Posts Tagged ‘South Coast Repertory’
PRELUDE TO A KISS THE MUSICAL
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
A gorgeous score, appealing performances, and a book that will have you reflecting on the very meaning of love are just three reasons to fall for South Coast Repertory’s World Premiere musical adaptation of Craig Lucas’s Prelude To A Kiss.
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SHE LOVES ME
Monday, February 3rd, 2020
If you’ve ever wondered how much difference a director and cast can make, then head on down to Costa Mesa to see the magic being made by David Ivers’ and company in South Coast Repertory’s epitome-of-inspired revival of the 1963 Broadway gem She Loves Me.
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FIREFLIES
Tuesday, January 14th, 2020An oversexed Martin Luther King-like preacher and his overstressed wife find the cracks in their marriage increasingly tough to overlook in Fireflies, Donja R. Love’s overwrought Civil Rights-era two-hander whose melodramatic overload proves distressingly underwhelming.
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AUBERGINE
Monday, October 28th, 2019
Julia Cho returns to South Coast Repertory with Aubergine, the Korean-American playwright’s deeply moving meditation on love, life, dying, death, family, memory … and the role that food plays in all of the above.
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THE CANADIANS
Monday, October 14th, 2019
A couple of small-town 20something BFFs embark on the gay cruise of a lifetime courtesy of South Coast Repertory in Adam Bock’s hilarious–and unexpectedly touching–World Premiere romantic comedy The Canadians.
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AMERICAN MARIACHI
Monday, September 16th, 2019
I dare you not to fall for South Coast Repertory’s American Mariachi, the crowd-pleasingest season opener any major American regional theater could wish for.
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M. BUTTERFLY
Monday, May 20th, 2019
Victor/Victoria’s gender-bending trickery pales in comparison to the deception perpetrated on M. Butterfly’s Rene Gallimard in David Henry Hwang’s 1988 Best Play Tony-winning rumination on race, gender, and sexuality, whose 2017 Broadway-revival rewrite now burns up the South Coast Repertory stage with two of the most powerful lead performances in town.
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SHEEPDOG
Monday, April 22nd, 2019
UNARMED BLACK TEEN SHOT, KILLED BY POLICE The headline happens to come from the June 20, 2018 issue of USA Today, but it could just as well describe the shooting experienced first-hand by Cleveland police officers Ryan and Amina in Kevin Artigue’s conversation-provoking Sheepdog, a gut-punching South Coast Repertory World Premiere.
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