theatre

There are three theatre companies in Sasoho, and they share their wares at three theatres. The Hunger Artist Theatre Company puts on shows out of a theatre in the Empire Building, located just east of the Spurgeon Building on Fourth Street. The Cal State Fullerton Grand Central Theater is located in the Grand Central Theater Center next to the Gypsy Den Cafe. There is also a small theatre, Lights of Theatre, that is currently hosting poetry readings on the second floor of the Spurgeon Building.

The photo below is a scene from a play put on by the Hunger Artist Theatre Company, located in the Empire Building at 204 N. Broadway. This company has been in existence for about six years. The image was taken from www.aplaceforart.org. The company just finished a run of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet."
Pictured above is a miniature theatre. This work appears in the window of the Joseph Musil's Salon of Theatres in the Santora Building. The salon is full of lavish scale-model replicas of 19th century European toy theatres. Musil is a graduate of Chouinard Art School in Los Angeles and has done advanced studies in set design for grand opera in Milan, Italy.

 

The Empire Theater, home of the Rude Guerilla Theatre Company, is located right across Broadway from Memphis Restaurant. The company and its members have received numerous awards from the thespian community and press. It recently celebrated its sixth anniversary. The left-most photo above appears on the "Who We Are" page at www.rudeguerilla.org. The company consists of thirty-two members. Show times are Wednesday and Friday nights at 8 p.m. and a Sunday matinee at 2:30 p.m. "Cleansed" by Sarah Kane will be performed June 14 - July 7.