FEBRUARY 2013

Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 2:00 PM

The Yale Cabaret Hollywood reading of...
"Day of the Dead" a one-act play by Dyanne Asimow

In the Victorian Parlor of the Perry Mansion at
Heritage Square Museum

(DO NOT CONFUSE THIS WITH THE PLAY PRODUCED IN 2014 PLEASE.)

The Day of the Dead. An old candlemaker chooses between immortality and love.

Poetry, metaphor, myth, imagination. Be prepared. Anything can happen. Especially, on Olvera Street.

Directed by Corky Dominguez.

Featuring Claudia Duran and Gabriel Gonzalez.

Produced by Walt Kappert.

Admission is a requested donation of $10 with free admission for Heritage Square Members or New Members joining at the $35 level or more. Heritage Square is located at: 3800 Homer Street, Los Angeles, CA 90031 near the Avenue 43 Exit of the 110 Freeway.

For reservations, call 310-499-4104


SEPTEMBER 2012

Sunday, September 23, 2012 at 2:30 PM

The Yale Cabaret Hollywood invites you to a reading of the play...
"Mike and Mary" by James Gleason,
a two-time finalist at the Eugene O'Neill Festival.

After years we are finally back in the M Bar,
the perfect venue for this play!

MIKE AND MARY

"Mike and Mary" is a comedy about a seemingly mismatched couple put together by an online dating service. They spend the next 24 hours together!

"Mike and Mary" was a finalist at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Festival.

Directed by Nicholas Hormann.

Featuring Amanda Carlin, Fred Sanders, Mimi Cozzens and James Greene.

Produced by Walt Kappert.

Admission is a requested donation of $5.

The M Bar is at the southeast corner of Vine and Fountain in Hollywood,
1253 Vine Street Los Angeles, CA 90038

For reservations, call 310-499-4104


FEBRUARY 2012

Sunday, February *12*, 2012 at 4 PM
The date was changed so everyone can watch the Super Bowl the previous week. :-)

The Yale Cabaret Hollywood invites you to be captivated by
"Tales of the Old West"

In the Parlour of the Perry Mansion at the Heritage Square Museum.

TALES OF THE OLD WEST

Join Barbara Bragg, fourth-generation Storyteller, Playwright, and Actress, as she gangs up with Corey Madden, the straight-shooting former Director of the Mark Taper Forum, for a parlour reading bringing to life award-winning Western stories spun by Barb’s Paw, Bill Bragg.

Sam Stringer loses his way in the Bighorn Mountains as a hungry wolf tracks him down in "Ten Sleep Mail."

Bluejacket, Oglala Lakota Medicine Man, warns of a Creole Phantom out for Vengeance in "The Ghost of Fort Laramie."

(Performed with the permission of Big Tepee Productions.)

Featuring Barbara Bragg, Peter Gaddis, Obi Ndefo. James Tupper and Joe Reynolds.

Produced by Walt Kappert.

Admission is a requested donation of $10 with free admission for Heritage Square Members or New Members joining at the $35 level or more. Heritage Square is located at: 3800 Homer Street, Los Angeles, CA 90031 near the Avenue 43 Exit of the 110 Freeway.

For reservations, call 310-499-4104


DECEMBER 2011

Saturday, December 3, 8:00 PM

Yale Cabaret Hollywood presents a reading of James Ricci's exciting play
"MOUNTAIN PEOPLE"

SHORT TALES

A killing... grief stricken parents... the young men caught in the web of the legal system... and a steep, twisting path to justice.

Ricci, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and former L.A. Times writer, brings a journalist's keen eye for the telling detail to this gripping courtroom drama about today's pursuit for justice... or is it revenge? You decide.

Directed by Eric Scott Gould. Produced by Walt Kappert.

Admission is a suggested donation of $5. The Berg Studio Theatre is at 3245 Casitas Ave, Suite 104, Los Angeles (Atwater Village), CA 90039

For reservations, call 310-499-4104


OCTOBER 2011

Extended!!! Performances Sauturday (10/8) and Friday (10/14)
Opened Saturday, October 1, All performances at 8:00 PM

The Yale Cabaret Hollywood takes on the 2011-2012 season

with a radio-style presentation of

"Beat"

Beat

Written by Paavo Hall, Jon Howard and Walt Klappert.

Directed by Fred Sanders.

The Cafe Metropol, 923 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013, in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District is the perfect home for this piece about the beat generation writers.

Opens Saturday, October 1 at 8 PM. Other dates to follow.

Join our clandestine meeting for conspiratorial lore and poetry from the Beat Generation of the 1950's.

William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac get hassled by J. Edgar Buddha, the personification of post-war Amerika gone mad!

For reservations, call 310-499-4104

A $10 donation request.


APRIL 2011

Sunday, April 3, 4:00 PM

The Yale Cabaret Hollywood presents

"Mark Twain, Playwright"

A Reading in the Perry Mansion Parlor of The Heritage Square Museum of

"Ah Sin"

a play by Bret Harte and Mark Twain adapted by Walt Klappert and Dani Roter

Twain

In 1876, two of America's most popular authors produced "Ah Sin." They set their frontier farce in Deadwood, South Dakota - the latest Gold Rush territory.

Please join us for this fast-paced laugh-filled reading packed with villainy, conflict, love-at-first-sight, mistaken identities, a murder trial -- and a surprising Chinese hero.

A great return of Mark Twain to Heritage Square!

We begin with a curtain raiser, an excerpt from Peter Nelson's "Inventing Mark Twain."

Admission is a requested donation of $10 with free admission for Heritage Square Members or New Members joining at the $35 level or more.

For reservations, call 310-499-4104

Heritage Square is located at 3800 Homer Street, Los Angeles, CA 90031 near the Avenue 43 Exit of the 110 Freeway.


FEBRUARY 2010

Sunday, February 13, 7:00 PM

Join Yale Cabaret Hollywood at the new Berg Studio Theatre
for live readings of four short plays!

. . . or as we have come to call them, four short tales . . .

SHORT TALES

The plays include an excerpt from Bill Ballantyne's '70 "LIMITED RUN," a mounting of Hamlet on Broadway with Hollywood Stars, directed by the evening's producer Walt Klappert ‘79.

Barbara Bragg ‘87 presents a version of "TEN SLEEP MAIL, " a Tale of the American West adapted from her father's William F Bragg Jr's award winning short story directed by Debra De Liso.

Nance Crawford gives us "BUONA NOTTE, GRANNA SARA," a farce about an embarrassing situation at a Mafia Wedding directed by Dyanne Asimow ‘67.

Julius Galacki ‘98 wrote and directs "Five Tigers Go to the Mountain," a farce, with kung fu, gender bending, time traveling and, within the wackiness, some observations on imperialism, racism and spiritual enlightenment.

Assistant Director for "LIMITED RUN:" Rebekah Voss

Associate Producer: John Lordon.

Admission is a suggested donation of $5. The Berg Studio Theatre is at 3245 Casitas Ave, Suite 104, Los Angeles (Atwater Village), CA 90039

This is Gregory Berger-Sobeck's great new 49-seat theatre - come see it!

For reservations call 310-499-4104.

NOVEMBER 2010

Saturday, November 6, 8:00 PM!

