Posts Tagged ‘Loft Ensemble’

MRS. DILBER’S CHRISTMAS CAROL

It’s a clever, promising premise, and were it given less over-the-top treatment, Arthur M. Jolly’s Mrs. Dilber’s Christmas Carol just might be a winner, but excessively broad performances squander much of the good cheer Jolly’s script might otherwise inspire. (It would help too if you could understand more than half of what the actors are saying.)
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LA COCINA


The high-stress, high-intensity back-of-house goings-on at a classy New York City eatery come excitingly to life in Tony Menéses’s La Cocina, the latest from North Hollywood’s Loft Ensemble, and a particular treat for fans of Hulu’s The Bear.
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MUD

Loft Ensemble imagines a dystopian future populated by ten nameless, genderless global calamity survivors in Mud, a World Premiere drama I found alternately pretentious and preachy
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ALLEY OF MISFITS

A couple of homeless women cross paths with a mixed bag of acquaintances and strangers on Thanksgiving Eve in Barbera Ann Howard and Marjorie Lewit’s World Premiere dramedy Alley Of Misfits, itself somewhat of a mixed bag, but one whose pluses ultimately outweigh its minuses.
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THE CALORIE COUNTERS

Excess pounds may be no laughing matter, but playwright Molly Wagner finds equal parts comedy and drama in a 20something’s efforts to shed them in The Calorie Counters, a crowd-pleasing Loft Ensemble World Premiere.
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