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The Zip Code Plays
by Antaeus Theatre Company
Celebrate the culture and history of the diverse neighborhoods of Los Angeles from the safety of your home. Antaeus Theatre Company presents The Zip Code Plays: Los Angeles, a series of original audio plays, each set in a different L.A. zip code.Season Three delivers six brand new episodes and will be available to podcast listeners beginning Thursday, December 2 at www.antaeus.org, or wherever you get your podcasts. For more information, visit zipcodeplays.infoHosted by two-time Audiofile Award-winnerRamón de OcampoAudio Producer, Sound Designer and Foley ArtistJeff GardnerFeaturing original music byEllen Mandel
Episodes
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BONUS EPISODE: Granny, or How To Forgive When You Can’t Forget: A Play in Poems
Granny... is a poetic exploration of a relationship between a grandchild and their grandmother, who is afflicted by Alzheimer's. Confronted by the Deity of Memory and the Deity of Forgetting, Grandchild seeks reconciliation with their grandmother through shared memories. This stirring radio play...
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COMING SOON: Granny...
Join Antaeus Theatre Company for a Bonus Episode of a new audio play, Granny, or How To Forgive When You Can’t Forget: A Play in Poems by Natalie Nicole Dressel coming on Wednesday, June 12, 2024! Available at www.antaeus.org, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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ON STAGE NEXT: The Tempest
The Tempest runs June 11 through July 17, 2023 at the Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center in Glendale, CA. For more information, visit antaeus.org.
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BONUS EPISODE: The Changeling
Set in an enchanted forest, The Changeling introduces us to estranged couple Ann and Daniel, who return to a deserted cabin on the anniversary of their daughter’s mysterious disappearance — the event that destroyed their marriage. As a storm moves in and the electricity goes out, a mysterious…
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ON STAGE NOW: Everybody
Come See Us! Everybody runs Now through October 17, 2022 at the Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center in Glendale, CA. For more information, visit antaeus.org.
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Episode Six 90028: Hollywood - Marie Dressler: Good Gal
From her dressing room on the set of the classic MGM film “Dinner at Eight,” the consummate character actress recounts the improbable journey that brought her from small-town ugly duckling to glamorous movie star at the dawn of the studio era. What does it cost a woman to stay on top? For episode...
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Episode Five 90039: Frogtown - Anaxyrus Boreas
First time home buyers Isa and Hannah are thrilled to be moving into their updated Craftsman style bungalow, but a near-Biblical plague of unexpected intruders pushes the couple to really get to know all of their neighbors in this environmental parable of city dwellers learning to share space.…
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Episode Four 90027: Griffith Park - The Fire In-Between
As the Great Depression rolls on, Fernando and Difford, two ambitious young men, take government relief jobs maintaining the city’s large urban wilderness, but on the fateful date of October 3, 1933 something goes terribly wrong… How do we follow our dreams when the natural order has been...
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Episode Three 90262: Lynwood - Blue Like You
Mercy and her estranged daughter Bernice have their first visit in a very long time. Trauma, disappointments, and pain need to be confronted, and the profound importance of names must be understood before they can begin to move on in this sensitive and humorous portrait of a family at a…
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Episode Two 91505: Burbank - True Sound
A late night “foley” session in the basement of a post-production house gets twisted when a grizzled veteran and an eager apprentice work on sound-effects for the low-budget slasher film, “13 Below.” Can we correct past mistakes, and was Hitchcock right — are casabas better than watermelons? This...
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Episode One 91201: Glendale - The Six Pianos of Miradero
It’s the spring of 1925. Glendale founding father Leslie C. Brand is dead and grieving widow Mary Louise is ready for the reading of the will. But who is the mysterious young woman also in attendance? Based on true events and historical figures; the play looks at the nature of philanthropy and…
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Episode Six 91601: Monterey Park – Bingo Bitches
It’s Bingo day at the local senior center and Kwan Tai is introducing her old friend Wong Tai to the game and all of its rituals, including her lucky potato. But who will be the big winner when nemesis Mrs. Boodakian turns up? Daubers, cards, and insults fly in this raucous comedy about claiming...
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Episode Five 91601: North Hollywood – End of the Line
Watching the world go by from her NoHo balcony, self-appointed “detective” Aimee-Lynn is a curious observer of the goings-on in the neighborhood. But when a suspicious incident occurs on the street below, her worldview is changed forever in this dramedy about the duality that exists right before...
