Author Archive
THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
Saturday, September 8th, 2018Director Stan Zimmerman’s high-concept, Latino-cast The Diary Of Anne Frank scores points for its thought-provoking premise. In execution, however, it proves a mixed bag at best.
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SWEAT
Friday, September 7th, 2018
Playwright Lynn Nottage gives voice to blue-collar America in her Pulitzer Prize-winning Sweat, now making a gut-punching Los Angeles debut at the Mark Taper Forum, a suspenseful, insightful look at an electorate so disillusioned by their failed American Dreams that they ended up doing the unthinkable.
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THE WORLD GOES ‘ROUND
Thursday, September 6th, 2018
Five of L.A.’s most talented triple-treats performing twenty-nine Kander & Ebb gems add up to one non-stop entertaining evening of musical theater as Reprise 2.0 treats audiences to its sensationally performed, imaginatively directed, gorgeously designed The World Goes ‘Round.
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SPRING AWAKENING
Sunday, September 2nd, 2018
Spring Awakening has arrived at Hollywood’s Lounge Theatre in what is easily the most “high-concept” of the fourteen productions I’ve seen. Promoted as “Spring Awakening For Gun Safety” and drawing overt connections between its 1891 teen protagonists and the 2018 world we live in, this thoroughly original vision is as stunningly directed and choreographed as it is strikingly designed and powerfully performed.
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ALWAYS … PATSY CLINE
Saturday, September 1st, 2018
Cori Cable Kidder reprises her Ovation Award-nominated, Scenie-winning star turn as Patsy Cline opposite SoCal musical theater treasure Ann Myers in Glendale Centre Theatre’s Always … Patsy Cline for two hours of country music memories backed by a live band. Need I say more?
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THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Friday, August 31st, 2018
The Glass Menagerie is in expert hands as International City Theatre revives the masterpiece that first put Tennessee Williams’ name on the map, giving it a 74th-anniversary revival sparked by impeccable direction, striking design, and performances that breathe fresh new life into a classic.
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THE CHALK GARDEN
Tuesday, August 28th, 2018
Brits don’t get more delightfully eccentric than the residents of Mrs. St. Maugham’s Sussex manor house in Enid Bagnold’s 1955 charmer The Chalk Garden, the latest Theatricum Botanicum gem.
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I GO SOMEWHERE ELSE
Monday, August 27th, 2018An emotionally abusive childhood provides the backstory to the celebration of survival that is Inda Craig-Galván’s memory play I Go Somewhere Else, a playwrights’ Arena World Premiere as superbly acted as it is strikingly designed. If only it were easier to figure out who’s who and what’s what.
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