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ATHENA THEATRE COMPANY
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June 13, 2006

PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Press/Media Contact:
Véronique Ory
818-754-1423

The Athena Theatre Company presents
SLOW DANCE ON THE KILLING GROUND
by William Hanley
Directed by Mark Thomas Boergers
June 22 – July 29, 2006
Hollywood, CA: Athena Theatre Company continues its 2006 season with William Hanley’s drama SLOW DANCE ON THE KILLING GROUND. The New York Times writes: "As the curtain rises, a poor, dusty shop with its dirty window obscuring the dark hostile night, with its mean little counter, and with its juke box glaring vulgarly from the side, the storekeeper (Charles Howerton) is taking inventory. The door is flung open, letting in a lithe young Negro (Mathew Thompson), weirdly gotten up in a soft, high-crowned hat over his kinky little mop, sunglasses, a cape, short slacks and sneakers. Mr. Hanley calls this act Pas de Deux. In this dance for two, the characters make hesitant approaches, circle, feint, threaten each other with gun and ice pick but scarcely make contact. The young man is obviously a hunted man. Through the circumlocutions of his odd mixture of jive talk and fancy literary allusions, there pants a sense of terror. The storekeeper is a non-Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, is close-mouthed, suspicious, anxious to avoid self-involvement & In the second act the Pas de Deux becomes Pas de Trois. The third dancer is Rosie (Véronique Ory), an eighteen-year old from Riverdale, has wandered into the shop after losing her way while looking for the address of an abortionist. Rosie has no illusions about her homeliness or about the encounter that has led to her troubles & the laconic German and the flowery young man react to her with a sensitivity and concern that seem to diminish the furies within them. Finally the German is driven to revealing the truth about himself as the young man, at last, in the third act, faces his inexorable fate out there on the killing ground." This Los Angeles production will also integrate the contributions of Adrian Vatsky in dance & Kim Parmon in choreography and dance. An incredible team works behind the scenes on this production, including Set Designer Stefan Depner, Costume Designer Adam Voigts, Lighting Designer Johnny Ryman, Sound Designer John Bobek, Casting Director Stephen Snyder, JS Snyder & Associates, Casting Associate Lilo Grunwald, and Production Stage Manager Kevin Jordan. Post Card Design created by Jeremy Asher.

SLOW DANCE ON THE KILLING GROUND will play at the Lounge Theatre on Theater Row in Hollywood at 6201 Santa Monica Blvd. from June 22 thru July 29, every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8:00 pm. Tickets can be reserved online for $15 at www.AthenaTheatre.com or purchased at the door for $20 (cash only please). Ample free street parking is available.

If you'd like to arrange an interview with the cast or director, need more information, reservations or complimentary press passes, please call 818-754-1423 or email us at Veronique@AthenaTheatre.com.

WHAT: SLOW DANCE ON THE KILLING GROUND

WHEN: June 22 – July 29, 2006
Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays @ 8:00pm

WHERE: The Lounge Theatre
6201 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90038
(818) 754-1423

PRICE: $15 presale online at www.athenatheatre.com or $20 (Cash Only) at the door.

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ATHENA THEATRE COMPANY
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March 21, 2006
UPDATED PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Press/Media Contact:
Véronique Ory
818-754-1423

The Athena Theatre Company presents
Wait Until Dark by Frederick Knott
Directed by Cate Caplin
February 16, 2006 – March 25, 2006
Hollywood, CA: Athena Theatre Company opens its 2006 season with the suspense thriller Wait Until Dark directed by Cate Caplin. A Broadway hit, this masterfully constructed thriller moves from one moment of suspense to another. Sinister con man Roat (Lorin McCraley) and two ex-convicts, Mike and Carlino (Jon Emm and John Richard Petersen), have traced the location of a mysterious doll to the apartment of Sam Hendrix (Tim Maloney) and his blind wife Susy (Véronique Ory). Susy refuses to reveal the location of the doll, and with the help of young neighbor Gloria (Samantha Klein), figures out she is the victim of a bizarre charade. Soon, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues between Susy and the con-men, full of twists and turns that will have the audience in suspense! Policemen played by Peter O’Keefe and Rod Simmons round out the cast. An incredible team works behind the scenes on this production, including Set Designer Jennifer Fulmer, Costume Designer Shauna Leone, Lighting Designer Michael Bergfeld, Sound Designer John Bobek, and Production Stage Manager Kevin Jordan. Casting Director, Stephen Snyder, JS Snyder and Associates, Post Card Design created by Jeremy Asher.

