John Billingsley portrays writer Ambrose Bierce, one of America's harshest (and truest) moralists. Join "Bitter Bierce" on a fifty year jaunt through America from the Civil War through the Gilded Age. Sentimental America still hates Bierce, as well it should.
He stands for everything we have not become.

Set - Susan Gratch • Lights - Trevor Norton • Costume - Tom Slotten
Original Music - Michael Roth • Stage Manager - Brigid O'Brien

In Repertory with Miss Margarida's Way
(produced by Stage Door Johnny Productions)

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Pay-What-You-Can Preview - July 15, 2004
Opening Night - July 16, 2004

Also plays July 17, 18, 24, 25, 29, 30, August 7, 8, 12 & 13, 2004.
Thursday through Saturday 8 PM, Sunday 7 PM

Tickets:
$15, cash only!
$10 with presentation of ANY union card.

Performance Location:
Zephyr Theatre
7456 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood
(between Gardner and Vista).

Parking:
Valet Parking available at neighborhood restaurants.
Public Parking Garage on Gardner south of Melrose.
Free parking south of Clinton (one block south of Melrose).

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Review Quotes

"Bitter Bierce....is a happy marriage of performance and text that leaves us weeping at the church." - Los Angeles Times

"[John Billingsley's Ambrose Bierce]....is an extraordinary performance, a heaven-sent opportunity to see a gifted actor at the peak of his craft....[His] swaggering, staggering turn is mesmerizing." - Los Angeles Times

"....smartly directed by James Martin [Billingsley] never misses a beat in capturing the jaundiced soul of this angry figure in 75 minutes of rigorous confession." - L. A. Weekly

"....these theatre makers make the bitterness surprisingly, blissfully bittersweet." - Back Stage West

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