THE DESPERATE HOURS
Monday, June 6th, 2022Joseph Hayes’ The Desperate Hours may have won a Tony as the Best Play of 1955, but the 67-year-old suspense melodrama is showing its age these days with its stilted dialog and Father Knows Best-meets-Dragnet characters, and some questionable casting choices don’t help its 2022 revival at the Group Rep.
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BELOVED
Saturday, May 28th, 2022
The Road Theatre Company’s three-shows-in-a-row return season goes from good to better to best of all with the World Premiere of Arthur Holden’s Beloved, a suspense-filled, twist-packed stunner that will leave you blown-away and breathless.
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BRIGHT HALF LIFE
Saturday, April 9th, 2022
An interracial same-sex couple embark upon a four-decade-long roller-coaster ride of romantic highs and lows in the Road Theatre Company’s Los Angeles Premiere of Tanya Barfield’s Bright Half Life, as funny and sad and moving a two-character dramedy as I’ve seen in ages.
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L.A. NOW AND THEN
Saturday, April 2nd, 2022
The longer you’ve lived in Los Angeles, the more Bruce Kimmel’s L.A. Now And Then is likely to resonate with you, but even if names like Sheriff John and Engineer Bill don’t ring a bell, you’ll likely find much to enjoy in this musical love letter to the City of Angels, now playing at the Group Rep Theatre in North Hollywood.
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THE PLAY YOU WANT
Monday, March 21st, 2022
Times may have changed since actors like Lupe Velez, Ricardo Montalbán, and Rita Moreno found themselves pigeonholed into one stereotypical role after another, but perhaps not as much as we’d like to believe, or at least not according to the The Play You Want, Bernardo Cubría’s scathingly funny look at the compromises a writer named Bernardo Cubría must make to make it to Broadway.
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CHRISTMASTIME ORIGINS
Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
The Group Rep revisits the golden age of radio in Christmastime Origins, a charming, tuneful companion piece to such holiday favorites as It’s A Wonderful Life: The Radio Play and Miracle On 34th Street: A Live Musical Radio Play.
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KEN LUDWIG’S THE GAME’S AFOOT; OR HOLMES FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Saturday, November 27th, 2021
Following their all-around fabulous London Suite, The Group Rep makes it two in a row with a terrifically directed/acted revival of the Ken Ludwig-meets-Conan Doyle-meets-Agatha Christie farce The Game’s Afoot; Or Holmes For The Holidays, a particularly tasty treat for audiences in search of December fare that’s not Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
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