Posts Tagged ‘The Group Rep’

PROMISES, PROMISES

A pair of thoroughly winning romantic leads brighten The Group Rep’s 99-seat revival of the 1968 Neil Simon-Burt Bacharach-Hal David Broadway hit musical Promises, Promises, though an instance of historically incompatible gender reassignment does the production no favors.
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NORMAL NOISES


If laughter is indeed the best medicine, then you’re bound to leave Normal Noises, Clara Rodriguez’s quirky sextet of “plays about real life, only more so” in the halest of health.
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THE DESPERATE HOURS

Joseph Hayes’ The Desperate Hours may have won a Tony as the Best Play of 1955, but the 67-year-old suspense melodrama is showing its age these days with its stilted dialog and Father Knows Best-meets-Dragnet characters, and some questionable casting choices don’t help its 2022 revival at the Group Rep.
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L.A. NOW AND THEN


The longer you’ve lived in Los Angeles, the more Bruce Kimmel’s L.A. Now And Then is likely to resonate with you, but even if names like Sheriff John and Engineer Bill don’t ring a bell, you’ll likely find much to enjoy in this musical love letter to the City of Angels, now playing at the Group Rep Theatre in North Hollywood.
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CHRISTMASTIME ORIGINS


The Group Rep revisits the golden age of radio in Christmastime Origins, a charming, tuneful companion piece to such holiday favorites as It’s A Wonderful Life: The Radio Play and Miracle On 34th Street: A Live Musical Radio Play.
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KEN LUDWIG’S THE GAME’S AFOOT; OR HOLMES FOR THE HOLIDAYS


Following their all-around fabulous London Suite, The Group Rep makes it two in a row with a terrifically directed/acted revival of the Ken Ludwig-meets-Conan Doyle-meets-Agatha Christie farce The Game’s Afoot; Or Holmes For The Holidays, a particularly tasty treat for audiences in search of December fare that’s not Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
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GO WEST

Like its Motel 66 companion piece Head East, The Group Rep’s Go West offers L.A. audiences six short plays performed under NoHo skies, an evening of live theater worth checking out if only to quench a thirst left by what has seemed like an endless fifteen months without.
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HEAD EAST

Theatergoers eager for an experience that feels both comfortingly familiar and excitingly new after a fifteen-month hiatus from live entertainment can now Head East (or Go West on alternate nights) for an evening of six short plays performed under NoHo skies in The Yard, the Group Rep’s newly constructed outdoor space next door to the membership company’s longtime home.
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