Inner Circle Theater Company  Elizabeth Rosengren managing director Jewels Eubanks artistic director Chris Cotone executive director

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• Red Sky and Thunderbird go into development for the TV pilot of The I.V. for LATV

• Thunderbird Productions joins forces with Red Sky Entertainment

• Thunderbird Productions Shoots 5 short films including festival submission Butterfly

• I.C. Theater team starts new production company: Thunderbird Proctions in May 08

• I.C. Theater produces a new play by Elizabeth Rosengren:  Chekhov's Chicks  which played @ Manhattan Theater Source in the West Village 29 Nov - 15 Dec 2007:

• Reveiw of Chekhov's Chicks December 04, 2007 By Jerry Portwood
  Mention Chekhov and eyes are likely to glaze over at the prospect of dusty dramas, impenetrable dialogue, and incomprehensible names. For Chekhov's Chicks, Elizabeth Rosengren has done away with the tedium and air of erudition often associated with productions of Chekhov's plays, adapting several of them into an entertaining primer of pivotal scenes that allow humor and poignancy to shine through the dreariness.
  The protagonist is Anna Akimovna (Carolinne Messihi), a 26-year-old who feels an existential ache and is seeking fulfillment beyond the riches from her factory. She visits her doctor (Chris Cotone), who also happens to be a writer — Anton Chekhov, of course. Chekhov explains that he has no cure for her, but the doctor's muse, the actor Arkadina (Rosengren), insists that his characters will provide some soul-searching sustenance, so she has her troupe of actors re-enact scenes from The Three Sisters, Uncle Vanya, and The Seagull.
  The premise would probably remain a bit dull if it weren't for the irony that Rosengren manages to inject into the piece — both with her writing and acting. The female actors break from their roles, they joke to Akimovna — herself a character from Chekhov's short story A Woman's Kingdom — that Chekhov "doesn't write about anything easy" and needle him that there's "not one love story with a happy ending." Due to their urgings, Chekhov whips out a new play, The Bear, and he and Arkadina step into the roles of Popova and Smirnoff and begin their passionate, comedic tête-à-tête.
  Director Jewels Eubanks makes the staging of a dozen actors in a miniscule playing space seem effortless, and Rosengren's script is a perfect opportunity for talented actors to work with a master's words without having to commit to a tiring full-length production. Chekhov's Chicks makes a wonderful addition to the canon for those looking for powerful female parts without all the hassle.

• Theater Transforms; I.C.'s college level teen internship program for ages 15-18 announced for New York city Monday, July 9th to Friday, August 3rd

• Blood and Mercury extended!  Five more shows Sept 15-17

• Dinner and a Play Reading Series extended!  This Week, Love letters Starring John Slade and Laurie Walters

• The final offering for the summer is Jewels Eubanks’ Blood and Mercury which runs August 25 to September 10. 

• Next up is the Dinner and a Play Reading Series hosted by the downtown restaurant, IL Giordano’s. The seven week series will offer a new play every Thursday night at 7:00 pm from July 27 to September 7. The ticket price of $20 includes a full course dinner.  

• Beginning July 30 the company will host their annual Teen Intern Program, which offers conservatory classes in Acting, Voice and Movement, Improv, Playwriting, Technical Theater and How to Audition and Get into College. Students will showcase their work August 18-20 and will be considered for casting in the final main stage production.   

• The boys from Casitas are back this summer with their Summer Theater Series, a collection of four productions running from July 21 to September 10. The series begins with a Theater 150 Co-Production of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl, running July 21 to July 30.  

• Last year Inner Circle took the show on the road and produced their New York Off-Off Broadway debut, Othello at the Abingdon Theater in Manhattan .  The play was directed by Cotone, who also staged the Ojai Shakespeare Festival 2005 production of Return to the Forbidden Planet.    

• In the summer of 2003 Jewels Eubanks and Chris Cotone founded Inner Circle Theater Company at the auction house in Casitas Springs.  For three summers they have been delighting us with a collection of tales in their annual summer productions (National Anthem, Lone star, Summer Shorts, Metamorphoses).  

• Inner Circle returns from the Big Apple.

For info on any of the I.C. Theater production, call the box office hotline @ 805-302-5321.