Join Yale Cabaret Hollywood at Cafe Metropol
for a live reading of the play by Charles Bartlett and Jack Cooper

"BUCKSHOT"
A Boy's Christmas in Texas

BUCKSHOT

Matthew remembers Christmas time back in Texas. A teddy bear for his sister Cora Sue. A twenty-two rifle for him. Matthew would rather have the bear. Come and see the birth of a Yuletide tradition in the making.

Featuring: Alix Angelis, Barbara Bragg, Vincent Cardinale, Annika Dahlen, Michael Gross, Peter Katona, Kelly Lester and John Lordan.

With Barry Anderson on the piano

Directed by: Nicholas Hormann
Associate Producer: John Lordan
Café Metropol Entertainment Director: Paul Im
Produced by: Walt Klappert

Admission is a suggested donation of $5
Save time and thank the hosting club by ordering from
the Metropol's choice menu of food or drink.

The Café Metropol is at
923 E 3rd St
In the Downtown Los Angeles Artists District

For reservations call
310-499-4104

DRIVING DIRECTIONS!!!
A good way to enter Downtown Los Angeles for the Cafe is from Exit 2A of the 101 (Hollywood) Freeway.

Here is how to get to Exit 2A:
(1) From Hollywood or the West Valley just take the 101 Freeway East and South.
(2) From Santa Monica take I-10 to Exit 13B on the left near Downtown for the 110 North toward Pasadena, then exit at the sign saying I-5 South-Santa Ana/I-10 East-San Bernardino and merge onto the 101 South.
(3) Take the 110 South to the I-5 South then merge onto US-101 South.

After getting to Exit 2A on the 101:
Exit 2A toward Alameda St/Union Station,
Merge onto N Garey St,
Turn left at E Temple St,
Take the 1st right onto N Vignes St which ends at 2nd St,
(Valet Parking for Café Metropol is just to the right of 2nd and Vignes)
Or use Sante Fe to the left on 2nd to get to 3rd St where you take a left,
The Cafe Metropol is a few short blocks on the right at:

923 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013

Metropol Map



Coming Soon...

Join Yale Cabaret Hollywood at The Lounge Theatre
for a live reading of the play by Bernard Weinraub

"Above The Fold"

Above The Fold

Jane, an ambitious newspaper reporter from New York, arrives in a southern college town to investigate the rape of a stripper by three fraternity boys. The case raises lots of questions, but Jane and her newspaper know the answers. Or do they?

Directed by: Steve Robman
Produced by: Walt Klappert

Admission is a suggested donation of $5

The Lounge Theatre is at
6201 Santa Monica Boulevard (between Vine and Gower Streets)
Los Angeles, CA 90038

Parking is on El Centro and other side streets, including Santa Monica after 7:00 pm

For reservations call
310-499-4104


MAY 2010

Thursday, May 20, 7:15 PM!

Join Yale Cabaret Hollywood at Café Metropol
for a live reading of the play by William Ludel

"The Trials Of The Oscillating Marble Man"

Featuring Darius Dudley, Nike Doukas, Arye Gross, Michael Gross, Brent Keast, Lynn Milgrim and Peter Van Norden.

Marble Man

Inventor Benjamin Zwyckoff struggles with a huge company's thieving entrepreneur who stole Zwyckoff's brilliant creation -- the oscillating sprinkler. The inventor's romances, aspirations and dreams unfold in Bill Ludel's delight of flashbacks, music and fantasy. One of the best plays the Yale Cabaret Hollywood has come across in years.

Directed by: Nicholas Hormann
Produced by: Walt Klappert

Admission is a suggested donation of $5
Save time and thank the hosting club by ordering from
the Metropol's choice menu of food or drink.

The Café Metropol is at
923 E 3rd St
In the Downtown Los Angeles Artists District

For reservations call
310-499-4104


FEBRUARY 2010

Sunday, February 21, 4 PM

Please join Heritage Square and Yale Cabaret Hollywood
for a live reading of the experimental Interactive Television script called...

"NOIR - FACE THE MUSIC"

Noir - Face The Music

This one-time-only reading will be on Sunday, February 21, 4 PM in the Victorian Parlor of the Perry Mansion, Heritage Square. All proceeds will help fund LA's unique living history Heritage Square Museum.

Admission is a requested donation of $10 with free admission for Heritage Square Members or New Members joining at the $35 level or more.

For reservations, call 323-225-2700 ext. 223

NOIR - FACE THE MUSIC is a script commissioned from Ray Malus to create television program using the interactive infrastructure Cable TV companies are deploying for Advertising. This is a world premier. We especially encourage writers interested in television to participate in the discussion after the live reading.

About the script:

JANITOR FINDS DEAD BODY IN UNION STATION. . Why is Private Eye Buck Reilly nosing around the Mayor's Office? Find out! Come to the Heritage Square Museum to hear the answer to this and many other questions.

Heritage Square is located at 3800 Homer Street, Los Angeles, CA 90031 near the Avenue 43 Exit of the 110 Freeway.



NOVEMBER 2009

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 7 PM!

Join Yale Cabaret Hollywood at Café Metropol
for a live reading of the play by Alex Maggio

"TOUCHDOWN JESUS"

Touchdown Jesus

In Oakhurst, Ohio, an eighty-foot statue of Jesus spreads his arms. The son of a local football coach dies in a tragic accident. His mega-church's pastor, a friend of the family, offers to make a documentary about the boy's life, but the young woman filmmaker who shoots the film uncovers secrets, and life gets a lot more complicated than football!

Directed by: Dani Roter
Produced by: Walt Klappert

Admission is a suggested donation of $10
which includes $5 toward food or drink at the club.
The Café Metropol is at
923 E 3rd St
In the Downtown Los Angeles Artists District

For reservations call
213-613-1537

If you are in New York City, catch our own Steve Mendillo in "Good Bobby."

Good Bobby


OCTOBER 2009

Two Yale Cabaret Hollywood Readings Have Legs!


Two plays read as part of Yale Cabaret Hollywood's 2008-2009 season are going on to greater things. "That Perfect Moment" By Charles Bartlett and Jack Cooper with original songs by Sky Keegan will run in full production from Sunday, October 3 through November 8, 2009 at The NoHo Arts Center. See below for details.

Dyanne Asimow's play on ballet, now called "Les Attitudes," has a staged reading at The Lounge Theatre on Sunday, October 4, 2009 with the goal to move to full production. Details are also below here.

A big "Break a Leg" to both efforts!

In a addition to co-producing "Les Attitudes," YCH has two other projects in the works, "Touchdown Jesus" by Alex Maggio and an Interactive Mystery by Ray Malus. We are looking for more projects. If you have one in mind, please drop a line to info@YaleCabaretHollywood.com.

For tickets for "That Perfect Moment" go to www.plays411.net


JUNE 2009

Yale Drama Grads Organize and Direct Readers' Theatre in LA's Pershing Square Park

Sunday, June 28, 2009 5 p.m

City of Los Angeles
Department of Recreation and Parks
Pershing Square Outdoor Concert and Event Center
presents

READERS' THEATRE* (see definition)


First Pershing Square
Photo: Ed Fuentes

The curtain rises on a new presentation area in the midst
of Pershing Square Park,
532 S Olive Street at 5th Street in Downtown Los Angeles.

