Posts Tagged ‘Actors Co-op’
STEEL MAGNOLIAS
Monday, April 1st, 2019
Six Southern women with deceptively delicate exteriors give six Actors Co-op treasures the chance to strut their comedic-dramatic stuff like the L.A. theater stars they are in Robert Harling’s Steel Magnolias.
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SHE LOVES ME
Monday, November 19th, 2018
Director-choreographer Cate Caplin and a pitch-perfect cast do everything right in Actors Co-op’s intimate revival of the 1963 Broadway charmer She Loves Me, perhaps better known today as the pre-Internet You’ve Got Mail.
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ROPE
Monday, October 1st, 2018
Cohabitating young Londoners strangle a university classmate to death, hide the body in a living room trunk, then welcome the victim’s father, his aunt, a pair of fellow students, and the teacher whose beliefs inspired their cold-blooded act for a dinner soiree in Patrick Hamilton’s Rope, easily the darkest. deadliest, and most daring offering in Actors Co-op’s 27-year history.
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VIOLET
Saturday, May 26th, 2018
Director Richard Israel and a couldn’t-be-better cast and design team get everything right in Actors Co-op’s soul-reviving intimate staging of Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley’s New York Drama Critics’ Circle-winning 1997 off-Broadway musical Violet.
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A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS
Monday, March 26th, 2018
Actors Co-op brings 16th-century English history to vibrant life with their 21st-century revival of the 1962 Best Play Tony winner A Man For All Seasons, Robert Bolt’s thought-provoking if overlong look at Sir Thomas More, torn between moral conscience and political expediency during Henry VIII’s reign as King.
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A WALK IN THE WOODS
Monday, February 26th, 2018
The Cold War arms race provides the heady backdrop for the latest Actors Co-op gem, Lee Blessing’s 1988 Pulitzer Prize finalist A Walk In The Woods.
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER
Saturday, November 11th, 2017
Radio superstar Sheridan Whiteside is at it again, terrorizing the Ohio Stanleys, fomenting family rebellions, and scheming to get his own egomaniacal way in Actors Co-op’s pitch-perfect revival of the 1939 George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart screwball classic The Man Who Came To Dinner.
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LUCKY STIFF
Saturday, May 20th, 2017
“Something Funny’s Going On” this month and next as Actors Co-op treats audiences to the delightful musical comedy bonbon that is Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s Lucky Stiff.
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