Posts Tagged ‘Center Theatre Group’
QUACK
Tuesday, October 30th, 2018
Allegations of medical advice turned fatal threaten to destroy TV’s most beloved physician in Eliza Clark’s Quack, a Center Theatre Group World Premiere that proves as hilarious as it is timely as it is button-pushing and thought-provoking.
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SCHOOL GIRLS; OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY
Monday, September 10th, 2018
Regina George has met her Ghanaian match in Jocelyn Bioh’s side-splittingly funny, acerbically perceptive, unexpectedly touching School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play, imported to the Kirk Douglas Theatre from its hit off-Broadway run with most of its original MCC Theater cast intact.
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SWEAT
Friday, September 7th, 2018
Playwright Lynn Nottage gives voice to blue-collar America in her Pulitzer Prize-winning Sweat, now making a gut-punching Los Angeles debut at the Mark Taper Forum, a suspenseful, insightful look at an electorate so disillusioned by their failed American Dreams that they ended up doing the unthinkable.
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THE HUMANS
Wednesday, June 27th, 2018
Laughter and fears go hand in hand at Thanksgiving dinner in Stephen Karam’s justifiably honored Best Play Tony-winner The Humans, now playing at the Ahmanson with its Tony-winning stars Jayne Howdyshell and Reed Birney (and all but one of its original Broadway ensemble members) intact.
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SOFT POWER
Friday, May 18th, 2018
A New York cast and production team bring Los Angeles audiences the World Premiere latest from Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang and Tony-winning composer-lyricist Jeanine Tesori, the crowd-pleasing East-meets-West “play with a musical” Soft Power, as audacious in concept as it is for the most part effective in execution.
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DIE, MOMMIE, DIE!
Sunday, May 13th, 2018
Over-the-top doesn’t begin to describe the performances–or the fun of seeing so much scenery chewed by so sensational a cast–in Center Theatre Group’s Block Party reprise of Celebration Theatre’s 2017 comedy smash Die, Mommie, Die!
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ELLIOT, A SOLDIER’S FUGUE
Sunday, February 4th, 2018
Three generations of Marines serving in three different wars have their stories told in four distinct voices in Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, the first in Quiara Alegría Hudes’s acclaimed “Elliot Trilogy” now making a lyrically told, gorgeously staged, superbly acted Kirk Douglas Theatre debut.
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SOMETHING ROTTEN!
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017
Something may have been rotten in the state of Denmark back when The Bard ruled London, but there’s nothing at all rotten going on at the Ahmanson Theatre as Center Theatre Group welcomes the Broadway National Tour of 2015 Best Musical Tony nominee Something Rotten!, a musical theater buff’s dream come true and just as much fun for those who couldn’t put a last name to Chita, Patti, or Bernadette if their lives depended on it.
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