The Center is hosting three new play readings by significant Los Angeles playwrights and an evening of specially commissioned dance pieces. Rehearsed, script-in-hand readings of plays not yet produced in Los Angeles will be held at 2pm on Saturday afternoons in Gallery A.

Reading dates are February 3, March 10, and April 14.
Admission is $5.

Get What You Need, a new work by award-winning playwright Jessica Goldberg. Ms Goldberg's work has been seen at The Mark Taper Forum's Taper TOO and Playwrights Horizons in New York.

JOAN: Tessa Auberjonois
EDGAR: Hamish Linklater
ARTHUR: Chris Messina
HESTER: Sandra Kinder

Directed by Nathan Birnbaum
Cast by Raul Clayton Staggs
Synopsis: The play follows a couple over 25 years, from 1979 to 2004. It opens with Joan and Edgar as young hippie parents who need to smoke a joint to cope with their meager finances. Get What You Need follows them as they struggle to remain true to their countercultural principles, while the New Age beckons and the tech revolution steams on. By the end of the play George W. Bush is president, the Atkins diet threatens their business, and Joan and Edgar drink not-great wine as they confront who they really are.

The series continues March 10 with Better Angels by L.A. playwright Wayne Liebman, and concludes April 14 with Worth by Corey Madden.

To cap the season, new dance works, commissioned by the Cultural Center from L.A. artists for the Art on the Waterfront 2007 festival, will be presented on the San Pedro promenade on the evening of May 12th.




For more information, please contact:

Angels Gate Cultural Center
3601 South Gaffey Street, San Pedro, California 90731
Phone: 310-519-0936, Fax: 310-519-8698