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# DP Cafe creations
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/dp-cafe-creations/
- Published: 2007-02-16T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T00:04:31.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Entertainment, Santa Monica Airport, #archive-import

“Café Plays” are one-act plays — created within 10 and half hours — bound by a common theme and locale. Each must take place in a café. Past participants in “Café Plays,” as director or actor, have included Dylan McDermott (“The Practice”), Olivia D’Abo (“The Wonder Years”) and Dan Lauria (“The Wonder Years” and “Jag,”). The next monthly installment of the Ruskin Group Theatre’s “L.A. Café Plays” will be on Sunday, Feb. 18.

At 9 a.m. on the day of performance, five writers gather at Back on Broadway, a café-restaurant in Santa Monica. Each writer picks, at random, two manila envelopes containing actors’ headshots. They are then given four hours to write a seven-to 10-page one-act play that takes place in a café. The directors then take over, meet their actors and begin rehearsals.

“Café Plays” will be staged at 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. at Ruskin Group Theatre, 3000 Airport Drive at Santa Monica Airport. Tickets are $10\. Call (310) 397-3244 or go to www.ruskingrouptheatre.com.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 16, 2007.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/021607.pdf?ref=smdp.com)