Monday, March 29, 2010

91. Magnificent Medium

When you think of Hollywood, what's the first thought that comes to mind?  Chances are it is not the artistic medium known as theatre (or theater).

In the area of Hollywood known as NOHO (north Hollywood), a scant two blocks from the last stop on Los Angeles' subway, the Metro red line, is the NOHO Arts District, home to many theatres.  Not the type of theater you go to for viewing movies, but the sort you visit for live performances.

One of these theatres, Secret Rose (11246 Magnolia Boulevard), has its name inspired from the poem of the same name by William Butler Yeats.  The poems ending words are:  "...surely thine hour has come, thy great wind blows, far-off, most secret, and inviolate rose".

This 60 seat, intimate theatre is a place to see live theater practiced for the pure love of the craft.  Bagels, a nosh above other romances, is the name of the current production playing at Secret Rose Theatre.  With a ticket investment of $22, barely more than the price of a movie ticket, you may enjoy Bagels in a venue where there is not a bad seat in the house (and the seats are comfy, too).

Even though your SoCal gal wasn't lured to the theatre to enjoy Bagels, she was happily lured to Secret Rose by a seminar for releasing excuses with facilitator, Brad Yates, champion and tapper for being magnificent.  That's one of the other services Mike Rademaekers, Secret Rose Theatre's proprietor offers: theatre rental.  Secret Rose Theatre, which opened its doors in 1999, is a fully equipped professional theatre.  Acting classes are also available.

Like any good theatre district, there are some great eating establishments in the NOHO Arts District.  So, is it wrong that your SoCal gal made a bee line for the Starbucks a mere block from the Secret Rose?  After all in her mind the iced grande caramel macchiato is like a divine gift.  Fresh off the awesome seminar with Brad Yates, she makes no excuses for loving what she loves.

To the NOHO Arts District, venues like the Secret Rose Theatre and to everyone and everything being divinely magnificent: Cheers.

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