Posts Tagged ‘Crown City Theatre Company’

DURANG!

Christopher Durang reveals his trademark outlandishness times four at Studio/Stage this month in Mmmkay Productions and Crown City Theatre Company’s Durang!, a quartet wild and crazy Hollywood Fringe Festival one-acts, directed with pizzazz by Kristin Towers-Rowles.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

Multitalented director Michael Marchak ups the physical comedy to entertaining effect in Crown City Theatre Company’s 124th-anniversary revival of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest, but it remains Wilde’s way with words delivered by a terrific cast of Crown City favorites that earn the lion’s share of laughs.
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THE EIGHT: REINDEER MONOLOGUES

A salacious Santa’s unspeakable indiscretions aren’t nearly so laughable in a #metoo era as they were when Jeff Goode premiered The Eight: Reindeer Monologues twenty-five Christmases ago, just one reason his quarter-century old collection of R-rated solo confessions proves even more powerful and relevant than when it debuted in 1994, a dark comedy gone darker than ever as its ingeniously staged, splendidly performed Crown City Theatre Company debut makes abundantly clear.
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THE MOUSETRAP

West End audiences have been keeping the murderer’s identity top secret for a record-breaking 27,000-plus performances, and now Angelinos can check out Crown City Theatre Company’s spiffy revival of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap to see why 65 years’ worth of Londoners keep on going back for more.
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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM

The theater company whose recent reinvention of Kander & Ebb’s Cabaret for the intimate stage earned it both critical and audience raves now returns with a “downsized” staging of the Stephen Sondheim classic A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, and the result is one of the funniest—and most ingenious—Forums ever.
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CABARET

It takes a combination of inspiration and chutzpah to reinvent a 58-year-old musical theater classic that’s been reinvented time and time again—but director Gary Lamb has done just that with Kander & Ebb’s Cabaret, his creative touches adding up to the best of the five intimate Cabarets I’ve seen and one of the top two or three of the ten productions I’ve experienced in all.
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TWO GROOMS: BIG GAY NORTH HOLLYWOOD WEDDING REDUX

You don’t have to be gay to add Two Grooms: Big Gay North Hollywood Wedding Redux to your Must-See List. In fact, this astutely tweaked reprise of 2009’s smash hit A Big Gay North Hollywood Wedding is fabulous entertainment for theatergoers of all sexual/gender shadings, and what’s even better, it’s all real … or the next best thing.
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THE FOREIGNER


A shy, repressed Englishman with the personality of a wet noodle discovers his own inner greatness by pretending not to speak a word of his native tongue in Larry Shue’s The Foreigner, not only one of the 20th Century’s funniest plays, but one of the century’s truly great comedies, one whose revival by Crown City Theatre Company will leave you delirious with laughter and brimming with joy.
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