Author: semele

CREVASSE Receives Multiple 2024/2025 Scenies!

StageSceneLA celebrates the past year’s (July 2024 to June 2025) outstanding achievements in Southern California theater based on 161 productions reviewed between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025. Scenies are presented in the following categories this year: 1. Top Honors 2024-20252. Outstanding Productions3. Outstanding Individual Performances4. Outstanding Ensembles5. Outstanding Direction and Choreography6. Outstanding Design, […]

Reflections on Art and Democracy 2025, a Los Angeles celebration

LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kudos to columnist Patt Morrison for her timely reminder that art censorship has long been a tool of authoritarian government (“‘Degenerate’ or ‘woke,’ Paris museum exhibit shows what happens to art in the crosshairs of politics,” May 7). During the American culture wars in 1991, LACMA curator Stephanie Barron organized the first […]

Theater in 2024 — the silver lining of a challenging year

In Southern California, the post-pandemic malaise finally started to lift. And the theater, quite unexpectedly, turned out to be 2024’s silver lining. The Mark Taper Forum reopened for business in the fall with a pedal-to-the-metal revival of “American Idiot,” a collaboration with Deaf West Theatre that marked Center Theatre Group artistic director Snehal Desai’s directing debut at […]

Reflections on Art and Democracy, a Los Angeles celebration

A celebration of plays, salons, lectures, and concerts that promote democratic ideals through reflections on art and democracy. ABOUT Reflections on Art and Democracy is a celebration of plays, salons, lectures, and concerts in Los Angeles aimed at raising awareness about the rise of fascism and anti-Semitism, the power of art and design to resist them, […]

The Hour of All Things

An online film collaboration of The Hour of All Things by Caridad Svich Eight portrayals illuminate a search for collective understanding in an increasingly divisive world. Streaming in November, 2021 LOS ANGELES (October 1, 2021) — Son of Semele Ensemble (SoSE) presents a digital performance of The Hour of All Things written by Caridad Svich. Produced by Matthew McCray and created […]

Farewell, Silver Lake!

For the past 18 years, Son of Semele has operated our very own black box performance space on Beverly Boulevard. It has been my personal delight to have developed the space in 2002 along with the Semele founders and our earliest company members. For nearly two decades we have managed the space and filled a […]

Son Of Semele Leaves Home Of 18 Years

Award-winning theatre company Son of Semele Ensemble is announcing its departure from their Silver Lake home of 18 years. Led by Founding Artistic Director Matthew McCray since 2000, the company has been in residence at 3301 Beverly Boulevard in a black box theatre they created in 2003. With a new landlord taking over the venue, […]