THE BEWILDERED HERD
Saturday, April 21st, 2012
Among political commentator Walter Lippmann’s best known quotes is the following: “The public must be put in its place…so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.” In other words, if you want democracy to work, you’ve got to control the minds of the masses, something which political consultant Charlie “Bingo” Bingham, the (anti)hero of Cody Henderson’s World Premiere The Bewildered Herd knows only too well. You might even call it Bingo’s mission in life to keep the bewildered herd (i.e. the people in his life—and you and me) in line.
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JERSEY SHOREsical: A Frickin’ Rock Opera
Friday, April 13th, 2012RECOMMENDED
Imagine if the cast of MTV’s Jersey Shore decided to put on a musical about their lives. Then imagine that the cast of Jersey Shore actually had enough talent to put on a musical about their lives. What you’d end up with would likely be something a great deal like JERSEY SHOREsical: A Frickin’ Rock Opera, now playing at the Hayworth Theater following its Best Ensemble Award-winning run at the New York Fringe Festival.
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WORST AUDITION EVER
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
Actors give stand-up comics a run for their money in Worst Audition Ever, now back for more laughs at Silver Lake’s Cavern Club, downstairs from Casita Del Campo Restaurant.
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1969: A FANTASTICAL ODYSSEY THROUGH THE AMERICAN MINDSCAPE
Monday, April 2nd, 2012RECOMMENDED
Ovation Award winner Damon Chua takes audiences on an LSD trip through the year 1969 in his ambitious new play 1969: A Fantastical Odyssey Through The American Mindscape, and though he may have bitten of more than any play or playwright can chew, some particularly fine performances and what could well be the year’s most exciting video design make this a psychedelic voyage that adventurous theatergoers may want to take a chance on.
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CITY OF ANGELS
Friday, March 30th, 2012
The gifted triple-threats of the USC School Of Theatre have taken on the many challenges of Broadway’s City Of Angels, the Tony-winning Best Musical of 1989, resulting in so high quality a production that the only thing “low” about it is its performers’ average age.
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THE WHO’S TOMMY
Monday, March 26th, 2012
DOMA Theatre Company opens its ambitious 2012 season, one which also includes Songs For A New World, Jekyll & Hyde, Xanadu, and Once On This Island, with a terrifically sung production of The Who’s Tommy, snappily directed by Hallie Baran.
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CORONADO
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Wide shot of dive bar: A young man and woman are seated in a booth. An older couple sits at a nearby table. Two men, one older, one younger, are sitting at another table. An attractive young woman tends bar.
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THREE YEAR SWIM CLUB
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
In the time-honored tradition of fact-based underdog sports tales like Hoosiers, We Are Marshall, and the recent Moneyball, East West Players now presents the Mainland Premiere of Three Year Swim Club, Lee Tonouchi’s crowd-pleasing true story of a Hawaiian swim coach and the ragtag band of Maui plantation kids he is bound and determined to send to the 1940 Olympics.
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