Jeff Coppage received the lead actor award during the annual TP Awards show in September. Membership means one is invited to all events.
Photo: RICH SCHMITT
The easiest and cheapest way to see high-quality live theater is in Pacific Palisades. Theatre Palisades, a community theater, stages four plays and one musical annually at Pierson Playhouse, 941 Temescal Canyon Road.
This season, which starts this Friday, January 10, with Jest a Second, a comedy about adult children trying to please parents, promises to be exceptional.
Mid-March through April 20, The Wisdom of Eve will be presented – this is the stage version of the classic film All About Eve.
Next in the line-up is Rent the musical by Jonathan Larson. This was a Broadway sell-out and now is an opportunity for residents to see the show locally. This show promises to sell out, so it might be worth getting a membership to TP to ensure a ticket.
After Rent, Deathtrap, a story about successful mystery writer Sidney Bruhl, who has not had a hit play for some time and is starting to panic. A script arrives in the mail, written by a former student, that is so perfect, it will be a hit. Will Bruhl attempt nefarious means to take it?
The last show of the season, Suite Surrender set in 1942, promises lots of laughs as two of Hollywood’s biggest divas arrive in Palm Beach for a benefit and personal assistants and the harried hotel staff struggle to keep the two archrivals apart.
Individual tickets to the shows are $20 for seniors/students and $22 for general admission. For the musical, tickets for seniors/students are $25 and general admission is $27.
MEMBERSHIPS.
Active memberships begin at $10 for active student members (13-17 years old). That’s right, five shows for $10, that means students are paying $2 per show.
For residents a regular membership is only $40, which ensures a ticket to each of the five productions ($8), but a member agrees to work in some capacity at three of the five shows. It could be as easy as passing out programs or helping paint sets – and meeting a new community of people in the process.
A patron membership is $90, it includes a ticket to each of the five shows. This is a savings of $15 for all five shows and ensures you will have a seat at sold-out shows.
These volunteers and actors provide outstanding community theater productions.
Photo RICH SCHMITT