THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
Masterfully inventive direction and a marvelously multi-talented cast work theatrical alchemy on Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle, the latest Antaeus Theatre Company triumph.
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Saturday, June 22nd, 2019
A revelatory Rob Morrow heads an all-around superb cast in The Ruskin Group Theatre’s meticulously directed, stunningly performed 70th-anniversary revival of Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman.
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HARVEY
Monday, June 3rd, 2019
Harvey is back, and French Stewart is seeing him (even if we can’t) in Laguna Playhouse’s spiffy 2019 revival of Mary Chase’s 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy classic.
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DIANA OF DOBSON’S
Saturday, April 20th, 2019
Minimum-Wage Worker Goes Wild On 15-Grand Inheritance.
If this sounds like the log-line for an upcoming Emma Stone romcom, think again. Playwright Cicely Hamilton came up with this one way back in 1908 when she wrote Diana Of Dobson’s, a largely forgotten frothy romp with feminist teeth now being given a splendiferous 21st-century Antaeus Theatre Company revival.
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Saturday, April 13th, 2019
Kevin McCorkle makes for a masterful, deeply affecting Willy Loman in The Process 360’s 70th-anniversary intimate staging of Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman, now playing at North Hollywood’s Secret Rose Theatre.
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HAMLET
Saturday, March 9th, 2019
Five extraordinary actors of assorted ethnicity, gender, race, accent, and age make theatrical history by divvying up The Prince Of Denmark in The 6th Act’s brilliantly conceived, superbly performed Hamlet.
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THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Sunday, March 3rd, 2019
Director Geoff Elliott reinvigorates a 20th-century classic to stunning effect in A Noise Within’s 2019 revival of Tennessee Williams’ 1944 chef-d’oeuvre The Glass Menagerie.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Saturday, February 2nd, 2019
Multitalented director Michael Marchak ups the physical comedy to entertaining effect in Crown City Theatre Company’s 124th-anniversary revival of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest, but it remains Wilde’s way with words delivered by a terrific cast of Crown City favorites that earn the lion’s share of laughs.
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