Wait Until Dark will play at the Lounge Theatre on Theater Row in Hollywood at 6201 Santa Monica Blvd. from February 16th thru March 25th, every Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8:00 pm. Tickets can be reserved online for $15 at www.AthenaTheatre.com or purchased at the door for $20 (cash only please). Ample free street parking.

The goal of the Athena Theatre Company is to provide a supportive and creative environment for artists. We take risks and carry out new approaches. Our goal is to have a theatre we are proud of and passionate about, representing the strength, intelligence, beauty and unique perspective of women in society. Véronique Ory and Elizabeth Welsh are the founding members of the Athena Theatre Company. Athena Theatre Company’s previous stage productions have received strong critical praise from reviewers and audiences alike.

WHAT: WAIT UNTIL DARK

WHEN: February 16 – March 25, 2006
Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays @ 8:00pm

WHERE: The Lounge Theatre
6201 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90038
(818) 754-1423

PRICE: $15 presale online at www.athenatheatre.com or $20 (Cash Only) at the door.

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ATHENA THEATRE COMPANY
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For Immediate Release:
Press/Media contact:
Veronique Ory
818-754-1423
The Athena Theatre Company presents
A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard at
The Flight Theatre at The Complex
opening Thursday, October 27, 2005
Athena Theatre continues its 2005 season with A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard appearing Thursday, October 27th through Sunday, November 20th in the Flight Theatre at The Complex.

Winner of the New York Drama Critics Award as the best play of the year. A Lie of the Mind is described by its author as a "love ballad...a little legend about love". Frank Rich of the New York Times described it as "a variously rending and hilarious reverie about parents and sons and husbands and wives, all blending into mythic wildernes..." The play was revived by the Donmar Warehouse in 2001.

Sam Shepard has written 45 plays, 11 of which have won Obie Awards, and has appeared as an actor in 16 films. In 1979 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Buried Child, and in 1984 he gained an Oscar nomination for his performance in The Right Stuff. His screenplay for Paris, Texas won the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, and he wrote and directed the film Far North in 1988. Other plays by Sam Shepard include Simpatico, Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love and A Lie of the Mind. In 1986 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1992 he received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy. In 1994 he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame.

The purpose of Athena Theatre is to provide a supportive and creative environment for artists. We take risks and carry out new approaches. Our goal is to have a theatre we are proud of and passionate about, representing the strength, intelligence, beauty and unique perspective of women in society. Please visit AthenaTheatre.com for more information. Véronique Ory and Elizabeth Welsh are the founding members of Athena Theatre.

Athena Theatre Company’s previous productions have received strong critical response. Proof by David Auburn received several critics picks. “The acting lives and breathes on stage in performances that would make Uta Hagen proud,” says Metro LA. “The loveliest turn comes from John Bobek, who brings a dynamic spontaneity and arresting sweetness to Hal, the geeky protégé of the late professor—a role that usually merely complements, not stands out with such striking results.” –Back Stage West. Metro LA says, “Great acting and direction can be seen in Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things, an Athena Theatre production…” How I Learned to Drive, a Pulitzer Prize Winning play by Paula Vogel, was named one of the best plays of 2004 by reviewplays.com. Waiting for Godot was said to have “wonderful commitment and veracity, giving realistic portrayals of people in limbo.” -reviewplays.com. Beirut had people raving “…the actors created an energy that makes it easy for the audience to be captivated and wondering just what will happen next.” -Systems Reviews. Crimes of the Heart was called “Pure joy.” “Actress Veronique Ory triumphed as Babe.” - NoHo LA.

