WORLD PREMIERE!
LA Theatre Works presents RFK: The Journey to Justice is a commission led by the University of Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and co-commissioned by the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland, Stanford Lively Arts at Stanford University, and the Modlin Center for the Arts at the University of Richmond.
The 60's in America was a decade of heroes, violence, love, death, progress, and disappointment. What began in 1960 as a decade of hope with the election of John F. Kennedy, ended with America embroiled in an impossible war, her streets filled with riots, and the history changing loss of three important figures. It is a decade often studied, debated, celebrated, and mourned - even a half-century later. And now, as those who lived, governed, and shepherded change during the 60's are passing, L.A. Theater Works presents a major new docudrama focused on Robert Kennedy's personal and political journey.
In June 1968, the assassination of senator and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy stunned the world. Kennedy's death, coming so shortly after the assassination of his colleague Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and only five years after the death of Kennedy's older brother John, left the nation -- regardless of political convictions -- uncertain of the future during the most tumultuous time in American history since the Civil War.
RFK: The Journey to Justice chronicles his transformation from discomfort with and indifference towards the Civil Rights Movement to a champion and crusader. His story provides a compelling and dramatic illumination of this crucial decade, enabling a new generation to hear the words, feel the tension, and explore the issues that still resonate today.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009, at 6:00 pm
This presentation will outline the creation process for III, a play that explores the fifteen-year relationship (1927-1943) between the photographer George Platt Lynes, the writer Glenway Wescott, and the MoMA curator and publisher, Monroe Wheeler. [ more ]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010, at 7:30 pm
Thursday, January 28, 2010, at 7:30 pm
Friday, January 29, 2010, at 7:30 pm
In fair Verona, two long-feuding families tend a tenuous truce. As tensions simmer, Romeo Montague's thoughts turn from the scornful Rosaline to the lovely young Juliet Capulet, daughter of his father's enemy. [ more ]
Thursday, February 11, 2010, at 7:00 pm
Friday, February 12, 2010, at 7:00 pm
Saturday, February 13, 2010, at 7:30 pm
On May 17, 1968, nine men and women entered the Selective Service Offices in Catonsville, Maryland, removed several hundred draft records, and burned them with homemade napalm in protest against the war in Vietnam. "GO!... an impassioned argument for following the dictates of one's conscience." - LA Weekly [ more ]
The Ticket Office will be closed Thanksgiving week, Monday, November 23 through Sunday, November 29. It will reopen on Monday, November 30 at 12 pm. Ticket purchases are still available at any time online. [ more ]
Trio's and the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center have created a fantastic package that includes dinner at Trio's and tickets to the Stefon Harris & Blackout or Dianne Reeves performances. [ more ]
