JULIUS CAESAR (SEPT 11th - SEPT 27th)

SHOW:
JULIUS CAESAR
Directed by Erwin Tuazon
*I play the role of Cassius

WHERE:
The Powerhouse Theatre
3116 2nd St
Santa Monica, CA 90405
*between Marine & Rose - closer to Marine
powerhouse theatre

WHEN:
SEPT 11th - SEPT 27th
*Fridays & Saturdays @ 8p
*Sundays @ 7.30p

TICKETS:
15$ online - click--->CAESAR tickets
20$ at the door (CASH ONLY)

PARKING:
It's HOR-RID!!!
Please, Please, PLEASE allow extra time for parking. It WILL be a nightmare. And, if you let that stop you from coming to see me...well, i just don't know...
*There is street parking available along the neighborhood streets - read the signs!
*There is also a parking structure and parking lot that cost 5$ to park in.

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She's a Sofisticat!

AS YOU LIKE IT (May 23, 2009 - June 20, 2009)

ONLY PLAYS SATURDAY EVENINGS @ 8p


SHOW:
AS YOU LIKE IT
*I play the role of Celia

WHERE:
The Next Stage Theatre (a hole in the wall "intimate" theatre space)
1523 N La Brea Av, 2nd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90028
*Next Stage is located between W Sunset Bl & Hawthorn Av

WHEN:
Saturdays (ONLY) @ 8p
May 23rd
May 30th
June 6th
June 13th
June 20th

TICKETS:
15$ (CASH ONLY; you will pay at the door)

RESERVATIONS (should be made by calling or emailing):
213 926 2726
declanadamstheatre@yahoo.com

PARKING (special note):
It's HOR-RID!!!
Please, Please, PLEASE allow extra time for parking. It WILL be a nightmare. And, if you let that stop you from coming to see me...well, i just don't know...
--Hawthorne Av has lots of street parking (read the signs); there are lots of apartment complexes in which you may find parking, for FREE!!!
--Also, the lot in which the theatre is located turns into a valet parking area after 7 or something.

LOCATION OF THEATRE (special note):
WELL...it's located in an area where you wouldn't think there'd be a theatre! I believe there is a description of it in the first review from, playing shakespeare (*found below).

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*REVIEWS:
from - Playing Shakespeare
from - The Tolucan Times
from - Melpomene Blogs Back (some gal that watches much of LA theatre from broadway tours to little hole-in-the-wall productions)
from - Stage Happenings

THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO (March 27th - April 26th, 2009)

Show: THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO by Alfred Uhry
Directed by Cecilia Fannon

Where: Newport Theatre Arts Center
2501 Cliff Drive
Newport Beach, CA 92663

When: March 27th - April 26th, 2009
(Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays; then add-on Thursdays after Opening week-end)

Time: 8p on Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays
2p on Sundays

Tickets: 15$ (unless, it's the Gala, which is 20$)
949 631 0288 (to make reservations, which, I believe, is the wisest thing to do. That is, IF you want to come...)

Parking: FREE! We've got a small lot adjacent to the theater. Also, you are able to park on the street (just not in front of the theater because...well, it's not allowed=P)

Box Office hours: Open the week of Tech and thru the run of the show
Tuesday and Wednesday - 4.30p to 7p
Thursday to Saturday - 4.30p to 7.55p
Sunday - 12.30p to 1.25p

For more 411, visit: Newport Theatre Arts Center

That's all.

xxolovely.

**
I've been receiving many questions about the purchasing of tickets for the show I'm in: THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO.

I hope that this note will fill those concerns.

Reserve your tickets through the Box Office's number, 949 631 0288.

A message from the Box Office will play that will say they are not open until March 17th. Please, DO NOT listen to that message. That refers to the process of walking up and purchasing tickets at the actual, physical Box Office in Newport Beach, NOT to reserving your tickets on the answering machine.

Leave a message with:
1. your name
2. your phone number
3. the date you would like to attend the show
4. the number of tickets you would like

**DO NOT leave your credit card number/info on their answering machine!!!**

A representative of the Box Office will then give you a ring back and that is where the process of giving your credit card number will occur.

