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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KING LEAR
Monday, December 3rd, 2018No one trims the Bard down to basics better than director-of-all-trades Denise Devin, and with Robert A. Prior editing and adapting Shakespeare’s mammoth text in addition to delivering a masterful star turn in the title role, Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group’s 90-minute King Lear packs a powerful punch whenever His Royal Majesty is center stage.
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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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AN EVENING OF BETRAYAL
Saturday, June 9th, 2018
Harold Pinter’s backwards-moving Betrayal and an abridged Othello told from finish to start add up to An Evening Of Betrayal that proves one of late spring’s most exciting theatrical surprises.
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