Our Tenth Anniversary Season includes 3 musicals, 3 plays, a world premiere, cabaret shows, a short play festival and lots of great music at the OJP Music Lounge!
March-May 2023
The Old Grey Cats
The Old Grey Cats – name taken from an old fiddle tune – have played together for almost 20 years. Alan Davis (fiddle/mandolin), Roy Durnal (bass, bodhran), and Leo Kretzner (mountain dulcimer, guitar) play Irish and American old-time music with Celtic roots, from lively jigs and reels to humorous songs and sing-alongs. They’ve played at juice bars, pubs, and Irish-style wakes, but this is a rare concert appearance.
OJP Music Lounge
03/24 at 7pm
$15 (plus 1 drink minimum)
The lounge opens 1 hour before the show for cocktails, snacks, & small plates. Pre-order food when you buy your ticket to insure we have what you want.
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MR8
Mick Rhodes and the Hard Eight hail from the arid desert region east of Los Angeles, just close enough to the city to venture in and take what they need from the town of tinsel, leave the rest behind, and return to their outlying creative hub to plot their next record or tour.
Thriving outside the mainstream for the past 10 years has helped MR8 develop into one of the country’s best live bands. Battling it out independently, the group has released two records, “’Til I am Dust,” and “Paradise City,” both on Hot Tramp Records. “Paradise City,” received raves for its eclectic take on Americana, country, soul, blues and rock, with the single “Married Girls” appearing on several critics’ song-of-the-year lists.
OJP Music Lounge
03/25/23 at 7pm $15 (plus 1 drink minimum)
The lounge opens 1 hour before the show for cocktails and snacks. Pre-order food when you buy your ticket to insure we have what you want.
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April 6 – May 7, 2023
OJP Theater
Tickets $20-$32
Lounge opens one hour before each show. Small plates and sandwiches available for pre-order with your ticket.
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NATIVE GARDENS
by Karen Zacarías
Directed by Beatrice Casagrán
Show Producers: Still looking for an angel– is it you?
“The difference between a flower and a weed… is a judgment.” Unknown
“A hilarious comedy of good intentions and bad manners.”
You can’t choose your neighbors. In this brilliant comedy, cultures and gardens clash, turning well-intentioned neighbors into feuding enemies. Pablo, a rising attorney, and doctoral candidate & Tania, his very pregnant wife, have just purchased a home next to Frank and Virginia, a well-established D.C. couple with a prize-worthy English garden. But an impending barbeque for Pablo’s colleagues and a delicate disagreement over a long-standing fence line soon spirals into an all-out border dispute, exposing both couples’ notions of race, taste, class and privilege.
Ed Hume
“Strumming Stories”
Ed Hume is a singer/songwriter and stringed-instrument maker originally from Amherst County in central Virginia.
“Strumming Stories” is Ed’s first published album, and in keeping with his do-it-yourself roots, he not only wrote the songs and recorded, mixed, and mastered the album, he also built the guitar and other instruments he used on nearly every tune. “I see the album as a love letter to the people and places that have been the greatest influences on me.”
Musicians
• Jon Watson, guitar
• Janette Combs, fiddle & viola
OJP Music Lounge
05/13/23 at 7pm $20 (plus 1 drink minimum)
The lounge opens 1 hour before the show for cocktails and snacks. Pre-order food when you buy your ticket to insure we have what you want.
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The Jazz Fellowship
In early 2022, Jon Watson formed a new and exciting Jazz ensemble with fellow musicians enrolled in Jazz improvisation workshops at SoCal Jazz Academy in Orange County, CA to perform popular Jazz standards, Latin Jazz compositions, Blues and Bebop to audiences throughout Southern California. Featuring a rotating roster of talented musicians, Jazz Fellowship members come from diverse backgrounds and experiences. Yet, they collectively share a deep passion for Jazz. That passion is what makes it an enduring fellowship, and, with every performance, Jazz Fellowship strives to create a thing of beauty for everyone to enjoy.
Musicians
• Jon Watson, Drummer and Bandleader
• Antoinette Catalla, Vocalist
• Sharon Lank, Double Bass
• Douglas Choi, Piano
• Nicholas Casillas, Alto Saxophone
OJP Music Lounge
05/27/23 at 7pm $20 (plus 1 drink minimum)
The lounge opens 1 hour before the show for cocktails and snacks. Pre-order food when you buy your ticket to insure we have what you want.
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