Pasadena Playhouse Producing Artistic Director Danny Feldman announces Holiday programming on PlayhouseLive with an exclusive streaming of Bob Baker Marionette Theater’s “Holiday on Strings!” brought directly into homes for the first time. Filmed in front of a live audience, this holiday tradition for generations of Angelenos launched online at PlayhouseLive on Monday, and is part…
By May S. Ruiz Theatre saw its early beginnings over two thousand years ago in Athens, Greece when festivals were held in March to honor Dionysus. Today, this art form is staged all year around the globe. And it can be argued that nowhere is it performed more at its magnificence than at the Pasadena Playhouse,…
On Tuesday, the Pasadena Playhouse announced the launch of PlayhouseLive, a first-of-its-kind nonprofit streaming platform to showcase theatrical productions from multiple theaters around the country to a national and international audience. Premiering this fall, PlayhouseLive will be a digital hub for high-quality digital theater experiences, presenting live and live-captured performances, original series, educational programming and…
The Pasadena Playhouse has been approved for a $50,000 award as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Pasadena Playhouse is one of 855 organizations located in every state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico selected for this grant. The National Endowment for the Arts received more than 3,100 eligible…
By Brianna Chu Florian Zeller’s “Le Pére,” or “The Father,” translated to English by Christopher Hampton, subjects its audience to the fractured cacophony that remains of aging father André’s memories, forcing them to confront the distortion and disruption that dementia inflicts upon its sufferers. Delving into themes of reality, paranoia, splintered familial relationships, trauma, and…
By May S. Ruiz If audiences who are watching ‘The Father’ at the Pasadena Playhouse are dazed and bewildered, then it would have spectacularly accomplished showing us what goes on in the mind of someone afflicted with dementia. Written by Florian Zeller and translated by Christopher Hampton, ‘The Father’ has been acclaimed on two continents….
Pasadena Playhouse, The State Theater of California, has completed casting for “The Father,” written by Florian Zeller, translated by Christopher Hampton and directed by Jessica Kubzansky, that comes to the Playhouse Feb. 5 to March 1, 2020. The production stars previously announced Alfred in a tour-de-force role in perhaps one of the most awarded plays…
By May S. Ruiz If you were at the Engemann Family Courtyard of the Pasadena Playhouse at 8:00 last Thursday evening, you would have been happily surprised by snow falling on your head. It was a fun final touch to The Playhouse’s tree lighting ceremony which started promptly at 7 pm. Danny Feldman, Producing Artistic…
