Posts Tagged ‘The Dorie Theatre’

DADDY ISSUES

The laughs come fast and furious in David Goldyn’s over-the-top but very funny ’80s-sitcom-style gay family farce Daddy Issues, now getting its West Coast Premiere on Hollywood’s Theatre Row.
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HAVE A GOOD ONE

A trio of 20ish Midwesterners, two of them shirtless greeters at a trendy clothing chain called Penderleigh & Ashe, come of age circa Y2K in Stan Zimmerman and Christian McLaughlin’s Have A Good One, the crowd-pleasing latest from Pop-up Playhouse.
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THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK

Director Stan Zimmerman’s high-concept, Latinx-cast The Diary Of Anne Frank scores points for its thought-provoking premise. In execution, however, it proves a mixed bag at best.
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PLEDGE

Pledge, Paul Shoulberg’s edgy, entertaining Hollywood Fringe Festival 2017 slice-of-frat-life comedy is back, and fully designed for a post-Fringe run. Now all Shoulberg has to do is expand his 65-minute one-act into a full-length play and it could well see life after its four weeks at the Dorie.
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HEARTBREAK HELP

Four fabulous females feud, fuss, fight, and forge unlikely bonds as women on a weekend self-improvement quest in Stan Zimmerman’s terrifically performed 21st-anniversary revival of Justin Tanner’s laugh-packed Heartbreak Help.
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ANDREW LIPPA’S WILD PARTY

Kristina Miller ignites the stage as Queenie in Quentin Garzón’s passion-project intimate staging of the 2000 off-Broadway musical adaptation of Joseph Moncure March’s 1928 epic poem The Wild Party, one which Garzón and company have redubbed “Andrew Lippa’s Wild Party,” the better to distinguish it from the Michael John LaChiusa Wild Party that played on Broadway the same year.
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