Dy-Lites: August 14th to 21st
A weekly recap of some of our favourite moments from Dynasty Typewriter, as captured on instagram @dynastytypewriter.
🎩Justin Willman's live show & screening of his new Netflix series Magic For Humans was... you guessed it, magical. Binge the series!
🍕Saturday's Dynasty Tonight show was a full-on party with a stellar lineup including the last minute addition of the amazing Demetri Martin, and an insane POP-IN from Eric Andre. AND we treated the audience to an intermission #SLICETHENIGHT pizza party!
⚔Monday mayhem served up by episode 300 of Harmontown with epic guests includingKumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon!
📒Lindsay Ames' My Diary show was a SOLD OUT delight! If you thought you couldn't love Kyle Mooney more, you'd be wrong. You'd have fallen desperately further into his abyss after watching him play a conscious hip-hop song he wrote for his high school ex-girlfriend (who he brought up on stage.)
🔥Sunday's "We're Doing This!" with Mitchell Marchand & Renee Gauthier was so lit we ended up in the gossip rags!
Like a BOSSSSSS! Conan stopped by to check up on Team Coco's monthly comedy extravaganza Up & Up with Moses Storm and was so chuffed he decided to do a surprise 15 minute set.
Photo Recap: Sasheer Zamata Party Time
Sasheer Zamata Party Time is a fun variety show comprised comedy, music… and that’s it, pretty much just comedy and music! Hosted by Sasheer Zamata with special guests: Naomi Ekperigin (Broad City), Jaboukie Young-White (the Daily Show), and Emily Heller (Baby Geniuses).
Photographs by © Adrian Aguliar
My Diary Feat. Kyle Mooney, Kyle Kinane, + More!
My Diary is a monthly show where comedians reveal their most private moments publicly. Heaven help us all. Hosted by Lindsay Ames, this edition featured Kyle Mooney (SNL), Kyle Kinane (Netflix), Hayley Orrantia (The Goldbergs), Freckle (Search Party), and Rachel Evans (Dark 5 on Amazon).
Photography by Adrian Aguilar
Staff Picks
GOD BLESS OUR BASIC-ASS SWEETIES
We love our staff. If you've been here, you probably do too! We sent an email requesting they send us a picture of their "favorite thing and no more than 8 words why." We expected intimate images that helped us better understand our team as people. What we got? Mostly pictures of food.
- "I love my family, my friends and bacon." - FRANK CRONIN
- "Pizza: Baked. Greasy. Delicious. Just like me." - CHRIS GRANADOS
- "BIG DOGS GOTTA EAT." - MIKE MACALUSCO
- "Ya bois favorite thing is my first guitar. After ten years I still play it everyday." - ADRIAN AGUILAR (Who flagrantly defied the 8 word request and for some reason texted his response instead of using the email thread?)
- The one saving grace was the only woman on staff who replied to the email. Why didn't the other women reply? We don't know. "He’s 100% a good boy, 10/10. Juice!" - RACHEL BURNSTEIN
🎥💥DYNA-LITE REEL 🎥💥
This past Saturday's Gold Rush was one heck of a show for many reasons!
1) Minutes after a Twitter ask, we had some true DynastyDarlings pull through with real TUMBLEWEEDS for our stage. From Victorville. AND they've been blown & shellacked to perfection. See these bumblin' beauts for yourself at the upcoming Gold Rush!
2) Our lost and found auction was.. how do you say.... "lit AF." Golden sparkle shoes? Moto jackets! Mock turtlenecks? Sunglasses! Some of these items went for upwards of 17 dollars in a BIDDING FRENZY. The last time we've felt this inspired about our direction was when we got the popcorn machine! So yes. We're becoming an auction house. If you have anything you want to get rid of (props, clothes, knick knacks or paddywacks) contactus or just bring your goods to the theater, and we'll put 'em in our Bumblers Box™. Next auction at this Saturday's Gold Rush!
My Diary Feat. Adam Conover, Paul Rust, Georgia Hardstark, + More
My Diary is a monthly show where comedians reveal their most private moments publicly. Heaven help us all. Hosted by Lindsay Ames, this edition featured Adam Conover (Adam Ruins Everything), Paul Rust (Love), JC Coccoli (Key & Peele), Georgia Hardstark (My Favorite Murder), and Heather Pasternak (The Late Show W Stephen Colbert).
Photography by Adrian Aguilar
Jim Jeffries Looks Great Inside Us
💥Ohhh baby, Jim Jeffries has been in almost every one of our very special areas.💥 Stage, greenroom, audience, tech booth... beyond. (Because he was shooting a promo with PicRow for his Netflix special This Is Me Now premiering July 13th)
Announcing The Prototype
Oh goodness! We’ve had such a wild n’ wonderful 5 months, and we truly thank you for being a part of it. Ah, the shows we’ve hosted, friends we’ve made, lessons we learned… yes, the soft-opening has been firmly a success in our minds. And now, it is with great delight we announce,The ProtoType, our first official season of entertainment featuring screenings, comedy headliners such as Maria Bamford and Eugene Mirman, theatrical experiences such as NY’s Hidden Fences, musical events including Haunting Renditions and Titanique, and an ongoing weekly residency for Dan Harmon's wildly popular podcast HarmonTown.
