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12/05/2019

We're printing another round of White Album hoodies due to popular demand. Orders support the performance:

designed by Lars Jan + Wilson Kello / printed on BELLA + CANVAS unisex sponge fleece full zip hoodie.

11/05/2019

International premiere of The White Album at the Sydney Festival this January; come see us or tell your Aussie pals:

From The Doors to Charles Manson, the great Joan Didion chronicled the end of the California Dream.

04/05/2019

THE WHITE ALBUM is SOLD OUT tonight CAP UCLA. More performances this Saturday & Sunday (April 6-7) only:

In her essay "The White Album," Joan Didion conflated her impressions of such 1960s touchstones as the Black Panthers, The Doors and The Manson Family into a wide-ranging look at the era in California; it was equal parts memoir and coolly detached journalism. In the West Coast premiere of Lars Jans'...

01/29/2019

'The Institute of Memory (TIMe)' performs at Swarthmore College (PA) outside Philly this weekend, Feb 1 @ 5pm & Feb 2 @ 7pm. Free. Possibly our last tour after 8 cities internationally. This is a lidar scan of a rhino sculpture in Cambridge which overlooks the site where director Lars Jan's father taught him to ride a bike. Details: https://www.swarthmore.edu/cooper-series/lars-jan-’00-and-early-morning-opera-institute-memory-time

11/30/2018

Two more performances (11/30 and 12/1) of The White Album at the BAM Harvey in NYC. Check out this profile in The Paris Review

I had arrived on the set of Lars Jan’s production of ‘The White Album’ during a period of frantic minor adjustments: a white telephone for a surreptitious drug call had gone missing, the lighting during one sequence wasn’t quite psychedelic/psychotic enough, and the keyboard was failing to g...

10/11/2018

PANDÆMONIUM in LA: Oct 19 - 21
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I didn’t fall for you at the movies. I fell for you as a movie.
Now, let’s watch ourselves destroy ourselves, this preview for a film never shot.
Like our American mirage of billboard and desert and destinies manifest, we were always Cinemascope.
Let it end on the big screen, my love. We’re so much closer up there.

Pandaemonium collides self and cinema, a widescreen street fight between body and image. Driven by a live sound score and interactive video, based in the history of cinema and the American West, Pandaemonium is a slow-dance at the drive-in, a riot in the shimmering distance.

08/20/2018

The THANKS keep coming. 20 supporters of layered on some storyboard ideas for the piece. Gratefully, the people making the show

08/17/2018

LA Review Books hosts a conversation between Kate Bredeson, scholar at Reed and expert on the theatre of 1968, and Lars on the upcoming production of Joan Didion's THE WHITE ALBUM:

Kate Bredeson and Lars Jan discuss 1968 and Jan’s stage production of Joan Didion’s “The White Album.”

06/28/2018

A few of The White Album’s earliest supporters in NYC. Thanks friends!

06/27/2018