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The Relativity Series: Dr. Carrie Bearden Interview for Proof Jan 12, 2021

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Listen to clinical psychologist Dr. Carrie Bearden talk about Proof in an interview from 2010.

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The Relativity Series: Proof (Part 2) Jan 12, 2021

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An enigmatic young woman. A manipulative sister. Their brilliant father. An unexpected suitor. One life-altering question. The search for the truth behind a mysterious mathematical proof is the perplexing problem in David Auburn’s dynamic play. Proof won both a Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Proof is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.

Directed by Jenny Sullivan

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Anne Heche as Catherine

Jeremy Sisto as Hal

Robert Foxworth as Robert

Kaitlin Hopkins as Claire

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The Relativity Series: Proof (Part 1) Jan 12, 2021

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An enigmatic young woman. A manipulative sister. Their brilliant father. An unexpected suitor. One life-altering question. The search for the truth behind a mysterious mathematical proof is the perplexing problem in David Auburn’s dynamic play. Proof won both a Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Proof is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.

Directed by Jenny Sullivan

Anne Heche as Catherine

Jeremy Sisto as Hal

Robert Foxworth as Robert

Kaitlin Hopkins as Claire

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The Relativity Series Bonus Episode: Interview with Robert John Russell for End Days Sep 25, 2020

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Listen to our conversation about End Days with Robert John Russell, founder and Director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.

This piece is part of LATW's Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.

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The Relativity Series: End Days (Part 2) Sep 25, 2020

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In Deborah Zoe Laufer’s End Days, a suburban family is undergoing a spiritual crisis following the September 11th attacks. Sylvia Stein has turned to Christianity to save her disaffected husband Arthur and her rebellious teenage daughter Rachel. And as Sylvia races around preparing for the Rapture, Rachel is learning that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in her philosophy.

End Days is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.

Directed by Michael Hackett;

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg;

Josh Clark as Jesus/Stephen Hawking;

Shannon Cochran as Sylvia Stein;

Dane DeHaan as Nelson Steinberg;

Arye Gross as Arthur Stein;

Kenneth Houston as the Bully;

Kate Rylie as Rachel Stein

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The Relativity Series: End Days (Part 1) Sep 25, 2020

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Directed by Michael Hackett;

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg;

Josh Clark as Jesus/Stephen Hawking;

Shannon Cochran as Sylvia Stein;

Dane DeHaan as Nelson Steinberg;

Arye Gross as Arthur Stein;

Kenneth Houston as the Bully;

Kate Rylie as Rachel Stein

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Of One Blood Sep 15, 2020

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David Schwimmer stars in Andrew White’s poignant and disturbing play about the infamous murder of three civil rights workers―James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner―in Mississippi in 1964. Originally produced by the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago.

Directed by Andrew White

Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg

Lee Arenberg as Deputy Sheriff Cecil Price/Governor Johnson/Mr. Schwerner

John Cothran, Jr. as Mr. Cole/Bob Moses/Coroner

Judyann Elder as Mrs. Chaney/Mrs. Cole

Arye Gross as Andrew Goodman

Valerie Landsburg as Rita Schwerner/Girl in CORE Training

Macon McCalman as Sam Bowers

Bruce Norris as Bobby Buford/Reporter #1/FBI Officer

David Schwimmer as Michael Schwerner

Joey Slotnick as Alton Wayne Roberts/Reporter #2/Resident #2

Brian Wesley Thomas as James Chaney

Renée Victor as Mrs. Goodman/Mrs. Herring/Reporter #3/Resident #1/Woman

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Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? (Part 2) Aug 28, 2020

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The threat of a "radical leftist agenda" is nothing new in American politics; in the McCarthy-era 1950s, the House Un-American Activities Committee began investigating the communist influence in the entertainment industry.

Based on the hearings' original transcripts, playwright Eric Bentley and a distinguished cast bring to life one of America's most unsavory chapters - in a docudrama that is still uncomfortably relevant today.

"Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?" features Edward Asner, Bonnie Bedelia, Richard Dreyfuss, Hector Elizondo, Harry Hamlin, James Earl Jones, James Whitmore and Michael York leading an all-star cast. A co-production with the BBC.

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Are You Now or Have You Ever Been? (Part 1) Aug 28, 2020

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The Relativity Series: Fake (Part 2) Jul 15, 2020

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Oscar-winning and Tony-nominated writer and director Eric Simonson explores the most famous archeological hoax in history. Alternating between 1914 and 1953, journalists and scientists set out to uncover who planted the Piltdown Man skull. Everyone’s a suspect, including legendary Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Originally produced at Steppenwolf Theatre 2009 with Martha Lavey as Artistic Director.

Fake is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.

Directed by Eric Simonson

Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg

Kate Arrington as Rebecca/Katarina

Coburn Goss as Chardin/Doug Arnt

Francis Guinan as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle/Jonathan Cole

Alan Wilder as Arthur Woodward/Paul Moody

Larry Yando as Charles Dawson/Henry Billings

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