SUMMER SIZZLE ONE-ACT FESTIVAL
Friday, September 5th, 2008NOT RECOMMENDED
The Production Company is taking a break from its usual full length fare (following their much lauded Mrs. Warren’s Profession and preceding the much anticipated M Butterfly) to give 8 local playwrights the opportunity to show off their comic wares in The Summer Sizzle One-Act Play Festival (and competition).
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LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Lovers And Other Strangers is perhaps best known as the Oscar-winning 1970 movie which starred Gig Young (remember him?), Bea (then Beatrice) Arthur and Cloris Leachman (pre Maud and MTM), and featuring an unknown actress named Diane Keaton in her very first film role. (A dollar to whoever can remember in what category Lovers And Other Strangers won its Oscar.)
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ROSE’S DILEMMA
Friday, August 29th, 2008
The “ghost comedy” is a tried a true genre that, for me at least, never fails to entertain. You know the story. Ghost returns from the other side to haunt our hero (or heroine), the only one who can see or hear said ghost, a situation leading to exchanges like the following (purely of my own creation):
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SUFFER THE LONG NIGHT
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
FLU EPIDEMIC STRIKES COMMUNITY THEATER
UNDERSTUDIES REPLACE 19 OUT OF 23 IN CAST
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EDUCATING RITA
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
Willy Russell’s Educating Rita is probably best known to Americans as the 1983 film which starred Michael Caine as alcoholic Professor Frank Bryant and introduced Julie Walters to the world as hairstylist turned open university student Susan “Rita” White, a role which won her the Golden Globe award and an Oscar nomination.
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SISSYSTRATA
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
The Celebration Theatre concludes its 25th season with a sensational Sissystrata, a visually dazzling, outrageously funny adaptation of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata a la West Hollywood.
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THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
Saturday, August 9th, 2008
Open Fist’s production of William Shakespeare’s The Comedy Of Errors may be the most fun I’ve ever had at a Shakespeare play, and that’s saying something for a Shakespeare-phobe like me. Now don’t get me wrong. I don’t really hate Shakespeare, and I have had fun at a Shakespeare play … a few times, at least. The trouble is that the Bard’s 16th Century English and tangled plotlines often go right over my head, or at least past my ears without really sinking in. Not so with Open Fist’s Comedy Of Errors. I’m not quite sure how they did it, but director Ron West and his cast of zanies have somehow clarified Shakespeare for me, archaic speech, convoluted storyline and all. The play’s 90 minutes (clearly some judicious snipping took place) just zipped by and I actually understood what was happening most of the time! I had a ball!
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LOST IN YONKERS
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Lost In Yonkers is considered by many to be the best play Neil Simon has ever written. It’s certainly the finest work I’ve seen by this most prolific of American playwrights, and won Simon both the 1991 Tony and the Pulitzer Prize. Not bad for a writer once best known for frothy fare like Come Blow Your Horn and Barefoot In The Park. The original Broadway production of Lost In Yonkers also won Tonys for three of its actors (Mercedes Ruehl, Irene Worth, and Kevin Spacey) and scored a Tony nomination for director Gene Saks.
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