Posts Tagged ‘Theatre 40’
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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INCIDENT AT OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
Tuesday, February 7th, 2023
Katie Forgette puts a 1970s blue-collar Irish-American Catholic comedic spin on the memory play in Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, the crowd-pleasing latest from Theatre 40.
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GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER
Monday, November 28th, 2022
Impeccably acted, directed, and designed on a “CinemaScope” stage, Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner is one of Theatre 40’s finest productions ever.
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A CLEAN BRUSH
Monday, October 10th, 2022After having given a number of Norm Foster comedies their American or West Coast Premieres, Theatre 40 now gets first dibs on Foster’s latest. Unfortunately, A Fresh Brush proves one of the prolific comic master’s lesser efforts, but that doesn’t mean that its cast of Canadian oddballs don’t earn their fair share of chuckles.
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THE METROMANIACS
Sunday, July 31st, 2022
The rhymes come fast and furious, and so do the laughs, in Theatre 40’s 2022-2023 season-opener The Metromaniacs, David Ives’ très délicieux updating of Alexis Piron’s early-18th-century French farce of a similar name.
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THE PLAY’S THE THING
Monday, May 23rd, 2022There’s a reason why so-called “old chestnuts” are rarely revived, evidence of which can be found in Theatre 40’s mostly sluggish 2022 revival of Ferenc Molnar’s 1920s chestnut The Play’s The Thing.
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GOOD PEOPLE
Sunday, December 12th, 2021
Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40 gives David Lindsay-Abaire’s consistently compelling Good People an impeccably acted intimate theater revival whose only real minus is its scenic design.
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AS GOOD AS GOLD
Sunday, September 26th, 2021Theatre 40 opens its 2021-2022 season with Marilyn Anderson’s As Good As Gold, a Hollywood satire not nearly as good as the solid gold cast who do their darnedest to make it shine.
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