Sunday, June 28, 2009 5:00PM.

The first Play-In-The-Park tops off the annual
FREE Neighbor Day Weekend Activities
at Pershing Square.

*Readers' Theatre is when an audience gets to imagine the scenery, costuming and special effects which no theatre company could ever afford. These directed actors work with no technical limitations at all.

Play-In-The-Park Readers' Theatre debuts
in Pershing Square Park
on June 28, 2009 at 5PM.

Organized by Walt Klappert of Yale Cabaret Hollywood.

We begin with the short delightful play:

"Mass Transit" by Evangeline Ordaz of
Downtown Los Angeles's Theatre Group Company of Angels
directed by Julius Galacki
featuring Richard Azurdia, Julie Estrada Evans, Xavi Moreno, Nicole Ortega,
Monica Quintanilla and Armando Vasquez
It is hard enough to get the kids and wife in the car.
Forget about getting them where they are going.

Then:

W. Shay Hammond of TheSpyAnts brings us
"Doggonit," a play by Jerry Pappas
directed by Addi Gaash
featuring Jennifer Etienne Eckert, Scott Krinsky and Mari Marks.
The animals you meet at this Veterinarian's office
are not all brought in on a leash.

For better seating, bring your own lawn chair or blanket.
Let us know you are coming by calling 310-499-4104.

Come and Play in the Park! :-)




APRIL 2009

Yale Cabaret Hollywood And Bedlam Magazine
co-sponsor
A Play Reading About The Beat Generation

"Beat"
by Paavo Hall, Jon Howard and Walt Klappert
Directed by Steve Zuckerman

Saturday, April 18, 2009 8:00 PM
A Secret Meeting at the old Al's Bar in the Los Angeles Arts District

Beat

Join our clandestine meeting for conspiratorial lore and poetry from the Beat Generation of the 1950's.

William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac get hassled by J. Edgar Buddha, the personification of post-war Amerika gone mad!

Featuring Cyrus Alexander, Robert Cicchini, Annika Dahlen, Charles Gideon Davis, Logan Fahey, Elizabeth Penn Payne, Peter Van Norden, and Todd Waring.

Part of YCH's ongoing development of the play, first read publicly September 2007.

Bedlam Magazine (Al's Bar)
305 S. Hewitt Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013.

$10 suggested donation. Beer and wine available for purchase.

Reservations: 310-499-4104.


FEBRUARY 2009

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 4 PM!

Please join Heritage Square and Yale Cabaret Hollywood
for a live - and emotion-filled - reading of the one-act play of
"ATTITUDE X THREE"

Attitude X Three

The one-time-only reading will be Saturday, February 7, 4 PM in the Victorian Parlor of the Perry Mansion, Heritage Square. All proceeds will help fund LA's unique living history Heritage Square Museum.

Admission is a requested donation of $15 with free admission for Heritage Square Members or New Members joining at the $35 level or more.

For reservations, call 323-225-2700 ext. 223

ATTITUDE X THREE is a new play by Yale Playwright and Screenwriter Dyanne Asimow. This is a world premier reading especially adapted for the Victorian environment of Heritage Square.

About the play: As the 20th Century dawns:
Victoria, an eccentric, aging émigré ballerina:
Grace, a young, ambitious danseuse:
and Monsieur Serkiev, legendary choreographer,
once Victoria's mentor and lover:
join in a picaresque roundelay of longing, loss, and illusion
set to the music of time.

Featuring: Gregory Berger-Sobeck, Emily Foxler, Natalie Freeman and Karen Tarleton

Directed by: Eric Scott Gould
Produced by: Walt Klappert

Heritage Square is located at 3800 Homer Street, Los Angeles, CA 90031 near the Avenue 43 Exit of the 110 Freeway.


NOVEMBER 2008

Please join Yale Cabaret Hollywood
for a reading of JRR Tolkien's

The Hobbit

adapted for stage by Markland Taylor

Saturday, November 15, 7:00 PM
La Crescenta Women's Club

A benefit for the Crescenta Valley Arts Council

The Hobbit

Yale Cabaret Hollywood brings JRR Tolkien's classic adventure fantasy about good against greed and evil "” and the thrill of live theatre to the families of La Crescenta, courtesy of the Cresenta Valley Arts Council.

The Hobbit continues Yale Cabaret Hollywood's successful reading series, matching play with place...from its Mark Twain adaptation at Heritage Square to That Perfect Moment at Theatre West...creating memorable experiences for the audience and actors every time!

The Hobbit is a one-time-only, don't miss event!

"Far over Misty Mountains old,
once more The Hobbit will be told.
In La Crescenta like the Shire,
hear o' Good and Evil and Dragon Fire!"

Directed by: Diane Roter

Featuring Gregory Berger-Sobeck, Chris De Carlo, Chris Desmond, Ava DuPree, Adam J. Smith, and John Waroff

Produced by: Walt Klappert

Also featured: Ukulele Bartt Sextet

Donation: $5

Saturday, November 15, 7:00 PM
La Crescenta Women's Club
4004 La Crescenta Avenue
Montrose, California

DIRECTIONS: I-210 North. Take Exit 17B La Crescenta Ave. Turn left. La Crescenta Women’s Club will be on your Left about 2 blocks south of the freeway exit.

There is ample free parking on the street.

The Women's Club is also served by the Metro Bus Lines 90 and 91.

Women's Club Map

Reservations are not required, there are plenty of seats. You can leave a message for Yale Cabaret Hollywood at 310-499-4104 or reply to this email if you have questions or just want to let us know you are coming.

Yale Cabaret Hollywood
"The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Play Readings In Los Angeles."



OCTOBER and NOVEMBER 2008

Yale Cabaret Hollywood invites you to...

True West Girl

Starring Barbara Bragg

Directed by Bruce Katzman

FRIDAY, Oct 24
Doors open 7:00PM
Performance 8:00PM

SUNDAY, Oct 26
Starving Artists' Night!
PAY WHAT YOU WANT!
Doors open 6:00PM
Performance 7:00PM

SUNDAY Nov 2
Doors open 6:00PM
Performance 7:00PM

TRUE WEST GIRL

Wyoming's untamed daughter, Barbara Bragg, spins theatrical magic
from the stories that won't leave her alone...
...from her father's ghost stories of the old West
to a sister who swallows stars...

"” even Dick Cheney makes a guest appearance!

It's an exhilarating journey from gut-wrenching
to darkly funny to piercingly truthful...
...as the True West Girl wrestles with the angels and demons
howling in her soul like the prairie wind.

Produced by Robert Barnett

$10 suggested donation (at the door)
$10 food minimum

M-BAR & RESTAURANT
1253 N. Vine St., in Hollywood
(at Fountain, in the strip mall
on the southwest corner)

The M-Bar is located closest to Vine Street,
with an "M" on the awning over the door.

Parking is available in the lot and on the street.

RESERVATIONS highly recommended: 323-856-0036

The M-Bar: a hidden oasis of unpretentious cool...



Yale Cabaret Hollywood invites you to...
A Night of French Cabaret Songs
RETURN ENGAGEMENT! TWO NIGHTS ONLY!

