Young Stars Theatre in South Pasadena presents “The Actor’s Nightmare,” by playwright Christopher Durang, on Friday, June 3, starting at 7 p.m., at Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasadena.
“The Actor’s Nightmare” is a short comic play that follows one nervy accountant’s fateful evening when he is thrust unprepared into a play that starts out as “Private Lives” and ends as “A Man For All Seasons.” Durang takes the cast from pique to panic as he explores the insecurities of performing life. This one act taps into the universal nightmare that, in life, a person sometimes finds himself in inexplicable situations where everyone but he knows the lines.
Young Stars Theatre has been producing shows over many years, with young performers, 18 years old and under, as the actors. In fact they’ve done more than 200 productions since the time the founders, Gloria Bennett and husband Jack J. Bennett, started doing a yearly summer musical theatre and drama camp with 40 to 50 youth in 2000 in Jacksonville, Florida.
The Bennets moved to Los Angeles in 2004, and in 2007 made their Southern California debut with a production of “The Sherlock Society,” an original play by Gloria’s father George Demme at The Actor’s Workout Studio in North Hollywood.
Young Stars Theatre became a full 501(c)3 non-profit corporation in 2009. In 2016, YST started calling Fremont Centre Theatre at 1000 Fremont Ave. in South Pasadena their home.
Tickets for Friday’s show are $15. To purchase tickets, visit www.youngstarstheatre.org/
For more information, call (626) 269-3609.
