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TWO GENTLEMEN OF CHICAGO
Saturday, March 24th, 2012
The Troubadour Theater Company is back for more inspired silliness as they take on William Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen Of Verona, retitled here Two Gentlemen Of Chicago, the better to feature a dozen or so Greatest Hits by the leading U.S. singles-charting group of the 1970s.
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SPRING AWAKENING
Friday, March 23rd, 2012
Spring has sprung in L.A. big time with the sensational Los Angeles intimate theater debut of Spring Awakening, the Steven Sater/Duncan Sheik musical adaptation of Frank Wedenkind’s groundbreaking 1891 drama.
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SIGHT UNSEEN
Friday, March 23rd, 2012
There are times when the order in which a writer sequences the scenes of a play or musical can be as crucial to the work’s impact as the scenes themselves. As in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal or Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years, the ordering of scenes in Donald Margulies’ Sight Unseen is of prime importance. Cleverly sequenced in a deliberately non-linear fashion, the eight scenes that make up Sight Unseen keep you thinking, keep you guessing, and may even provoke a gasp of surprise or recognition at key moments.
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AN EVENING WITH PATTI LUPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
Patti. Mandy. Together. On stage. Live. In concert.
Need I say more?
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A ROOM WITH A VIEW
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
E. M. Forster’s A Room With A View now comes to glorious musical comedy life at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre in a World Premiere adaptation by Jeffrey Stock and Marc Acito.
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ANNA CHRISTIE
Monday, March 19th, 2012NOT RECOMMENDED
There are times when a single performance can either salvage a play or sink it. In the case of The Old Globe’s revival of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie, the latter is unfortunately true.
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PARADE
Monday, March 19th, 2012
Thirteen years after its Broadway premiere, Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry’s Tony-winning musical Parade at long last gets its first San Diego production—one so superbly staged and performed that it more than justifies a day trip to our neighbor to the South.
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WORKING
Sunday, March 18th, 2012
Following its critically acclaimed revival of Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, The Production Company makes it two in a row with its sensational intimate staging of Studs Terkel’s Working, as adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso.
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