Theater Events

Theater Events

From all corners of the globe, REDCAT's theater presentation reflect both reinvigorated texts and new theatrical voices.

March 18 - March 27

Rosanna Gamson/World Wide: Tov

Deftly weaving together intense physical movement, spoken word, vocal music, and the theater laboratory ensemble techniques originated by Jerzy Grotowski, Rosanna Gamson stages a profusely evocative dance drama around the story of the tarpan--an extinct species of Eurasian wild horse that was genetically reassembled in the 1930s through back-breeding of domestic horses. The Los Angeles choreographer braids this allegory of regeneration with reflections on the history of her own Polish-Jewish ancestors, horse traders from Szczecin, and the fate of Polish Jewry.

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April 11 - April 12

Studio: Spring 2010

The ongoing series for new works and works-in-progress offers adventurous audiences the opportunity to experience original, ambitiously offbeat performances by an interdisciplinary mix of experimental Los Angeles artists. Previous editions of Studio have featured Ana Maria Alvarez, Nao Bustamante, Sheetal Gandhi, Nataki Garrett, Ayanna Hampton, Prumsodun Ok, Poor Dog Group, Wu Ingrid Tsang, and Kristina Wong.

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April 22 - April 24

Carl Hancock Rux: Poesia Negra: Race, Sex and the Myth of the American Mytopia

Famous for his dazzling spoken word acuity and alert cultural observation, the Alpert Award-winning poet, dramatist, fiction writer and musicmaker takes center stage in this intimate solo performance that blends paper-bag storytelling, hip-bop-fueled poetic reveries, and plenty of trenchant critical analysis on American mythologies and controversies new and old.

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May 28 - May 29

CAP/Plaza de la Raza Youth Theater: Behind the Scenes Drama

Celebrating both the 20-year anniversary of CAP and the 40-year anniversary of Plaza de la Raza, this year’s original production from the CAP/Plaza de la Raza Youth Theater Program is a comical play-within-a-play developed collaboratively by writer-producer Nancy De Los Santos, writer Tomas Benitez, and 45 high school actors and writers.

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June 6 - June 7

Studio: Summer 2010

REDCAT's series for interdisciplinary experimentation continues with a curated program of six new works and works-in-progress by Los Angeles dance, theater, music and multimedia artists.

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Past REDCAT Theater Events

February 24 - February 27

Teatro en el Blanco: Diciembre

From the roiling imagination of Chilean writer-director Guillermo Calderón comes this politically charged, haunting drama about a near-future war in the Andes. Peppered with surprising doses of pitch-black comedy, Diciembre is a family chamber drama that takes place in Santiago on Christmas Eve 2014, with the city besieged by Peruvian forces. Calderón’s play strips away ostentatious theatrical conceit for us to hear clearly the terror knocking at the door.

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February 10 - February 21

The Wooster Group: North Atlantic

North Atlantic takes a satiric look at the role of the military and the growing influence of technology in American culture during the late Cold War period, after Vietnam and before the fall of the Berlin Wall. A nostalgia piece, it brings the analog (pre-digital) 1980s to life through slang, song and dance.

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February 1

Paul Chan

Alpert Award-winning video and media artist Paul Chan gives a stirring live presentation about an extraordinary community art experiment he spearheaded in New Orleans in collaboration with the Classical Theatre of Harlem and the public arts group Creative Time. Chan and his colleagues staged five site-specific performances of Waiting for Godot in the Katrina-devastated neighborhoods of Gentilly and Lower Ninth Ward, playing to large crowds of local residents for whom the classic Beckett-penned lines rang with fierce immediacy.

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January 29 - January 30

Steve Horowitz and the Code Ensemble

The 14-member Code Ensemble delivers an exciting and imaginative contemporary rethink of David Shire’s classic crime-jazz score for the 1974 N.Y.C. subway caper movie The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, accompanied by a projection of a provocative film by Jane Brill. Also: Horowitz's ensemble also mashes up musical tropes from science fiction films in Invasion from the Chicken Planet.

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November 18 - December 13

Joey Arias and Basil Twist: Arias with a Twist

LATE NIGHT SHOWS ADDED 12/5 & 12/12!

In this deliriously madcap fantasy revue, the soaring song stylings of drag diva Joey Arias are surrounded by an eye-popping theatrical extravaganza conjured by a team of puppeteers directed by the legendary Basil Twist. Celluloid dreams, macabre nightmares and bizarre premonitions take the audience on a breathless ride.

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November 6 - November 8

Ramayana: An Indian Epic

An ensemble of 25 gamelan players and 14 dancers enacts an exquisite Balinese adaptation of the Ramayana, the ancient Hindu dance drama of lust and abduction, of war and faith, filled with characters who look like birds, monkeys and warriors but who may turn out to be kings and gods.

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November 1 - November 2

Studio: Fall 09

The ongoing series for new works and works-in-progress offers adventurous audiences the opportunity to experience original, ambitiously offbeat performances by an interdisciplinary mix of experimental Los Angeles artists. This edition of Studio features work by Rae Shao-Lan Blum, The LippyLu's, Prumsodun Ok, Armen Ra, UEM with Jasmine Orpilla, and Kendra Ware and Billy Mark.

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October 14 - October 18

Cloud Eye Control: Under Polaris

On a quest to preserve, inside pristine shards of ice at the top of the world, a seed containing the wealth of all human history, Cloud Eye Control charts an epic journey across a vast arctic expanse with a mix of projected animation, live theater and electronic music.

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October 9

Pieter-Dirk Uys: Elections and Erections

In wily Cape Town satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys’ latest edition of his achingly funny one-man assault on political folly, Afrikaner socialite Evita Bezuidenhout, “the most famous white woman in South Africa,” is hoping to follow in the footsteps of Nelson Mandela as she sets her sights on the highest office in the land.

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October 1 - October 3

Belarus Free Theatre: Discover Love

Established in 2005 in response to repression and officially outlawed in their home country of Belarus, the acclaimed company continues to create powerful and politically-charged theater, defying government censorship. In a rare U.S. appearance, their critically-praised drama Discover Love dares to tell the true story of dissension, covert kidnapping and disappearance in what has been called "Europe's last dictatorship."

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