Posts Tagged ‘Matthew Lopez’
THE INHERITANCE (PART 1 & PART 2)
Wednesday, October 19th, 2022
The words Epic Achievement only begin to describe the Stephen Daldry production of Matthew Lopez’s six-and-a-half-hour masterpiece The Inheritance (Part 1 & Part 2), now getting its long-awaited, celebration-worthy West Coast Premiere at the Geffen Playhouse.
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THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE
Monday, June 13th, 2022
A soon-to-be legendary Florida Panhandle drag queen lights up the stage in International City Theatre’s supremely entertaining production of Matthew Lopez’s 2016 off-Broadway comedy smash The Legend Of Georgia McBride.
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THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE
Sunday, December 1st, 2019Crown City is back, and though its temporary home in North Hollywood’s Secret Rose Theatre has necessitated a drop in production values, the company’s latest, Matthew Lopez’s The Legend Of Georgia McBride, offers theatergoers a feel-good alternative to traditional seasonal fare.
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THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE
Friday, April 14th, 2017
Two stars are born in the Geffen Playhouse West Coast Premiere of The Legend Of Georgia McBride. One is the Florida Panhandle drag queen whose reputation gives Matthew Lopez’s crowd-pleasing comedy its name. The other is Andrew Burnap, whose revelatory performance as an Elvis impersonator who discovers a whole new love of performing portends huge things ahead for the 2016 Yale School Of Drama MFA grad.
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THE WHIPPING MAN
Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House, at long last ending what is still the deadliest war in United States history. Five days later, President Abraham Lincoln was dead, the victim of an assassin’s bullet. Coincidentally, during this fateful week in our country’s history, Jews in both North and South observed Pesach, the festival of Passover, celebrating the freeing of the Israelites from centuries of slavery in Egypt.
Inspired by this bit of historical happenstance, and armed with the knowledge that there were indeed Jewish slaveholders (and Jewish slaves) in the pre-Civil War Deep South, playwright Matthew Lopez sat down to write The Whipping Man, a gripping, eye-opening look at three Jews—two black, one white—in the days just following Appomattox, a play now brought to compelling life in a spectacular new production just transferred from South Coast Rep to the Pasadena Playhouse.
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THE WHIPPING MAN
Wednesday, January 14th, 2015
On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House, at long last ending what is still the deadliest war in United States history. Five days later, President Abraham Lincoln was dead, the victim of an assassin’s bullet. Coincidentally, during this fateful week in our country’s history, Jews in both North and South observed Pesach, the festival of Passover, celebrating the freeing of the Israelites from centuries of slavery in Egypt.
Inspired by this bit of historical happenstance, and armed with the knowledge that there were indeed Jewish slaveholders (and Jewish slaves) in the pre-Civil War Deep South, playwright Matthew Lopez sat down to write The Whipping Man, a gripping, eye-opening look at three Jews—two black, one white—in the days just following Appomattox, a play now brought to compelling life in a spectacular South Coast Repertory debut set to transfer next month to the Pasadena Playhouse.
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THE WHIPPING MAN
Saturday, March 22nd, 2014
On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House, at long last ending what is still the deadliest war in United States history. Five days later, President Abraham Lincoln was dead, the victim of an assassin’s bullet. And during this fateful week in our country’s history, Jews in both North and South observed Pesach, the festival of Passover, celebrating the freeing of the Israelites from centuries of slavery in Egypt.
Inspired by this bit of historical coincidence, and armed with the knowledge that there were indeed Jewish slaveholders (and Jewish slaves) in the pre-Civil War Deep South, playwright Matthew Lopez sat down to write The Whipping Man, a gripping, eye-opening look at three Jews—two black, one white—in the days just following Appomattox, now getting its Los Angeles Premiere at the Pico Playhouse.
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