WHERE:
The Flight Theatre at The Complex
6472 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90038

WHEN:
Thurs, Fri, Sat at 8PM;
Sun at 7PM
October 27-November 20, 2005

GENERAL ADMISSION:
$20/ $15 pre-pay on-line
RSVP: www.AthenaTheatre.com
OR 818-754-1423

Playwright: Sam Shepard
Director:
Charlotte Gulezian
Lighting Design:
Michael Bergfeld

CAST:
Pamela Clay as Meg
Jamison Driskill as Frankie
Trudy Forbes as Lorraine
Jonathan Frappier as Mike
Rachael Lyerla as Sally
Veronique Ory as Beth
James Storm as Baylor
Jason Weisgerber as Jake
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ATHENA THEATRE COMPANY
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For Immediate Release:
Press/Media contact:
Veronique Ory
818-754-1423

The Athena Theatre Company presents
Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play
Proof by David Auburn at
The Flight Theatre at The Complex
opening Thursday, July 14, 2005

Athena Theatre continues its 2005 season with Proof, David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, appearing Thursday, July 14 through Sunday, July 31 in the Flight Theatre at The Complex.

When Proof opened on Broadway in 2000, the New York Times praised Proof as "an exhilarating and assured new play that is as accessible and compelling as a detective story." Set in Chicago's Hyde Park, Proof centers on Catherine, a young woman who's put her life and her studies on hold to take care of her father, a once-brilliant mathematician. Catherine knows that she may have inherited her father's mathematical brilliance - but worries that she also may have inherited his mental instability. Throughout the play, she copes with her father's mental decline, his death and his legacy in the form of over 100 workbooks filled with what appears to be gibberish - except for one.

Fascinating and funny, Proof offers a journey into the mysteries of something much more complicated than mathematical theories - the mysteries of relationships.

David Auburn’s first full length play Skyscraper was produced Off Broadway in 1997. His short play What Do You Believe About the Future? appeared in Harper's Magazine and has been adapted for the screen. He has received the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and for Proof, the Kesselring Prize, the Pulitzer and the Tony Award. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. (2003)

Athena Theatre Company’s previous productions have received strong critical response. Metro LA says, “Great acting and direction can be seen in Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things, an Athena Theatre production…” How I Learned to Drive, a Pulitzer Prize Winning play by Paula Vogel, was named one of the best plays of 2004 by reviewplays.com. Waiting for Godot was said to have “wonderful commitment and veracity, giving realistic portrayals of people in limbo.” -reviewplays.com. Beirut had people raving “…the actors created an energy that makes it easy for the audience to be captivated and wondering just what will happen next.” -Systems Reviews. Crimes of the Heart was called “Pure joy.” “Actress Veronique Ory triumphed as Babe.” - NoHo LA.

WHERE:
The Flight Theatre at The Complex
6472 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90038

WHEN:
Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays
at 8PM; Sundays at 7PM
July 14th-July 31

WHO:
Written by David Auburn
Directed by Charlotte Gulezian
Scenic Design by Danny Truxaw
Costume Design by Kaori Mita
Lighting Design by Michael Bergfeld

CAST:
Catherine – Veronique Ory
Robert – Craig Braun
Hal – John Bobek
Claire – Elena Fabri
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ATHENA THEATRE COMPANY
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For Immediate Release:
Press/Media contact:
Veronique Ory
818-754-1423

The Athena Theatre Company presents
The Shape of Things by Neil LaBute at
The Actor's Playpen opening March 18th, 2005

Neil LaBute has been a popular writer for the stage and screen for more than two decades. The Shape of Things begins in art museum with the chance meeting of Evelyn, an analytical and perhaps amoral art student, and Adam, a clumsy introvert. They begin an intense relationship that causes shy and principled Adam to go to extraordinary lengths to become the man that he thinks Evelyn wants him to be. Through Evelyn's subtle persuasion and coaching, Adam's character is reconstructed and eventually deconstructed. In Adam, LaBute shows the frightening lengths that people will go to become what they believe others want them to be.

