IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: THE RADIO PLAY
Friday, December 14th, 2018
There’s more than one Christmas miracle in store for the cast and characters of Theatre Unleashed’s It’s A Wonderful Life: The Radio Play, Jim Martyka’s double-your-pleasure adaptation of the holiday perennial.
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STEAMBATH
Saturday, November 24th, 2018Six towel-clad men and one similarly draped young woman kvetch about the insignificant lives they have left behind as they await who knows what lies ahead in Bruce Jay Friedman’s Steambath, an only fitfully diverting Odyssey Theatre Ensemble revival of a 1970 off-Broadway play that, even with Anthony Perkins as its star, couldn’t manage to make it past 128 performances.
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BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!)
Tuesday, November 13th, 2018Clementine, Maddy, and Antonia are women on the verge of a nervous breakdown in North Orange, New Jersey circa 1960 in Jami Brandli’s BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!). That they’re also Clytemnestra, Medea, and Antigone reincarnated is one reason Brandli’s take on mid-20th-century suburbia works considerably less well than it would if she had stuck to satire. The other is the play’s two-and-a-half-hour running time.
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TWO MILE HOLLOW
Monday, October 29th, 2018Anton Chekhov meets Aaron Spelling in Leah Nanako Winkler’s Two Mile Hollow, an Artists At Play World Premiere whose first act is so deliciously, risk-takingly hilarious, one can’t help wishing there were about a quarter-hour less of Act Two.
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VIETGONE
Saturday, October 27th, 2018
Romantic comedy lovers are in for a treat as a couple of Vietnamese evacuees in an Arkansas refugee camp circa 1975 fall reluctantly in love in Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone, one of East West Players’ all-around best productions in years.
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ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
Sunday, October 14th, 2018
Tom Stoppard ponders the absurdity of life and the inevitability of death in his existentialist comedy classic Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, the thrillingly staged if occasionally inscrutable latest from A Noise Within.
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REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES
Saturday, October 13th, 2018
Real women not only have curves, they join forces to bring audiences a female-fueled revival of Josefina López’s Real Women Have Curves, a Garry Marshall Theatre crowd-pleaser if there ever was one.
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VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE
Monday, October 8th, 2018
Squabbling siblings have rarely inspired as much laughter as they do in Christopher Durang’s scrumdiddlyumptious 2013 Best Play Tony winner Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike, now being given a bang-up big-stage production at South Coast Repertory.
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