Posts Tagged ‘Kirsten Vangsness’
NIMROD
Monday, February 13th, 2023Criminal Minds’ Kirsten Vangsness steals every scene she’s in as our 45th president seen through a farcical Shakespearean lens in Phinneas Kiyomura’s Nimrod, a wild and wacky Theatre of NOTE World Premiere that’s a bit too all over the place to truly hit the mark.
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MARIAN, OR THE TRUE TALE OF ROBIN HOOD
Saturday, August 25th, 2018Maid Marian is far from the only resident of Nottingham and its neighboring Sherwood Forest to blur gender and sexuality in Adam Szymkowicz’s LGBTQ-celebratory, song-and-swordplay-packed Marian, Or The True Tale Of Robin Hood, one of Theatre Of NOTE’s most exhilarating hits in years.
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RIO HONDO
Saturday, December 5th, 2015Earlier this year in their brilliantly spoofy Entropy, playwright Bill Robens and Theatre Of NOTE managed somehow to stage a gazillion-dollar Hollywood space-travel epic inside a 40something-seat theater. Robens and NOTE now work the same magic on that most American of movie genres—the Western—in their World Premiere comedy Rio Hondo, to my knowledge the very first L.A. theater production presented “in CinemaStage” and one that no horse opera lover will want to miss.
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THE INVISIBLE PLAY
Friday, December 13th, 2013
Have you ever felt so unnoticed by those around you that you said to yourself, “I might as well be invisible.” Well, that’s exactly how office worker Colin feels in Alex Dremann’s existential romantic comedy The Invisible Play (aka THE :NV:S:BLE PLAY), and though T:P could have benefited from some tightening and sharpening before making its West Coast Premiere, it proves a terrific acting showcase for Criminal Minds’ Kirsten Vangsness and her fellow company members at Hollywood’s Theatre of NOTE.
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