There's no escape from "KLUB", the triple threat (Los Angeles Times "Critic's Choice", LA Weekly "Theater Pick", and Back Stage West "Critic's Pick") hit comedy currently at The Actors' Gang through Saturday. After a brief hiatus, "KLUB" will re-open on June 19, running through July 19 at The Gang's Culver City home in the Ivy Substation.
KLUB is the existential comedy in which 10 highly dysfunctional performers must audition with their life stories to escape from a play in which they are trapped. Call it "
A Chorus Line" in reverse.
"Every year we donate our theater space to Culver City High School's Academy of Visual and Performing Arts so the students can put on a week-long series of public performances," explains Actors' Gang managing director Greg Reiner. "KLUB will take a brief break so we can honor our commitment to the community."
Variety called KLUB, "caustically brilliant [and] darkly hilarious, an acid valentine to the theater world that sizzles with anarchic glee."
The LA Weekly said, "brilliant...furnishes luminous commentary on the obsessive narcissism that impels, and ultimately imprisons, so many performers - onstage and elsewhere."
Agreed the Los Angeles Times, "The Actors' Gang revives Mitch Watson's demented satire with vampish glee and tasteless overstatement... a near-ideal pairing of style and substance."
Performances of KLUB take place Thursdays and Fridays 8 pm and Saturdays at 8 pm & 10:30pm, June 19 through July 19. Tickets on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm are $25.00; tickets on Saturdays at 10:30 pm are $15.00; all Thursday evening performances are Pay-What-You-Can.
The Actors' Gang is located in the Ivy Substation at 9070 Venice Blvd. (near the intersection of Culver and Venice Blvds.) in Culver City. Two hours free parking is available throughout downtown Culver City; the Ince Parking Lot (corner of Culver and Ince) is directly across the street from the theater. In addition, several restaurants (Italian, French, Thai, Japanese, and more) are only a few blocks' walk from The Actors' Gang and offer a variety of dining options before and after the theater. The Ivy Substation is air-conditioned and wheelchair accessible. For reservations and information, call The Actors' Gang Box Office at 310-838-GANG (310-838-4264) or go to www.theactorsgang.com.
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