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ALAP Member Production

From: 9/13/2008

To: 9/14/2008

"Miss Vulcan 1939" will be produced again this summer by Red Mountain Theatre in Birmingham, Alabama.  Writer Noelle Donfeld (lyrics) and others will be adding more fun to this rollicking, audience participation show where beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

ALAP Member Reading: C.J. Verburg's The True Adventures of Hansel and Gretel Dorrk

5/17/2008

Member C J VER BURG's new play, THE TRUE ADVENTURES OF HANSEL AND GRETEL DORRK will have a full concert reading at the Academy for New Musical Theatre, 5628 Vineland, (near Burbank) North Hollywood (818) 506-8500  on Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 12 noon.  Admission is free, feedback session to follow.  All members are invited and especially invited to bring 'tweens'.   This is aimed for Jr. High audiences, but with a lot of adult humor as well.   A stellar cast from La Paz Jr. High School in Mission Viejo is directed by Dawn Doherty.   

ALAP Member Production: Jan O'Connor's Crustacean Island

From: 5/7/2008

To: 5/15/2008

The 13th Street Repertory Company in New York City selected Jan O'Connor's comedy Crustacean Island as one of 7 short plays to be produced in the new Quickies! production running May 7, 8, 14, 15, at 8:30pm.

ALAP Member Discount: AOPW Playwright Workshop Starts Again!

From: 5/1/2008

To: 6/26/2008

Published, award-winning playwright, Lisa Soland, will once again be heading up one of LA's premiere playwright workshops -- The All Original Playwright Workshop.

The eight week workshop will take place on Thursday nights from 7 to 10:45 pm, beginning May 1, and ending with a performance of the original work, June 26.  (We will be skipping May 15.)  The cost is $300 and will be limited to 10 participants.  ALAP members new to the workshop, will receive a 10% discount.  Each participant's completed play will be considered for the All Original Playwright Workshop Fellowship Award which consists of a cash stipend and a public staged reading of their work.  Any monologues that are submitted and workshopped during this time, will be considered for publication in All Original Publishing's "Cutting Edge Monologues, Vol. I."

ALAP members, Arthur M. Jolly ("Past Curfew") and Stephanie Hutchinson ("Four, 10-Minute Comedies"), were recent winners of the coveted AOPW Fellowship Award, and their staged readings were more than successful, produced on March 29, 2008.  Ms. Hutchinson's 10-Minute play, "Model Home," which was developed in the AOPW workshop, will soon be released in Smith & Kraus' anthology, "Best 10-Minute plays of 2007."

Ms. Soland has fourteen publications, including her new play WAITING, which has just been released by Samuel French, Inc.  She is also the Artistic Director for Theatre Encino and produces a monthly playreading series honoring playwrights and their new works.  For more information, including workshop testimonies, visit the website at www.LisaSoland.com or call (818) 973-2262.  Online workshops are now available for those who live outside of the Southern California area.

ALAP Member Production: Felix Racelis' House of Sticks

From: 4/30/2008

To: 5/9/2008

"House of Sticks," a short play by Felix Racelis, is one of the offerings in OFF THE WALL, an evening of short plays produced by FirstStage and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.  In the play, a young homeless shelter director escorts a major donor on a tour to seal the deal on a major gift, until a homeless client throws a wrench into her plans.

April 30, May 2, May 7 and May 9, all at 8pm. 

FirstStage at the Hollywood Court Theatre

6817 Franklin Ave. (at Highland)

Tickets: $10

Reservations & info: (323) 850-6271

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Jon Dorf's Milk and Cookies premieres!

From: 4/18/2008

To: 5/24/2008

A dead bank teller. A housewife on the run.  Milk on the move.  All signs point to Montana.  Yes, occasionally I find time to write, so don't miss the world premiere of my twisted little comedy, Milk and Cookies.

What do you do when your children poison the cookies they gave to the teller at the bank’s drive-through window?  If you’re Margaret Nancy Reagan Ballmoth, you run away—to Montana.  With the help of milk conspiracy theorist Bruce, will she find the mythical Rufus and get a new identity?  What will happen to her allegedly killer kids?  And what if the milk conspiracy turns out to be reality…?  With a carton of two percent gone missing, payback could be a &@#@!

Performances are Friday and Saturday nights at 8 PM from April 18-May 24 at the Sidewalk Studio Theatre, 4150 Riverside Drive, Toluca Lake (more or less Burbank, minutes from Warner Bros. studios).  Tickets are $20.  For reservations, call 818-558-5702 or visit http://www.sidewalkstudiotheatre.com/.

Hope to see you at the show!

Jon Dorf, ALAP Co-Chair

ALAP Member Production & Ticket Discount! Richard Martin Hirsch's The Concept of Remainders

From: 4/11/2008

To: 5/31/2008

My new comedy, THE CONCEPT OF REMAINDERS, ( a "GO" from LA Weekly) has had its World Premiere run extended at the Chandler Studio Theatre in North Hollywood thru May 31.

The Production Company has agreed to extend a special discount to ALAP members, with a limited amount of tickets now available at 1/2 off or $11.00.  

To order tickets at the special discount, please read the following instructions: 

Go to the website (www.theprodco.com) and click on the GET TICKETS graphic or click on: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/30646

Choose a date between May 16th and May 25th.   When the next window opens, there will be  a small text window labeled "Discount Code".   Enter:   ALAP   Then click on "Show Additional Prices".   Now an 'ALAP Discount' price of $11. is avaiable while supplies last.  

Thanks for your support!  Hope to see you there!

Richard Martin Hirsch