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Skylight Theatre Company Announces 41st Season
Celebrating Four New Plays at the Heart of 21st Century Americana
Los Angeles, CA (April 3, 2024) – Skylight Theatre Company, recognized for their unwavering commitment to developing and producing new plays and works that are new to Los Angeles, is exploring slices of Americana in the 21st century during their 2024/25 Season. Universal themes across the four productions will cover topics ranging from friendship to the evolution of our communities. The company offers 4 new plays by award winning playwrights.
“We have carefully crafted a lineup that is entertaining, robust, and impactful. We are looking forward to presenting works focused on the conversations that Angelenos are having across the city and hope that they offer fresh insights into our community’s daily lives. Each play sparks a dialogue that inspires much needed fellowship,” says Gary Grossman, Producing Artistic Director.
“By peering deeper into Skylight’s future, we see a path for the company to remain an institution for new play development that delivers excellent theater productions for years to come. It is a path anchored in community,” offers Executive Director Armando Huipe.
Kicking off the 2024 season is The Sandwich Ministry, a new play by Miranda Rose Hall, directed by Katie Lindsay. This production will provide 1,800 to 2,400 sandwiches over the course of its run, so Skylight is connecting with non-profits, like HousingWorks, to provide food for those in need within our local communities. Previews are May 25, 26, and 31, opening June 1 and running through July 7, 2024. Tickets go on sale April 19 at 12 noon.
Description: A small town. A once in a century storm. Three women gather to make sandwiches for neighbors who’ve been displaced from their homes by floods. As they contend with the damage of the storm, they learn what brings them together threatens to tear them apart. Is their friendship strong enough to make it through the night? Funding for this production is provided by Yale’s Binger Center for New Theatre.
Smile, Goddamnit, Smile: An American Allegory by Zola Dee, directed by Tyrone Davis makes its WORLD PREMIERE in Los Angeles at the Skylight Theatre. Previews are October 5, 6, and 11, opening October 12 and running through November 17, 2024.
Description:Inspired by W.E.B. DuBois’ thoughts on “double consciousness,” playwright Zola Dee’s incisive and provocative new play illustrates a portal into the Black female psyche that sheds new light on race and feminism in post-2020 America.
In an absurdly entertaining world of surrealism and minstrelsy, the play follows the turbulent relationship between the personification of a Black woman’s two inner voices, African and American. Having had a nightmare about receiving upsetting news from their Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben, African finds American writing a love letter to her unrequited love, America. When the two receive news about their aunt and uncle’s impending death, it becomes clear that the journey to see them at their deathbeds won’t happen without an epic fight.
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Hide & Hide by Roger Q. Mason makes its WORLD PREMIERE in May 2025 at the Skylight.
Description: Along the Golden Coast of California, two souls collide while chasing freedom. Set in the last days of disco, Billy, a queer rent-boy, is on the run from the Texas police; Constanza, a Filipina immigrant, has a visa that’s about to expire. Together, they enter a sham marriage to achieve their own American Dream. Hide & Hide is a Homeric Odyssey that disrupts and rebuilds The American Fantasy.
Skylight Theatre Company currently has a runaway hit in London’s West End at the Charing Cross Theatre. Developed and produced in Los Angeles by the Skylight in 2019, Bronco Billy – The Musical was the company’s first musical production. Skylight is recognized as a “powerhouse of new play development” by Dramatist Magazine and as “a leader in play development” by the L.A. Times. In just the last five years, three plays originating at Skylight have been performed Off Broadway and on Broadway, The Wrong Man, and Church & State (which had 65+ productions in 33 states), and Lavender Men (which received a staged reading at Circle in the Square). In 2015, Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea (a co-production with Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble) received the prestigious Steinberg/ATC New Play Citation. In 2019, Center Theatre Group remounted their multiple award-winning production of Rotterdam at the Kirk Douglas Theatre as part of Block Party. The production won the 2017 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Production, and awards for Writing and Lead Actress. It also received top honors at the 2018 Stage Raw Awards, winning Production of the Year and Leading Actress awards. More at www.skylighttheatre.org
Skylight Theatre Company is located at 1816 1/2 N. Vermont Ave, LA, 90027. For more information and ticketing: http://SkylightTix.org
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