A Comedy of Theatrical Proportions “Medea Comes To Our Town” a New Play by Tony Foster

Directed by Jaime Robledo, Presented by Lightning Rod Theatre Company and Producer Paul Hoan Zeidler

The world-premiere of Los Angeles playwright Tony Foster’s hilarious new play, Medea Comes to Our Town will open August 24th at McCadden Theater in Hollywood for a five week run. The play is presented by Lightning Rod Theater and is directed by acclaimed Los Angeles based director and playwright Jaime Robledo. The spectacular cast includes Alina Phelan, Cherish Monique Duke, Sean Faye, Kate Huffman, Lynn Odell and Tony Foster.

Two worlds collide when Medea, the mother of all tragedies, crashes the mundanity of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town.

The sedate lives of the characters in Our Town are upended when Medea, fleeing the denouement of her play, crashes her dragon pulled chariot into Grover’s Corners. She strikes up a yin-and-yang friendship with the Doctor’s Wife and tells her the chariot will take its rider to any opening night in theatre history. The curtain rises on My Fair Lady in fifteen minutes, can the Doctor’s Wife get there in time? Will Medea use the quiet refuge of Our Town to write a tale for the ages? Will these two plays return to their respective places in the Western canon or has life and death been forever reduced to inconceivable concepts? This is the theatre where anything can happen. And it will.

Medea Comes to Our Town opens August 24th at McCadden Place Theater in Hollywood at 1157 N. McCadden PL. 90038. Medea Comes to Our Town runs August 24th through September 22nd with performances on Friday and Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday at 3 pm. Tickets are $25 Buy Them HERE.

Labor Day Weekend, all tickets $15

Presented by

Lightning Rod Theatre productions have included Time’s Scream and Hurry (two LA productions before a successful run at the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival.) Glennie and Maple Break Up (2012 Hollywood Fringe), WOOF-WOOF (2014 Hollywood Fringe, Winner Encore Producers Award, Spirit of the Fringe Award Nominee), Craftsman (2016 Hollywood Fringe, Winner Encore Producers Award, nominated for best comic performance), This Side of Sweetwater (2017 Hollywood Fringe) NUDE/NAKED (full production opened January 2019, Stage Raw nominated, several L.A. critics Top Ten Lists) and We Got Your Six (Vol.2) (2023 Hollywood Fringe). Workshop productions include Swimmer’s Ear, The New Fuck You, We Got Your Six (Vol.1) and Medea Comes to Our Town. Learn more at Lightning Rod Theatre website.

Written by

Playwright Tony Foster is a founding member of the Elephant Theatre in Los Angeles and has written several works for the company including: Underwear for Christmas, Elephant Shorts, Adventures with Sparky and Poo, Greystone, the critically acclaimed Asleep on a Bicycle and COME BACK, the season 13 grand-slam winner of Sacred Fools proving ground for new work Serial Killers. Other works have been produced at Sacred Fools; Lightning Rod Theatre; Skylight Theatre; Brimmer Street Theatre; Ringwald Theatre; Universal Theatre; Howling Moon Cab Theatre; Makor/Steinhardt Center; New Jersey Rep; the Ashland New Plays Festival; and the Actors Theatre of Louisville. He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the Ensemble Studio Theatre.

Directed by

Director Jaime Robledo is an acclaimed Los Angeles based director and playwright. Jaime has been recognized by LA Weekly, Stage Raw, The LA Stage Alliance, and the LA Drama Critics Circle for his direction. His play, Watson, earned a Saturn Award by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Jaime’s highly inventive style and commitment to new work was nurtured by Sacred Fools Theater Company where he directed such shows as Watson, Stoneface, Astro Boy and the God of Comics, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and Mr. Burns a Post-Electric Play. The Southern California premiere of How We Got On went on to garner eight 2024 NAACP Theater Award nominations. Jaime has also collaborated theatrically with Disney Creative Entertainment, Dreamworks Animation, Kraft-Engel Entertainment, and the Razzie Awards. Recently he writes for Wondery, Amazon’s podcast network. Website: www.jrobledo.com

Medea Comes to Our Town opens August 24th at McCadden Place Theater in Hollywood at 1157 N. McCadden PL. 90038. Medea Comes to Our Town runs August 24th through September 22nd with performances on Friday and Saturday at 8 pm, Sunday at 3 pm. Tickets are $25 Buy Them HERE.

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