Story Pirates and Friends!
Friday, March 9th, 5PM. Hosted by Conan O'Brien! TICKETS!
Enjoy a family night out benefiting the Geffen Playhouse Story Pirates Play/Write Program. The evening includes a kid-friendly dinner pre-show and unlimited fun! The event benefits the education and outreach programs of the Geffen Playhouse. Through these programs, we provide free arts programs to underserved youth. The Story Pirates work to engage students in under-resourced Title 1 public schools by showing them that their ideas, their words and their stories are important. They perform sketch comedy and musical theater based on stories written by elementary school kids.
Kid-friendly food service begins at 5:00 pm. The performance begins at 6:00 pm.
Contact Jamie Sherman at 310.208.6500 ext. 128 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to purchase Host Committee Packages including 8 VIP tickets and a special Story Pirates gift!
After Dark Wrap Up
A huge Thank You to everyone who came out to the Story Pirates After Dark benefit at the Geffen Playhouse! It was a great time and tons of fun working with our all star cast, especially Edi Gathegi, French Stewart and Beth Behrs!
Remember, you can see Leslie perform every Saturday with The Story Pirates in Westwood at 2 PM. Click here for tickets!
Celebrity After Dark at the Geffen Playhouse!
The After Dark Show will be on Monday, January 9th at 8 PM at the Geffen Playhouse.
The Story Pirates are joining forces with some of Geffen’s favorite funny folks for a special celebrity benefit performance of The Story Pirates: After Dark, a sketch musical comedy based on stories written by elementary school kids. Former Geffen artists who will join the Pirates in story, song and the occasional dance include: Edi Gathegi (X-Men: First Class), Glenne Headly (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), French Stewart (Third Rock from the Sun) and Vanessa Stewart (Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara). In addition, special friends of the Geffen including Rosanna Arquette (Pulp Fiction) and Beth Behrs (Two Broke Girls) will also be participating in the fun-filled evening. This special Story Pirates: After Darkincludes a post-show wine and dessert reception. All proceeds benefit the Geffen Playhouse education and outreach programs.
For more info and tickets, please go HERE!
Brilliance!
The final performance of Brilliance! will be Saturday, December 10th at 11AM. Read what Sasha Lu, Kid Reporter for the Geffen Playhouse, had to say:
It was very funny... The acting was entertaining. The costumes were hilarious.
I learned a lot...This show made me want to be a scientist even more. If you like to laugh or if you like science (and math) I think you would LOVE this show.
For more show info, click HERE!
Trike in LA! Plus Brilliance at the Geffen Playhouse!
Trike in Los Angeles!
One Night Only! November 5th!
Something beautiful aligned in the stars and Trike, the most beautiful, lovely group of improvisers, is performing a show at ioWest on Saturday, November 5th at 7 PM!
TRIKE (A Time Out New York Critics’ Pick) is a three-person improvisational joy ride built upon bold characters and seamless transitions. Trike never stops to consider its direction but rather gracefully plummets down the staircase of discovery, landing momentarily in a quiet relationship here, a fiery exchange there or a boisterous abstraction somewhere in between. With Trike you never know where you’re going, but you’re guaranteed to enjoy the ride.
Starring: Nick Kanellis, Leslie Korein, Peter McNerney
Did you know that Alan Alda wrote a play about the life of scientist Marie Curie? Well he did. And The Story Pirates have created a companion peice for children of all ages called Brilliance!
In Brilliance!, the Geffen Playhouse Story Pirates will inspire audiences of all ages to laugh and cheer their way through a fast-paced and interactive exploration of Madame Curie's radioactive discoveries, which made her the first woman ever to win a Nobel Prize. This companion piece to Alan Alda's Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, is intended for families and pretty much anyone who could use a laugh while learning about the mysteries of the universe and the sheer brilliance of Marie Curie.
BRILLIANCE!Saturdays, November 12th and 19th, December 3rd and 10th at 11 AMThe Geffen Playhouse, 10886 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS!September and October
September 19-25
Leslie is thrilled to be going on a weeklong midwest tour with The Story Pirates! After performing and teaching workshops at elementary schools in Grand Rapids and Chicago, the tour will culminate in a show at Northwestern University on Friday, September 23rd at 8 PM at The Struble Theater, followed by a full weekend of shows at The Center for Independent Learning!
September 26-October 2
After her weeklong midwest sojourn, Leslie will be jetting out of the country and joining the International Ensemble at the Vancouver International Improv Festival. If this year is anything like last year, it will be a week of magical improvisational joyriding! See schedule for exact dates and times of shows but there will be at least 3 opportunities to see Leslie in improv action, surrounded by some of the best improvisers in North America and directed by the incomparable Charna Halpern and Randy Dixon.
October 8th and 11th
As promised, Leslie will be back in her home city of New York to make beautiful love to the multiple stages that house improv there. She is sitting in with her hilarious and lovely TONY Critics' Pick trio, Trike on Saturday, October 8th at 10:30 PM at the Magnet Theater. On Tuesday, October 11th at 9:30 PM she will join her old Moxie teammates Karsten Cross and Garrett Palm, along with Elana Fishbein, Christian Paluck and Morgan Phillips for a beautiful show at the Peoples Improv Theater.
LA is full of beauty and improv
The days are sunny, the nights are full of car lights and improv is alive and well in Los Angeles.
Leslie has been sitting in with Identical Dopes, an independent improv group, at Crashbar at Impro Theater in Los Feliz! She also has been writing and playing comedic and not-so-comedic songs on her guitar and has started performing around her home turf on the East side. More shows coming soon!
In the Meantime...
Come see Leslie perform with The Story Pirates in Westwood every Saturday at 2 PM!
Click here for tickets.
The Story Pirates After School Special, May 20th at 6PM!!
The After School Special is an annual presentation of the Story Pirates' musical sketch comedy show with celebrity appearances to raise funds for arts programming in underserved schools.
The 3rd Annual
After School Special features
Ana Gasteyer (“Saturday Night Live,” "Wicked")
Kristen Schaal (“Flight of the Conchords,” “Toy Story 3”)
Josh Gad (“The Book of Mormon”)
Mike Birbiglia (“Sleepwalk with Me”)
The Story Pirates (Over 150 schools from coast to coast)
and more!
Trike
Trike, my amazing improv, is now a Time Out NY Critic's Pick! Because I am venturing forth to Los Angeles in June, we only have two more shows altogether! Now is the time to see this "Improvisational joyride!"
Saturday, May 14th and 21st at 10:30PM.
All shows are at the Magnet Theater, 254 W. 29th Street between 7th and 8th!
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