Posts Tagged ‘Australian Theatre Company’
SWANSONG
Saturday, September 15th, 2018Australian powerhouse André de Vanny does tour-de-force work as a mentally and emotionally disabled young Irishman in Connor McDermottroe’s one-man play Swansong, a star turn almost as exhausting for de Vanny to perform as the Australian Theatre Company/Skylight Theatre Company West Coast premiere is to experience.
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GREY NOMAD
Tuesday, September 12th, 2017Married 60something fuddy-duddies meet a free-spirited couple of fellow retirees to life-changing effect in Dan Lee’s hilarious, heartwarming World Premiere comedy Grey Nomad, the latest from L.A.’s Australian Theatre Company.
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RUBEN GUTHRIE
Wednesday, June 8th, 2016Giving up the bottle in a country where the rate of alcoholism is among the highest in the developed world is no laughing matter, that is unless you’re playwright Brendan Cowell, whose year of self-imposed sobriety inspired the thoroughly entertaining dark dramatic comedy Ruben Guthrie, the second half of the rotating-rep double-bill that marks the welcome return of Los Angeles’s Australian Theatre Company.
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SPEAKING IN TONGUES
Wednesday, June 8th, 2016The secrets we hide from those we love, the lies we tell to protect both them and ourselves, and the truths that can only be revealed to strangers lie at the heart of Andrew Bovell’s extraordinary Speaking In Tongues, the first half of the rotating-rep double-bill that marks the welcome return of Los Angeles’s Australian Theatre Company.
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HOLDING THE MAN
Sunday, May 11th, 2014The Aussies have set up shop at the Matrix Theatre as a troupe of L.A.-based actors from Down Under aptly-named the Australian Theatre Company present the Southern California Premiere of the true-life coming-of-age/coming-out/coming-to-terms-with-AIDS play Holding The Man, exciting news indeed for Angelinos in search of quality theater Ozzie-style.
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