Posts Tagged ‘The Victory Theatre Center’
CREVASSE
Saturday, July 27th, 2024
Adolph Hitler’s favorite filmmaker meets the man who made animated movie stars of Snow White, Pinocchio, and Bambi in Tom Jacobson‘s Crevasse, a fascinating, stunningly staged co-production of Son of Semele and The Victory Theatre Center.
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FAITHLESS
Saturday, March 16th, 2024
A pair of 30something siblings summoned to their widowed stepfather’s home confront a family crisis involving their adopted teenaged sister in Jon Klein’s absorbing family dramedy Faithless, a laughter-and-discussion-provoking Victory Theatre Center World Premiere.
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HOME FRONT
Saturday, January 14th, 2023
An interracial couple fall in love on VJ Day 1945 only to find their post-WWII hopes and dreams dashed by the discovery that, as the French so aptly put it, “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose,” in the Victory Theatre Center West Coast Premiere of Warren Leight’s eye-opening, emotion-packed Home Front.
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ELIJAH
Monday, November 4th, 2019
Strangers find themselves stuck inside a rural TGI Friday’s as a hurricane rages not far from where a serial killer is about to be put to death in Judith Leora’s Elijah, 72 minutes of drama, comedy, mystery, suspense, and hot-button issues that kept me on the edge of my Victory Theatre seat from start to finish.
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THE END OF SEX (OR WHAT’S WRONG WITH MOM)
Tuesday, May 14th, 2019A menopausal wife informs her husband of thirty-five years that she never wants to have sex again, not with him, not with anybody. A young wife’s sudden success threatens a husband whose career isn’t going nearly as well. Gay Walch’s The End Of Sex (Or What’s Wrong With Mom), the latest Victory Theatre Center World Premiere is nothing if not conversation-provoking.
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SHOWPONY
Saturday, September 29th, 2018
Workplace tensions explode when the acquisition of an African-American-owned company by a major New York advertising agency adds racial sparks to already rampant sexism in Judith Leora’s scathingly funny World Premiere comedy Showpony, the latest from Burbank’s Victory Theatre Center.
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UNEMPLOYED ELEPHANTS – A LOVE STORY
Sunday, March 11th, 2018
Playwright Wendy Graf proves herself as adept at the romcom two-hander as she is at her dark, dramatic solo pieces in Unemployed Elephants – A Love Story, a Victory Theatre World Premiere sparked by Maria Gobetti’s deft direction and a couple of couldn’t-be-better leads.
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