As for the name of the season, “The ProtoType” is what we call a "double nod" (or DubNod™.) One nod to the continuation our venue’s soft opening, since it’s a prototype of our programming direction. The other nod is towards Dynasty’s imaginary past as a typewriter company. “The ProtoType by Dynasty” was one of the first typewriter models by Dynasty Typewriter, so really, it all makes perfect sense. If it doesn’t make sense to you, you can tuck it into the “eh, not for me” bin, and still enjoy everything else the theatre has to offer. “Like what!?” you say, exasperated with this email. Like this:
Running from June-Sept 15th, the ProtoType season boasts a diverse roster of entertainment. Headliners include comedians Todd Barry, Maria Bamford, and Eugene Mirman. Theatrical performances include the LA premiere of Jordan Temple’s comedic mashup Hidden Fences, and an encore performance of the amazing musical shit show Titanique (if you missed it last time, condolences. Don’t let it happen again!) Live podcasts from Grace Helbig (Not Too Deep) and Dan Harmon (HarmonTown). Highly produced variety shows including Sasheer Zamata Party Time, more of Team Coco’s Up&Up with Moses Storm, and Andy Kindler's Particular Show. Charity and social action benefits including Action Civics LA with Nick Kroll, Chelsea Peretti, Kristen Schaal, Fred Armisen, and Nathan Fielder, and instructional edutainment workshops like Brent Forrester’s Comedy Knowledge Drop. You like improv? Then you’ll love WorkJuice with comedic luminaries Paul F .Tompkins, Janet Varney, and Marc Evan Jackson. One-of-a kind cultural happenings like the opening night of Dirty Looks: On Location Film Festival, and a weekend of “Thrilling Fest” from the creators of cult-favorite Thrilling Adventure Hour. Audiences can also expect more additions to the schedule, drop-ins and surprises, as well as a series of signature events produced by the in-house team.
Meet Dynasty Diva: Dolly Levi
In anticipation of the premiere edition of Divas of Dynasty, our first all-drag-revue at Dynasty Typewriter, we're catching up with some of the performers who will be gracing the stage.
Dolly Levi is a actor, dancer, choreographer and member of the Dreamgirls Revue.
When were you first introduced to drag and why did it make an impact?
D: WAAAAAAAY back in the Shakespearian times when I learned that DRAG meant Dressed Resembling A Girl.
Which of your talents are you most proud of and why?
D: It's not a matter what talents I'm most proud of, it's the fact that I'm proud that I can do what I do for as long as I've been doing it and the people who come to see it enjoy it.
What do you like to do when you're NOT in drag?
D: Research, Im always researcing for new ways to tell a story.
What’s your go-to lip-sync song, and why?
D: All That Jazz, I just wanna fucking dance. And Holding Out For A Hero. It's all about doing things that I love, telling a story you can relate to and energizing an audience, making them feel good. These songs do all of that.
If you could have an all-queen dream dinner party, who’d be invited?
D: The pioneers of our time: Charles Pierce, Quentin Crisp, Christine Jorgensen, and Danny La Rue.
Divas of Dynasty kicks off on May 25th with a star-studded cornucopia of entertainers. Directed & hosted by Tye Blue, this unique theatrical experience stars Pandora Boxx, as well as master illusionist Vancie Vega, beloved So Cal favorites Dolly Levi and Borgia Bloom. Get more info here.
THE DYNASTY RECAP
Whewf! Move over royal wedding, 'cause the Dynasty had a TRULY regal week! We finally got to announce that beginning in June, we will be the new kingdom for Harmontown! Every Monday night just got a lot less Monday-feeling and a lot more wonderful! Oh, and guess what? Tig Notaro did a drop-in set on Greg Barris's amazing Heart of Darkness show. She brought with her a winning combo of smiles and Adele moments. Wish you were there hun! Matt Braunger & Friends should be called Matt Braunger & Other Brilliants because his show was burstin' with goodness. On Friday we bowed down to the queen herself (CELINE!) in the truly amazing performance of Titanique. Celine Dion, as played by the impossibly talented Marla Mindelle, told her version of the story of the Titanic flanked by an attractive cast of quadruple threats. It was a night we'll never let go of. On Saturday, royalty made yet another appearance in the totally sold-out Comedian's Cinema Club presentation of The Princess Bride. The theater was packed and the cast was nuts. (The good kind of nuts! Like cashews!) And Sunday, a king of the art of comedy, Brent Forrester (who possesses both a mind and a heart of sustainably sourced gold) gave us a whirlwind of laughter and priceless information in the first ever Comedy Knowledge Drop. If real school was this fun, we'd all be like, doctor-lawyer-entomologists.
Oh, and dang! Our marquee got marked by THE BART MAN!
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