The Beebo Brinker Chronicles

February 25 – March 13, 2010 (West Coast Premiere)

The Beebo Brinker Chronicles (West Coast Premiere)
Written by Kate Moira Ryan & Linda S. Chapman
Tickets $20-$40

“The Beebo Brinker Chronicles pries open the closet door and reveals the characters trapped behind it.” – BackStage

Adapted from Ann Bannon's groundbreaking, award-winning pulp novels of the 1950s and 1960s, Beebo Brinker Chronicles follows the lives and loves of four friends in pre-Stonewall Greenwich Village. Beth and Laura, secret lovers in college, still pine for each other. Before they can reunite, they find themselves entangled in a web spun by Beebo Brinker, a butch denizen of the underground bar scene, and Jack, a flamboyant fop with caustic wit.

“Although [Ann Bannon is] hardly known outside lesbian literary circles today, Kate Moira Ryan and Linda S. Chapman's hilarious dramatization of her Beebo Brinker series persuasively argues that there's gold in that dime-store pulp...far from being a simple sepia-toned snapshot of the past, this colorful portrait of gay life in the Village startles with the truths it flashes amid the one-liners and melodramatic confrontations.” - New York Magazine (Critics' Pick)  

 

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The Kitchen Series – Food and Theatre

Brava joins forces with Precarious Theater Company to bring food and wine into the staged reading. In a special series cooked up just like mom used to make – with the best ingredients and an experienced hand. Join Brava and Precarious Theater Company for a new way to experience staged readings - with great actors, great food and great fun.

FOUR staged works throughout the season include :

October 12, 2009 - The Visit by Friedrich Durrenmatt 
March 7, 2010 - Drunken City by Adam Bock
April 19, 2010 - Sgt Casey’s Remains by Lauren Wilson
June 14, 2010 - The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov

 

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Ramble-Ations

 

Performance artist D'Lo grew up gay in a Hindu Sri Lankan family in Los AngelesCounty while immersed in Hip-Hop youth culture. Reflecting upon what it means to be a person of color, to be gay, and to be from an immigrant minority, D’Lo raises a much larger question about what it means to live in America, where one's national, ethnic, and cultural lineage is constantly challenged by assimilation and normalization. Ramble-Ations reminds us of the cultural tensions and synergies that define and affirm us as a nation.

 

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Scalpel! A Killer Rock Comedy

 

Described as the Manchurian Candidate greets the Stepford Wives, Scalpel cuts deep into two great American obsessions: beauty and conspiracy. A darkly comedic rock thriller, Scalpel delights in a world where youth and perfection is the ultimate commodity – a commodity worth killing for.

 

 

 

 

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Fou Fou Ha!

Fou Fou Ha! is an animated performance troupe extraordinaire, described as “wildly unique” (NBC) with “genuine talent at it’s best” (Metrowise Magazine). With a myriad of color-filled costumes- resembling a cross between Dr. Seuss, Antique Court Jesters and fantastic Anime characters, Fou Fou Ha! performs “jaw-dropping dance numbers” (7x7 Magazine) that mix a “Fosse precision with a Jim Henson sensibility.” (SF Weekly)