EL NIÑO
Tuesday, March 6th, 2018
No one mines more laughs from dysfunction than Justin Tanner, and if you don’t believe me, check out the latest from the playwright who gave the world Voice Lessons, Teen Girl, Oklahomo!, Space Therapy and more, and whose latest, El Niño, proves the perfect Rogue Machine follow-up to the darkness and depravity of Ruth Fowler’s bled for the household truth.
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SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF A PLAY
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
Del Shores, the man who introduced the world to Sordid Lives, Southern Baptist Sissies, and Daddy’s Dyin’: Who’s Got the Will?, now treats Celebration Theatre audiences to Six Characters In Search Of A Play brought to rib-tickling, side-splitting, occasionally tear-coaxing life by the playwright in one-man-showman mode.
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A WALK IN THE WOODS
Monday, February 26th, 2018
The Cold War arms race provides the heady backdrop for the latest Actors Co-op gem, Lee Blessing’s 1988 Pulitzer Prize finalist A Walk In The Woods.
PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT
Sunday, February 18th, 2018
Two-dozen disco-era hits provide the sing-along, dance-along soundtrack to the international smash Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert, and if the latest from Celebration Theatre doesn’t lend itself to downsizing like The Boy From Oz and The Color Purple, this unexpected celebration of family and its three unlikely Australian hero(in)es provide more than enough reason to cheer.
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PLEDGE
Tuesday, January 16th, 2018Pledge, Paul Shoulberg’s edgy, entertaining Hollywood Fringe Festival 2017 slice-of-frat-life comedy is back, and fully designed for a post-Fringe run. Now all Shoulberg has to do is expand his 65-minute one-act into a full-length play and it could well see life after its four weeks at the Dorie.
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LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS
Tuesday, January 16th, 2018Brynn Alexander and Philip Asta ace two of the year’s most uniquely demanding roles, aided and abetted by Cricket S. Myers’ and Matt Richter’s spectacularly detailed sound and lighting designs, in the United States Premiere of Sam Steiner’s Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons. If only Steiner’s vision of a dystopian future in which speech is limited to a hundred-forty words a day didn’t defy credibility and logic at every turn.
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BUGABOO & THE SILENT ONE
Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
Marja-Lewis Ryan puts her own distinctive stamp on Women Behind Bars in the powerful Bugaboo & The Silent One, the playwright-director’s fourth and latest World Premiere collaboration with the astonishing Heidi Sulzman.
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reasons to be pretty
Monday, December 4th, 2017
Neil LaBute dissects male-female relationships as only he can—savagely, but not without humor and maybe even a sliver of hope—in reasons to be pretty, his 2008 button-pusher now being given a dynamically directed, sensationally acted intimate revival at Hollywood’s Lounge Theatre.
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