KNIFE TO THE HEART
Tuesday, May 8th, 2018
To cut or not to cut. That is the question facing Marshall and his shiksa spouse when pregnant-with-twins Julie Ann learns that the postpartum shindig her Jewish mother-in-law’s got planned will involve not just cocktails but a bit of infant cock-snipping. No wonder Stan Zimmerman and Christian McLaughlin have titled their entertaining, unexpectedly touching 80-minute stage sitcom Knife To The Heart.
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VOTE, PRAY, LOVE
Monday, April 9th, 2018
Charismatic, multitalented L.A. musical theater performer Ryan O’Connor recalls the most challenging year of his life in story and song in his terrifically entertaining musical memoir Vote, Pray, Love, now playing Sundays and Mondays at the Celebration.
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AKUMA-SHIN
Sunday, April 1st, 2018Terrific performances and an ingenious production design cannot salvage the perplexing jumble that is Kenley Smith’s big-ideas sci-fi-parody-fantasy-thriller black comedy Akuma-Shin, a Sacred Fools Theater Company World Premiere, any more than its cast of characters—Dr. Joyce Brothers, William F. Buckley, Jr., Truman Capote, and Norman Mailer among them—are able to save Tokyo from Godzilla.
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A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
Monday, March 26th, 2018
Actors Co-op brings 16th-century English history to vibrant life with their 21st-century revival of the 1962 Best Play Tony winner A Man For All Seasons, Robert Bolt’s thought-provoking if overlong look at Sir Thomas More, torn between moral conscience and political expediency during Henry VIII’s reign as King.
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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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