SATURDAY, Oct 4
Doors open 7:00
Performance 8:00

SUNDAY, Oct 5
Doors open 6:00
Performance 7:00


FRENCH SONGS

Grab your beret and join us for a night of Gallic cabaret songs "”
almost all sung in English for the first time!

Performers: Gregory Franklin, Jill Marie Burke, Matthew Solari
Musical director: Gary Mattison
Host and translator: Peter Mellencamp

Find out why audiences called A Night of French Cabaret Songs:
"Riveting:"
"Funny, poignant and remarkable…"
"I found myself jolted and elated and devastated within a single song:"
"An incredible journey."

These fresh, new translations are filled with raucous laughter...
bittersweet tales of love lost and love regained...
and riotous assaults on the biggest sin of all: conventionality.

Vive la difference!

$10 suggested donation (at the door)
$10 food minimum

Produced by Robert Barnett

M-BAR & RESTAURANT
1253 N. Vine St., in Hollywood
(at Fountain, in the strip mall
on the southwest corner)

The M-Bar is located closest to Vine Street,
with an "M" on the awning over the door.
Parking is available in the lot and on the street.

RESERVATIONS highly recommended: 323-856-0036

The M-Bar: a hidden oasis of unpretentious cool...



SEPTEMBER 2008

Sunday, September 14, 7 PM
FREE!

"THAT PERFECT MOMENT" at THEATRE WEST

Join Yale Cabaret Hollywood!
For a free reading of a funny and touching two-act comedy
By Charles Bartlett and Jack Cooper
with original songs by Sky Keegan

THAT PERFECT MOMENT

THEATRE WEST
3333 Cahuenga Blvd. West, Los Angeles

For reservations, call 310-499-4104.

THAT PERFECT MOMENT is about four guys who had one big "perfect" moment with their rock and roll band in the "˜60s. Fast forward "half a lifetime" later when a record label offers them a chance of a comeback. Comedy, chaos and matrimonial mayhem ensue.

Directed by: Richard Basch
Produced by: Walt Klappert

Featuring in speaking order Mary Linda Phillips, John Perry,
Paul Ainsley, Steve Mendillo, Bruce Katzman and Roger Cruz.

Theatre West is located between Barham and Lankershim, just down the block from Universal Studios in Los Angeles. Free parking across the street.
This is a don't miss, one-time-only event, and as thanks for your generosity in the past, this reading is absolutely free. No donations are requested this time. MARCH AND APRIL 2008

If you’re going to San Francisco…

One of the one-act plays we read this season “The Beat’s Trip” developed into to a full-length play now called “Beat.” The new version will be read at the Beat Museum in San Francisco on Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 2PM. For more information or reservations, call 800-509-7954.

Thursday & Friday, March 27 & March 28,
April 1* & 2*, 2008
*Stay for a cabaret night of French song on 4/1 and 4/2 at 10PM.

Four Performances Only!

Come for dinner at 7PM, All Shows at 8PM

Yale Cabaret Hollywood presents “Waiting for Mert”

Mert

Written by Michael Zettler
Directed by Steve Zuckerman
Featuring Bobby Costanzo and Stephen Mendillo.

The burglar has a gun. The homeowner is holding...an axe? And who the HELL is Mert?

Produced by Robert Barnett, Steve Jarrard and Walt Klappert

Admission is a requested donation of $10 for the Yale Cabaret Hollywood
There is also a $10 minimum for food at the M Bar.

M Bar, 1253 N. Vine St (at Fountain), Hollywood CA
For reservations, call 323-856-0036


Sunday, March 9, 9 PM
MBar

Yale Cabaret Hollywood and Pilgrim Soul Productions

Present a staged reading of

FAULT LINES by Stephen Belber

Fault Lines


The back room of a bar. A friendship tested. A marriage at risk.

The line cracks wide ­ when do you take a side?

with Elijah Alexander, Stan Klimecko, Sarah Rafferty, Joe Reynolds

Directed by Elijah Alexander

Join us for the first West Coast reading of a provocative new play by Stephen Belber, one of America's fastest rising writing talents with a growing list of Broadway and Hollywood credits...

...including MATCH (Tony nomination, Frank Langella) and the recently completed MANAGEMENT (starring Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson) which Belber wrote and directed.

M Bar
1253 N. Vine St (at Fountain)
Hollywood CA

Doors open 8 PM
Curtain 9 PM

Reservations: 323-856-0036

Appetizer menu/full bar
No cover/No minimum

Yale Cabaret Hollywood
"Theatre on the edge, martinis on the side"

www.yalecabarethollywood.com


FEBRUARY 2008

Sunday, February 17, 4 PM
Please join Heritage Square and Yale Cabaret Hollywood for a live - and lively - reading of the one-act play of CORRUPTING HERITAGE SQUARE.

CORRUPTING HERITAGE SQUARE

The one-time-only reading will be Sunday, February 17, 4 PM in the Victorian Parlor of the Perry Mansion, Heritage Square. All proceeds will help fund LA’s unique living history Heritage Square Museum.

Admission is a requested donation of $15 with free admission for Heritage Square Members or New Members joining at the $35 level or more.

For reservations, call 323-225-2700 ext. 223

CORRUPTING HERITAGE SQUARE is adapted from Mark Twain's "The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg" by Walt Klappert. Billed as “A Gilded Age Melodrama of Greed and Revenge! Newly updated for Today’s Audiences!” the play reading will be a rollicking good time, appropriate for all ages.

Directed by: Julie Estrada Evans.

Featuring Actors: Ava Dupree, Bobby Plasencia, Brian Pope, Darius Dudley, Devon Michaels, Elissa Kerhulas, Oscar Basulto and Talya Mirkin.

Heritage Square is located at 3800 Homer Street, Los Angeles, CA 90031
near the Avenue 43 Exit of the 110 Freeway.


SEPTEMBER 2007

Saturday, September 15, 2007
A Secret Meeting at the Don O’Melveny Gallery on Wilshire in Los Angeles 8:00 PM

The Beats Trip

The Yale Cabaret Hollywood and Yale Connection present a reading of the play “The Beats Trip” by Yale playwright Paavo Hall written along with Jon Howard and Walt Klappert and directed by Eric Scott Gould.

Actors reading include: Warren Davis, Brian David Pope, Jennifer Riker, Joe Reynolds, Mark Rimer, Brian Stanton and Paul Tigue.

Come and join our clandestine meeting for conspiratorial lore and poetry from the Beat Generation of the 1950's. William S. Burroughs, Neal Cassady, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac are assailed by J. Edgar Buddha, the spokesman for post-war Amerika gone mad!.

The gallery is located at 5472 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles between La Brea and Fairfax.

Reservations: 310-499-4104 (seating is limited).

$10 suggested donation (includes hors d'oeuvres).

JUNE 2007

Sunday June 17, 10 PM; Monday June 18, 8 PM.

rocksong

To hear songs from the show (click here).

Yale Cabaret Hollywood presents a workshop production of “rocksong.”