Your tickets will be held in the Box Office at Will-Call.

Please, do not ask me to hold tickets for you. I am not able to because of a couple of past bad experiences the Box Office has had with actors saving tickets for family/friends that never showed up. So that option is out. Sorry, folks.

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REVIEWS:
from - The Daily Pilot

Full-Time Angel

(the following was originally composed on my facebook account)


A little more than a year and a half ago (I think or more, time is such a funny thing...), I was sent a friend request (through myspace) from a woman in Germany, whose profile name was: Full-Time Angel. Her profile photo was luminous, beautiful and full of such genuine joy. We corresponded through comments (both on our mutual pages and our photos) and personal messages. What brought us together was a mutual myspace-friend (Mahmut Altunay) who created the first Romy Schneider profile on the site (which we were both on). He thought that the both of us would really get on. So, came her request and my acceptance of it.

In the brief, too-little correspondences we shared, it was to my delight that her spirit matched her photo. But, how could it not? We encouraged each other, gave words of support, offered gentility in those episodes in life that bring darkness... We never spoke about acting. She was also an actress. Much of her credits lie in the theatre, with, I believe, 2 or so credits of film. She would always tell me that she was going to steal the quotes I had on my site because it held such truth for her as well and she would always thank me (as if I were the one that said it). The quote she most loved was the one by Samuel Beckett:

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." (Which I only knew of because of an interview I read on Natasha Richardson, long, long ago)


My favorite comment of hers that she made about one of my photos was:

"what a wonderful picture!
it looks like you're lying in your own wing....beautiful!! "

Only she would write me something like that! Angel-thoughts.Her birthday is tomorrow, December 13th. She would have been 32.She was killed on Wednesday (December 10th) evening when a car hit her as she was crossing the street. She was on her way home after a workshop held by Rosa von Praunheim. She died at the scene.

She was born in Mannheim. Spoke Turkish, French, Spanish and English. Studied philosophy, history, sociology, and theatre. She is survived by her mother, two sisters and boyfriend.

She was an angel through-and-through. And now, passing from this door to the next, she takes her angelic attribute and is watching over all of us she has touched. Perhaps, even over those who never had her in their lives. I wouldn't be surprised.


Our very last exchange (on this earth) was my response to her status of her being lost in a deep black hole:

"remember it's always darkest right before the light appears...
sending wonderfully beautiful thoughts to you~"

From that she sent me a message and I sent her one back. That was the last of it. I never had the chance to meet her...

Our Full-Time Angel's name: Melek Diehl.

Her name is Turkish and means, "Angel." (Thank you for telling me that, Mahmut)

Melek is now resting in Great Peace.


(c) lovelle liquigan 2008

*Please, if you know of any error that is written here, let me know and it will be corrected straightaway*

Mark Your Calendars! (or not...)

I'll be performing on Saturday, November 22nd @ 1p. Reading the roles of Nora and Odile in Evan Guilford-Blake's AN UNCOMMON LANGUAGE, directed by David Gold
And, I'll also be performing on Sunday, November 23rd @ 1p. Reading the role of Melissa in Michael E Wolfson's CAT AND MOUSE, directed by Karen Wray

I'll be performing the opening week-end:
Friday, December 5th @ 8p
Saturday, December 6th @ 4p & 8p
Sunday, December 7th @ 4p

COME! COME!! COME!!!

www.panndoraproductions.com/index.html

red shoes

Friends in the Theatre

If you are in the Southern parts of Cali, watch my friends: Anna-Kate and Larry, in their respective shows: MAME and BAT BOY.

Anna-Kate is playing Gooch in MAME at the Long Beach Playhouse. http://www.lbph.com/Mainset.htm

Larry is playing various characters, including a surprising character (which he told me because he thought I would be in NY and wouldn't get the chance to catch him in the show... Oh! How plans change...) in BAT BOY at the Warner Grand Theatre. http://www.therelevantstage.com/

And...if you are in NY, I found out yesterday morn that my friend, Daniel, will be in the musical SHREK. Can you say, "Donkey"? =) http://www.shrekthemusical.com/index.html

Yes. I have no shame in plugging my friends, my happiness for them, and showing them off. Get yourself to the theatre and have some fun. Not only are they extremely talented, but they are supreme human beings.

red shoes

"The Fall"

I wanted to watch this because I'm a huge fan of Justine Waddell and Lee Pace. I am now a fan of the little Romanian girl that played, Alexandria, Catinca Untaru. She is charming, enchanting and a joy to watch.

