Posts Tagged ‘South Coast Repertory’
POOR YELLA REDNECKS
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
Vietgone’s Quang and Tong are back at South Coast Repertory and facing their not quite happily ever after in Qui Nguyen’s laugh-and-rap-packed World Premiere comedy Poor Yella Rednecks.
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SWEENEY TODD
Tuesday, January 29th, 2019
There will be blood all month in Costa Mesa as South Coast Repertory debuts its scaled-down but still powerful, sensationally performed 40th-anniversary revival of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Weaver’s musical thriller Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street..
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KINGS
Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
Rising playwright Sarah Burgess takes deadly aim at the political strings pulled by big-money-powered PACs in Kings, a South Coast Repertory West Coast Premiere as entertaining as it is riveting as it is cynical about the state of our nation.
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VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE
Monday, October 8th, 2018
Squabbling siblings have rarely inspired as much laughter as they do in Christopher Durang’s scrumdiddlyumptious 2013 Best Play Tony winner Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike, now being given a bang-up big-stage production at South Coast Repertory.
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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Wednesday, September 19th, 2018
The Dashwood sisters fall truly, madly, deeply in love once again as South Coast Repertory treats Jane Austen fans to Sense And Sensibility, its daringly cast and deliciously performed 2018-2019 season opener.
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THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG
Monday, May 21st, 2018
Sara, Gorgeous, and Pfeni Rosensweig are back and every bit as smart and sassy and engaging at South Coast Repertory as they were when playwright Wendy Wasserman, fresh from her Pulitzer Prize win for The Heidi Chronicles, debuted The Sisters Rosensweig back in 1992.
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LITTLE BLACK SHADOWS
Tuesday, April 17th, 2018Kemp Powers’ Little Black Shadows takes an intriguing concept (the lives of teenage house slaves serving white teen masters in early-1850s Georgia), then veers off track into family dysfunction, folktales, magical realism, and a couple of weird plot twists that left me scratching my head despite the best efforts of a Grade-A cast headed by the simply sensational Giovanni Adams and Chauntae Pink.
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SHREW!
Wednesday, April 4th, 2018Amy Freed returns to South Coast Repertory with another hit-or-miss (but mostly miss) World Premiere comedy, this time a purportedly feminist take on William Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew retitled simply Shrew!
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