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Local Actor Shines at ICT

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

When Artistic Director/Producer, caryn desai announced that International City Theatre would be opening its 2012 season with the multi-Tony Award-winning “God of Carnage,” they received thousands of submissions from actors across the country who wanted a chance to audition for one of four enticing roles. One can imagine the difficulty in casting this play with […]

Spiderman is George Takei – Not Peter Parker!

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

This was just too funny a video not to share with the ICT family. We are sure that you have heard about the new Spiderman musical ( actual name Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark) and the terrible issues that it has dealt with in trying to bring the production to creation. We don’t want to […]

Facing East – From the Stage to the Screen

Friday, April 1st, 2011

Back in 2009, we here at International City Theatre brought to the stage the Los Angeles premiere of Facing East, a captivating play about a Mormon couple struggling with their faith after the suicide of their gay son. The response from the audience was tremendous and we are so excited to hear that a film […]

Women’s Voices in Theatre – Can You Hear Them?

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

A recent study from the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Intiative in collaboration with LA Stage Alliance revealed that only one in five plays in Los Angeles theatres is written by a woman. With a 20% average, this percentage is better than the national average of 17% but neither are numbers that would make anyone feel […]

Seeing a Play Tonight? Where? The Pentagon of course!

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

Plays and musicals are not performed in just theaters and other performing arts venues. They are performed in classrooms, VFW halls, restaurants and churches. All you need is an audience to watch. However, The Tricycle Theater will perform at what might be the most unexpected, but also most highly protected venue in the world. With […]

Is It Still Live Theatre if Taped for Streaming?

Friday, December 10th, 2010

The internet and its abundance of technologies continues to redefine how we live our lives, especially our consumer behavior. One such technology is video streaming. Companies like Netflix have single-handedly brought video rental giants like Blockbuster and Hollywood Videos to their knees because of this easily affordable and accessible technology. Today, you can play a […]

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