"I’m pleased to have encountered a night
in which I didn’t know what to expect,
and was, every time, genuinely surprised
and always entertained..."
-L.A. Splash
February's Featured Performer: The
Roman Catholic Mime Collective
A Foolish favorite for
years! Right on the corner of Melrose & Heliotrope! Pizza * Subs * Calzones * Wraps * Salads * Beer
* Wine * and more!
<<-----Paul himself, making a guest appearance on our stage to rapturous
applause from the Sacred Fools audience!
"I’m pleased to have encountered a night
in which I didn’t know what to expect,
and was, every time, genuinely surprised
and always entertained..."
-L.A. Splash
February's Featured Performer: The
Roman Catholic Mime Collective
NEW YEAR'S EVE!
Eight brand-new plays are
created in just 24 hours!
WEST COAST PREMIERE! In
a suburban subdivision with identical houses, parents find their
teenagers addicted to an online horror video game. The game
setting? A subdivision with identical houses. The goal? Smash
through an army of zombies to escape the neighborhood for good.
But as the line blurs between virtual and reality, both parents
and players realize that fear has a life of its own!
adapted by Michael
Holmes
● directed by Scott Leggett
from the screenplay
by Richard Elfman & Matthew Bright, et al.
WORLD
PREMIERE! Adapted from one of the greatest
midnight movies of all time! A surreal and bawdy journey to the
Sixth Dimension, featuring the music of the Mystic Knights of the
Oingo Boingo!
• Land of the Tigers
has been nominated for two Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards - Featured
Performance and Costume Design - and has won a special award for Makeup Design!
[ Details ]
• Land of the Tigers'
Hugo Armstrong has won the Ovation Award for Featured
Actor! Also, Vanessa Claire Smith and Jake Broder have won Best
Actress and Best Actor for their performances in the Geffen Playhouse production
of Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara
- roles they originated at Sacred Fools. Congratulations to Hugo, Jake and
Vanessa!
[
Awards ]
• Veteran L.A. theater critic Steven Leigh Morris has named Sacred Fools
among his Best Theater Companies of the Decade, and Hamlet Shut Up
among the Best Theater of 2009!
[ Read the Articles -
Best of the '00s /
Best of 2009 ]
• Sacred Fools has been named among the "Best and Brightest" in L.A.
Theater by Digital City! [ Read the Article! ]
• Land of the Tigers
has been nominated for FOUR Ovation Awards - Playwriting, Featured
Actor, Costume Design and Sound Design! [ More Details ]
• Once again, please
vote for Sacred Fools as "Best Theatre Group" on the myfoxla HOTList
and help us win for the third year running! Deadline to vote is November
6; results will be announced on Tuesday, Nov. 17.
[ Vote Here! ]
• The L.A. Weekly's Steven Leigh Morris praises our upcoming 13th Season
on The Playgoer blog! He writes, "If you're looking for something
a little more adventurous on L.A. stages, you need – as usual – to turn
to the smaller players. Here's the upcoming 13th season from one of the
funkier survivors of the economic downturn, Sacred Fools Theatre
Company, situated in East Hollywood." [
Read the Article. ]
• Legendary cult director Richard Elfman (Forbidden Zone, Shrunken Heads), formerly of the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo,
crashed our annual Thursty Awards at Sacred
Fools on Saturday night - and NBC L.A. reported on it! Sacred
Fools will be producing a
theatrical adaptation of Forbidden Zone in May of 2010. [ Details... ]
The Fools Invasion
begins at 1:44!
• Sacred Fools is pleased to announce our Mainstage offerings for
our 13th Season (Septemberl 2009 - June 2010), a season of World
Premiere and West Coast Premiere plays! [ Details... ]
• Theater critic David C. Nichols of the L.A. Times and the Los Angeles
Drama Critics Circle has kindly allowed us to post the speech he made
upon presenting Sacred Fools with the Polly Warfield Award. [
Read the Speech ]
• Sacred Fools founder John Sylvain has been interviewed by Live 2.0! [
Read the Interview ]
• The L.A.
Drama Critics Circle has awarded Sacred Fools the Polly Warfield Award
for an Excellent Season in a Small to Mid-Sized Theater! This
award comes with a $500 cash prize, courtesy of the Nederlander
Organization. Also, Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara
has been nominated for four L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards! [
See the full list of nominees ]
• Louis &
Keely of Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara
(aka Jake Broder and Sacred Fools company member Vanessa Claire Smith)
will be hosting the 30th Annual L.A. Weekly Awards on Monday, March 30,
2009 at the El Rey theatre. More details soon!
[ Read the Announcement! ]
• A WEEK OF AWARDS! Sacred Fools has WON "Best Theatre Group" on the myfoxla HOTList for the second year running!
Thanks to all who voted for their support!
[ List of Winners ]
Also, Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara
has won an Ovation Award - the Franklin R. Levy Memorial Award for
Musical Intimate Theatre!
•
Vote for Sacred Fools as "Best Theatre Group" on the myfoxla HOTList
and help us win for the second year running! Deadline is November
7. (As of this writing, we're currently second place, behind our
erstwhile colleagues at Theatre of NOTE. Help put us over the
top!)
[ Vote Here! ]
• Our World Premiere production of Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara
has been nominated for FOUR Ovation Awards - Best Musical, Best Lead
Actress, Best Lead Actor and Best Direction!
• Sacred Fools is pleased to announce our Mainstage offerings for
our 12th Season (Fall 2008 - Summer 2009), including collaborations with
Theatre of Note and Burglars of Hamm! [ Details... ]