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Whitesmith Entertainment Presents
The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour
by W. Kamau Bell
Directed by Paul Stein
Saturday, September 25 @ 8pm
Upstairs Studio
W. Kamau Bell is quickly rising in the political comedy world. His solo show, The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour has been selling out in the bay area for years. He was named “Comedian of the Year” by the SF Weekly last year and was just voted “Best Comedian” by SF Bay Guardian readers. Kamau has taken The Curve to New York for the Fringe Festival (Time Out NY gave it “4 stars!”) and most recently to PS122 in New York for the soloNova Festival, where it received rave reviews and was extended by two additional weeks. Hailed as “one of our country’s most adept racial commentators” by Punchline Magazine, Kamau recently performed at this year’s Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal, where his set was filmed for air on HBO Canada. A former resident of Chicago, this is Kamau’s first time bringing The Curve to the windy city. He’ll also be participating in the 2010 Facing Race Conference in Chicago, September 23 – 25. For more info, please visit www.WKamauBell.com
BRING A FRIEND OF A DIFFERENT RACE, GET IN 2 FOR 1!
(If you show up with the discounted tickets and no friend of a different race, you will be shamed, ridiculed, frowned upon and charged full price.)
“Happily, Bell finds comic gold in the wide range of material he mines, offering provocative insights into an ugly reality. FOUR STARS”
— Time Out New York
“Bell’s solo show is daring, insightful, challenging, sometimes interactive, up-to-the-minute—and did I mention hilarious?”
“Tall, dark, and hilarious”
— NYTheatre.com
“Smart, stylish, and very much in the mold of politically outspoken comedians like Dave Chappelle and Margaret Cho, Bell’s pissed off about recent celebrity racism… Bell manages to make jokes out of the whole situation, while remaining completely furious.”
— The San Francisco Weekly
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Commedia Beauregard Presents
A Klingon Christmas Carol
by Christopher O. Kidder and Sasha Walloch
Translated by: Laura Thurston, Bill Hedrick, and Christopher O. Kidder
Additional Content and Translation by: Chris Lipscombe Lyrics to qu'wI' by: Terrence Donnelly
Directed by Christopher O. Kidder
November 26 – December 19, 2010
Downstairs Mainstage
Featuring Kevin Alves and Jesse Manson
Scrooge has no honor, nor any courage. Can three ghosts help him to become the true warrior he ought to be in time to save Tiny Tim from a horrible fate? Performed in the Original Klingon with English Supertitles, and narrative analysis from The Vulcan Institute of Cultural Anthropology.
The Dickens classic tale of ghosts and redemption adapted to reflect the Warrior Code of Honor and then translated into tlhIngan Hol (That's the Klingon Language).
A co-production of Commedia Beauregard and the IKV Emperor's Hand of the Klingon Assault Group.
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 Time of Your Life Players Presents
What’s to Fear?
Book by Avrum Krause
Music by Bryan Dunn
Directed by Avrum Krause
October 6 – November 6, 2010
Downstairs Studio
“What’s To Fear?” is an original one-act musical comedy about a man who decides to retire and then receives an unexpected call from his doctor after a routine physical. How the ensuing events affect Joe, his family and friends is the basis of this new, life-affirming musical, where we discover what is really important in life.
Group Pricing is available through the Box Office. Call 773.404.7336 for more information.
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 Hubris Productions Presents
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
by Terrence McNally
Directed by Jacob Christopher Green
November 18 – December 31, 2010
Downstairs Studio
Featuring Patricia Savieo and Dennis Frymire
The setting is a walk-up apartment on Manhattan's West Side where, as the curtain rises, Frankie (a waitress) and Johnny (a short-order cook who works in the same restaurant) are discovered in bed. It is their first encounter, after having met several weeks ago on the job, and Frankie is hopeful that Johnny will now put on his clothes and depart, so she can return to her usual routine of watching TV and eating ice cream. But Johnny, a compulsive talker (and romantic), has other ideas. He is convinced that he loves Frankie, a notion that she, at first, considers to be ridiculous. She has had more disappointments than delights in life, and he is the veteran of one broken marriage already. And neither of them is in the bloom of youth.
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