FRUITION
Friday, November 8th, 2019If dystopian thrillers are your thing, you may buy into the post-apocalyptic world imagined by Alexis DeLaRosa in Fruition, a Theatre Of NOTE World Premiere. If not, you’ll likely find yourself less enthralled by what DeLaRosa imagines in store for the USA as we know it.
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ORRY
Sunday, November 3rd, 2019
Legendary Hollywood costume designer Orry-Kelly lives again (at his own funeral, no less) in Nick Hardcastle’s entertaining, informative Orry, now playing a limited engagement at West Hollywood’s Lee Strasberg Theatre.
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DEADLY
Sunday, September 15th, 2019
The Demon Doctor of West 63rd Street is bumping off victim after victim at the Broadwater Theatre in Vanessa Claire Stewart and Ryan Thomas Johnson’s deliciously horrorific Deadly, or as I like to call it, Murder Castle, the H.H. Holmes Musical.
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DRIVING WILDE
Friday, August 23rd, 2019Though it goes haywire about halfway through, Driving Wilde, Jacqueline Wright’s trippy contemporary Americanized take on The Portrait Of Dorian Gray, is far from dull.
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DOPE QUEENS
Saturday, August 17th, 2019Dope Queens, Grafton Doyle’s seamy dissection of the go-nowhere lives of three drug-addicted, fresh-out-of-prison LGBTQ street walkers (two of them gender non-conforming POCs and one a GWM) is not just a major downer, it’s an overwrought, all-over-the-place two-acter that overstays its welcome by at least half an hour.
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THE DIRECTION HOME
Monday, July 22nd, 2019Tonally it’s all over the place and its lackluster title is unlikely to prove a box-office draw, but Greg Vie’s autobiographical The Direction Home works for the most part as a nostalgic, touching coming-of-age comedy set in WeHo only a few years before the music died.
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THREADS
Friday, July 12th, 2019Love … and the fragility of life … tie together Jeff Locker’s serio-comedic Threads, an evening of theatrical shorts that doubles as the 2019 Summer Showcase for seventeen talented professional actors studying at Anthony Meindl’s Actor Workshop.
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THE PRODUCERS
Saturday, June 29th, 2019
Leave it to Celebration Theatre to take a musical as mammoth as The Producers and scale it down to fit the LGBTQ company’s 47-seat Hollywood digs without losing an iota of its audience appeal. Indeed, the show still officially billed as “A New Mel Brooks Musical” may be even more exciting at Celebration in 2019 than when it made its 2001 Broadway debut.
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