Posts Tagged ‘Theatre 68’
BROOKLYN’S WAY
Sunday, September 22nd, 2024An on-fire Amye Partain is a definite find, but an off-putting male protagonist, an overly tangled time frame, and an approach that takes meta to the extreme do neither the play’s leading lady nor the audience any favors in Sam Henry Kass’s Brooklyn’s Way, a Theatre 68 World Premiere.
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CONEY ISLAND LAND, OR THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL ACTUALITY AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Monday, March 4th, 2024
High school sweethearts reunite for the first time since their breakup thirty years earlier in Timothy Braun’s absorbing World Premiere two-hander Coney Island Land, or The Great Existential Actuality at The End of The Universe, a terrifically acted and designed guest production at North Hollywood’s Theatre 68 Complex.
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AN EVENING OF BETRAYAL
Saturday, June 9th, 2018Harold Pinter’s backwards-moving Betrayal and an abridged Othello told from finish to start add up to An Evening Of Betrayal that proves one of late spring’s most exciting theatrical surprises.
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I AM NOT A COMEDIAN … I’M LENNY BRUCE
Sunday, June 25th, 2017Ronnie Marmo brings the ground-breaking standup comic legend Lenny Bruce back to scabrously funny, heartbreakingly poignant life in I Am Not A Comedian … I’m Lenny Bruce, the latest from Theatre 68.
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DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
Friday, March 10th, 2017Renée Marino and J. Bailey Burcham are absolutely riveting as two of the most damaged souls you’ll ever see sharing a stage in Panic! Productions and Theatre 68’s powerful revival of John Patrick Shanley’s gut-wrenching yet unexpectedly magical Danny And The Deep Blue Sea.
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STAY TUNED
Monday, December 19th, 2016Polish it may lack but laughs there are aplenty in Stay Tuned, Ryan Paul James’ amusing mash-up of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Orson Welles’ War Of The Worlds, Theatre 68’s holiday gift to North Hollywood and beyond.
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A TIME TO KILL
Saturday, November 5th, 2016Theatre 68 inaugurates its new, spiffily remodeled Lankershim digs with Rupert Holmes’ skillful 2013 Broadway stage adaptation of John Grisham’s A Time To Kill, an edge-of-your-seat West Coast Premiere likely to prove right up any courtroom-drama lover’s alley.
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WHO KILLED SANTA?
Friday, December 25th, 2015The white-bearded Fat Man In Red has been candy-caned to death and it’s up to the audience to decide who amongst five iconic Christmas characters “dunit” in Neil Haven’s Avenue Q-inspired, R-rated Who Killed Santa?, a Milwaukee perennial since 2008 now making its West Coast debut at Theatre 68, and while those who insist upon sophistication, refinement, and wit may want to look elsewhere for their holiday entertainment, Haven’s cult smash does what it sets out to do. It makes you laugh.
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