Book by Dyanne Asimow
Music by Eric Mayron
Lyrics by Eric Mayron & Dyanne Asimow

Directed by Robert Barnett

Starring: Samantha Britt, Kathleen Chen, Warren Davis, Ryan Eggold,
Kathleen Gray, Kleev Guessford, Jamey Hood, Stan Klimecko, Devon Michaels,
Brenda Partello, Jennifer Riker, and Zachary Throne as Jonathan

Choreography by Roxanne Lee

what we wouldn’t do for just one hit

Jonathan Green. Genius or fake? Dispenser of the midnight spot.
Cable access host. Whimsical vegetarian. One-quasi-hit phenom.
Attila the Hun. Kamikaze life. Dead.

The spotlight is a killer.

Sunday June 17, 10 PM; Monday June 18, 8 PM.

M Bar, 1253 N. Vine St, Hollywood CA

Reservations: 323-856-0036.

$10 suggested donation.
$10 minimum food (full bar/kitchen)

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Saturday, June 9, 2007 8:00 PM.

lost Graphic

The Yale Cabaret Hollywood and Yale Connection present a reading of the play “lost” by Yale playwright Bernardo Solano, directed by Julie Estrada Evans, produced by Walt Klappert featuring actors Talya Mirkin and Bobby Plasencia and Narrated by Oscar Basulto.

The reading takes place at the Don O’Melveny Gallery on Saturday, June 9, 2007 8:00 PM. The gallery is located at 5472 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles between La Brea and Fairfax.

About the play: A man picks up a woman in distress on the side of a road. But who's really in need? A play about getting where you need to go.

Reservations: 310-499-4104. $10 suggested donation (includes hors d'oeuvres).

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APRIL 2007

The Yale Cabaret Hollywood and Yale Connection present
a reading of several of Julius Galacki’s short plays called “Fate Delayed”
at the Topanga Canyon Gallery at The Brewery.

Saturday, April 14 at 2:30PM!
For Reservations: Call 310-499-4104 or email info@YaleCabaretHollywood.com!

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618D Moulton Ave, Los Angeles, CA Print out below for directions.
(This is near DOWNTOWN, NOT in Topanga.)

$10 requested donation (includes hor d'erves and refreshments).
Visit www.YaleCabaretHollywood.com for more information.

"Fate Delayed"
Written and Directed by Julius Galacki
Produced by Walt Klappert.
Featuring: David Bardeen, Bridget Flanery, Nathanael Johnson,
Louis Plante, Brian David Pope and Jennifer Riker

“Fate Delayed” is an afternoon of short plays by Yale dramatist Julius Galacki, including "Some Place on the Road..." set in a diner that's literally out of this world! . "Road" and all of Julius' brief offerings this day are smart, funny, and fresh.

Exactly Where is the Play Reading at Topanga Canyon Gallery at The Brewery?

Here is a map showing the exact place. Parking is FREE!

Brewery Map

Address: Topanga Canyon Gallery at The Brewery, 618D Moulton Ave, Los Angeles, CA
For more, see Map 634 of the Thomas Guide or or go to Yahoo Maps (click here).

By Car:
-From the San Fernando Valley or Hollywood: Take the 101 East. Exit to Temple Street just after the 110. Left on Temple. Left on Main several blocks later. Carefully follow Main through the jog at Alameda to Moulton Ave. Moulton Ave is about ¼ mile after the railroad crossing. Right on Moulton Ave.
-From Santa Monica take the 10 East to the 5 North.
-From Downtown:
Drive north up Main Street until the instant you can see the Interstate 5 overpass then immediately turn right onto Moulton Avenue.

Or
Mass Transit: The Metro 76 (click here) and the Dash Lincoln Heights/Chinatown (click here) Buses go to the corner of Main Street and Avenue 20 (less than block from Moulton Avenue).

Mass Transit: If you are in the South Park or Historic Core part of downtown (between at least 6th through 15th Streets), hop on the Metro 76 bus going North on Olive Avenue. The Bus runs about every 15 minutes. The fare is $1.25 in change. Give yourself an hour so you can come early and enjoy some art before the show!

MARCH 2007

SUNDAY, March 25 1:00 PM
ONE TIME ONLY! LIVE MUSIC!
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Yale Cabaret Hollywood presents

a reading of an exciting new screenplay
about the folk group that defined the 50s!

IF I HAD A HAMMER

They were The Weavers

Nobody could stop them from singing
Not even J. Edger Hoover!

written by Steve Zuckerman
directed by Fred Sanders

Starring: Bob Cicchini, Charlie Davis, Stephanie Erb, Susie Glaze, Tom Kopache,
Neil Larson, Ken Lerner, Nick Hormann, Natsuko Ohama, Geoffrey Owens, Vic Polizos,
Steve Rankin, Fred Sanders, Geoffrey Wade, Todd Waring, Alex Wright

...with If I Had A Hammer, Tzena, Tzena, Tzena, Goodnight, Irene,
Rock Island Line, and Wimoweh performed live!

LIMITED SEATING!
Make reservations TODAY!

Hosted by Circus Theatricals
at the Circus Theatricals Studio Theatre
at The Hayworth Theatre

2511 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90057
(Entrance on Carondelet)

$5 suggested donation

RESERVATIONS: 310-499-4104
(Plays on DVD phone line)


Yale Cabaret Hollywood
"Theatre on the edge, martinis on the side"
www.yalecabarethollywood.com



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YALE CABARET HOLLYWOOD and M Bar present a very special
FLICKS AMONG FRIENDS, Take 3 "YALE Edition"
a night of short films
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Sunday, March 11, 7:30 PM

We'll have dancing donuts and desperate lives!
A one-armed cheerleader and Ginsberg's Greatest!
A shaggydog western and Muzak for the millions!

They're all shorts we're showcasing from Yale Drama School alumni

Including a special sneak screening of "first"...
...directed by and staring DB Woodside (24, Buffy the Vampire Killer)

RESERVATIONS: 323-856-0036
DOORS OPEN 6:30 PM
$10 minimum food/no drink minimum
M Bar
1253 N. Vine St at Fountain
Hollywood 90028
$5 suggested donation
Scheduled:

"first"
Three desperate lives crash, explode--
only to converge into an irreversible series of "firsts."
directed by DB Woodside and Nick Sivakumaran
STARRING: DB Woodside, Michael Goodfriend, Reiko Aylesworth, Jim Shanklin

CONTRARY! MUZAK!
Madness has a soundtrack...
written by and directed by Brian W. Robinson
STARRING: Courtland Cox, Brian Robinson, Meg Brogan

MANOLITO
Two fellers crossed paths in Abilene
An unlikely train-robbin' team
While hotly discoursin' their recent outsourcin'
They shot holes in their bullet-proof scheme!
written & directed by Eric James
produced & edited by Jon Ecklund
STARRING: Jon Ecklund, Patrick Hart, Manuel Rodriguez

BRING IT ARM!
One armed cheerleader with a remarkable zest for life.
written and directed by JJ Hickey
STARRING: Shay Brown, Jenny Kaplan, Ali Kaplan, Katie Erlich, Katie Kelley

HOWL
Allen Ginsberg's hallucinatory epic of America as electrifying today
as it was 50 years ago in this visual celebration of Beat's greatest poet
graphics and production by Yolanda and Walt Klappert
VOICE: Walt Klappert

LATE NIGHT GRUB
You'll never eat donuts quite the same way again. Ugh!
written by Avery D'Allesandro & Graham Shiels
produced by Avery D'Alessandro, Dan Dimitroff, Graham Shiel
directed by Graham Shiels
STARRING: Avery D'Alessandro, Lola Davidson, Brandy Howard, Sam Menning

...and coming up Sunday March 25, a screenplay reading of:

IF I HAD A HAMMER

The story of The Weavers

Nobody could stop them from singing
Not even J. Edger Hoover!

