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In Victorian England, when women enjoy few legal rights, Kitty Warren has built an international business empire. When her daughter Vivie, who has been “boarded out her whole life,” graduates from Cambridge, she presses her mother for answers as to her existence. The truth of how her mother survived poverty is difficult to hear; but it’s not the whole story. Mrs. Warren’s Profession takes a hard look at the choices a woman must make, faced with little or no options before her, and the moral implications of economic survival.

In this original dark comedy, actress Nina Sallinen portrays a 90 year-old Grande Dame (also named Nina Sallinen) of the Scandinavian Theater. The old actress has brazenly chosen Shakespeare’s King Lear as the material for her final artistic farewell performance. She has a special interest in the theme as she believes her own two daughters to be just as greedy and neglectful as King Lear’s. The performance, which she stages in her own apartment, unintentionally highlights the artist’s own life story, as she gradually becomes cognizant of the deeper parallels between her life and that of King Lear’s. Instead of shaking up her own daughters with her performance, the old diva shakes up herself. Her priorities and past choices come into question.

Steven Gordon and his group return to PRT for an evening of original songs, compositions and jazz standards. Winner of the Angel City Emerging Artist Competition, Steven has performed with Esperanza Spalding, Jackson Browne, Barbara Morrison, and Kenny Burrell and at venues including Walt Disney Concert Hall, Catalina’s Bar and Grill, and the LACMA Jazz Series.

Singer/songwriter MARK TSCHANZ has had an exciting career in the music business, working as a film and tv composer for the past 25 years and a songwriter and recording artist for EMI Publishing in London for 7 years. Mark, has a wonderful sound and is playing, some of his favorite songs, Alternative music accompanied with his acoustic and electric guitars, on October 18th in our Concert space, at 705 Venice Blvd.