ON STAGE AT WEST
All performances are held at the Broadway Playhouse, a 62 seat intimate blackbox theatre located at 526 Broadway in Santa Cruz (inside the Santa Cruz Art League). Because of our limited seating capacity, advance tickets are strongly recommended. Please plan accordingly as there is no latecomer seating at this facility.
Broadway Playhouse - 526 Broadway in Santa Cruz
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Visiting Artists at the Broadway Playhouse
FORTITUDE & GENTLENESS
RENOWNED THEATER COMPANY, JUMP RHYTHM'S SANTA CRUZ DEBUT OF FORTITUDE AND GENTLENESS
Written by Emmy® Award-winning artist Billy Siegenfeld, and co-starring Jordan Batta, Fort”itude and Gentleness” performances are full of rhythm, comedy, dance, and connection. Audiences will witness a rehearsal between two actors that turns into explosions of angst, politics, literature, motherhood, forgiveness, and love—with snatches of song, a handful of dances, rants about life, and impassioned appeals to both the moon and Jane Austen. All performances are based on Siegenfeld's concepts of the Standing Down Straight® method and the Jump Rhythm® technique, a vocally accompanied rhythm-driven approach to singing and dancing.
Performances: Friday, October 24 at 7:00 PM
Saturday, October 25, at 7:00 PM
Sunday, October 26 at 3:00 PM.
Cost: $30 General Admission / $25 Student & Seniors More Information/Questions: jumprhythm.org
STANDING DOWN STRAIGHT; a Workshop with JumpRhythm
A SPECIAL TECHNIQUE WORKSHOP WITH RENOWNED THEATER COMPANY, JUMP RHYTHM
Jump Rhythm® is a jazz-rhythm-, funk-rhythm-, and hip-hop-rhythm-driven, scat-sung approach to teaching acting, moving, and singing. Its goal is to help people who love to do any of these art forms turn their bodies and voices into percussively syncopated musical instruments..
Join us in exploring the Standing Down Straight® Technique — a method of voice-and-movement training that helps us do the tasks of everyday living without causing strain or injury to the body. How? By guiding us to use life’s most effective and cost-free aid to healing and strengthening the body: gravity-directed relaxation.
SDS® explains how gravity works with the human skeleton, in fact, how it is designed to use gravity to ground our bodies. We use less muscular effort when working or playing—whether at home, on the job, on the athletic field, or onstage. SDS® is a movement system made for truly every body.
Workshop Date: Saturday, October 25, from 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Cost: $40 Limited Availability & Ages: Maximum 20 students who are 17 + years More Information/Questions: jumprhythm.org
IMPROV PLAYHOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO
RETURNING TO SANTA CRUZ with “THE NAKED STAGE”
The Improv Playhouse of San Francisco produces the highest quality improvisational theater in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their shows highlight the premier improvisers in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Watch and be amazed as they perform “The Naked Stag” wherein they improvise a 3 Act play before your very eyes.
Performance: Saturday, November 1 at 8:00 PM Cost: $25
LUNATIC
WEST GUEST ARTIST ELINA KAPLUN’S SANTA CRUZ DEBUT
“Lunatic” is a delightful mix of poetry, music and physical theatre. Absurdity and surreality, visions and images, despair and hope, sadness and happiness all come together in this performance as in our life. "Lunatic" is based on Russian poetry of the early 20th century: Daniil Harms, Alexander Vvedensky, Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Sasha Tchorny and Alexander Vertinsky. his poetry is absolutely present-days and reflects our lives perfectly: search of destiny, the pain of not fitting in society, the desire to connect with the universe, the fear of being honest, and the courage to be ourselves. Hundred years gap, half planet distance, different languages do not matter as we all go through the same things no matter when, where and how. Lunatic comes in a 45 minute immersive experience mixed with electronic music, shade theater and dance.
Elina Kaplun is a multitalented artist and Moscow-trained actor (Institute of Russian Theatre), certified by The Clown School Los Angeles. Theatre is her first love: she fuses Stanislavsky’s tradition and Meyerhold’s biomechanics with dance, poetry, and contemporary immersive performance, turning every medium into a vivid, emotionally resonant story. Onstage she plays with form and meaning, drawing on the eye of an actor, director, and visual artist.
Performances: Saturday, November 8 at 7:00 PM
Sunday, November 9 at 2:00 PM
Cost: $15 Advance / $ 18 at the Door