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Episode Four 91331: Pacoima – Gold & Shine
Dr. LaShae Fair, a university professor stung by professional disappointment, has a chance encounter with an old man and his mule that pushes her into a thrilling storm of family revelations, haunting visions, and altered realities, where she discovers an answer to the question, “What do we owe…
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Episode Three 90303: Inglewood – The Vig
Hollywood Park Racetrack is about to close its doors forever, but that doesn’t stop new-to-town Lina from searching for a long lost relative — with nothing but a yellowing polaroid and an old tip sheet. The odds for the future are long in this look at the dreams that drive people to reinvent...
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Episode Two 90026: Echo Park – $10 and a Tambourine
Broadcasting live on the radio from the Angelus Temple, famed 1920s evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson is forced to defend her past, her present and the future of Los Angeles itself when she entertains two visitors, one alive and one dead. Religion, power and celebrity are all up for grabs in this...
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Episode One 90069: West Hollywood – Brunch, Interrupted
When Joe and Moses, an interracial gay couple of a certain age, are confronted by a new, straight resident of WeHo outside their favorite queer bar, questions of privilege, code switching, and daytime drag burst like an overstuffed piñata in this hilarious and provocative look at who is really...
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Coming May 20 - Season Two of The Zip Code Plays: Los Angeles
Join Antaeus Theatre Company again as we celebrate the culture and history of LA with six new original audio plays. The second season will be available to podcast listeners beginning Thursday, May 20 at www.antaeus.org, or wherever you get your podcasts. For more information, visit...
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Episode Six 90012: DTLA - Clara and Serra and The Talking Bear
A magical encounter with a celestial comet awakens a pair of downtown statues and a neighboring denizen of the La Brea Tar Pits. Historical accusations, social justice, and food truck cuisine lead to a fantasia of repentance, acceptance, and grace high above the City of Angels. For episode notes...
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Episode Five 91352: Sun Valley - Salvage
In an auto junkyard, former voice teacher Martha, now nearly blind with retinitis pigmentosa, awaits a volunteer to help her locate a part for her 1998 Subaru Impreza WRX so she can take one last drive. When Billy arrives, coincidence, empathy, and music make for a very special afternoon. For...
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Episode Four 90024: Westwood - ALL INFORMATION HEREIN IS CLASSIFIED
Fresh from participating in her first street protests, 80-year old Eleanor Pender McAdams seems an unlikely subject for an FBI investigation — but who really has the upper hand? This “official file” of recordings and interviews reveals the complexities of standing up for something bigger than...
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Episode Three 90403: Santa Monica - Plucker
Mina never should have eaten that piece of fruit overhanging from a tree in her neighbor’s garden. Now she’s on trial before the Flora & Fauna Committee, defending the Pluckers from the Harvesters in this satirical look at the haves and have-nots in a tiny corner of the Westside. For episode…
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Episode Two 90272: Pacific Palisades - Annexing the Palisades
Talented craftsman Joseph Kurtz arrives at the palatial Murphy Ranch ready to carve an ornate balustrade for the estate’s magnificent staircase, but the job turns out to be much more complicated than he realized. Set in 1939 and based on a true story, this is a chilling piece of LA’s hidden...
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Episode One 90011: South Central Los Angeles - Speakeasy
In 1956 Leon Ivy returns home from a sojourn in Paris with a finished novel, a publisher, and big plans for his future — but times have changed along Central Avenue and his wife Bird and her new business partner, Daddy August, have enacted secret plans of their own. What are the costs of leaving...
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Coming Soon! The Zip Code Plays: Los Angeles
Celebrate the culture and history of the diverse neighborhoods of Los Angeles from the safety of your home. Antaeus Theatre Company presents The Zip Code Plays: Los Angeles, a series of six original audio plays, each set in a different L.A. zip code. The series will be available to podcast...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Celebrate the culture and history of the diverse neighborhoods of Los Angeles from the safety of your home. Antaeus Theatre Company presents The Zip Code Plays: Los Angeles, a series of original audio plays, each set in a different L.A. zip code.Season Three delivers six brand new episodes and will be available to podcast listeners beginning Thursday, December 2 at www.antaeus.org, or wherever you get your podcasts. For more information, visit zipcodeplays.infoHosted by two-time Audiofile Award-winnerRamón de OcampoAudio Producer, Sound Designer and Foley ArtistJeff GardnerFeaturing original music byEllen Mandel
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Celebrate the culture and history of the diverse neighborhoods of Los Angeles from the safety of your home. Antaeus Theatre Company presents The Zip Code Plays: Los Angeles, a series of original audio plays, each set in a different L.A. zip code.Season Three delivers six brand new episodes and will...
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