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| BURNING PATIENCE Los Angeles, CA -- Burning Patience, the final production in the current theater season at California State University, Los Angeles, features Emmy Award-winning actor Henry Darrow and theater/film veteran Marta DuBois. Burning Patience will be performed: Fri., May 24 (opening night), Sat., May 25, Fri., May 31 and Sat., June 1 at 8 p.m., and on Sun., May 26 and Sun., June 2 at 2:30 p.m. As a prelude to the creation of a professional segue company on the Cal State L.A. campus, funding has been provided to hire equity performers, enabling Cal State L.A. student actors to work opposite professional actors while still studying on campus. Burning Patience, originally written in Spanish as Ardiente Paciencia by noted Chilean novelist Antonio Skarmeta, is the play and book source for the award-winning film, Il Postino. In this production, stage and television veteran Henry Darrow plays the legendary Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Darrow won an Emmy for best supporting actor for the television series, Santa Barbara. He has been a staple of series television for the last 40 years starring for four years on High Chaparral in the mid-1960s and continuing as a series regular on such recent programs as the New Zorro and Resurrection Blvd. Marta Dubois plays the widow Gonzales in Burning Patience. A theater veteran who was most recently seen in Selena: The Musical and Luminarias, she has had an extensive career in film and television. Her starring roles in film include Luminarias, Blackout and Boulevard Nights, among many others. Playing the young lovers are students Jonathan Williams as Mario the Postman and Norma Perez as Beatriz. While both are students at Cal State L.A., they each have had a number of professional experiences that include PerezÂs starring role in the Academy Award-nominated documentary, Colors Straight Up. Included in the cast are Juan Carlos Alvarado, Horacio Galaviz, C.J. Lombardi, George Paez and Andrew Zutta. According to Stephen Rothman, former artistic director of the Pasadena Playhouse and now the chair of the Theater Arts and Dance department at Cal State L.A., ÂOur dream here at Cal State L.A. is to create a segue company where our most advanced students will work in a professional company with the incredible talent pool that exists here in Los Angeles. ÂWe are quite fortunate to have received the funding that is allowing us to do a first step experiment by producing Burning Patience this year with professional actors working with our students, he added. Cal State L.A. is located at the Eastern Ave. exit of the San Bernardino (10) freeway, at the intersection of the 10 and 710 freeways. Public permit dispenser parking is available at 50 cents per hour in Lots C, F and G or upper level of Parking Structure II. Tickets are $10 for general admission and $5 for students and seniors. Admission is free for those with valid CSULA ID. For ticket reservations or information, call the Cal State L.A. box office at (323) 343-4118.
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