Independent Shakespeare Company

%3cem%3ePrivate Lives%3c/em%3e %3cspan%3eis an adult play%2c and depicts drinking%2c smoking%2c and implied sexual behavior. It also draws a portrait of a relationship between a man and a woman who engage in physical and verbal fights %28albeit fights that are portrayed in a theatrical and somewhat comical way.%29%3c/span%3e %3cdiv%3e %3cspan%3e%3cbr%3e%3c/span%3e %3c/div%3e %3cdiv%3e %3cspan%3e%3cspan%3eTickets%3a iscla.org/privatelives%3c/span%3e%3c/span%3e %3c/div%3eDesignHTMLWords: 49 […]

In this tightly-wound adaptation%2c seven actors bring to life Shakespeare%27s great treatise on alienation.%3cp%3eOthello%2c decorated and revered%2c marries Desdemona%2c the daughter of a local aristocrat. This unexpected pairing dredges up some unpleasant truths about his adopted community and sets in motion a sequence of events that allows Othello to fall prey to the progressively more […]

An original musical based on an old case.%26nbsp%3b The past never stays buried.DesignHTMLWords: 13   Characters: 69

%3cp%3eSomewhere at the intersection of%26nbsp%3b%3cem%3eTommy%26nbsp%3b%3c/em%3eand %3cem%3eSweeney Todd%3c/em%3e%2c%26nbsp%3b %3ca href%3d%22http%3a//www.iscla.org/%22%3eRED BARN %3c/a%3eupends expectations about musicals. %3c/p%3e %3cp%3eIn 1827%2c in a bucolic village%2c Maria Martin disappeared. What followed was a series of events both macabre and surreal that culminated in the largest public hanging in English history. Based on a true story%2c this workshop production features a […]

%3cspan%3eThe little nun whose devils made her as big as a rock star%21%26nbsp%3b%26nbsp%3b%3c/span%3e %3cdiv%3e %3cspan%3e%3cbr%3e%3c/span%3e %3c/div%3e %3cdiv%3e %3cspan%3e%3ca href%3d%22http%3a//www.atwatercrossing.com/get-here/%22 target%3d%22_blank%22%3ehttp%3a//www.atwatercrossing.com/get-here/%3c/a%3e%3c/span%3e %3c/div%3eDesignHTMLWords: 14   Characters: 99

In STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY%2c an actor %28David Melville%29 is preparing to play Richard III in a rapidly approaching production. But his leading lady just quit%2c and her replacement %28Erika Soto%29 doesn’t have the faintest idea what’s going on. Adding to the confusion%2c the director is nowhere to be found and his stage manager %28Sam Breen%29 […]

%3cp%3e%3cb%3eLocked in a tower%2c the too-smart-for-the-1500%27s%2c Maxima Terriblé Segunda %28renowned cartographer and adopted sister of Queen Isabella of Spain%29%2c is faced with a dilemma%3a how to save her lover%2c obey the dying Queen and countenance her spoiled niece%2c the Infanta Juana. The play is at turns bitingly satirical and absurdly funny. Told with a sharp%2c […]

%3cb%3e%3ci%3eThe MisMatch Game%3c/i%3e%3c/b%3e regularly fills the house at its irregularly scheduled gigs at the Renberg Theatre. Audiences keep coming back for the razor%27s-edge improv and the racy%2c anarchic%2c and decidedly un-PC wit and wildness. The Advocate honored %3cb%3e%3ci%3eThe MisMatch Game %3c/i%3e%3c/b%3ewith a %2210 Best Theatre%22 citation that said%2c %22This recurring Los Angeles happening re-imagines the […]

%3cp%3eIn January 1897%2c two years after Wilde entered prison following a conviction of gross indecency%2c he began a letter addressed to his love%2c Alfred Lord Douglas%2c whom he blamed for his ruin. Wilde was allowed one page of paper at a time and%2c when that paper was filled up%2c it was confiscated by the prison […]

%3cp%3e%3cb%3eIn %3c/b%3e %3cb%3eTHE SNOW GEESE%3c/b%3e %3cb%3e%2c Sharr White %28%3ci%3eThe Other Place%3c/i%3e%29 conjurs an American family at the end of an era. On November 1%2c 1917%2c the newly widowed Elizabeth Gaesling %28played by Melissa Chalsma%29 gathers her family together for a final shooting party before her charismatic eldest son heads off to war. By the next […]

Presented at top of Old Zoo area in Griffith ParkDesignHTMLWords: 10   Characters: 49

%3ch2 align%3d%22left%22%3e %3cspan%3e%3cspan%3eDr. Pinch and the very fetching Pinchtones will fill you to the brim with holiday cheer.%3c/span%3e%3c/span%3e %3c/h2%3eDesignHTMLWords: 16   Characters: 86