Theo Croker is a storyteller who speaks through his trumpet. A creative who refuses boundaries, the GRAMMY Award-nominated artist, composer, producer, thought leader, and influencer projects his voice through the music. After seven years of sojourn in Shanghai, Croker crash-landed with a simmering original sound on the 2014 Dee Dee Bridgewater-assisted album "Afro Physicist". Following […]
Life is upended for 32-year-old PhD candidate Mark after a chance meeting with a stranger. Relationships with Ellen, his long-suffering fiancée, and friends are tested when Mark starts developing feelings outside the realm of what’s considered "normal." But perhaps it’s all beyond his control. "Tweet Tweet" is a psychological comedy about what we think we […]
Ben Folds is widely regarded as one of the major music influencers of our generation. The Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter-composer has created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, and numerous collaborative records. His latest pop solo album What Matters Most was released in 2023 to rave […]
This unique combination of artists—Chris Dave, Marcus King, Cory Henry, and DJ Ginyard—represents an exciting, genre-blending super-collective, known primarily for their intimate live performances rather than studio albums. The group brings together four masters from distinct musical realms to create a raw, improvisational fusion. Chris Dave, often hailed as "the most dangerous drummer alive," provides […]
MUSIC AND LYRICS BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM BOOK BY JAMES LAPINE MUSICAL DIRECTION BY JOSH BARTLEY DIRECTED BY JAMES ESPOSITO Passion is a one act musical adapted from Ettore Scola’s film Passione d’Amore, itself adapted from the novel Fosca by Iginio Ugo Tarchetti. Set in Risorgimento-era Italy, the plot concerns a young soldier and the changes in him brought about by his obsessive love […]
Marlon Funaki is a fast-rising American solo artist, singer-songwriter, and self-taught multi-instrumentalist from Highland, California, known for his unique, genre-defying sound which he describes as Alt Rock Jazz Fusion and is often classified as Indie Pop Psych. Born in 2001, Funaki is a prolific and hands-on artist, as he writes, creates, mixes, and masters all […]
WRITTEN BY ZACHARY BONES DIRECTED BY CARLY DW BONES The Aaron Play picks up right where Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy, Titus Andronicus, leaves off: with its self-proclaimed villain, Aaron the Moor, buried up to his chest in earth, sentenced to death by starvation. Watched by two Roman guards and visited by spirits of the wronged dead, Aaron plots […]
STRIPPED ~ a new wave ballet is an original work created and choreographed by Kelleia Sheerin. STRIPPED is described as a heroine's journey that serves as a love letter to Los Angeles and its people. It follows the main character, Vivi, a "warrior-child" who is on a quest to find her true self in a […]
Autry Museum and Greenway Arts Alliance present the Native Voices National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere by Tara Moses (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma). Ash and Aaron have been dead for twenty years, and the Indigenous siblings pass their time dancing to Britney Spears, haunting the families that try to move into their house, and […]
Directed by Darin Anthony Featuring: Derek Manson, Casey J. Adler, Dana Schwartz, Warren Davis Paper Walls tells the story of the Goldman family, profoundly affected by Hitler’s rise to power, who find themselves desperately fleeing persecution while awaiting entry into the United States. Restrictive U.S. immigration policies and antisemitism intensified their struggle, and this poignant drama explores themes strikingly […]
Ben Folds is widely regarded as one of the major music influencers of our generation. The Emmy-nominated singer-songwriter-composer has created an enormous body of genre-bending music that includes pop albums with Ben Folds Five, multiple solo albums, and numerous collaborative records. His latest pop solo album What Matters Most was released in 2023 to rave […]
