Kirk Douglas Theatre 2014/15 Season FIRST SEASON PRODUCTION DOUGLASPLUS Race Facing Our Truth: By David Mamet Ten-Minute Plays Directed by Scott Zigler August 31 – September 28, 2014 on Trayvon, Race and Privilege SECOND SEASON PRODUCTION In association with Goodman Theatre The New Black Fest World Premiere Production of July 13, 2014 Luna Gale By Rebecca Gilman Western Society Directed by Robert Falls Devised and Performed by November 23 – December 21, 2014 Gob Squad Co-presented with and THIRD SEASON PRODUCTION Performed at REDCAT United States Premiere Chavez Ravine: September 17 – 20, 2014 An L.A. Revival By Culture Clash Directed by Lisa Peterson Forever January 27 – March 1, 2015 Written and Performed by Dael Orlandersmith Directed by Neel Keller FOURTH SEASON PRODUCTION World Premiere Girlfriend October 9 – 26, 2014 Book by Todd Almond Music and Lyrics by Matthew Sweet Throw Me on the Directed by Les Waters Burnpile and July 12 – August 9, 2015 Light Me Up Written and Performed by Lucy Alibar Directed by Neel Keller May 21 – 31, 2015 How to be a Rock Critic Based on the writing of Lester Bangs By Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen Performed by Erik Jensen Directed by Jessica Blank Presented at Upstairs@KDT World Premiere Production June 17 – 28, 2015 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P1 Inspiring Our Future Special Thanks to Center Theatre Group’s Most Generous Annual Patrons Center Theatre Group wishes to thank the following donors for their significant gifts and for their belief in the transformative power of theatre. $1 ¢£¤¤£¥¦ §¦¨ §©¥ª« The Ahmanson Foundation Brindell Roberts Gottlieb $250,000 §¦¨ §©¥ª« Center Theatre Group Affiliates Kirk & Anne Douglas Patricia Glaser & Sam Mudie The James Irvine Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation $150,000 §¦¨ §©¥ª« Anonymous (1) Bank of America The Blue Ribbon Laura & James Rosenwald & Orinoco Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Wells Fargo Foundation $100,000 §¦¨ §©¥ª« Annenberg Foundation Anonymous (1) Cindy & Gary Frischling Ann & Stephen F. Hinchliffe, Jr. JPMorgan Chase & Co. The Norman and Sadie Lee Foundation Los Angeles County Arts Commission Renee & Meyer Luskin Deena & Edward Nahmias Eva & Marc Stern $75,000 §¦¨ §©¥ª« Elisabeth Katte Harris Trust The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Lloyd E. Rigler — Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation This list includes cash gifts received by Center Theatre Group between April 8, 2014, and June 8, 2015. P2 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE Michael Ritchie, §´µ£¶µ£· ¨£´«·µ¥´ Stephen D. Rountree, ¢§¦§¸£¦¸ ¨£´«·µ¥´ Douglas C. Baker ¹´¥¨º·£¦¸ ¨£´«·µ¥´ Gordon Davidson, »¥º¦¨£¦¸ §´µ£¶µ£· ¨£´«·µ¥´ PRESENTS THE ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE PRODUCTION OF BOOK BY Todd Almond MUSIC AND LYRICS BY Matthew Sweet WITH Ryder Bach Curt Hansen SCENIC AND COSTUME DESIGN BY LIGHTING DESIGN BY SOUND DESIGN BY David Zinn Ben Stanton Jake Rodriguez MUSIC DIRECTION BY ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Julie Wolf Kelley Kirkpatrick Paul Mills Holmes CHOREOGRAPHY BY Joe Goode DIRECTED BY Les Waters Music published by EMI Blackwood Music Inc. Girlfriend was originally produced by Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley, CA Tony Taccone, Artistic Director/Susan Medak, Managing Director, developed with the assistance of director Patrick Trettenero. Support for Girlfriend was provided by Barbara Broccoli and Patrick Milling Smith. July 12 – August 9, 2015 Kirk Douglas Theatre PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE P3 L - R: Ryder Bach and Curt Hansen in the 2013 Actors Theatre of Louisville production of Girlfriend. PHOTO BY ALAN SIMONS. CAST (in alphabetical order) Ryder Bach....................................................Will Curt Hansen................................................Mike THE BAND Julie Wolf……………Conductor, Keyboard, Guitar Vivi Rama……..……………………….……Bass Player Janet Robin……………..………………....Lead Guitar Jyn Yates………………..……………...........Drummer STAGE MANAGER T.J. Kearney TIME PLACE Summer 1993. Alliance, Nebraska. Girlfriend is performed without an intermission. Curt Hansen in the 2013 Actors Theatre of Louisville production of Girlfriend. PHOTO BY ALAN SIMONS P4 PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE Who’s Who RYDER BACH (Will) The Odyssey at The Old Globe. Todd’s a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship originated the role albums include Mexico City and his in 2007 and the New York Dance in Girlfriend at newly released Memorial Day. and Performance Award (Bessie). Berkeley Rep. After Goode is known as a master teacher; a year-long hiatus MATTHEW SWEET (Music and Lyrics). his workshops and classes in “felt from his critically Sweet’s albums include Inside (1986), performance” are hugely popular. acclaimed nu-disco Earth (1989), Girlfriend (1991), Altered He is a member of the faculty of the band, Body Parts, Beast (1993), Son of Altered Beast University of California, Berkeley, in Ryder is set to release his debut solo (1994), 100% Fun (1995), Blue Sky on the department of Theater, Dance EP People Are Evil; You’re All Included via Mars (1997), In Reverse (1999), The and Performance Studies. Musical Theater Records. Bach resides Thorns (2003), Kimi Ga Suki (2004) in Chinatown, Los Angeles, where he and Living Things (2004). He has DAVID ZINN (Scenic and Costume produces music. Love to Patti, Michael, recorded three volumes of classic hit Design). CTG: Costumes for The Cider Sara, Trevor and Chase. He would like to duets from the 60s and 70s, Under House Rules, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad dedicate this performance to Cherisse the Covers Vol. 1 (2006), Vol 2 (2009) Zoo. Broadway: Set and costumes for Gray. Instagram and Twitter: @ryderbach. and Vol 3 (2013) with Susanna Hoffs; Fun Home, The Last Ship and Seminar; his solo album, Sunshine Lies, in 2008; costumes for Airline Highway, Rocky, CURT HANSEN and his most recent album, Modern Art, Good People, Other Desert Cities, In (Mike). Broadway: in 2011. The Next Room (Tony nomination), Next to Normal, Xanadu; sets for The Real Thing, Violet, Hairspray. First LES WATERS (Director). Obie Award- The Realistic Joneses. Off-Broadway: National Tours: winner Les Waters recently directed Set and costumes for The Flick, Wicked (Fiyero), Marjorie Prime by Jordan Harrison Circle Mirror Transformation, Choir Boy, Next to Normal (Mark Taper Forum), The Glory of the Dogfight. Regional: ART, Guthrie, (Gabe). Film: B-Side, World by Charles Mee (2015 Humana Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, La Jolla Monkeywrench and People You May Know. Festival of New American Plays), Playhouse, Steppenwolf. Opera: Television: Nickelodeon’s Big Time 10 out of 12 by Anne Washburn (Soho Rep). Lyric Opera Chicago, Santa Fe Opera, Rush as Dak Zevon and The Good Wife. He is the Artistic Director of Actors Los Angeles Opera, Washington Other Theatre Credits: Parade (Center Theatre of Louisville, where his National Opera. Tony, Drama Desk, Theatre Group), Stillwater (written productions include At the Vanishing Lortel nominations. by Nathan Tysen at Kansas City Rep), Point by Naomi Iizuka, Lucas Hnath’s Lythgoe Family Productions’ A Snow The Christians, Our Town, Will Eno’s BEN STANTON (Lighting Design). White Christmas (Pasadena Playhouse) Gnit, Todd Almond’s Girlfriend and CTG: The Black Suits, Humor and Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre. Long Day’s Journey into Night. In the Abuse, Poor Behavior, Burn This, Selected New York Readings: IT’S ON last 10 years, his shows have ranked Seminar. Broadway: Fun Home (New York Musical Theatre Festival), among the year’s best in The New Yorker, (Tony nomination, Circle in the Square), 8 (Williamstown Theatre Festival), In The New York Times, Time Out New An Enemy of the People (Friedman Love with Jobim (York Theatre), Charlie York, Time Magazine and USA Today. Theatre), Seminar (Golden Theatre). and the Chocolate Factory, BARE and His productions have been seen Off-Broadway: Fun Home (Lortel The Flamingo Kid. Hansen grew up in New York at The Public Theater, nomination, The Public), The Nether in Wisconsin and is in love with his Second Stage, Manhattan Theatre (Lortel nomination, MCC Theater), fiancée Mallauri. He also loves his family. Club, Connelly Theater and Clubbed Our Lady of Kibeho (Drama Desk CurtHansen.com; @curt_hansen. Thumb, and regionally at theatres such nomination), Kung Fu, Angels In as Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the America (Signature Theatre), Murder TODD ALMOND (Book) is a composer, Goodman Theatre, Yale Repertory Ballad (Lortel nomination, MTC/Union lyricist and playwright whose most Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, Square Theater), Belleville (Lortel recent musical Iowa, with Jenny Schwartz, La Jolla Playhouse and American Repertory nomination, NYTW), Into The received its world premiere at Playwrights Theatre. In 2009, he made his Broadway Woods (Delacorte), The Whipping Horizons this past March. His musical debut with In the Next Room or the Man (Lortel Award, Drama Desk Melancholy Play, written with Sarah Ruhl, vibrator play. nomination, MTC). Regional: La Jolla is currently enjoying its world premiere Playhouse, Old Globe, South Coast at Trinity Repertory Company. Other JOE GOODE (Choreography) is a Rep, Goodman Theatre, Shakespeare credits include Kansas City Choir Boy choreographer, writer and director Theatre, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, starring Almond and Courtney Love, widely known as an innovator in the Dallas Theater Center, Huntington musical adaptations of Tempest field of dance for his willingness to Theatre, WTF, Philadelphia Theatre and Winter’s Tale with director Lear collide movement with spoken word, Co., Paper Mill Playhouse, McCarter, deBessonet at the Delacorte Theater song and visual imagery. Joe Goode Intiman,