Posts Tagged ‘Terrence McNally’
IT’S ONLY A PLAY
Tuesday, June 11th, 2024
Torrance Theatre Company closes its 2023-24 season with the most impeccably cast, directed, performed, and designed of the three productions I’ve seen of Terrence McNally’s backstage comedic gem It’s Only A Play.
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IT’S ONLY A PLAY
Monday, April 3rd, 2023
It’s theatrical heaven for Broadway buffs this month as Theatre 40 treats audiences to the venerable Beverly Hills company’s third surefire laugh-getter in a row, Terrence McNally’s It’s Only A Play.
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IT’S ONLY A PLAY
Sunday, January 19th, 2020
If you love live theater and the people who make it, you will absolutely adore Morgan-Wixson Theatre’s delectable latest, and even if you don’t know Ben Brantley from Ben Franklin, you’ll have a smashingly good time at Terrence McNally’s It’s Only A Play.
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ANASTASIA
Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
A Disney-style animated flick for the kiddies gets transformed into an epic romantic musical for grown-ups in Anastasia, now evoking oohs and aahs at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts for its gorgeous costumes and spectacular projection designs as well as abundant applause for its trio of thrilling lead performances, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s lush musical score, and Peggy Hickey’s eclectic choreography.
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RAGTIME
Monday, July 8th, 2019
Chance Theater reinvigorates the 1998 Broadway blockbuster Ragtime to thrilling effect, giving the musical flashback to early-20th-century America race-and-class relations fresh new 21-century relevance.
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CATCH ME IF YOU CAN
Monday, April 1st, 2019
Teen con artist Frank Abagnale, Jr. is once again scamming his way across the country—but this time he’s doing it “Live In Living Color”—in Musical Theatre West’s pizzazzy spring offering Catch Me If You Can, the big-stage musical adaptation of Steven Spielberg’s popular 2002 biopic.
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RAGTIME
Tuesday, February 12th, 2019
A nation where the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and immigrants are told to get out and stay out. Ragtime may take place a century ago, but the epic 1998 Broadway musical has never been more relevant than it is today, and thanks to director David Lee and a glorious cast and design team, its 2019 Pasadena Playhouse revival blows the seven other Ragtimes this reviewer has seen out of the water, and then some.
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CORPUS CHRISTI
Saturday, November 10th, 2018
Terrence McNally poses the provocative question, “What if Jesus were gay?” in Corpus Christi, the Tony Award-winning playwright’s highly controversial reimagining of The Life Of Christ as set in his Texas hometown and performed by an all-male cast, a memorable freshman-season closer for Orange County’s The Wayward Artist.
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