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Some years ago Mary and I were in New York and heard that Dick Van Patten, star of "Eight is Enough", would be speaking at a showing of...

The 2024-2025 season marks our 25th year of bringing classic theater, and more, to Los Angeles. How PNT Came to Be Back in 2000, I'd been...

We lost one of the great ones. Edward Payson "Ed" Call. At PNT we have a few Call alumni. Paul Perri, John Lee, Ivar Brogger, and we...

From "Preface to 'The Miser'", adapted by Lance Davis. Available February, 2023 Some years ago I finally had a chance to go to La Comedie...

The Psychology of Horror in Spooky Classic Tales

We are delighted to begin our 23rd season with a seldom-seen British comedy from the pen of Mr. Thomas Taylor. “Our American Cousin” was...

Parson’s Nose begins its 23rd season this month with a new pilot series, “PNT Friday Night Films”. A film “club”, as it were - informal,...

(The Fir Tree illustration by Edna Hart) Hans Christian Andersen was a remarkable writer. He had both a painful childhood, and a painful...

Happy Christmas - Johansen There’s a lot of “political correctness” buzz in the arts community these days. The dramatic events of the...