Neil LaBute has been praised and vilified by serious film enthusiasts since the release of his very first feature film: "In the Company of Men" (1997). With "Your Friends and Neighbors" (1998) and "Nurse Betty" (2000), as well as his many successful stage plays, LaBute established himself as a talented writer/director with a fresh, if discomforting, voice. The man who would become one of his generation's most talked about (and most controversial) dramatists was born in Detroit, Michigan in the early 1960s.

The purpose of Athena Theatre is to provide a supportive and creative environment for artists. We take risks and carry out new approaches. Our goal is to have a theatre we are proud of and passionate about, representing the strength, intelligence, beauty and unique perspective of women in society. Please visit AthenaTheatre.com for more information. Veronique Ory and Elizabeth Welsh are the founding members of Athena Theatre.

Athena Theatre Company's previous productions have received strong critical response. How I Learned to Drive, a Pulitzer Prize Winning play by Paula Vogel, was named one of the best plays of 2004 by reviewplays.com. Waiting for Godot was said to have "a wonderful commitment and veracity, giving realistic portrayals of people in limbo." -reviewplays.com. Beirut had people raving, "the actors created an energy that makes it easy for the audience to be captivated and wondering just what will happen next." -Systems Reviews. Crimes of the Heart was called, "Pure joy. Actress Veronique Ory triumphed as Babe." - NoHo LA.

The Shape of Things Written by: Neil LaBute;
Directed by: Scott Schutzman (a.k.a. Scott Tiler)

The Actor's Playpen, 1514 Gardner Street, Los Angeles 90046

Previews: Thursday, March 17 at 8PM; Runs: Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM, opening March 18th, 2005; Tickets: $15
Reservations and Information: 818.754.1423 OR at www.athenatheatre.com

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ATHENA THEATRE COMPANY
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For Immediate Release:
Press/Media contact:
Veronique Ory
818-754-1423

The Athena Theatre Company presents the Pulitzer Prize Winning Play, How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel at
The Raven Playhouse, North Hollywood October 8th, 2004

How I Learned to Drive is a play about a woman who looks back in forgiveness on a seven-year relationship with her uncle. Together they have traveled to the darkest, most intimate and unspoken of places. Set in the 60s and 70s, How I Learned to Drive is the story of a young woman whose coming-of-age story is defined by driving lessons provided by her uncle. These lessons extend well-beyond learning the rules of the road. A beautifully crafted story reveals her memories with breathtaking insight, wit and warmth.

How I Learned to Drive is most noteworthy for the many awards that it won including the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for drama. Its initial off-Broadway run lasted for fourteen months. In addition to the Pulitzer, the play also was also awarded an Obie, a Drama Desk Award, a New York Drama Critics' Award, an Outer Circle Critics Award, and the Lucille Lortel Award.

How I Learned to Drive was made possible by the generous support of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trust Senior Residency Award. The Baltimore Waltz, another piece by Paula Vogel, won the (Obie for Best Play in 1992); Her anthology, The Baltimore Waltz and Other Plays, has also been published by TCG. Other awards include the AT&T New Plays Award, the Fund for New American Plays, the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center Fellowship, several National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, and the McKnight Fellowship. Vogel is also a member of New Dramatists. She is currently developing her screenplay, The Oldest Profession, with Fred Berner, Joanne Zippel and Olympia Dukakis.

The purpose of Athena Theatre is to provide a supportive and creative environment for artists. We take risks and carry out new approaches. Our goal is to have a theatre we are proud of and passionate about, representing the strength, intelligence, beauty and unique perspective of women in society. Please visit AthenaTheatre.com for more information. Veronique Ory and Elizabeth Welsh are the founding members of Athena Theatre.

