GOBLIN MARKET
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
Take two of the most phenomenally talented performers on the L.A. theater
scene, add a critically acclaimed director and a superb design team, and give
them an exquisite but little known musical to bring to life, and you have Syzygy
Theatre Group’s remarkable production of Polly Pen and Peggy Harmon’s Goblin
Market.
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DURANGO
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Durango begins on a bare stage, with just a chair and guitar far right. A
young man wearing shorts and a t-shirt enters, sits, picks up the guitar and,
beginning to strum, sings a sadly nostalgic song. “Main Street isn’t busy much
anymore. A neon girl dressed up with nowhere to go.” He seems to be
recalling the past, a past which we begin in the next scene to discover.
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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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AND NEITHER HAVE I WINGS TO FLY
Friday, September 14th, 2007
Ann Noble’s heartwarming And Neither Have I Wings to Fly feels like a theater classic that’s been around forever. Hard to believe it’s a fairly recent play which is only now getting its Southern California premiere, in an absolutely gorgeous production at the Road Theatre, directed by award winning Scott Cummins.
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A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
A musical at South Coast Repertory is a rarity, and in the case of the currently
running A Little Night Music, it is a cause for celebration–well cast, beautifully
performed and (especially in the second act) gorgeous to look at.
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DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
Friday, September 7th, 2007
In a city where most plays run 6 weeks or less, The Elephant Theater’s
production of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, John Patrick Shanley’s
unexpected love story of two very lost and damaged souls, has become a real
L.A. theater phenomenon. Recipient of the very hard-to-get L.A. Times “Critics
Choice,” Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, now in its fifth sold-out month, has
been extended yet again, through October. Last night I found out why.
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MATTER OF HONOR
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007
Near the beginning of Michael J. Chepiga’s Matter of Honor, the audience at
the Pasadena Playhouse is plunged into darkness. We hear a loud noise, like a
powerful echoing drumbeat, then a series of cries. A beating is taking place. We
know from that moment that we are in for a theatrical experience very much
out of ordinary.
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