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Arcadia

written by Sir Tom Stoppard, 1937- (1993); directed by John Rubinstein, 1946-; performed by Kate Burton, 1957-, Mark Capri, 1951-, Jennifer Dundas Lowe, 1971-, Gregory Itzin, 1948-, David Manis, 1959-, Christopher Neame, 1947-, Peter Paige, 1969-, Darren Richardson, Kate Steele, Serena Scott Thomas, 1961- and Douglas Weston (Los Angeles, CA: L.A. Theatre Works, 2008, originally published 1993), 2 hours 47 mins

Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia merges science with human concerns and ideals, examining the universe’s influence in our everyday lives and ultimate fates through relationship between past and present, order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge. Set in an English country house in the year 1809-1812 and 1989, the...

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The Graduate

written by Charles Richard Webb, 1939- (1963); directed by John Rubinstein, 1946-; performed by Bruce Davison, 1946-, John Getz, 1946-, Jamison Jones, Devon Sorvari, Linda Purl, 1955-, Matthew Rhys, 1974- and Kathleen Turner, 1954- (Los Angeles, CA: L.A. Theatre Works, 2010, originally published 2010), 1 hour 48 mins, 108 page(s)

An American classic adapted for the stage, starring Kathleen Turner as Mrs. Robinson and Matthew Rhys as Benjamin Braddock. A fresh-faced college grad returns home, diploma in hand, to seek an answer to that age old question: “Now what?” Lacking any clear career path, he falls prey to the original “cougar”...

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Hay Fever

written by Sir Noël Coward, 1899-1973 (1925); directed by John Rubinstein, 1946-; performed by Jeffrey Jones, 1946-, Tate Donovan, 1963-, Arabella Field, 1965-, Joy Gregory, Lynne Marta, 1948-, Carolyn Seymour, 1947-, Eric Stoltz, 1961-, Simon Templeman and Serena Scott Thomas, 1961- (Los Angeles, CA: L.A. Theatre Works, 2001, originally published 1927), 1 hour 31 mins

A country house weekend goes haywire when the guests and their hosts play a game of romantic musical chairs. A most delightful madcap comedy.

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Lost in Yonkers

written by Neil Simon, 1927-2018 (1991); directed by John Rubinstein, 1946-; performed by Ben Diskin, 1982-, Kenneth Schmidt, 1987-, Arye Gross, Roxanne Hart, Barbara Bain, 1931-, Dan Castellaneta, 1957- and Gia Carides, 1964- (Los Angeles, CA: L.A. Theatre Works, 2002, originally published 1991), 1 hour 56 mins

Set in Yonkers, New York in 1942, two boys, aged 13 and 16, must spend one year with their austere and demanding grandmother. While the war rages in Europe, Jay and Arty learn the ropes from Uncle Louie and assorted relatives, all peculiar characters.

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Monticello

(2000); directed by John Rubinstein, 1946-; composed by Glenn Paxton; performed by Annette Daniels, 1961-2004, Shana Blake Hill, Cynthia Jansen, Christopher Schuman, Haqumai Sharpe and Michael Paul Smith (Los Angeles, CA: L.A. Theatre Works, 2009, originally published 2000), 1 hour 44 mins

A timely and hauntingly beautiful new opera with libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winner Leroy Aarons and score by composer Glenn Paxton. Scandal erupts in the White House - and in the national press - when Thomas Jefferson’s longtime love affair with his slave mistress Sally Hemings is revealed.

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RFK: The Journey to Justice

written by Murray Horwitz, 1949- and Jonathan Estrin, fl. 1973; directed by John Rubinstein, 1946-; performed by Michael Leydon Campbell, Philip Casnoff, 1949-, Henry Clarke, Kyle Colerider-Krugh, Kevin Daniels, 1976-, Ross Hellwig, Thomas Vincent Kelly, Sheilynn Wactor and John Wesley (L.A. Theatre Works, 2010, originally published 2010), 2 hours 11 mins, 131 page(s)

A behind-the-scenes story of a high-stakes political drama that dared the country and its citizens to look into the mirror -- and change. Robert Kennedy had an early mistrust of Dr. Martin Luther King and his tactics, but became one of the civil rights movement’s greatest champions. Through Kennedy’s transfo...

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Sight Unseen

written by Donald Margulies, 1954- (1992); directed by John Rubinstein, 1946-; performed by Adam Arkin, 1956-, Jordan Baker, Anna Gunn and Randy Ogelsby (Los Angeles, CA: L.A. Theatre Works, 1992, originally published 1992), 1 hour 53 mins

Jonathan Waxman is the artist as superstar, plunged into the exorbitant hype of the American art world where a publicist is as necessary as a brush and canvas. Just before his works are celebrated at an exhibition in London, Jonathan journeys to the village where his former lover, Patricia, lives with her British...

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Top Girls

written by Caryl Churchill, 1938- (1982); directed by John Rubinstein, 1946-; produced by Susan Loewenberg; performed by Amy Brenneman, 1964-, Megan Austin Oberle, Kirsten Potter, Samantha Robson, 1966-, Carolyn Seymour, 1947-, Kate Steele, Concetta Tomei, 1945- and Missy Yager (Los Angeles, CA: L.A. Theatre Works, 2006), 1 hour 39 mins

In this play by Caryl Churchill, it's the middle of the high-flying, go-getting 80's in Maggie Thatcher's England and Marlene finally has something to celebrate—she's just been made Managing Director of Top Girls Employment Agency. But with no friends to speak of, and a past she'd just as soon forget, the guests...

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Top Secret - The Battle for the Pentagon Papers

written by Leroy F. Aarons, 1933-2004 and Geoffrey Cowan, 1942- (1991); directed by John Rubinstein, 1946-; produced by Susan Loewenberg; performed by Diane Adair, Bo Foxworth, John Getz, 1946-, James Gleason, 1882-1959, Gregory Harrison, 1950-, John Heard, 1938-, Raphael Sbarge, 1964-, Russell Soder, Susan Sullivan, 1942-, Peter Van Norden, Tom Virtue, 1957- and Geoffrey Wade (Los Angeles, CA: L.A. Theatre Works, 2008), 2 hours 20 mins

Geoffrey Cowan and Leroy Aarons' timely docudrama about The Washington Post's decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, a top secret study documenting U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The subsequent trial tested the parameters of the First Amendment, pitting the public's right to know against the government's desire fo...

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Top Secret: The Battle For the Pentagon Papers

written by Leroy F. Aarons, 1933-2004 and Geoffrey Cowan, 1942- (1991); directed by John Rubinstein, 1946-; performed by John Heard, 1938-, Bo Foxworth, John Getz, 1946-, James Gleason, 1882-1959, Gregory Harrison, 1950-, Raphael Sbarge, 1964-, Russell Soder, Susan Sullivan, 1942-, Peter Van Norden, Tom Virtue, 1957- and Geoffrey Wade (Los Angeles, CA: L.A. Theatre Works, 1999, originally published 1999), 1 hour 51 mins

A timely docudrama about The Washington Post’s decision to publish the Pentagon Papers, a top secret study documenting U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The subsequent trial tested the parameters of the First Amendment, pitting the public’s right to know against the government’s desire for secrecy.

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