WITCH
Sunday, September 1st, 2019
Is there something you want so badly that you’d give up your soul to get it? That is the question Jen Silverman poses in Witch, her devilishly clever, deliciously laugh-packed, decidedly dark look at gender, class, and the future of life as we know it, set way back in Jacobean England but told in a vernacular as contemporary as the latest Netflix hit.
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DRIVING WILDE
Friday, August 23rd, 2019Though it goes haywire about halfway through, Driving Wilde, Jacqueline Wright’s trippy contemporary Americanized take on The Portrait Of Dorian Gray, is far from dull.
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THE DIRECTION HOME
Monday, July 22nd, 2019Tonally it’s all over the place and its lackluster title is unlikely to prove a box-office draw, but Greg Vie’s autobiographical The Direction Home works for the most part as a nostalgic, touching coming-of-age comedy set in WeHo only a few years before the music died.
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DANCING AT LUGHNASA
Wednesday, July 17th, 2019
Brian Friel lovers could not ask for a finer production of his 1992 Best Play Tony winner Dancing At Lughnasa than Open Fist Theatre Company’s 2019 revival. Non-devotees might find their attention wandering during its long, chitchat-filled first act, but once Friel’s memory play takes fire post-intermission, the latest from Open Fist more than merits curtain-call cheers.
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STRONG ARM
Tuesday, July 16th, 2019
Taking as his inspiration Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, playwright Wyn Moreno has created a contemporary dysfunctional family dramedy that stands tall on its own merits in Strong Arm, the World Premiere latest from Orange County’s The Wayward Artist.
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THREADS
Friday, July 12th, 2019Love … and the fragility of life … tie together Jeff Locker’s serio-comedic Threads, an evening of theatrical shorts that doubles as the 2019 Summer Showcase for seventeen talented professional actors studying at Anthony Meindl’s Actor Workshop.
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READY STEADY YETI GO
Monday, June 24th, 2019Sixth-graders reenact a local hate crime for reasons that don’t particularly make sense in David Jacobi’s Ready Steady Yeti Go, a talent showcase for its gifted 20something ensemble that would work even better with age-appropriate casting.
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MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES
Saturday, June 22nd, 2019
Truth is indeed stranger than fiction in Michael Mitnick’s time-traveling, mind-tripping look at the Mysterious Circumstances surrounding the still unsolved death of the world’s foremost Sherlock Holmes scholar.
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