Posts Tagged ‘Sierra Madre Playhouse’
THE GIN GAME
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018
Real-life marrieds Alan Blumenfeld and Katherine James give bravura performances as a pair of nursing home residents for whom a simple game of cards could spell either an end to solitude or a continuation of a lifetime of loneliness in Sierra Madre Playhouse’s pitch-perfect revival of D.L. Coburn’s 1978 Pulitzer Prize winner The Gin Game.
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PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES
Sunday, June 24th, 2018
The roadside joint’s a jumpin’ just a whoop-and-a-holler east of Pasadena as the Sierra Madre Playhouse treats audiences to the infectiously entertaining Pump Boys And Dinettes.
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NOTHING IS THE SAME
Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
Nothing Is The Same from the moment four 1941 Hawaiian preteens witness the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor one sunny December morning in the latest audience-pleasing entry in Sierra Madre Playhouse’s annual Field Trip Series, staged on school days to local kids and on weekends to general audiences of all ages.
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A CHRISTMAS STORY
Friday, December 22nd, 2017
Sierra Madre Playhouse has one terrific Christmas gift in store for you this holiday season, Philip Grecian’s lovingly recreated stage adaptation of the MGM holiday classic A Christmas Story, directed with equal parts love, imagination, and care by Christian Lebano.
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THE MARVELOUS WONDERETTES
Saturday, August 5th, 2017
From “Dream Lover” to “It’s My Party” to “Lollipop” to “Son Of A Preacher Man” to “Wedding Bell Blues,” the Greatest Hits of the ‘50s and ‘60s (as performed by the quartet of comedic charmers best known as The Marvelous Wonderettes) guarantee the Sierra Madre Playhouse one finger-snapping, toe-tapping summer hit.
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BEE-LUTHER-HATCHEE
Saturday, January 14th, 2017
With racial violence on the rise, racists increasingly fearless in spouting (and acting upon) their hate, and an incoming President owing his election, at least in part, to racist backlash against his predecessor, the timing could hardly be more apt for Sierra Madre Playhouse to give Thomas Gibbons’ provative Bee-luther-hatchee the powerful revival it deserves, now more than ever.
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THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
Saturday, July 9th, 2016
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee has set up shop at the Sierra Madre Playhouse for the next two months in a 99-seat production sure to delight both Bee newbies and veteran Bee buffs like this reviewer, who enjoyed Bee 14.0 every bit as much as his very first thanks to Robert Marra’s zesty direction/choreography and a cast to rival the best I’ve seen.
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THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Sunday, May 8th, 2016
The wordless five-minute sequence that introduces us, heartstoppingly, to a Tom Wingfield haunted by memories that even years of distance have been unable to extinguish is but the first indication that Christian Lebano’s vision for Tennessee Williams’ most enduring classic is one we have not yet seen, and one that we will be talking and thinking about long after the light dims on the last of Tom’s sister’s precious Glass Menagerie.
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