Posts Tagged ‘International City Theatre’

THE VIOLIN MAKER

Its heart is definitely in the right place, and I can’t fault the performances elicited by director caryn desai, but I found Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum and Ronda Spinak’s downer of a Holocaust memorial play The Violin Maker too narration-and-flashbacks-heavy to fully command my attention throughout most of its two-hour running time.
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DESPERATE MEASURES


Take a classic Shakespeare plot, chop out all the boring and confusing parts, and transform it into a song-packed Wild West musical romcom and what you’ve got is the off-Broadway hit Desperate Measures, now cheering audiences at International City Theatre.
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MURDER ON THE LINKS


Playwright Steven Dietz has taken Agatha Christie’s 1923 whodunnit Murder On The Links and adapted it as a rollicking, tongue-in-cheek six-actor farce that only the most diehard Christie purist could fail to love.
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THE DOUBLE V

A little-known aspect of World War II-era African-American history is brought to life in Carole Eglash-Kosoff’s entertaining, elucidating, mostly successful The Double V, an International City Theatre World Premiere.
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THE OUTSIDER


Things get hilariously out of hand when the seemingly ineffectual lieutenant governor of an unnamed state suddenly finds himself the man in charge in Paul Slade Smith’s The Outsider, a front-runner for the year’s funniest and smartest comedic treat.
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WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME

Musical theater star Kelley Dorney captivates without singing a note in What The Constitution Means To Me, Heidi Schreck’s initially entertaining but ultimately long-winded lecture on the U.S. Constitution’s failure to protect the rights of women, people of color, immigrants, Native Americans, and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
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MARILYN, MOM, AND ME


A renowned character actress and the world’s most celebrated sex symbol form the most unexpected of friendships as a grown son celebrates his mother’s memory in Luke Yankee’s fascinating, informative, deeply moving Marilyn, Mom, and Me, now getting its long-awaited World Premiere at Long Beach’s International City Theatre.
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DEATHTRAP


International City Theatre winds up its 2023 season with Ira Levin’s Broadway suspense classic Deathtrap, guaranteeing audiences an abundance of thrills and chills and gasp-worthy plot twists amidst an equal bounty of laughs.
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