Their songs live on in all of us. Find out why.

Written by Steve Zukerman
Directed by Fred Sanders

The Hayworth Theatre
Sunday, March 25 1:00 PM

Yale Cabaret Hollywood
"Theatre on the edge, martinis on the side"


FEBRUARY 2007

On Saturday, February 3, 2007 at 2:30PM at the Brewery Art Colony!
(618D Moulton Ave, Los Angeles, CA – See below for helpful directions.)

The Yale Cabaret Hollywood and Yale Connection Present:

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The Yale Cabaret Hollywood presents a reading of the prize-winning play “Flowering Spurge” by Frances Huxley. "Flowering Spurge" is directed by Asaad Kelada and produced by Walt Klappert.

“Flowering Spurge” is a comedy that opens with a dip, then it zigs, zags, then it takes off with a turn! A scientist loses one woman only to gain two back – or is it three? Quite a phenomenon, since he is over sixty!

Call 310-499-4104 or email info@YaleCabaretHollywood.com for reservations.
$10 requested donation (includes hor d'erves and refreshments).

Audience members are invited to visit other galleries at The Brewery as well. The Brewery Art Colony is the world's largest live/work art colony with 500 resident artists. The play reading is a highlight of the "February 3 First Saturday Show" at Topanga Canyon Gallery at The Brewery.

Where is the Topanga Canyon Gallery at the Brewery?

The Brewery Art Colony is near Downtown -- but not in Downtown Los Angeles. It is just northeast of Chinatown.

Here is a map showing the exact place. Parking is FREE!

Brewery Map2


By Car:
From the San Fernando Valley or Hollywood:
Take the 101 East to the 5 North. From Santa Monica take the 10 East to the 5 North. For more, see Map 634 of the Thomas Guide or go to Yahoo Maps (click here).

From Downtown:
Drive north up Main Street until the instant you can see the Interstate 5 overpass then immediately turn right onto Moulton Avenue.

Or…
Mass Transit: The Metro 76 (click here) and the Dash Lincoln Heights/Chinatown (click here) Buses go to the corner of Main Street and Avenue 20 (less than ½ block from Moulton Avenue).
Mass Transit: If you are in the South Park or Historic Core part of downtown (between at least 6th through 15th Streets), hop on the Met Metro 76 (click here) bus going North on Olive Avenue. The Bus runs about every 15 minutes. The fare is $1.25 in change. Give yourself an hour so you can come early and enjoy some art before the show!

Yale Cabaret Hollywood “Art, Theatre and a Fine Time at the Brewery!”


JANUARY 2007

We're back with a TALL order of SHORT FILMS!
YALE CABARET HOLLYWOOD and M Bar
Present:
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FLICKS AMONG FRIENDS, Take 2
a night of short films

Thursday, Jan 18, 8 PM

The response to our first "FLICKS AMONG FRIENDS" was so overwhelming -- and we had more submissions than we could show -- so we're back with MORE SHORTS!

We've got a musical you'll love to hate.
A gynecologist visit from hell.
First dates and one-night stands.
More things you can do with donuts than you want to know...
...and a one-of-a-kind movie flipbook composed of 8,000 digital images!
...plus a western!

ONE NIGHT ONLY!

THURSDAY, JAN 18!

(PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE: NOT Wed, Jan 17 as previously announced)

RESERVATIONS: 323-856-0036

DOORS OPEN 7:00 PM
$10 minimum food/no drink minimum

M Bar
1253 N. Vine St at Fountain
Hollywood 90028

SCHEDULED (with more to come):
LOUDER THAN WORDS -- A FLIPBOOK STORY

World War 3 is about to begin but our hero is determined to poison that bunny rabbit ravaging his perfect little garden. A video flipbook created from more than 8,000 digital images.

written and directed by Glenn Ripps


FIRST NIGHT

They're in bed -- where things go up, down and up very quickly. How post is your coital?

written by Julius Galacki
directed by Jeff Teitler


I HATE MUSICALS
So he hates musicals...? Until he gets cursed. Now when he opens his mouth -- he bursts into song! Like "Why can't I stop singing this f*cking song?"

written and directed by Stewart Shill


FANCY

Mortification courtesy of your friendly gynecologist.

written and directed by Lori Grossman


LATE NIGHT GRUB

You'll never eat donuts quite the same way again. Ugh!

written and directed by Graham Shiels



FIRST DATE MELTDOWN

On-line romance meets real life -- and it spins out of control from there!

directed by Tim Bartell


MORE TO COME... including that western!


DECEMBER 2006

On Saturday, December 2, 2006 at 2:30PM at the Brewery Art Colony!
(618D Moulton Ave, Los Angeles, CA – See below for helpful directions.)

The Yale Cabaret Hollywood and Yale Connection Present:

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“An Enigma Afloat!”

Paavo Hall’s “Marduk” is a post-modern battle of wills that is as hilarious as it is thoughtful. Set aboard a U.S. warship patrolling the Horn of Africa, "Marduk" pits contemporary geopolitics against an ancient Babylonian fertility god. A Senator tries to riddle out why her sailor son insists the god speaks through him... while the Captain struggles to rein in a stowaway nymphomaniac cheerleader eager to entertain the Egyptian troops onboard. And just what is that meat they're serving in the mess..?

Yale Cabaret Hollywood presents a reading of Paavo Hall’s play “Marduk” at the Topanga Canyon Gallery at the Brewery, 618D Moulton Ave, Los Angeles, Saturday, Dec 2 at 2:30. $5 requested donation. "Marduk" is directed by Laura Stribling and presented in conjunction with The Yale Connection. Audience members are invited to visit artists’ studios at the Brewery, the World’s largest art colony,before and after the performance. Call 310-499-4104 for reservations.

Where is the Topanga Canyon Gallery at the Brewery?

The Brewery Art Colony is near Downtown -- but not in Downtown Los Angeles. It is just northeast of Chinatown.

Here is a map showing the exact place. Parking is FREE!

Brewery Map

For more, see Map 634 of the Thomas Guide or go to Yahoo Maps (click here).

Also the Metro 76 (click here) and the Dash Lincoln Heights/Chinatown (click here) buses go to the corner of Main Street and Avenue 20 (less than ½ block from Moulton Avenue).

Yale Cabaret Hollywood “Art, Theatre and a Fine Time at the Brewery!”

SEPTEMBER 2006

Yale Cabaret Hollywood Present:

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Bulldog Follies

Featuring Various Superb Theatrical Performers
Having Recently Graced Our Stage As Well As
Unsundry Appetizing Morsels of Plays, Vaudevilles, and Musicales
Commissioned For Our Unparalleled Upcoming Season
…and Unrelated Special Guests


WHAT: Yale Cabaret Hollywood’s retro-variety show!
Comedy! Music! Craziness! Dick Cheney!

