World Premiere

Three generations divided by race, culture and time connect when a white Southern woman discovers old love letters leading her to an African American half-brother. Louisiana-born chef Leo Price is living in Chicago caring for his aging mother, who has dementia, and his college-age daughter when white Gender Studies professor Didi Marcantel barges into his life with the provocative cache of letters. From the addled memories of Jessalyn Price come contradictory stories of her dangerous interracial romance with Didi’s father. As America debates whether the election of Barack Obama has rendered our nation "post-racial," Julie Hébert's provocative, poetic and powerfully moving new play asks: How can we move past racial differences and find a common language?

Welcome to Nevsky Prospect! With a script by playwright and KPCC journalist Kitty Felde, an original score and songs by indie musician Ego Plum, and Rogue Artists Ensemble's signature mix of live actors, puppetry, masks and digital projection, three of Nikolai Gogol's most famous short stories - Diary of a Madman, The Overcoat and The Nose - will come to "Hyper-theatrical " life this fall. Directed by Sean T. Cawelti, Gogol Project will open at the Bootleg Theater on September 25. Two low-priced previews take place September 19 and 20.

Gogol Project will catapult audiences into the grotesque and whimsical world of Nikolai Gogol’s St. Petersburg neighborhood of Nevsky Prospect. A man chronicles his descent into madness. A poor postal clerk’s life is turned upside-down by the overcoat he sacrificed to obtain. A Very Important Person wakes up one day to discover his nose is missing, only to find out his nose is now a government official - and the nose outranks him!

"Hilarious and supurb!" - Variety

"Delivers the goods in spades!" - LA Times

"GO!" - LA Weekly

The Smash Hit Theatre of NOTE production of "KILL ME, DEADLY" (starring Kirsten Vangsness of CBS' "Criminal Minds") has been extened through the month of August! Tickets selling out! Reserve now!

A DICK... A DAME... A DIAMOND...

Bill Robens and Kiff Scholl, the team that brought us "The Poseidon Adventure: the Musical" and "A Mulholland Christmas Carol" brings NOTE another World Premiere with Robens’ comedically skewed take on Film Noir!

Hollywood, 1948. Hard-boiled P.I. Charlie Nickels is hot on the trail of a diamond thief. To crack the case, Charlie will have to take on the LAPD, the criminal underworld and angry hobos. But his resolve will be tested when he faces off against the most dangerous rival of them all...Mona Livingston.

"Why fall in love with a broad you can trust? That's like reading a book you already know the ending to."

Starring Kirsten Vangsness from CBS’ "Criminal Minds" as Mona!

"Kill Me Deadly" will be played live in living BLACK AND WHITE!!!

666!

Sign of the devil? NO!

6 new plays! 6 playwrights! 6 directors! It's another World Premier 10-minute play LATE-NIGHT from Theatre of NOTE! (Runs in tandem with our mainstage, world-premier production of FUBAR.)

"Sweet, bittersweet, dark or smooth? How do you like YOUR loss?"

FREE CHOCOLATE TASTY YUM-YUM WITH EACH ADMISSION!
A DRAWING FOR AN EVEN BIGGER CHOCOLATE TASTY YUM-YUM AFTER EVERY PERFORMANCE!!!

A world premiere by screenwriter/playwright Karl Gadjusek ("Dead Like Me").

Mary lives amid the boxes her abused mother left behind. Her husband David tries desperately to stay young and hip, following old friend Richard and his wife Sylvia into a world of designer drugs and dangerous sex. But when Mary is the victim of a brutal act of violence, it leads them each down different paths of addiction and realization.

A disarmingly funny but ultimately heartbreaking trilogy of new plays based on Aeschylus' Oresteia. Devised by The Ghost Road Company, one of California's most ambitious experimental, multimedia theater ensembles, the three plays - "Clytemnestra," "Elektra" and "Orestes" - use original music and songs, innovative text and arresting visual imagery to explore the intimate lives of one ancient and powerful family through our contemporary eyes.

"Home Siege Home" will be performed in two parts that offer audiences the opportunity to see each part singly as a stand-alone production or to view both consecutively over the course of a weekend afternoon and evening with a break for dinner. Part 1: "Clytemnestra" will perform every other Thursday, every other Friday, and every Saturday and Sunday at 4 pm; Part 2: "Elektra" and "Orestes" (performed together) will run on the alternate Thursdays and Fridays as well as every Saturday and Sunday evening.

In 1964, silent film comedian Buster Keaton, absurdist playwright Samuel Beckett and renowned stage director Alan Schneider were brought together to make a movie. Instead, three artists discovered how success can be found in the greatest of struggles.