Film Noir Unscripted 
Back by popular demand!!!
February 27, 2012
7:30 PM
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For those who love the hard-boiled fiction of Raymond Chandler and James M. Cain and the gritty film noirs their stories inspired, a new batch of “theatre noirs” will be unveiled this Spring. In this world-premiere format, twenty-seven never-before-seen plays will pay tribute to Noir’s tough-taking private eyes and femme fatales. From the brutal sneer of Mickey Spillane’s Kiss Me Deadly to the cynical chivalry of Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity, Noir’s poetry and violence, desire and destiny all find new life through the unpredictable staging, improvisational wit and verbal dexterity that infuse the stories of Impro Theatre. Rogue cop, doomed lover, corrupt robber baron, sadistic killer, B Girl or chanteuse — no actor knows what role he, or she, may be asked to play when stepping out to improvise.
"GO…HILARIOUS…You will see them at their comic best." – LA Weekly
"FEDORAS AND FISHNETS…These angels with dirty faces play well with pulp." – LA Times
“The audience loved every minute of it…a thoroughly entertaining event.” —LA Splash.com
“For those that enjoy their theater full of booze with a death by gunfire thrown in for good measure, L.A. NOIR UNSCRIPTED will fit the bill…one may become enchanted.” — Accessibly Live Off-Line
North Coast Rep Presents
TheHound of the Baskervilles
A Howling Comedy by
Phil Johnson
featuring Phil Johnson
May 3 & 4
8:00 PM
May 5
2:00PM & 8:00PM
May 6
2:00PM
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'A fast-paced and affectionate look at one of the most famous horror stories of all time where a single actor plays all the frightened- and frightening- characters that inhabit the dark and mystic world of Arthur Conan Doyle's masterpiece. Phil Johnson as Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and everyone else takes on all comers in the crazed, shadowy world of a medieval castle on the English moor against the famed 'Hound of Hell'....'
Made possible by
San Diego Foundation's Creative Catalyst Fund 2012
North Coast Rep Presents...
W.C. Fields, by Himself
by Dale Norris
One Night Only!
June 18, 2012
7:30PM
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His own son said that W.C. Fields "was perhaps the most complex, confusing and contradictory man who ever lived." An instantly recognizable figure that rose from small time juggler to movie star, details of his life are rich with drama, mistaken assumptions, and lies he himself spread. Licensed by the Fields family, and mentored at NCRT by artistic director David Ellenstein, actor/playwright Dale Morris moves his play W.C. Fields, By Himself another step forward in its development with this full production being staged one night only. Directed by Eric Poppick, and featuring Fred Harlow, and a local actress to be named, the play will run 80-85 minutes with no introduction.
 Dale Morris: An actor and playwright, Dale is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and Actors Equity Association. His play A Hundred Birds was named Outstanding New Play in 2007. He is the founder of Compass Theatre/6th @ Penn Theatre and the San Diego Theatre Scene. As an actor, his appearances include: SeaGlass Theatre (LA): Kvetch. San Diego Repertory Theatre: In the Other Room or the Vibrator Play, Starlight Theatre: The Pajama Game; Vox Nova Theatre: An Arrow to the Heart; Cygnet Theatre: Our Town (May 2011), The Receptionist; Backyard Productions, Hysterical Blindness; Compass Theatre/6th @ Penn:Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Glengary Glenn Ross, Middle-Aged White Guys, The Sum of Us, …A Young Lady From Rwanda, Antigone, The Children of Heracles, A Prayer for My Daughter (Best Ensemble), Ion Theatre: Raisins in the Sun, Quentin Crisp Theatre: Fit To Be Tied; North Coast Rep: The Elephant Man, An American Daughter; The Fritz: Escape from Happiness and Unmerciful Good Fortune; Sledgehammer: My Marriage to Ernest Borgnine; Diversionary: Execution of Justice. Film: The Lonely Detective, The Streetsweeper, American Daughter, Point Blank, Not Once But Twice and 'Til Death Do Us Part. TV: Fashion House, Silk Stalkings, The O. J. Trial Re-Enactment and Angel Street. Other roles: Oliver in Return Engagements (Aubry Award); Harold in Orphans, Jerry in Zoo Story, and Sir Wilfred in Witness for the Prosecution.
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