WHERE: MBar
1253 N. Vine St at Fountain
Hollywood 90028

WHEN: Sunday, September 10 7:30 PM
ONE TIME ONLY!

COST: $10 requested donation
$10 minimum food/drink at tables

RESERVATIONS: Call 323 856 0036

It’s going to be a wild and wooly night of anything-goes cabaret celebrating Yale Cabaret Hollywood’s sixth season!

Think P.T. Barnum on Viagra, American Idol on performance enhancing botanicals, Chuck Barris on speed as Yale Cabaret Hollywood’s Bulldog Follies bursts the fourth wall of entertainment with songs, sketches, and performances featuring new and veteran performers from past and future shows…

…including Firesign Theatre’s Phil Proctor singing “I Wanna Be George Bush”… Sheryl Arenson (James Bond in YCH’s Oedipussy) with outrageous outtakes from her new one-woman show Pretending Everything…

… Joe Reynolds saying good-bye to inebriation in “Dear Alcohol”… Joshua Finkel and Jill Burke singing selections and a special guest appearance by Dick Cheney!

Don’t miss what will be the most eclectic, rabble-rousing line-up of talent in this one-of-a-kind, one-night-only show of shows!

CAST: Sheryl Arenson, Barbara Bragg, Jill Burke, Adrienne Carter, Joshua Finkel, Julius Galacki, Gary Mattison, Eric Mayron, Devon Michaels, Jan Powell, Stephanie Nash, Phil Proctor, Joe Reynolds, Brian Robertson, Fred Sanders, Billy Wright… and more!

Yale Cabaret Hollywood “Theatre on the edge, martinis on the side”

( Posted on Monday, September 26, 2005 )

DECEMBER 2005

Yale Cabaret Hollywood and Meadows Basement Present:

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St. Joseph has stage fright. The playwright is in a snit.

And Agnes, the Guild Master's buxom wife, thinks the Virgin Mary is a lousy part -- she wants it rewritten for Mary Magdalene!

The show will go on...but who knows how!

Starring Warren Davis, Heather De Sisto, Casey McCarthy,
Jon Molerio (as Todd), Keir O'Donnell, Joel Spence and Blake Walker

Directed by Ira Steck
Produced by Robert Barnett

Monday, Dec 12 10 PM
Tuesday, Dec 13 8 PM
Tues, Wed, Thurs, Dec 20, 21, 22 8 PM

$10 donation; requested 2 drink minimum
Dinner menu/full bar from 6:30


NOVEMBER

BLACK FLAMIGOS
by Julius Galacki

Nov 12 – Abbot Kinney Art Gallery
Play reading, cosponsored with the Yale Connection

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Black Flamingos by Julius Galacki is a poetic, yet a sardonically funny meditation on the genesis of evil and the human need for redemption.

Featuring
Bridget Flanery, Graham Shiels and Alex Wells
with
Brian Pope

Directed by Julius Galacki.
Produced by Walt Klappert.

Abbot Kinney Art Gallery
1301 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, Venice, CA.
ADMISSION: $5 donation
RESERVATIONS: 310 499 4104

The Abbot Kinney Art Gallery is currently featuring "Edges", paintings by m. Rheuban and Marylyn English. A Reception with the Artists is at 7PM prior to the Play Reading at 8PM.



SONGS from “rocksong”
book by Dyanne Asimow, music by Eric Mayron,
lyrics by Dyanne Asimow & Eric Mayron

Nov 17 – MBar

A punk rock performance artist turns his life into art.
Or does he? Sell-out or sensation, it will be televised.
Even if he doesn’t live to see it.

“Late Nite” showcase featuring rocksong score

Yale Cabaret Hollywood “Theatre on the edge, martinis on the side”

OCTOBER

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OEDIPUSSY
by Brian Robinson

While conducting his latest mission, master spy James Bond kills his father and beds dozens of women, including his mother.

"Wholesale slaughter of pop culture...it comes across as the greatest improv act ever." -- The Yale Herald

MBar, 1253 N. Vine at Fountain,
Hollywood;

4 perfs only, Fri, Oct 28;
Tues, Wed, Thurs, Nov 1,2,3
8:00 p.m.
$10 suggested donation
(323) 856-0036
Full production.


Yale Cabaret Hollywood kicked off its 2005 fall season
with the “work-in-progress” presentation of…

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AMERICAN CASSANDRA

An ex-cheerleader's unrequited love for Dick Cheney,
guaranteed mutual mass destruction, and all things ballistic.
What a wild ride it's going to be!

Written and performed by Barbara Bragg, directed by Mark Travis
American Cassandra is Barbara’s hilarious, topical, and stinging
solo performance piece…

… about growing up dynamically dysfunctional in Wyoming
and being… Youth Coordinator for Dick Chaney for Congress.

JOIN US FOR THIS EXCITING "IN DEVELOPMENT" WORKSHOP
OF A SOLO PERFORMANCE COMING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU SOON!

TWO NIGHTS ONLY!

Saturday, September 24, 8 pm

Abbot Kinney Art Gallery
1301 Abbot Kinney Boulevard
Venice, CA 90290
ADMISSION: $5 donation
RESERVATIONS: 310 499 4104

Sunday, September 25, 10 pm

MBar
1253 N. Vine St at Fountain
Hollywood 90028
ADMISSION: $5 donation
RESERVATIONS: 323 856 0036


With American Cassandra, Yale Cabaret Hollywood
kicked off a great new season of political theatre,
off-the-wall humor, and new works development...

...PLUS producing at the Abbot Kinney Art Gallery
in Venice as well as at our familiar digs
at Hollywood's trendy MBar.

( Posted on Sunday, August 28, 2005 )

Congratulations to Elissa Kerhulas on the terrific reading of her screenplay "The Daemon" on August 11, 2005!

( Posted on Sunday, July 17, 2005 )

Some wounds only take a lifetime to heal

Miyoshi… a victim of the first atomic bomb…
journeys back in time and memory…

…with Roz, the crusading journalist who brought her to America
in the 1950s, to heal her body and her soul…


THE HIROSHIMA DAUGHTER

By Robert Barnett

a play reading presented by
Yale Cabaret Hollywood

Sunday, July 24, 2005 7 pm

Abbot Kinney Art Gallery
1301 Abbot Kinney Boulevard
Venice, CA 90290

in conjunction with

Yolanda Klappert/Mary McGill (joint show)
digital painting/ceramics
July 11 through August 7
Artists’ Reception Saturday, July 16 5-8 pm

Reservations for reading, call Gallery: 310 499 4104

Reception by Market Gourmet follows the reading

$5 Suggested Donation

Abbot Kinney Art Gallery showcases
L.A. contemporary artists, eclectic and electrifying.
11 am to 6 pm Tuesday through Sunday. Closed Money.
www.abbotkinneyartgallery.com

THE HIROSHIMA DAUGHTER was developed at the Sundance Theatre Laboratory and at the Mark Taper Asian Theatre Workshop.

