Posts Tagged ‘Skylight Theatre’
CAROLE COOK DIED FOR MY SINS
Friday, October 25th, 2024A sumptuous production design and a theatrical venue in L.A.’s hip Los Feliz district help distinguish Mason McCulley’s Carole Cook Died For My Sins from the slew of autobiographical solo performances on stage each summer at the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
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NO PLACE LIKE GANDERSHEIM
Sunday, May 28th, 2023A terrific cast score plenty of laughs in No Place Like Gandersheim, Elizabeth Dement’s time-traveling screwball feminist farce, but the Skylight Theatre World Premiere tries too hard to do too much for it to work the way it should.
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HOSTAGE
Tuesday, May 29th, 2018A Wisconsin mother visits her captive son at the height of the Iran Hostage Crisis in Michelle Kholos Brooks’ compelling, eye-opening, fact-based World Premiere drama Hostage, the latest from Skylight Theatre Company.
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THE MADRES
Wednesday, March 28th, 2018Playwright Stephanie Alison Walker pays tribute to the women who would not be silenced when their sons and daughters started disappearing by the thousands during the “dirty war” waged by the Argentine military dictatorship on its own citizens beginning in the mid-1970s in The Madres, another powerhouse Skylight Theatre World Premiere.
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GREY NOMAD
Tuesday, September 12th, 2017Married 60something fuddy-duddies meet a free-spirited couple of fellow retirees to life-changing effect in Dan Lee’s hilarious, heartwarming World Premiere comedy Grey Nomad, the latest from L.A.’s Australian Theatre Company.
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THE TRAGEDY OF JFK (AS TOLD BY WM. SHAKESPEARE)
Tuesday, October 11th, 2016Jackie Kennedy believed Lyndon Johnson killed her husband, and so apparently does The Bard Of Avon in The Tragedy Of JFK (as told by Wm. Shakespeare), Daniel Henning’s devilishly clever “Julius Caesar Redux,” now getting an exciting (and sure to be controversial) World Premiere at Henning’s The Blank Theatre.
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BULRUSHER
Monday, September 1st, 2014The power of live theater to transport an audience to another time, another place, while exploring and revealing the mysteries of the human heart, is made gorgeously, magically clear in Skylight Theatre Company and Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble’s co-production of the Los Angeles premiere of Eisa Davis’s Pulitzer Prize finalist Bulrusher.
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