Comedy

Getting people off & other legal fantasies. Criminal Defense Attorney Murray Meyers’ idiosyncratic travelogue through the criminal justice system. IT’S CRIMINAL recounts Meyers’ courtroom adventures with needy, sometimes dangerous clients, loony judges, sexy DA's, and even his own neuroses. A workshop performance of the play was chosen 2008 Hoopla Pick in the LA Weekly, which said, "More lawyers should do one-person shows." Meyer’s July 2009 performance at Santa Monica Playhouse played to a sold-out crowd.

An idiosyncratic travelogue through the criminal justice system by Los Angeles criminal defense attorney Murray Meyers. IT’S CRIMINAL recounts Meyers’ courtroom adventures with needy, sometimes dangerous clients, loony judges, sexy DA's, and even his own neuroses. A workshop performance of the play was chosen 2008 Hoopla Pick in the LA Weekly, which said, "More lawyers should do one-person shows."

Written and performed by Murray Meyer. "This is my take on the daily menu of mishegas (craziness) I encounter in my job,” says Meyer, who has more than twenty years experience as a criminal lawyer. Meyer developed his material at the Un-Cab Lab comedy workshop run by Un-Cabaret creators Beth Lapides & Greg Miller.
Directed by Laurel Ollstein. Ollstein has been involved for over twenty-five years in new play development as an actress, writer, director and teacher. She was a member of the award winning Actor’s Gang for over ten years, and is currently a member of About Productions and also the Literary Manager for Ensemble Studio Theatre Los Angeles. She wrote the book for the musical OPA! which premiered in 2008 at the Midtown theatre festival in New York, where it received fourteen award nominations. It will be performed at the Queens theatre in September 2009. Directing credits include: Showing Our Age written by Laurel Ollstein, at Inside The Ford for About Productions; Children’s Hour written by Lillian Hellman, for Loyola Marymount University; 365 plays by Susan Lori Parks, for Playwright’s Arena; and Walking Back to Brooklyn by Murray Meyer, at the San Francisco Fringe, Seattle Fringe, and Toronto Fringe.

Produced by Pender Pine Productions

"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!!!

In this new American era of hope fresh with the promise of new beginnings, The Actors' Gang presents Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning stage classic about small town life that celebrates the small moments that make up our connections to one another and to our communities.

"Our Town" explores the poignancy of everyday life in a quiet New England village in the early years of the 20th century. Its simplicity begins with its set - nothing but the raw stage, a few ladders, some lights, things you normally think nothing of. This timeless play is told through the eyes of the Stage Manager, who allows a girl named Emily to relive a day in her life, then stands back and watches. After exploring her town of Grover's Corners for its daily life, love and marriage, and finally life and death, Emily is left to ask, "Doesn't anyone ever realize life while they live it?" The original New York Times review in 1938 called Our Town, "one of the finest achievements... profound, strange, unworldly significance... a hauntingly beautiful play." Since then, the Pulitzer-Prize winning Our Town has become an American stage treasure and is Wilder's most renowned and frequently performed play.

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 hypomanic, alcoholic, one-man show with ADHD.
"Pay Attention" tells Frank South's story of how as a New York waiter and performance artist he was catapulted into fast track Hollywood TV writing, unwittingly unleashing his Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Hypomania, Alcoholism, and Issues with Authority. In nearly two non-stop hours of intense hilarity and horror, South careens from a high school talent show, to mentorship with Robert Altman, to the deadly world of network television.

“Pay Attention, Frank South's descent into the Hollywood vortex, is both hilarious and heartbreaking, a raw and riotous ride,”-Andre and Maria Jacquemetton, Producers Mad Men

Written & Performed by Frank South (writer/producer Melrose Place, Cagney & Lacey, Fame, Hill Street Blues and General Hospital.)
Directed by Mark Travis. Travis is perhaps best known for the solo shows that he has developed and directed over the past 15 years. Notably: Time Flies When You're Alive, A Bronx Tale, Undressing New Jersey, Insomnia, Something In His Genes, The Dangerous Lure of High Heels, Cabin Fever, What Does The Sun Sound Like?, They Call Me Mr. Fry, Hip Bones and Cool Whip, Almost Made, Walking Back to Brooklyn, and Fornicationally Challenged. He has been credited in the LA Times with having created a 'new theater genre'. His first book on film directing, The Director's Journey became an instant best-seller (L.A. Times) and was followed by Directing Feature Films which is currently required reading by hundreds of film schools worldwide.
Lighting Design by Kathi O'Donohue
Produced by Margaret South( South has developed television and feature film projects for Disney, Fox and Tri-Star Studios, HBO, ABC, and NBC. She produced several feature films, including the beloved Beaches, starring Bette Midler.)

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.