbinding Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch. Runs March 9 through April 3, 2011 at the newly renamed Segerstrom Center For The Arts, 600 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa. Tickets: 714.556.2787 or
SCFTA.org.
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