Parson’s Nose Productions

Specialties

We are a professional theater company now performing at the Lineage Center for the Performing Arts at 89 S. Fair Oaks in Old Pasadena (91 105). We introduce classic theater to audiences of all ages through one hour, faithful adaptations of our greatest works in theater and literature.

History

Established in 2000.

We believe our cultural and educational expectations are being woefully underestimated by today’s media. Sponge Bob and Jersey Shore have a place, but we believe there’s more. The classics are stories that have endured because they speak illuminating truths to each generation. They contain the richest language, characters and plots in our culture. They are the source for today’s theater, film and TV. The classics are about families. In the classics, the joys and problems of 17^th Century parents and children form a bridge to the 21^st. We realize we are, and have always been, part of the same human family.

To date we have presented 28 classic works by Shakespeare, Moliere, Chekov, Boucicault, Belasco, Perrault, Grimm, Hans Anderson and others to over 50,000 Angeleno adults, seniors and youth. We are about to begin our 13^th season, at the Lineage Performing Arts Center in Pasadena.

Meet the Business Owner

Lance D.

Business Owner

Lance Davis Born in Philadelphia, B.A. Notre Dame; L’Universite Catholique de L’Ouest; MFA University of Minnesota (McKnight Fellow). Theater: Five seasons Tyrone Guthrie Theater Company A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Love’s Labours Lost, A School for Scandal, The Relapse, Becket, The Crucible, Of Mice and Men, Solzhynitsyn’s A Play and Anthony Burgess’ adaptation of Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac. One hundred professional stage productions On, Off, and Off Off Broadway, Long Wharf Theater, Arena Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, Hartford Stage, Folger Theater, GeVA Stage, Atlanta Alliance Theater, Arizona Theater Company, Seattle Repertory and Pasadena Playhouse. Favorites: Mercutio Romeo and Juliet, Barnet in The National Health, Harpagon in The Mi$er. Television: All those shows now off the air, The Adams Chronicles, Beacon Hill, Twin Peaks, Murphy Brown, Roseanne, etc. Feature film: Anna, Heart, Barton Fink (Palm d’Or) Co-​founded Parson’s Nose with Mary Chalon