June 5 thru July 25, 2009
Kenny Yun’s
LETTUCETOWN LIES


Marsh Studio Theater Upstairs
Frid & Sat at 8pm
No show Saturday, July 4

Watch the Youtube video preview!

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http://myculturallandscape.blogspot.com/
http://www.sfbaytimes.com/
http://www.sfexaminer.com/

"Funny. Touching. Great!"– SF Examiner

"Astounding . A pleasure to watch."– SF Bay Times

“Filled with comic insight, heartfelt longing, and heartbreaking loss, as Yun plays multiple characters with consuming sincerity.” – Bay Area Reporter

"Clever pacing and distinct inhabitation of a wide variety of characters. Deft writing." – SF Bay Times

“One of the most extraordinary solo artists I've ever witnessed onstage. Brilliant and painfully funny. Awesome.”
– Ann Randolph

“Funny…terrific”– SF Bay Times

He's Gay. He's Asian. He's coming of age in Lettucetown, aka Salinas. If that’s not bad enough, he's got a crush on a hick. If that’s not bad enough, his friends think fun is blowing up a field of lettuce. If that’s not bad enough, he has to sneak to the highschool bathroom to buy drugs and Donna Summer records. Adolescence! It's fun, it's lies. In Lettucetown.

Kenny Yun has appeared in film shorts and plays, including local productions of Twelfth Night, The Cherry Orchard, and The Tempest. He also performs standup comedy all over the Bay Area and was a winner of the Russian River Comedy Competition. Yun studied acting at Studio ACT and the Berkeley Repertory Theater and has a degree in English Literature from UC Berkeley.

Here’s a link to a youtube video preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct2KJMZLpwI

Through July 18 2009

Don Reed’s
EAST 14th:
True Tales of a Reluctant Player


Marsh Main Stage
Friday at 8pm
Saturday at 8:30pm
Sunday at 3pm
No show Saturday, July 4


“Hilarious. The audience can’t stop laughing…Don Reed plays all the characters with both ease and inexhaustible energy”
– The New Yorker

“A graceful genial performer... It’s hard not to love 1970’s funk and soul and Don Reed.” – New York Times

NAACP Double Nominee – Best Actor & Best Playwright

Back in 1970’s Oakland, his stepfather forced him to be a straight A, God-fearing church boy - but he wanted to be just like his dear old Dad. Too bad he didn’t know dear old Dad was a pimp.

Don Reed has performed and written for film, television and theatre. His work on an HBO special of up-and-coming comedians years ago caught the attention of Bill Cosby and led to the creation of a guest-starring role for him on “The Cosby Show.” Don went on to play the recurring role of Chip in “The Cosby Show” spin-off “A Different World” and was recently in "Bee Movie Shorts" starring Jerry Seinfeld.

Don has performed all over the country and opened for Tony Award winner Tommy Tune. You may have heard his voice on: "Spiderman", "The Flintstones", "Johnny Quest", "ER", "Frasier", "Friends", "Scrubs", "Will & Grace", "Law & Order", "SNL" and The Golden Globes. He has written/developed screenplays with Spike Lee's 40 Acres and Mule Filmworks and Maverick Films.

For more information, visit www.east14th.com

July 11 thru August 30, 2009
Rick Reynolds'
ONLY THE TRUTH IS FUNNY:
MID-LIFE AT THE OASIS


Marsh Theater
Sat at 3pm
Sun at 5pm

Tickets are on sale now!


"Only The Truth Is Funny: Mid-Life At The Oasis" combines elements of all three of Rick’s former shows to create the kind of theater experience The San Francisco Chronicle has called "belly laughs for the heart.”

The Marsh is proud to present the San Francisco debut of critically acclaimed comedian Rick Reynolds' new one-man show, "Only The Truth Is Funny: Mid-Life At The Oasis.” This hysterical and touching autobiographical piece picks up where Rick's first two shows, The Emmy-nominated "Only The Truth Is Funny," and the wildly successful "All Grown Up... And No Place To Go" (which was spun off into the CBS sit-com “Life and Stuff”) left off.

According to Rick, "When I performed ‘Happiness’ at The Marsh two years ago I didn't feel that the show’s theme (life is hard but totally worth it) was as clear as it could be, so I've channeled Frank Capra in an effort to nail the damned thing," says the award-winning monologist. "I've spent the last year of my life putting this show together and I'm absolutely sure it's the best thing I've ever done. In fact, if you can find a more thought provoking and inspirational show you've seen about a middle-aged, self-obsessed, therapy-hating, cry-baby from Petaluma, I'll refund the price of your ticket.”

"Only The Truth Is Funny: Mid-Life At The Oasis" combines elements of all three of Rick’s former shows to create the kind of theater experience The San Francisco Chronicle has called "belly laughs for the heart.”

July 19, 2009

PHILOSOPHY TALK
with Ken Taylor and John Perry

Marsh Main Stage Theater
Sun at 12pm & 3pm

This is an afternoon of two live radio broadcasts.

12:00 show: "What are Words Worth?" with Professor Geoff Nunberg, an American linguist and professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information. He also serves as the language, usage, and society commentator for National Public Radio's Fresh Air, and is the author of "The Years of Talking Dangerously." Hosts Ken Taylor and John Perry welcome back Professor Nunberg to explore how words shape our minds. Why do we adopt new words, or give old words new meaning? Can we eliminate a concept by renaming it, or eliminating the word for it?

3:00 show: "War, Sacrifice and the Media" with Professor Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and author of "Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?" The media often presents a sanitized and one sided narrative of war, torture and other forms of violence that blots out the faces and silences the voices of many of the main victims: the refugees, the victims of unjust imprisonment and torture, and the immigrants virtually enslaved by their starvation and legal disenfranchisement. Join hosts John Perry and Ken Taylor as they probe the limits of the media representations of the real human costs of war and other forms of violence.

October 17 thru November 22, 2009

Charlie Varon’s new play
RABBI SAM

Marsh Main Stage Theater
Sat at 8pm
Sun at 7pm

Tickets are on sale now!

“A stunning tour-de-force” – George Haymont. MyCulturalLandscape.com

“Mercurial genius of solo performance… dazzling virtuosity… wildly entertaining… the two hours fly by.”
– Rob Hurwitt. SF Chronicle

“Charlie Varon is very funny” – The New Yorker

“An uncannily gifted mimic” – Washington Post

“San Francisco’s brightest satiric star” – SF Chronicle

Rabbi Sam is the spiritual genius who will bring American Judaism into the 21st century. Or he’s completely out of his mind. You decide.

San Francisco phenomenon Charlie Varon is back with his first new full-length play in nine years. The Marsh is thrilled to have back on stage our edgy, comic genius!

RABBI SAM tells the story of a man who wants to reinvent American Judaism, and the congregation that hires him. Some people love the new rabbi. Some can’t stand him. And, of course, some can’t stand each other.

Varon plays all 12 characters, including the rabbi and eight contentious board members. Funny, moving, bursting with energy and ideas, RABBI SAM is a play for Jews, Gentiles and anyone who has ever attended a meeting.

The San Francisco Chronicle has credited Charlie Varon with “redefining the art form” of solo theater. He’s the creator of the hit shows Rush Limbaugh in Night School and The People’s Violin, and director of Dan Hoyle’s Tings Dey Happen.

http://www.charlievaron.com/