Posts Tagged ‘Davidson/Valentini Theatre’
Sunday, February 12th, 2023
One of 2022’s finest productions has returned to the Davidson/Valentini Theatre even more impressive than it was last June thanks to an exciting new cast addition, a more polished design, and the once again stunning contributions of its gifted young director and the three returning stars who once again dazzle in Mike Bartlett’s provocative tragicomedy Cock.
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Tags: Davidson/Valentini Theatre, Los Angeles LGBT Center, Los Angeles Theater Review, Mike Bartlett
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Thursday, June 16th, 2022
A young man finds himself torn between two lovers, one male and one female, in Mike Bartlett’s provocative comedic four-hander Cock, one of the most impressively staged and performed productions I’ve seen at Hollywood Fringe since the festival was inaugurated back in 2010.
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Tags: Davidson/Valentini Theatre, Hollywood Fringe Festival, Los Angeles Theater Review, Mike Bartlett
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Monday, October 16th, 2017
A longtime teacher’s unexpected reaction to the impending closure/demolition of the beleaguered Chicago inner city school she has for decades called home serves as catalyst to Exit Strategy, playwright Ike Holter and the L.A. LGBT Center’s gripping, gut-punching follow-up to their 2015 critical/box-office smash Hit The Wall, and one of Fall 2017’s must-see productions.
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Tags: Davidson/Valentini Theatre, Ike Holter, Los Angeles LGBT Center's Village at Ed Gould Plaza, Los Angeles Theater Review
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Tuesday, November 8th, 2016
Ten of L.A.’s finest actresses (and a couple of equally talented guys) deliver superb performances, and the production they are starring in proves one of the year’s most stunningly designed. Still, as was the case when I saw Lily Tomlin perform it as a one-woman showcase back in 1987, I found The Search For Signs Of Intelligent Life In The Universe, Jane Wagner’s collection of (mostly women’s) monologs and occasional multi-character scenes only intermittently engaging in its Los Angeles LGBT Center intimate-stage “revisitation.”
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Tags: Davidson/Valentini Theatre, Jane Wagner, Lily Tomlin, Los Angeles LGBT Center's Village at Ed Gould Plaza, Los Angeles Theater Review
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Friday, July 8th, 2016
I may never go gaga for Fool For Love, but if ever a production could make me a believer in Sam Shepard’s overheated take on Greek tragedy in today’s Wild Wild West, it’s the one now playing at the Davidson/Valentini Theatre thanks to some refreshingly subtle directorial touches and a quartet of superb performances, chief among them star turns by Burt Grinstead and Charlotte Gulezian.
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Tags: Davidson/Valentini Theatre, Los Angeles LGBT Center's Village at Ed Gould Plaza, Los Angeles Theater Review, Sam Shepard
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Sunday, September 20th, 2015
“I was there!” roar the eclectic band of 1969 Greenwich Village People who populate Hit The Wall, Ike Holter’s slice-of-Stonewall now getting a daringly staged, thrillingly visceral West Coast Premiere that is, simply put, the next best thing to having actually been “there.” (Take that, Roland Emmerich!)
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Tags: Davidson/Valentini Theatre, Ike Holter, Los Angeles LGBT Center's Village at Ed Gould Plaza, Los Angeles Theater Review, Stonewall Riots
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Friday, July 10th, 2015
Ann Noble makes an indelible impression as the woman who gave birth to our country’s president in the World Premiere production of Mike Kindle’s one-woman bioplay Stanley Ann: The Unlikely Story Of Barack Obama’s Mother.
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Tags: Barack Obama, Davidson/Valentini Theatre, Los Angeles LGBT Center's Village at Ed Gould Plaza, Los Angeles Theater Review, Stanley Ann Dunham
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2014
A different kind of Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name speaks its name in Edward Albee’s Tony Award-winning Best Play Of 2002, The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia?, the latest from the theater and director who revived Ira Levin’s Deathtrap to brilliant, controversial life a couple years back—and that’s about all I have to say about the team’s latest production before launching into a spoiler-filled second paragraph. Proceed with caution.
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Tags: Davidson/Valentini Theatre, Edward Albee, Los Angeles Theater Review
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