SBV's Lynne Marie Stewart & Drew Powell will be live on stage in The Pee-Wee Herman Show running January 12th thru February 7th at Club Nokia . The Pee-wee Herman Show debuted at The Groundlings Theatre in 1981, then moved to the Roxy Theatre on Sunset Strip for five sold out months. Taped as part of HBO's On Location series, the show catapulted Pee-wee into the national consciousness. It lead to Pee-wee's many appearances on Late Night With David Letterman, followed by a 22-city tour that included Carnegie Hall. In 1985, Warner Brothers brought Pee-wee to the big screen with Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Tim Burton's feature film debut. Co-written by Reubens, it featured Danny Elfman's first original film score. The CBS television series Pee-wee's Playhouse, premiered in 1986. During its five seasons, the show garnered 22 Emmy Awards. Pee-wee's second film, Big Top Pee-wee was released in 1988. While The Pee-wee Herman Show, and Pee-wee's Playhouse were an homage to an earlier generation's television classics - Howdy Doody, The Mickey Mouse Club, Captain Kangaroo, Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, and The Shari Lewis Show - Pee-wee himself became one of the most original and beloved stars in all of television history and late-century American culture. By the late 90s, even fashion was not immune to the style of Pee-wee as fashion designers like Christopher Bailey, Ennio Capasa, Miuccia Prada, Viktor & Rolf, and Thom Browne imitated the high armholes, short inseams, and tight cut suits that Pee-wee made as his trademark. In 2007, Nike created a version of the Nike SB sneaker loosely inspired by Pee-wee. When Cartoon Network aired the series in 2006, 1.5 million viewers watched every night; the next year TV Guide named the Playhouse among the top 10 cult classics of all time. All of the episodes of Pee-wee's Playhouse have been issued on DVD (and iTunes) and are consistently best sellers. And as Pee-wee was influenced by the television classics that came before him, it is hard to imagine that Blue's Clues or SpongeBob Square Pants would be quite the same without him.
Catch Arif S. Kinchen in the new web series, INST MSGS (Instant Messages). The series runs for 13 weeks with new episodes on Fridays. INST MSGS is a web anthology series that dramatizes social media. Based on everything from submitted instant message conversations to found Craigslists ads, INST MSGS shines a satirical light on modern (mis) communication.
Rick Gifford is a part of the ensemble of The Open Fist Theatre Company's production of John Patrick Shanley's Where's My Money? A Ghost Story About Love, running October 21st thru November 19th on Wednesday and Thursdays at 8 PM.
Enjoy this instant film directed by SBV's Greg Benson:
Check out this great interview with SBV's Dee Bradley Baker at flimgeeks.com !
Get scared silly for Halloween by the 68 Cent Crew Theatre Company (including some SBV talent some evenings) as they present 9 Nights of Horror in the 4th Annual Halloween House . They're open starting at 8 PM October 23rd thru October 31st, and it's $1 off with a canned good to help feed the hungry.
SBV talent, Jesse Mackey and Katie Zeiner are appearing regularly in Lost in Radioland , presented by Theatre 68 , running Friday and Saturdays thru October 17th. Lost in Radioland is a comedy set in 1940's Hollywood. The biggest stars of the day have come together to perform the suspenseful, nationally syndicated radio play Night Stories. Egos clash and love triangles erupt as the stars try to work together. Meanwhile, the city of Los Angeles is on edge with the breaking news of an escaped killer. When on-set drama meets real-life danger, who will survive?
Check out three of Josh Robert Thompson's most popular impressions (Schwarzenegger, De Niro, Stallone) and a NEW one (Morgan Freeman).
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