Posts Tagged ‘Dominique Morisseau’
BLOOD AT THE ROOT
Sunday, September 10th, 2023
Headline-making real-life events propel Dominique Morisseau’s hot-button Blood At The Root, an Open Fist Theatre Company Los Angeles Premiere given electrifying theatricality by director Michael A. Shepperd, choreographer Yusuf Nasir, and a cast of gifted young up-and-comers.
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PIPELINE
Friday, August 4th, 2023
The son of an African-American inner-city high school teacher struggles to fit into the posh private academy his divorced parents have sent him to in Dominique Morisseau’s Pipeline, a critically acclaimed Lincoln Center hit whose gripping Los Angeles Premiere marks a major coup for the Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company at The Art Of Acting Studio in Hollywood.
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AIN’T TOO PROUD
Friday, December 16th, 2022
The Temptations give those Jersey Boys some pretty stiff competition for all-time best Broadway bio-musical in Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of The Temptations, now making a triumphant return to the Ahmanson following its Tony-winning New York run.
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PARADISE BLUE
Saturday, November 20th, 2021
A nightclub owner haunted by a lifetime of demons meets a woman who spells “trouble” with a capital T in Dominique Morisseau’s Paradise Blue, the kind of noir Hollywood could have made back in the late 1940s but didn’t, an explosive West Coast Premiere at the Geffen.
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AIN’T TOO PROUD
Sunday, August 26th, 2018
The Motown sound is ready once again to take New York by storm when Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of The Temptations, now earning some of the loudest Ahmanson Theatre audience cheers I’ve heard in years, transfers to Broadway’s Imperial this spring.
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SKELETON CREW
Friday, June 15th, 2018
If Arthur Miller had written a play about auto workers facing the personal and professional consequences of a possible plant closure, it might have been Skeleton Crew, which is about the highest praise I can bestow upon Dominique Morisseau’s powerful blue-collar drama, now making a breathtakingly designed, directed, and performed Geffen Playhouse debut.
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