NEWS

JULY 5

THEATRE ASYLUM announces the winners of our

BEST OF THE FRINGE

For a complete list and ticket information click here.

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JULY 1-3

Did you miss the Hollywood Fringe's Best International Production of

EXTENDED FOR 3 NIGHTS ONLY

JULY 1 - 3rd

TICKETS & INFORMATION

Presented by Theatre Asylum &
Theatre of Note

Tickets $15

REVIEWS ARE IN

LA WEEKLY'S - STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS ON THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE

 

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Hollywood Fringe Festival

June 17 - 27

 

                           

Theatre Asylum is excited to be a participating venue and has over 20 productions and 100 performances, featuring some of the most exciting local, national and international talent.

Running days and nights for two weeks, you have to check out the long list of shows playing:

Betty
Bonnie in Brighton
Burton
Bye Bye Bombay
Eat, Pray, Laugh
feeling sorry for roman Polanski
Zombience - Improvatorium
Jane Austen UnScripted - Impro Theatre
Jesus: The Guantanamo Years
Los Angelyne
Mission of Flowers
My Penis - In and Out of Trouble
Nanonation
Sex, Lies and the KKK
Sketchy Dames
Solo Workshop
Some Assembly Required
TFN- Tilted Frame
The Bad Arm
The stories of Caesar Chavez
The Waste Land
Wet Cookies

Here’s a link to the Asylum page on the Hollywood Fringe site for additional information and box office.

http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/venue/view/2

Shows are all $15 or less and run 45-75 minutes.

REVIEWS ARE IN

LA WEEKLY'S - STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS ON THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE

 

HAPPY NEW DECADE !!!!

COMBINED ARTFORM CELEBRATES 11 YEARS

Having its start at a barber shop, performing at cafes and at a church, Combined Artform can now count as its successes four theaters in two cities and hundreds of shows over the past eleven years.

It really has been a wonderful experience and we are thankful for the venues, the shows and most of all the people who helped make it all happen. With all the ups and downs, it has always been a pleasure to work with such great producers, companies, artists and audience.

In just two years in LA, Combined Artform has already developed exceptional partners at Theatre Asylum ranging from co-productions such as "Common Air", a solo show which won an LA Ovation Award, to Impro Theatre which was picked as Best Theatre of 2009 by LA Weekly and with whom we've co-produced productions of Tennessee Williams, Jane Austen and currently Shakespeare Unscripted.

Tilted Frame continues to develop with new directors, performers and formats which include "Who Wrote This Sh!t", and our live internet show performed simultaneously between Los Angeles and San Francisco, "T.F.N." They will also be opening the new Asylum Lab (40 seat) in January 2010.

Since 2007, when Patrick Bristow starred in Combined Artform's Tuna Christmas with Mindy Sterling, he has been developing his company Improvatorium at Theater Asylum. Improvatorium features classes by Patrick and others such as Brian Clark, Ted Michaels and Heather Morgan and performances such as, "Death, Lies and Alibis" and in February of 2010 "Zombience" an improvised musical". They begin 2010 with their Short Form show, followed by the Asylum Improv Jam. We are so excited to be working with Patrick on all of his endeavors.

We're also looking forward to working more with David Razowsky and his long-form mastery in 2010. In addition, Lawrin Salazar's Los Angeles Comedy Festival is still spotlighting away at Theater Asylum and we're excited to be part of their success.

In addition, we are very grateful to David Fofi and the Elephant Theatre for having built these beautiful spaces and for their continued help and support along the way. We are also grateful to Mark Carson for helping Theater Asylum run smoothly.

Meanwhile in San Francisco, it has been a true pleasure during the past two years to work with and produce theatre with Rob Ready and Dan Williams and all the members of PianoFight. Since 2007, they have managed the Off Market Theaters and have grown PianoFight into a successful theatre company. In 2010, we're excited about our developing partnership with PianoFight at Off-Market Theaters and look forward to furthering the SF-LA connection with them.

Tilted Frame-SF keeps pushing the envelope with T.F.N - w/ Los Angeles as well as new in 2010 the Techno Improv Jam our local show followed by a open Jam.

We also continue to enjoy being a part of San Francisco's holiday tradition with David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries. Wrapping up its eighth year with John Michael Beck and David Sinaiko. It was once again a crowd and critic pleasing show and we look forward to doing it again next year.

But it's January 2010 so for now we have:

• T.F.N. - Tilted Frame Network in San Francisco & Los Angeles. Yes, it's one show simultaneously performed in two cities.
• Techno Improv Jam - Jam with Tilted Frame - San Francisco. Come play with our tech.
• Impro Theatre's - Shakespeare Unscripted - Los Angeles
• Asylum Improv Jam- with Improvatorium - Los Angeles
  A short form version of our long form tradition.
  

and that's just the beginning.

Please take a look around the site, sign our guest-book and come back for more.

If you've ever worked with us please check the Artists and Production page to see if we have your information; notes it is still in progress. We can add emails and will be adding more pictures later, so if you have any you would like us to put up, please send them to info@combinedartform.com.

Once again, thank you for an awesome 11 years; we look forward to continuing our adventure with you in the new decade.

Best,

Matthew Quinn

Artistic Director

January 2nd, 2010
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December 5 - 30, 2009

Back for its 8th year in San Francisco!!

 

Combined Artform and Beck-n-Call

presents:

David Sedaris’

The Santaland Diaries

(adapted for the stage by Joe Mantello)

It’s time for San Francisco’s annual production of David Sedaris’ “The Santaland Diaries”. Presented once again by Combined Artform and Beck-n-Call at Off-Market Theater. For the eighth year, John Michael Beck (up again from L.A.) and David Sinaiko, will alternate pulling on the striped tights to bring to life David Sedaris’ signature character, Crumpet the Elf…much to the delight of Bay Area audiences. Come see the show that critics and audiences love and keep coming back for more. Spend the holidays with Combined Artform at the Off-Market Theater.

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Tilted Frame – SF \ LA

LIVE IMPROV BETWEEN SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES

• First time in improv history
• Live improv between two cities

Previews Thursday, October 22
Runs Thursdays October 29 through November 19, 2009

(San Francisco, CA) (September, 2009)…A TALE OF TWO CITIES—“PHONING IT IN” WITHOUT PHONING IT IN…The future is here. For over seven years Combined Artform’s Tilted Frame Improv has been working with live video and the internet to the delight of audiences in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Now we have taken the next logical step: an unprecedented live “impro-cast” between two cities four hundred miles apart!

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