August 6, 2005 marks exactly 60 years since the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

( Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2005 )

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Saturday, June 4, 2005 at 2PM.
Yale Cabaret Hollywood presents as Part of the Screenplays @ TheCabaret series.
A Staged Reading of the Screenplay
"WETWARE"


Wetware

Join us for a staged reading of Peter Mellencamp’s new screenplay 'Wetware' at MBar, 1253 N. Vine (at Fountain) in Hollywood Saturday, June 4, 2005 at 2PM. About Wetware: Internet dating takes on a whole new meaning when Ellen finds herself courted by Cy, a cybernetic life form she's met in virtual reality. But Ellen couldn't call it off even if she wanted to ─ not when she's on the run for her life. And Cy is the only one she can trust. Or can she?

Find out who's hardwired and who's not in "WETWARE" a cyber sci-fi romantic thriller.

Produced as part of the Yale Cabaret Hollywood’s Screenplays @ TheCabaret Series. Call to reserve your table: 323-856-0036. The reading is FREE!

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Sunday, May 8, 2005 at 1:00PM

Taming of the Shrew

"Why, there's a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate!"

Oh, yeah? When Petruchio is played by a woman (Amy Morse) and Katherina a man (Tim Harrington), it's a little more complicated...

Fast, fun, fresh, and furious, sexual politics upends the battle of the sexes in an hour-long, seven-character staging of TAMING OF THE SHREW.


OPENS SATURDAY APRIL 23! SIX PERFORMANCES ONLY!


Yale Cabaret Hollywood presents

TAMING OF THE SHREW

by William Shakespeare


CAST:

Kimberly Adair, Sheryl Arenson, Esperanza Catubig, Warren Davis, Tim Harrington, Scott Manuel Johnson and Amy Morse

Directed by Laura Stribling

See who's snapping the whip this time—and who jumps!—
in this unique retelling of the tamed shrew
and the tamer tamed by love.

PERFORMANCES:
Saturday, Sunday, April 23, 24
Wednesday, Sunday, April 27, May 1
Wednesday, Sunday, May 4, 8

8 PM
Buffet and full bar from 6:30
Reservations held until 7:30

ADMISSION: $25
Includes MBar's Italian buffet

RESERVATIONS: 323-856-0036

MBar
1253 N. Vine St at Fountain
Hollywood 90028
http://www.mbaronvine.com/

Yale Cabaret Hollywood
"Theatre on the edge, martinis on the side"
Sunday, May 15, 2005 at 1:00PM

( Posted on Saturday, February 12, 2005 )

The LA Weekly reviewed BAAL in its Feb 11 - 17 edition. It's RECOMMENDED

Baal Cast
Photo: ©2005 Mathew Caine/Digitrope.com

BAAL

Paving the way for Jack Kerouac, Bertolt Brecht and his 1923 drama harks to an era when poets were like rock stars are now, when men were men, and women were garbage. This early play (written when Brecht was 20) follows amoral poet-hedonist Baal (Elijah Alexander), who gleefully seduces the wives and girlfriends of his pals and prodigies, while also revealing a latent yearning for his soul-searching, wanderlusting friend, Ekart (Brian Stanton). One on his victims, Johanna (Jo Osmanski), wears over-the-top schoolgirl garb as Baal de-virginizes her. When realizing that the fella just doesn’t care, she throws herself in the river. And so emerges Brecht’s meditations on man as animal, and the flimsy veneer of civilization. Peter Mellencamp beautifully directs his own translation in a cabaret’s plush environs. His environmental staging causes a few necks to crick, a minor inconvenience given the quality and ease of the performances. Alexander’s leather-jacketed rebel without a cause has a James Dean charisma. Also excellent are Casey McCarthy, Elissa Kerhulas, Scott Blackburn and Warren Davis. Yale Cabaret Hollywood at M Bar, 1253 N. Vine St., Hlywd.; Sat., Feb. 12, 8 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 13, 7 p.m.; Wed.-Thurs., Feb. 23-24, 8 p.m.; Fri., March 4, 8 p.m.; Sun., March 6, 7 p.m. (323) 856-0036. Written 02/10/2005 (Steven Leigh Morris)

To read the review online, go to:

http://www.laweekly.com/theater

( Posted on Saturday, January 22, 2005 )

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"Baal eats! Baal Dances! Baal is transformed!
What the hell is Baal doing?"

He's opening at MBar in Hollywood, February 2 for 8 performances only.

Since BAAL was first produced 80 years ago, Brecht's raw portrait of the artist as life-devouring poet, sensualist, and moral anarchist has gripped and shocked audiences with its hero's unapologetic sexual appetite, scatological imagery, and frontal assault on polite society.

This site-specific production of BAAL takes over MBar with the tables, booths, and bar doubling as the stage.

Just as Baal tears down the artificial walls of decorum and bourgeois morality, the Yale Cabaret Hollywood production breaks down the wall between actors and audience, bringing the jolt of Brecht's groundbreaking play right to your table.

Performances are:

February 2, 3 (Wednesday, Thursday)
12, 13 (Saturday, Sunday)
23, 24 (Wednesday, Thursday)
March 4, 6 (Friday, Sunday)

$25 per person, includes performance and buffet dinner

All performances at 8 PM, except Feb 13 and Mar 6 at 7 PM. MBar opens at 6:30 and 5:30 respectively for the buffet dinner.


This production features a new translation by Peter Mellencamp who also directs. The New York Times declared Peter's translation "rekindles a sense of adventure that is too often missing in today's theatre." The Village Voice called it "pungent and playable as sharp and glimmering as broken glass"

CAST for BAAL:

Elijah Alexander (as Baal), Scott Blackburn, Warren Davis, Elissa Kerhulas, Casey McCarthy, Joy Osmanski, Brian Robinson, Nero Smeraldo, and Brian Stanton

production design by Norman Scott
costumes by Patti Callicott

produced by Bob Barnett

Yale Cabaret Hollywood
"theatre on the edge, martinis on the side"

( Posted on Sunday, December 19, 2004 )

Yale Cabaret Hollywood kicks off its fourth season of "theatre on the edge, martinis on the side" with a staged reading of screenplay "Armadillo Republic" and a site-specific production of Bertolt Brecht's "BAAL."

Both will be at MBar, 1253 N. Vine (at Fountain) in Hollywood.

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Now, Texas is Really “A Whole Other Country”

"Armadillo Republic" is Gregg Moscoe's comic send-up of Texas – and Washington – politics. The screenplay reading will be this Thursday, January 13 at 7 PM.

The reading is FREE!

Doors open at 6pm for drinks and dinner. Seating is limited, so come early. For reservations, call 323-856-0036. Valet parking is available.

"Armadillo Republic" is a contemporary comedy about love, politics and dirty tricks. Taylor Bledsoe returns to his beloved Waxahachie, Texas only to have a tornado drop a new country -- lock, stock, and mortgaged barrel – in his lap. The disillusioned whistleblower, now president of his own Armadillo Republic, has quite an agenda... like some cosmic payback for Waxahachie favorite son George Welborne, now President of the United States!

Cast for : Armadillo Republic:
Valerie Armin, Cesar Castillo, Mike Figueroa, Hal Freeman, Linda Hess, Charles Allen Hutchison, Jennifer Kuhlman, Ty Mayberry, Jake Millwee, Iris Perez and Sarah Prikryl.

Screenplay By Gregg Moscoe
Produced By Walt Klappert
Directed By Naseer Elkadi

The reading is the first in the 2005 "Screenplays @ TheCabaret" series.

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