KentwoodPlayers.org
Kentwood Players is a non-profit community theater organization in the Westchester neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
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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
Romantic Comedy by Bernard Slade
- Playing November 9 - December 15, 2007
Arrogant, self-centered, and sharp-tongued Jason Carmichael, a successful co-author of Broadway romantic comedies, is facing two momentous events. He's about to marry a society belle and his collaborator is retiring from the fray. Enter Phoebe Craddock, a mousy Vermont schoolteacher and budding playwright. Presto! Jason acquires a talented and adoring collaborator. But then things start getting really complicated. Their repartée remains sharp and witty as their unrequited interest in each other gathers energy during their many trials and tribulations, successes and set backs over the course of several years.
Holiday special for children
A Partridge in a Pear Tree by Lowell Swortzell
- December 1, 8 & 15, 2007
- Saturday afternoons at 2pm
A Partridge in a Pear Tree is a family-friendly play built on the popular holiday carol, telling the story of Simon, a charming bird seller who is nearly tricked into marrying Tib, a kind young woman whose nosy mother leads her astray in believing there is special meaning to receiving gifts from a young man on the 12 Days of Christmas. As the entire population of the town is drawn into the play and song, Simon realizes he is in love with Tib in spite of his future mother-in-law. All in good fun, he decides to turn the tables and catch Tib in her own game.
Coming attractions
- January 11 – February 16, 2008
- 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