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THE TRAVELING LADY
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
No one wrote more affectionately or accurately about the plain folk of Middle American than Horton Foote. In plays and movies like Tender Mercies, The Trip To Bountiful, and To Kill A Mockingbird, Foote returned home to those small towns where everybody knows your name—and your business … and your life is all the richer for it.
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GYPSY
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Ask any true Broadway aficionado to name the greatest musicals ever written and it’s a sure bet that Gypsy: A Broadway Fable (best known simply as Gypsy) will top many if not most lists. Though overshadowed in its original Broadway run by The Sound Of Music and Fiorello, which tied for the 1960 Best Musical Tony, Gypsy has stood the test of time with four Broadway revivals (including two in the 2000s alone), even more cast recordings, and a list of hit songs that seems to go on forever.
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FIFTH OF JULY
Friday, May 20th, 2011RECOMMENDED
Lanford Wilson’s Broadway hit Fifth Of July gets an intimate staging by the esteemed The Production Company, and while I can’t confess to being a fan of the play itself, there are good reasons for those who are to catch its latest revival.
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ART
Thursday, May 19th, 2011
The stars of last fall’s Moonlight And Magnolias are reunited as best friends in the Hermosa Beach Playhouse production of Yasmina Reza’s Tony-winning Art, just one of several reasons not to miss this terrific revival of the 1998 Broadway smash.
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KRUNK FU BATTLE BATTLE
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
East West Players closes its best season in years with Krunk Fu Battle Battle, quite possibly the first full-fledged hip-hop musical ever, and a sensational one at that.
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LIFE OF RILEY
Sunday, May 15th, 2011
Stan Walker. Godot. Maris Crane. Rosaline. The Little Red-Haired Girl. Mrs. Columbo. Bunbury. Mort Guffman.
To the above list of talked-about-but-never-seen characters of stage and screen fame can now be added George Riley, a man whose impending death has all the onstage characters in Alan Ayckbourn’s seventy-fourth full-length play in a tizzy.
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AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY
Saturday, May 14th, 2011
When a show gets called “flat-out, no asterisks and without qualifications, the most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years” by none other than the New York Times, then goes on to win both the Tony and the Pulitzer in addition to the Drama Desk, Drama League, New York Drama Critics’ Circle, and Outer Critics Circle awards, there’s nothing StageSceneLA can say to add to the excitement surrounding its arrival at San Diego’s Old Globe. But here goes:
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ALL SHOOK UP
Friday, May 13th, 2011
Who says lightning doesn’t strike twice? Who says you can’t improve on perfection? Well, whoever said either of those things clearly hasn’t seen 3-D Theatricals’ 2nd-Time-Around production of All Shook Up.
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