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Part 1 of 3. Tom Stoppard's Arcadia merges science with human concerns and ideals. Set in an English country house in the years 1809-1812 and 1989, the play examines the connections between two modern scholars, the house's current residents and the lives of those who lived there 180 years earlier.Arcadia is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.Additional funding is provided by the Sidney E. Frank Foundation.Directed by John RubinsteinProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergKate Burton as HannahMark Capri as ChaterJennifer Dundas as ThomasinaGregory Itzin as Bernard NightingaleDavid Manis as Captain BriceChristopher Neame as Noakes/JellabyPeter Paige as ValentineDarren Richardson as AugustusKate Steele as ChloeSerena Scott Thomas as Lady CroomDouglas West

A conversation with Bump playwright Chiara Atik and renowned OB/GYN Dr. Judith Reichman, former medical correspondent for The Today Show

When Claudia gets pregnant she has a very clear plan for how she wants to give birth. Her pre-natal anxieties inspire her father to create a device for safer deliveries and Claudia realizes that nothing ever goes quite as expected.Bump is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.Bump was written by Chiara AtikDirected by Rosalind AyresProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergLucy DeVito as Mary, Apple, ReceptionistAnna Lyse Erikson as Lemon, Third WomanAlma Martinez as MariaAnna Mathias as Midwife, Avocado, DoulaAna Ortiz as ClaudiaMoira Quirk as Walnut, Mama, Second WomanHerbert Sigüenza as LuisAndré Sogliuzzo as YouTube GuyDevon Sorvari as Grapefruit, Waiting MotherInger Tudor as Narrator, Plum, Different Mama

When Claudia gets pregnant she has a very clear plan for how she wants to give birth. Her pre-natal anxieties inspire her father to create a device for safer deliveries and Claudia realizes that nothing ever goes quite as expected.Bump is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.Bump was written by Chiara AtikDirected by Rosalind AyresProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergLucy DeVito as Mary, Apple, ReceptionistAnna Lyse Erikson as Lemon, Third WomanAlma Martinez as MariaAnna Mathias as Midwife, Avocado, DoulaAna Ortiz as ClaudiaMoira Quirk as Walnut, Mama, Second WomanHerbert Sigüenza as LuisAndré Sogliuzzo as YouTube GuyDevon Sorvari as Grapefruit, Waiting MotherInger Tudor as Narrator, Plum, Different Mama

Hear our conversation with Extinction's playwright Hannie Rayson and director Martin Jarvis.

A zoologist in Australia gets funding to save an endangered species from the very company that threatens its existence. Will this deal with the devil allow her to save the species, or will it destroy her entire life's work?Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in September 2020.Extinction is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.Directed by Martin JarvisProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergSeamus Dever as Harry JewellSarah Drew as Dr. Piper RossDarren Richardson as Andy DixonJoanne Whalley as Professor Heather Dixon-BrownSenior Producer: Anna Lyse EriksonRecording Engineer, Editor and Sound Designer: Neil WogensenSenior Radio Producer: Ronn LipkinFoley Artist: Jeff GardnerMixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

A zoologist in Australia gets funding to save an endangered species from the very company that threatens its existence. Will this deal with the devil allow her to save the species, or will it destroy her entire life's work?Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in September 2020.Extinction is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.Directed by Martin JarvisProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergSeamus Dever as Harry JewellSarah Drew as Dr. Piper RossDarren Richardson as Andy DixonJoanne Whalley as Professor Heather Dixon-BrownSenior Producer: Anna Lyse EriksonRecording Engineer, Editor and Sound Designer: Neil WogensenSenior Radio Producer: Ronn LipkinFoley Artist: Jeff GardnerMixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood

Hear our conversation with playwright Kenneth Lin.

One of the world’s wealthiest men has died in a plane crash. The insurance company representing the airline assigns math genius Mitch Bloom to the case to minimize their payout – but Mitch finds himself facing a formidable opponent in Ida Watkins, a small town actuary who challenges his ideas about the value of a human life.Life on Paper is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.Directed by Rosalind AyresProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergKevin Daniels as Ivan BlumenthalSeamus Dever as Mitch BloomSarah Drew as Ida WatkinsMark Jude Sullivan as Michael WatkinsSummer Spiro as Maggie JonesSenior Producer: Anna Lyse EriksonRecording Engineer, Editor and Sound Designer: Neil WogensenSenior Radio Producer: Ronn LipkinFoley Artist: Jeff GardnerMixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West HollywoodMusic for M