Athena Theatre Company's previous productions have received strong critical response. Waiting for Godot was said to have "wonderful commitment and veracity, giving realistic portrayals of people in limbo." -reviewplays.com. Beirut had people raving, "the actors created an energy that makes it easy for the audience to be captivated and wondering just what will happen next." -Systems Reviews. Crimes of the Heart was called, "Pure joy. Actress Veronique Ory triumphed as Babe." - NoHo LA.

How I Learned to Drive Written by: Paula Vogel; Directed by: Scott Tiler

The Raven Playhouse, 5233 Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood 91601

Previews: Thursday, October 7; Performances: October 8, 9, 15, 16;
Fri, Sat @ 8:00pm; Tickets: $15
Reservations and Information: 818.754.1423 OR at www.athenatheatre.com

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ATHENA THEATRE COMPANY
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For Immediate Release:
Press/Media contact:
Veronique Ory
818-754-1423

The Athena Theatre Company presents Waiting for Godot
By Samuel Beckett at The Raven Playhouse, NoHo Arts District

Nobel Prize Winner Samuel Beckett's absurd, existential, and darkly funny play is noted as one of the most influential pieces of drama in the 20th century. Revolutionary in part due to its absence of a traditional plot, Waiting for Godot examines two days in the life of Vladimir and Estragon.
Beckett's self-termed "tragicomedy" remains a mystery wrapped in an enigma, as New York Times review famously proclaimed. But this inscrutable play poses a wealth of stimulating questions, diversionary gags, and rich material for extraordinary actors.

"One of the most noble and moving plays of our generation, a threnody of hope deceived and deferred but never extinguished; a play suffused with tenderness for the whole human perplexity; with phrases that come like a sharp stab of beauty and pain." -The Times (London)

Playwright, Samuel Beckett wrote Eleutheria, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, the novels Malloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, and Mercier et Camier, two books of short stories, and a book of criticism. Beckett was the first of the absurdists to win international fame. His works have been translated into over twenty languages. In 1969 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He continued to write until his death in 1989, but the task grew more and more difficult with each work until, in the end, he said that each word seemed to him "an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."

The specific purpose of Athena Theatre is to educate by providing a supportive and creative environment for artists (actors and crew), where they take risks, try new things, consider new approaches; to provide theatre they are proud of and passionate about. Veronique Ory and Elizabeth Welsh are the founding members of Athena Theatre. The formation began coming together while working on Two Encounters, "Birdbath" and "Ferryboat" in November 2002.

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Athena Theatre Company's previous productions have received strong critical response. Beirut had people raving "the actors create an energy that makes it easy for the audience to be captivated and wondering just what will happen next." -Systems Reviews. Crimes of the Heart was called "Pure Joy." -NoHo LA. "The four women have great interaction between them" -reviewplays.com "After presenting a family show such as Crimes, we really wanted to present Beirut that forced audiences to be inspired, moved and leaving the theatre a bit uncomfortable." -Elizabeth Welsh, co-artistic director.

Waiting for Godot written by: Samuel Beckett

Directed by: Claire Titelman

The Raven Playhouse
5233 Lankershim Blvd
NoHo Arts District

Previews: Thursday, June 10th;
Performances: June 11th, 12th, 18th, 19th
Friday, Saturday @ 8:00pm

Tickets: $15
Group Discounts Available

Reservations and Information: 818.754.1423 OR online at www.athenatheatre.com

For Press/Media contact: Veronique Ory- 818-754-1423

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Athena Theatre Company's previous productions have received strong critical response. Crimes of the Heart was called "Pure Joy" -NoHo LA. "The four women have great interaction between them"-reviewplays.com "After presenting a family show such as Crimes, we really wanted to do a play that forced audiences to be inspired, moved and leaving the theatre a bit uncomfortable." -Elizabeth Welsh, co-artistic director.

