Posts Tagged ‘The Group Rep’
THE LARAMIE PROJECT
Saturday, May 6th, 2023An impressive, gender-bending cast salute Matthew Shepard’s memory in The Laramie Project, Moises Kaufman’s powerful examination of the aftermath of the gay Wyoming university student’s murder, though the Hollywood Fringe Festival look it is given at the Group Rep does the play no favors.
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PROMISES, PROMISES
Monday, December 26th, 2022A 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
Saturday, August 27th, 2022
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
Monday, June 6th, 2022Joseph 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
Saturday, April 2nd, 2022
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
Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
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
Saturday, November 27th, 2021
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
Saturday, June 26th, 2021Like 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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