Actors for “Sanctuary City”, Kanoa Goo, Ana Nicolle Chavez and Miles Fowler.
Playhouse executive Danny Feldman advises that The Playhouse will pause through the rest of the fall to prepare for an ambitious project, the celebration of the late, iconic composer, Stephen Sondheim, beginning in January 2023. “Sanctuary City” is at the Playhouse through Oct. The insightful plot has some surprising twists, and the acting is truly superb. This work is not a “feel-good” drama, but I loved it. The play chronicles the lives of two young “Dreamers,” bright high school students in Newark, N.J., who are coping with a miserable home life complicated by the constant fear of deportation. 18 for the Los Angeles premiere of “Sanctuary City,” a one-act play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Martyna Majok (“Cost of Living”). The Playhouse had a packed house on Sept. More opera stalwarts on the scene were Nanette and Keith Leonard, Eva and Marc Stern, Christopher Koelsch, Alicia and Ed Clark, Mindy and Eugene Stein, Ellen Strauss, Alyce Williamson, Kathleen and Jerrald Eberhardt, Terri and Jerry Kohl, Suzanna Guzman, Maria Antonia Horne, Laney Techentin, Mimi and Warren Techentin, Allan Edmiston, Patrick Harrigan, Kristan and Philip Swan, Rachel Moore and Robert Ryan, Mirna and Carlos Jimenez and Rupert Hemmings. Carol Henry, LAO’s Executive Committee chair, surveyed the crowd and said, “It’s nice to see people in black-tie and long gowns again – just like the old days.” The opera’s ultramodern theme set the tone for the ball motif with pink and red floral arrangements on streamlined glass-topped tables. (Photo by Steve Cohn)Įlizabeth Segerstrom chaired the post-performance Opera Ball, staged in a transparent tent on the Music Center’s Plaza that drew nearly 400 guests and raised $1.3 million. The scenario – derived from a Sir Walter Scott 1819 novel – is unchanged: a forced marriage erupting into murder and madness, all punctuated by the familiar trills, mordents and cadenzas.
(Photo by Photo by Louis Raynor/ Steve Cohn Photography)Ĭonducted by Lina Gonzalez-Granados, making her debut as resident conductor, the production featured several extraordinary artists, many of whom are alumni of LAO’s Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artists Program.ĭirector Simon Stone fast-forwarded the opera’s gloom and doom setting in the hills of Scotland to an American rust-belt town crammed with tattooed, chain-smokers toting cell phones. Arturo Chacon Cruz, star of “Lucia Di Lammermoor” and Carol Henry.
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