LOST ANGELES
Saturday, October 13th, 2007
Lost Angeles is the best written, best acted new comedy I’ve seen this year.
Caroline Treadwell has created ten alternately irritating/lovable (i.e.
human) Generation Xers, put them in real life situations, and let the
audience be flies on the wall, watching these very real people experience
the joys and pains of falling in and out of love.
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SWIMMING TO THE MOON
Thursday, October 4th, 2007NOT RECOMMENDED
The Beatles’ hit “When I’m 64” came out in 1967, the same year that Jim
Morrison recorded the most famous Doors hit, “Light my Fire.” Interestingly, had
he not died under mysterious circumstances in 1971 (at the age of 27), Jim
Morrison would be turning 64 this year.
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THE ROOM
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Twentieth century history comes vividly to life in Michael Franco’s fascinating
(and informative) world premiere drama, The Room.
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THE GAS HOUSE
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
What begins as a solo performance by a recently fired talk radio “shock jock”
who was “paid to be a jerk” soon turns into an affecting two person play about
a doomed romantic relationship in Sacred Fools’ West Coast Premiere of William
Donnelly’s The Gas House.
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BUNNY BUNNY
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
He called her Gilbert. She called him Zweibel, accent on the “bel.” She became
one of the most famous, funniest, and most beloved comediennes of the 1970s.
He wrote for the TV show that made her a star and later co-created a hit TV
sitcom. They loved each other for fourteen years, though each married
another. They were the best of friends until her untimely death. She was Gilda
Radner. He is Alan Zweibel. Bunny Bunny is the beautifully funny, affectionately
written, and exquisitely directed and performed “sort of romantic comedy” of
two lives intertwined.
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CHESS
Monday, September 17th, 2007
Those who attended last night’s Chess benefit (for Broadway Cares Equity
Fights AIDS) expecting “just a concert” were in for a dazzling surprise. What
had been advertised as “Chess in Concert” turned out to be a fully staged,
fully choreographed, fully off-book production of the 80s Broadway hit. And
what a production it was!
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HAIR
Saturday, September 15th, 2007
The year was 1968.
16,592 American soldiers lost their lives in Vietnam, the greatest number of
casualties for any year of the war. At home, assassins’ bullets killed Bobby
Kennedy and Martin Luther King. 10,000 or more enraged Americans
protested the Vietnam War outside the Democratic convention in Chicago,
leading to hundreds of arrests and police-inflicted injuries.
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DEAD BRIDE RUNNING
Thursday, September 13th, 2007RECOMMENDED
If you’re a devotee of sophisticated, stylish and witty Noel Coward
drawing room comedies…check your theater listings for the production of
Private Lives nearest you. If, on the other hand, you’re a fan of Saturday
Night Live/Mad TV style outrageous over-the-top humor, Dead Bride
Running will be right up your alley.
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