Posts Tagged ‘South Coast Repertory’
CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND
Thursday, March 15th, 2018
The Cambodian genocide may seem the least likely of subject matters for a raucous rock-music comedy, but this is precisely what Lauren Yee has pulled off in Cambodian Rock Band, her most accomplished, fulfilling play to date.
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SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
Thursday, January 25th, 2018
Shakespeare’s got the hots for Viola, only this time round it’s not on the silver screen but live and on stage as South Coast Repertory enchants audiences with Billy Elliot screenwriter Lee Hall’s theatrical adaptation of Marc Norman and legendary playwright Tom Stoppard’s 1998 seven-Oscar-winning Shakespeare In Love.
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GEM OF THE OCEAN
Thursday, October 26th, 2017
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson sheds informative, compelling light on early twentieth-century African-American life in Gem Of The Ocean, now being given an absolutely spectacular production at South Coast Repertory.
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ONCE
Monday, September 11th, 2017
Take one of the best (and quite possibly the most original) Broadway smashes of the past decade, cast it with some of SoCal’s most gifted actor-singer-musicians, give it a fresh new staging that may actually improve on the Broadway original, and you’ve got Once, as thrilling a South Coast Repertory season opener as any musical theater lover could wish for.
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THE MONSTER BUILDER
Wednesday, May 17th, 2017A topnotch cast attack The Monster Builder with gusto, but a rather creepy lead character and a bit too much of the quirky and bizarre make Amy Freed’s South Coast Repertory World Premiere satire of architectural pretention more miss than hit despite occasional forays into the weirdly hilarious.
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A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2
Tuesday, April 25th, 2017
Nora’s come back to the “doll’s house” she once called home, though how long she’ll stay is anybody’s guess in Lucas Hnath’s audacious, scabrous, wordy, discussion-prompting, and often surprisingly droll sequel to the Henrik Ibsen classic, the South Coast Repertory World Premiere of A Doll’s House, Part 2.
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THE SIEGEL
Wednesday, April 5th, 2017
An out-of-the-blue wedding proposal a full two years after a couple’s breakup is hardly a conventional way to start off a romantic comedy, but the originality of this opening salvo is just one reason why Michael Mitnick’s The Siegel is such a South Coast Repertory treat.
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ORANGE
Wednesday, March 15th, 2017
An Indian teen somewhere on the autism spectrum spends one adventurous night discovering The OC with her Americanized cousin and her cousin’s skater-dude boyfriend in South Coast Repertory’s West Coast Premiere of Aditi Brennan Kapil’s Orange, not only a delightful cross-cultural comedic treat but a particularly apt choice for Orange County’s premier regional theater.
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