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Revision as of 07:15, 18 December 2007
Kentwood Players is a non-profit community theater organization in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
Contents
History
Kentwood Players got its start (and its name) when members of the PTA at Kentwood Elementary School in Westchester, having presented a play at the school, decided to keep on presenting plays. So in 1950 they founded a community theater organization, which has been going strong ever since.
The young organization went through a series of home stages—a barn, a pump house, and a restaurant—until 1960, when the players bought an old warehouse and transformed it into a 112-seat proscenium-stage theater, the Westchester Playhouse.
Westchester Playhouse
- 8301 Hindry Ave
- Los Angeles, CA 90045
Box office
The reservation number is (310) 645-5156
- Hours: 4-7pm Tuesdays – Saturdays
- Reservations are recommended
Productions
Kentwood Players typically presents six shows per year in January-February, March-April, May-June, July-August, September-October, and November-December time slots for fixed runs of six weekends.
Each show plays Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 2pm.
Current production
- January 11 – February 16, 2008
Proof is a highly acclaimed drama that has earned a remarkable number of awards since its Broadway opening in 2001 including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony award for Best Play, the Drama Desk award for Outstanding Play, as well as New York Drama Critics Best American Play.
It is a wonderfully compassionate and knowing play about a young woman who, on the death of her father, must sort out and deal with a number of long denied feelings and fears. Her father was a brilliant mathematician who crossed the thin line from genius to insanity several years earlier, leaving his daughter as his sole care giver for all her adult life. Now she must adjust not only to his death, but come to grips with her fear that his mathematical genius, which she has inherited, comes with a dreadful price and that she may be fated to the same mental degeneration and insanity as her father. In a dazzling series of scenes, David Auburn gradually reveals and embellishes this situation, which is exacerbated by the presence of the girl’s older sister, and a former student of her father's who she finds attractive, but who may only be out to further his own career.
Coming attractions
- music by Jule Styne
- lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
- book by Arthur Laurents
- March 14 – April 19, 2008
A Murder is Announced by Leslie Darbon adapted from Agatha Christie’s novel
- May 16 – June 21, 2008
The Lion in Winter by James Goldman
- July 11– August 16, 2008