Quoting with Martha Graham

No artist is ahead of her time. She is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.

Sing it, Mama! Ain't that the truth?

Poetry-Time Cafe with Emily Dickinson

Part Four: Time and Eternity

LXIII

Ample make this bed.
Make this bed with awe;
In it wait till judgment break
Excellent and fair.

Be its mattress straight,
Be its pillow round;
Let no sunrise’ yellow noise
Interrupt this ground.

What's Up?!! with Gymnastics and Jenn Stuczynski's Coach?

The Olympic Committee needs to meet up again and fix the rules for gymnastics scoring. Nastia was tied with the Chinese gymnast, Kexin He, in the uneven bars individual standing. Tied for the gold, mind you. But, because of RULES in gymnastics...you can't have 2 gymnasts winning gold. What?!!! Let me shout that one out again,

WHAT?!!!??!!

And, and, AND...they took away the perfect 10 score? Huh?!!! Uh...why?

There should have been 2 bright, smiling ladies on that gold podium: Kexin and Nastia. Nastia's program, though, was superior, I believe. But, away from that, they shoulda BOTH been up there.

Even when Marta Karolyi (Bela's wife) was explaining the scoring and the tie-breaking rules to both Nastia and her father...I was still confused! Even when the commentators explained...I was scrunching my forehead. Even when things seemed to be clearer in my head about the scoring...I was wanting to slap the Australian judge! Ha! But, not many things are judged objectively these days. It's all subject.

Get it straight for the next Games, Olympic Committee! Don't be robbing future athletes.

And, now...for the coach of pole vaulting silver-medalist, Jenn Stuczynksi. If I were the people standing next to him, I would have DECKED him. No doubt in my mind. How dare he talk to her in that way. He was so defensive with her, so angry. He couldn't even look her in the eye and was holding on to his Blackberry the whole time he was chastising her.

Coach! Your girl won the silver! Shut the hell up and be proud.

I Hate douchbag, ass-wipes like that. She needs to get a new coach.

Three Cheers for you, Jenn! You placed in the Olympic games against Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia (who broke her own world record!) who was the gold-medalist the last Olympics.

Jipped at the Olympics, the Emotional Bela and a Post-Script

What the hey-ho? What was up with the judges for the women's vault? Alicia should have gotten atleast bronze and she ends up in that awful place of 4th?!!!

What?!!

And how much do I adore Bela Karolyi? I've always loved him and having him choke up while in reaction of ghastly sadness about Alicia? He was so choked up that I finally let my tears out for Alicia.

C'mon!!!

Alicia hit her vaults. Tiny steps on her landings. But, I'm sorry...did she fall out of bounds? No. Did she almost land on her knees? No. Did she ever put her hands down on the mat when she landed? NO.

And who did? China and Korea. I have had great support for China in gymnastics. They were amazing in the team performances. But, HELLO! I understand the start values of their vaults were high BUT there were some obvious mistakes those girls made. Mm-mm-mm.

I don't get it.

But, let me give *three cheers* to Oksana competing for Germany (not her native Russia). That woman is 33-years-old. Hello! She had gold and was knocked down to silver after Korea went (and made her mistakes. Mm...).

PS I love Shawn Johnson. I wish she won the gold for her floor exercise. She's adorable (I mean that in a great way...because I know what it feels like to always be called, "cute," *ugh*) and illuminating.

One More Thing About the Torres That is Dara...

I was watching her on NBC. She was giving an interview and I loved her honesty. She said that she was disappointed. She's a competitive person, so, of course she would be. And she was saying, Thank God, that what happened to Cavic against Phelps 2 nights ago had never happened to her. She added with, maybe she had jinxed herself. She's supreme, man.

Wouldn't it be aMAYzing if she came back for the London games? *whew*

She's got a great spirit.

Here's an article on Dara done last year in November:
http://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/meet-dara-torres