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RESERVATIONS: 818/506-8462				1 ACADEMY 7:30 SCENES NIGHT	2 ACADEMY 7:30 ORPHEUS DESCENDING	3 ACADEMY 7:30 ORPHEUS DESCENDING
4 ACADEMY 2:30 ORPHEUS 7:30 ORPHEUS	5   OFF	6    ANTAEAN    PLAYWRIGHTS 7:30 TALKING TENNESSEE Jeremy Lawrence	7   DARK	8  TO WATCH OPEN   REHEARSAL, YOU MUST MAKE AN ADVANCE RESERVATION. 7: 30 OPEN REH. MOTH. COURAGE	9 7:30 MOTHER COURAGE	10 7:30 MOTHER COURAGE
11 2:30 FASHION 7:30 FASHION	12   OFF	13    ANTAEAN    PLAYWRIGHTS 7:30 PRINCE OF LA by D. Matthews	14 TO WATCH OPEN   REHEARSAL, YOU MUST MAKE AN ADVANCE RESERVATION. 7: 30     OPEN REH. PERA PALAS	15   7:30 PERA PALAS	16   7:30 PERA PALAS	17 NOHOFEST 5pm (fest. ticket)  LONG C. DINNER 7:30 TRIAL BY JURY  /  LONG C. DINNER
18 NOHOFEST 5pm (fest. ticket)  LONG C. DINNER 7:30 TRIAL BY JURY  /  LONG C. DINNER	19   OFF	20    ANTAEAN    PLAYWRIGHTS 7:30 THE WHITE ROSE by Lillian Groag	21 ACADEMY   7:30 LOVE'S FIRE	22 7:30 TRIAL BY JURY  /  LONG C. DINNER	23 7:30 MOTHER COURAGE	24 7:30 MOTHER COURAGE
25 2:30 FASHION 7:30 FASHION	26   OFF	27    ANTAEAN    PLAYWRIGHTS 7:30 CHEKHOV X 3 Saunders+Dwyer	28 ACADEMY   7:30 LOVE'S FIRE	29   7:30 PERA PALAS	30   7:30 PERA PALAS	31  ADDED PERFORMANCE 7:30 PERA PALAS
JUNE 1 MAYFEST        FINALE 7:30 TRIAL BY JURY  /  30-MIN. MAYFEST

MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN by Bertolt Brecht. Staged workshop reading directed by Andrew Robinson With music by Dessau, Eisler, Weill, and Jan Powell. Perhaps Brecht’s greatest play, about a woman who has three grown children and nerves of steel. Mother Courage makes a living running her canteen wagon, following the soldiers from battle to battle. The war is good for business, but at what price? And who is willing to pay it just to earn a lousy little profit? Plenty of people, it turns out... Featuring the Antaeus Orchestra. $15.00 donation.

PERA PALAS by Sinan Ünel. Staged workshop reading directed by Michael Michetti Set at the Pera Palas hotel in Turkey in 1910, 1950 and the present day, using 10 actors playing 28 different American, British and Turkish characters, the play shows how time changes things and yet doesn’t. Ünel explores the flash points when cultures clash, and the aggression and insecurity that turn emigration, internal or external, from personal liberation into a political act. This challenging play was produced off-Broadawy to high acclaim and has yet to be seen in Los Angeles. $15.00 donation.

FASHION by Anna Cora Mowatt. Staged workshop reading directed by Emily Chase. Hilarious landmark hit comedy of American manners. The wealthy and energetic Mrs. Tiffany steamrolls her way up the social order, obsessed with Parisian chic and on the trail of a foreign count she wants as a son-in-law. One of the biggest hits of the 19th century, our presentation of this satire of “stupid money” features songs by the great American composer Stephen Foster. A wonderful rediscovery of a neglected comedy classic. $15.00 donation.

Antaeus and the NOHO Theatre and Arts Festival, May 17 & 18, 2003: FESTIVAL DAYS: We will share New Place with a schedule of guest performers to be announced in May. For our contribution this year, we present THE LONG CHRISTMAS DINNER by Thornton Wilder. Directed by John Apicella. Three generations in thirty minutes flat, as Wilder reminds us what life is really all about, or at least what it’s really like. Presents at 5:00 pm Sat. & Sun. Free admission; tickets available only at Festival Ticket Booth. FESTIVAL NIGHTS: We’ll celebrate the NoHo Theatre Festival with special evening gala presentation, featuring the musical favorite TRIAL BY JURY/L.A. by Gilbert & Sullivan. Directed by Anne McNaughton with music direction from Jan Powell. Set downtown in the L.A. Superior Courthouse, a palimony case gets the full operetta treatment with astral charts, a dream team of lawyers and an insanely inspired cast of 24, more or less. LA/2003 adaptation by John Apicella and Philip Proctor. With The Long Christmas Dinner. $15.00 donation. TBJ/LA also runs on the 22nd the 31st.

ANTAEAN PLAYWRIGHTS -- A series of plays written by our members. A series of plays written by our members, every Tuesday Night in May. Antaeus is home to many published and produced playwrights and translators, and this Tuesday series will showcase some new work: Talking Tennessee is a solo study of the occasional writings of Tennessee Williams, arranged and performed by Jeremy Lawrence, The Prince of L.A. by Dakin Matthews is a modern verse drama of scandal and the clergy in present-day Los Angeles. The White Rose by Lillian Groag tells the true story of a group of courageous German university students who risk their lives to write and distribute anti-Nazi materials in the middle of the Second World War. And Nicholas Saunders & Frank Dwyer unveil wonderful new translations of Anton Chekhov’s one-acts The Bear, Swan Song, The Jubilee, and The Proposal. $10.00 donation.

THE ACADEMY COMPANY -- The next generation of classical actors. SCENES by first year Members. Free event. ORPHEUS DESCENDING by Tennessee Williams Workshop directed by Jeanie Hackett $15.00 donation. LOVE’S FIRE Playlets based on Shakespeare’s sonnets by John Guare, Eric Bogosian, Wendy Wasserstein, Tony Kushner, Marsha Norman and Ntozake Shange and directed by Jeanie Hackett, Anne McNaughton, Emily Chase, Bernadette Birkett, Aimee Patrick, Jane Fleiss and Marilyn Mandel. $10 donation.