One of the world’s wealthiest men has died in a plane crash. The insurance company representing the airline assigns math genius Mitch Bloom to the case to minimize their payout – but Mitch finds himself facing a formidable opponent in Ida Watkins, a small town actuary who challenges his ideas about the value of a human life.Life on Paper is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.Directed by Rosalind AyresProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergKevin Daniels as Ivan BlumenthalSeamus Dever as Mitch BloomSarah Drew as Ida WatkinsMark Jude Sullivan as Michael WatkinsSummer Spiro as Maggie JonesSenior Producer: Anna Lyse EriksonRecording Engineer, Editor and Sound Designer: Neil WogensenSenior Radio Producer: Ronn LipkinFoley Artist: Jeff GardnerMixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West HollywoodMusic for M

Hailed by The Boston Globe as “a gem,” The Ruby Sunrise begins when a 1920s tomboy feverishly works to develop her latest invention—a little something called “television.” Twenty-five years later, her daughter will stop at nothing to bring her mother’s incredible story to life during TV’s Golden Age. But will it get the truth it deserves?The Ruby Sunrise is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in March 2007.Directed by Brendon FoxProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergAsher Book as Henry/Paul BenjaminKatharine Leonard as Suzie TyroneKate McGregor-Stewart as Lois/Ethel ReedElisabeth Moss as Ruby Sunrise/Elizabeth HunterJason Ritter as Tad RoseKate Steele as LuluHenry Winkler as Martin Marcus

Hailed by The Boston Globe as “a gem,” The Ruby Sunrise begins when a 1920s tomboy feverishly works to develop her latest invention—a little something called “television.” Twenty-five years later, her daughter will stop at nothing to bring her mother’s incredible story to life during TV’s Golden Age. But will it get the truth it deserves?The Ruby Sunrise is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in March 2007.Directed by Brendon FoxProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergAsher Book as Henry/Paul BenjaminKatharine Leonard as Suzie TyroneKate McGregor-Stewart as Lois/Ethel ReedElisabeth Moss as Ruby Sunrise/Elizabeth HunterJason Ritter as Tad RoseKate Steele as LuluHenry Winkler as Martin Marcus

A conversation with Carol Ann Bassett, the author of Galápagos at the Crossroads: Pirates, Biologists, Tourists, and Creationists Battle for Darwin’s Cradle of Evolution.

Tooth and Claw author Michael Hollinger tells us about what inspired him to write the play.Tooth and Claw is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.

In an emotional ecosystem as complex as that of our planet, is life nothing more than survival of the fittest? Michael Hollinger based his probing work on the real-life giant tortoise named ‘Lonesome George’, and the efforts to preserve his species that threatened the livelihood of the native fishermen on the Galàpagos Islands.Tooth and Claw is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.Directed by Jessica KubzanskyProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergJaime Alvarez as Pedro/ChicoStephanie Beatriz as Ana OrtegaDaniel Chacón as Park Official/Tour Guide/AlbertoRichard Gallegos as Tito/BernardoDaniel Guzman as Gonzalo ReyesJustin Huen as Jorge/ManuelJay Montalvo as Miguel MendozaW. Morgan Sheppard as Malcolm GearyJos Viramontes as Carlos ZavalaCynthia Watros as Schuyler Baines

In an emotional ecosystem as complex as that of our planet, is life nothing more than survival of the fittest? Michael Hollinger based his probing work on the real-life giant tortoise named ‘Lonesome George’, and the efforts to preserve his species that threatened the livelihood of the native fishermen on the Galàpagos Islands. Tooth and Claw is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.Directed by Jessica KubzanskyProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergJaime Alvarez as Pedro/ChicoStephanie Beatriz as Ana OrtegaDaniel Chacón as Park Official/Tour Guide/AlbertoRichard Gallegos as Tito/BernardoDaniel Guzman as Gonzalo ReyesJustin Huen as Jorge/ManuelJay Montalvo as Miguel MendozaW. Morgan Sheppard as Malcolm GearyJos Viramontes as Carlos ZavalaCynthia Watros as Schuyler Baines

Hear mathematician Dr. Steven Strogatz talk about Proof in an interview from 2010.

Listen to clinical psychologist Dr. Carrie Bearden talk about Proof in an interview from 2010.

An enigmatic young woman. A manipulative sister. Their brilliant father. An unexpected suitor. One life-altering question. The search for the truth behind a mysterious mathematical proof is the perplexing problem in David Auburn’s dynamic play. Proof won both a Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.Proof is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.Directed by Jenny SullivanProducing Director: Susan Albert LoewenbergAnne Heche as CatherineJeremy Sisto as HalRobert Foxworth as RobertKaitlin Hopkins as Claire

An enigmatic young woman. A manipulative sister. Their brilliant father. An unexpected suitor. One life-altering question. The search for the truth behind a mysterious mathematical proof is the perplexing problem in David Auburn’s dynamic play. Proof won both a Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.Proof is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.Directed by Jenny SullivanAnne Heche as CatherineJeremy Sisto as HalRobert Foxworth as RobertKaitlin Hopkins as Claire