Now Playing This spring, Theatre Banshee brings to the stage Shakespeare's most delightful and disturbing comedy, The Merchant of Venice. In this tangled tale of friendship and romance, Antonio borrows money to help his friend and secures the loan with a pound of his own flesh as collateral. Will true love win out, or will the Shylock the Jew come, knife in hand, to claim his pound of flesh? Flagrant racism and anti-semitism mix uncomfortably with honor, friendship and love in a play that defies categorization. Funny, horrifying, charming and unsettling, Merchant's got it all. See why The Merchant of Venice has remained one of Shakespeare's most popular — and controversial — plays for more than four centuries. Click here for more information. Click here to download the PDF of the postcard, teeming with useful information. The Merchant of Venice runs through May 13. Post-Performance Discussions Join us for our performances on Saturday April 28 or May 5 and stay after the show for a conversation about the play with two very special guests plus members of the cast and crew of the production. Our guests will be David Kipen and Art Horowitz. Former NEA director of literature David Kipen has served as book critic for both the San Francisco Chronicle and, currently, the Madeleine Brand Show on KPCC. He is the author of The Schreiber Theory: A Radical Rewrite of American Film History, and founded Libros Schmibros, a lending library & used bookshop in Boyle Heights. Art Horowitz is chair and professor in the Theatre Department at Pomona College in Claremont. Art directs (he just completed directing a department production of Othello) and teaches classes in dramaturgy, theatre history, Shakespeare in Performance and Writing for Performance. His article, “Shylock after Auschwitz: The Merchant of Venice on the Post-Holocaust Stage—Subversion, Confrontation and Provocation,” originally published in the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory was then selected as representative of noteworthy Shakespearean scholarship and re-published in Shakespearean Criticism. These two august minds join members of the Banshee cast and audience to talk about the The Merchant of Venice and the myriad of literary, moral, religious, dramatic, and other issues that swirl about this play. Banshee will provide refreshments for what promises to be a thoroughly engaging conversation. Reserve tickets now: call 818.846.5323 or click here
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Banshee Nominated for Best Season Theatre Banshee is nominated for Best Season by the LA Stage Alliance for its lineup of War, The Field, The Crucible and The Walworth Farce. We're deeply honored to have been selected for having produced one of the best seasons of any theatre in Los Angeles. Banshee also congratulates company members Vivian Kerr, Ovation nominee for Featured Actress in a Play (The Crucible), and Brian Danner, recipient of an Ovation Honor for Fight Choreography (The Walworth Farce). Banshee Awarded Grant
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About The Banshee
Theatre Banshee is delighted to announce that we finally have our own theatre. The Gene Bua Theatre, our home for the last 12 years, is now The Banshee. Theatre Banshee will produce productions and rent The Banshee for visiting productions, classes and events. Gene Bua Acting for Life will continue to offer acting classes in theatre - visit them on the web or call 818.547.3810 The Banshee is located at 3435 W. Magnolia in the lovely Magnolia Park section of Burbank. We have ample safe free parking all around the theatre. Theatre Banshee is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission. We receive even more support from you, our valued audiences. |
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Theatre Banshee is delighted to announce that it has received funding from the lovely people at the LA County Arts Commissions through their grant program. This will provide additional funding to the company in 2011 and 2012. Thank you LA County Board of Supervisors and LA County Arts Commissioners.
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