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I Dream of Dragons, Too

In Family Entertainment, Movies, Our Work, Transmedia, Uncategorized on February 15, 2015 at 10:48 am

awards_academynom_annieupdateWe are so excited for, and proud of, our friends at Dreamworks Animation for the amazing success of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2. Over $618 million in worldwide boxoffice and it continues to gain much deserved critical acclaim with multiple nominations and several awards under it’s high-flying belt: The Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film and 6 Annie Awards, including Best Animated Feature Film and Best Director for Dean DeBlois. It has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film. Fingers crossed for a win next Sunday, February 22! It would be a great nod to the film, the franchise (cause really, no offense to Toy Story 3, but How To Train Your Dragon should have taken the 2010 Oscar) and to the studio that has broken so much ground with their edgy and inspiring filmmaking and animation.

Check out the fun Dragons site http://dreamworksdragons.com for a deep dive into this spectacular world, which highlights not only the amazing movies, but also the TV show, the games, the products and all the characters. It’s all the dragons you’ll ever need in one place. This TVGla and Dreamworks franchise site was a 2014 W³ Awards Best in Show Winner!

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POISON APPLE ends Los Angeles run. Next, NYC?

In Mobile Marketing, Our Work, Theater, Transmedia on November 15, 2011 at 8:16 pm

Posion Apple, produced and directed by Susan Lambert, written by Sean Galsuzka and starring Sean Galuszka and Chris Sams has ended it’s Los Angeles premiere run with a special one-night only encore performance in a Pershing Square loft apartment in downtown Los Angeles!

Thanks to all who supported our original production through Kickstarter and to our amazing audiences for coming out and seeing us.  We got great press and reviews. You can check out this week’s Huffington Post article on Poison Apple, the nature of theater and how smartphones are making us dumb. Like us on Facebook and check out some of our reviews. We are 100% SWEET on Bitter Lemon!

More Reviews: Backstage,  LAWeekly (scroll to near the bottom) and Frontiers Magazine. We’ve shut down our TEXT messaging, but thanks to all who texted to get Poison Apple updates and the special transmedia Text pre-story to the show. Here’s another fascinating article by Steve Julian on Poison Apple writer Sean Galuszka. Next up: Deciding if 2012 will have us going to the New York Fringe Festival or the Edinburgh Fringe Festival… or BOTH!?!

Poison Apple Continues

In Mobile Marketing, Our Work, Transmedia on June 22, 2011 at 11:30 pm

Text "poison" to 41411 for more info Poison Apple

134 West is proud to produce an original one-act play, Poison Apple, written by Sean Galuszka and directed by Susan Lambert. After a sold out premiere at the Celebration Theater as part of the 2011 Hollywood Fringe Festival we are playing Fri. & Sat. nights through Aug 13th! And for interested folks with a mobile phone, the play started a week before it’s premeire, with a special mobile transmedia effort – one of the first ever pre-show text stories for a play. Fans of the show could text “poison” to 41411 to follow characters having a text conversation leading up to the show’s premiere. Very exciting!  Find out more & get tix: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/185973