Beirut written by: Alan Bowne

Directed by: Ty Donaldson

The Elephant Lab Theatre
6322 Santa Monica Blvd, Hollywood

February 6th through February 29th
Friday, Saturday @ 8:00pm and Sunday Nights @7pm

Tickets: $15

Reservations and Information: 818.754.1423 OR online at www.athenatheatre.com

For Press/Media contact: Racquel Lehrman- 323.273.1129

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For Immediate Release:
Press/Media contact:
Racquel Lehrman
Theatre Planners
323.273.1129

The Athena Theatre Company presents Beirut
By Alan Bowne at the Elephant Lab Theatre, Hollywood

Beirut is Alan Bowne's stunner about love in the plague years. It's the near future: we're in a dump of a room on the Lower East Side, where a young man named Torch as been quarantined after testing positive for a nameless disease that sounds a lot like AIDS. His girlfriend, Blue, who has not been infected, makes the dangerous journey across the quarantine line to be with him. The human spirit faces the inevitable, and it is a spirit of hope, of logic, and of empathy.

Alan Bowne was the author of several plays that have been produced in New York and regional theatres. Other successes include: Sharon and Billy, A snake in the Vein and Forty-Deuce. He received the Arthur Foundation Prize in 1986 and was a member of the New Dramatists. Beirut was first produced in New York by the Manhattan Class Company. "The marvel of Mr. Bowne's work is the richly raunchy language, tuned to the gritty rhythms of the street."-Walter Goodman, The New York Times.

Directing Beirut is Ty Donaldson. He received his BA in acting/directing from BARD College, NY. He's directed productions of You Can't Take it with You, Rocks, Lone Star and Laundry and Bourbon.

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RELEASE IMMEDIATE:
CONTACT: Racquel Lehrman (323) 273-1129

Limited Engagement

The Athena Theatre Company will present Crimes of the Heart
At the Actor's Workout Studio, in the Noho Arts District

Crimes of the Heart is a heart warming comedy, written by Beth Henley, who was winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle. This funny, moving script is about the demands, conflicts, and bonds of sisterhood.

Anyone who has a sister should recognize the special closeness of the Magraths, who talk, cry, argue, and love with honesty and freedom they receive and give to no one else. For them, sisterhood requires sharing. As one of the sister's explains, It's a human need. To talk about our lives. Sisterhood is also, inevitably about conflict. Even the closest of friends-let alone sisters-may be rivals for affection and attention. This is certainly true of the Magraths, whose feuds have been years in the making, and the most insignificant incident may bring long-simmering angers to a boil. In Crimes of the Heart, it takes only a minor mistake to trigger a full-blown confrontation among all three sisters.
The tensions between these three women may drive them apart, but their mutual support and love always reunites them. When calamity threatens-and this family is in constant danger-they are there for each other. Such sisterly love allows them to bring the wounds of the past and to start planning for a better future.

Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley

Directed by: Elizabeth Welsh

Starring: Matt Braaten, Tessa Munro, Veronique Ory and Scott Tiler

Where: The Actor's Workout Studio
4735 Lankershim Blvd, NoHo Arts District

When: Friday August 8th @8pm
Saturday August 9th @8pm
Sunday August 10th @ 2pm and 8pm

Price: $15

Reservations: Call (818) 896-3421

Press Contact: Racquel Lehrman (323) 273-1129

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From: Tamarind Theatre
5919 Franklin Ave.
Hollywood, CA 90028

The Tamarind Theatre will present "Birdbath" and "Ferryboat," two one-act plays from Leonard Melfi's collection Encounters. Performances are scheduled Mon, February 10 through March 19 on Monday to Wednesday evenings at 8 p.m. Information and reservations may be obtained by calling 818-766-9305.

Leonard Melfi's "Birdbath" and "Ferryboat" explore the theme of what it means and what it takes for people to ultimately connect in a large and often isolated world. Written in the 1960's, Melfi is adept at flashing a mirror at human interaction and connectedness that still rings true in today's modern world.

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