The special benefit performance of A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters was a resounding success. Starring iconic actors (and long-time married couple) Katharine Ross and Sam Elliott, the fundraiser was sold out and standing room only. Katharine has appeared twice on our stage — in Rabbit Hole and Kimberly Akimbo — but what most people probably don’t know is that this performance of Love Letters was Sam’s stage debut! Trust me, ...
Continue Reading →Guest blogger Michael Kearns launched the first of his monthly blogs devoted to the year-long project of his researching and transforming himself physically and emotionally into Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, the protagonist of Doug Wright’s Pulitzer-winning play I Am My Own Wife, which we’ll be producing at Malibu Playhouse June-July 2014. Michael has written a number of books and memoirs about his working as a theater artist, and he plans ...
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Last night, celebrities and theater-lovers walked the red carpet to celebrate the sold-out opening night of Malibu Stage Company’s final production, Blood Knot by Athol Fugard. Directed by Academy Award winning actor Lou Gossett, Jr., and produced by outgoing artistic director, Richard Johnson and Diane Peterson, the production stars A Martinez and Oscar Best, who give impassioned performances in Fugard’s powerful condemnation of aparteid, as depicted by two brothers, one black, ...