Company of Angels

Founded in 1959, Company of Angels, now known simply as CoA provides a space for actors and other theater artists to work at their craft free of commercial constraints. The original company, incorporated by entertainment attorney Bertram Fields, included actors Richard Chamberlain, Leonard Nimoy, Vic Morrow and Vic Tayback. Company of Angels is the oldest not-for-profit repertory theater in Los Angeles.^{[citation needed]} Along the way the company has received almost every Los Angeles theatrical award, including The LA Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama-Logue Award, the LA Weekly Theater Award, and the Ovation Award.^{[citation needed]} During this time the company has been sustained solely by its membership.

Location

The very first theatre of the Company of Angels was located on Vine Street and Waring Avenue in the heart of Hollywood (Los Angeles, California). However, on April 27, 1988, fire destroyed that building. In 1989, the Company relocated to the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles, at 2106 Hyperion Avenue, today's Lyric Hyperion Theater Cafe. Seventeen years later, the Company left Silver Lake for the re-developing downtown Los Angeles area. After a brief stint at The Grand Avenue Club, Company of Angels now resides in the historic Alexandria Hotel at 501 S. Spring Street in Downtown Los Angeles above Palm Court (Alexandria Hotel)

Past Productions

• 2009
  • Dias y Flores
  • Black Women: State of the Union
  • LA VIEWS II- Tales of Present Past
  • Downtown Voices: Standing in the Gap
  • BigBro/LilBro

• 2008
  • L.A. Views: Ten Minutes at a Time
  • Sissy
  • The Chalk Boy
  • Lost
  • Los Peregrinos del Este

• 2007 Productions
  • Bare Naked Angels 2: Angels Unmasked
  • 365 Days/365 Plays
  • Bare Naked Angels 3: Angels Uncovered

• 2006
  • Colored Contradictions
  • Beneath Rippling Water
  • La Puta Vida
  • Bare Naked Angels: Angels Unleashed
  • Arlington
  • Naked Tales
  • Made in America
  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona
  • The Lark
  • Playing Juliet/Casting Othello

• 2005
  • The Colored Museum
  • Dust
  • The Normal Heart
  • The Waiting Room
  • Song of Juke
  • Hello Hello
  • The Eight: Reindeer Monologues

• 2004
  • We Had a Dream
  • The Virtual Adventures Of Riff Cat Polito
  • Tomorrow
  • Life During Wartime
  • Blackberry Love
  • Drive
  • Featuring Loretta
  • The Disposal
  • Problem Child
  • The Pizza Man
  • Happy Christmas Merry Chanukah

• 2003
  • Sylvia
  • Vegas Blues
  • Blood Relations
  • The Maids
  • And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little
  • People Doing Beckett
  • The Sugar Bean Sisters
  • Lucifer's Lament
  • Minor Demons
  • The Memory of Water
  • Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Chamber Music
  • Angels Unwrapped: Five Holiday Themed Plays
  • Colors: Sixteen Five-Minute Plays
  • 'Maid to Love

• 1988
  • LATC Fundraiser
  • Coarse Acting Show
  • Twelfth Night
  • Hidden in the Laughter
  • Plus-One
  • Midnight Madness

• 1987
  • The Exile of Ezra Pind
  • Happy End
  • Talking With..
  • Partners
  • One Acts to Grind
  • Midnight Madness

• 1986
  • Midnight Madness
  • Street Scene
  • Confluence / Cabin 12
  • Mortal Deities

• 1985
  • Who Am I This Time
  • Dusk Before Fireworks
  • New Rotics
  • Threads
  • Butterfaces
  • Curse of the Starving Class

• 1984
  • Paradise / The Day the Lake Turned Over
  • Twilight Doubleheader
  • The Memorandum
  • My Life
  • Rocket to the Moon
  • Winterset
  • Bury the Dead

• 1983
  • The Championship Season
  • Nothing Immediate
  • Avenue of Dreams
  • The Meeting
  • Dannie and Lawrence
  • King Stag
  • Flowers for Algernon

• 1982
  • Waiting for Lefty
  • The Collected works of Billy Armadillo
  • The Mummy and The Armadillo
  • Time Will Tell

• 1981
  • The Throphy Hunters and Tigers
  • Killing Game

• 1980
  • Three Penny Opera
  • All My Sons
  • Home
  • Bad Habits
  • Thieves

• 1979
  • Seven Keys to Baldpate
  • Cat Among the Pigeons
  • The Shortchanged Review
  • Reruns
  • Entertainment at Home
  • Who Killed Cory

• 1978
  • Henry II Sits in Judgement
  • Vanities
  • The Balcony
  • In Celebration

• 1977
  • The Oldest Living Graduate
  • Prisoner of Second Avenue
  • Saturday, Sunday, Monday