Posts Tagged ‘Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts’
WITNESS UGANDA
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
A gay black NYU student heads off to Africa to help build a school only to come back transformed for life in Witness Uganda, Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews’ off-Broadway “Documentary Musical” thrillingly performed and excitingly restaged for L.A. audiences at Beverly Hills’ Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts.
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BLUES IN THE NIGHT
Thursday, May 3rd, 2018
Chester Gregory may have Yvette Cason, Paulette Ivory, and Bryce Charles singing the lovesick blues from dusk to dawn, but for audiences at The Wallis, Sheldon Epps’ 1982 Best Musical Tony nominee Blues In the Night proves this year’s feel-best musical revue.
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JACKIE UNVEILED
Thursday, March 1st, 2018
Saffron Burrows grants Wallis Center For The Performing Arts an up-close-and-personal, warts-and-all tête-à-tête with one of the 20th century’s most famous, most speculated about, and most enigmatic of legends in Jackie Unveiled, Tom Dugan’s gripping, elucidating look at the woman who was Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.
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THE FLYING LOVERS OF VITEBSK
Sunday, February 25th, 2018
Marc and Bella Chagall soar head over heels in love in Kneehigh Theatre and Bristol Old Vic’s magical chamber musical The Flying Lovers Of Vitebsk, the latest bit of U.K. theatrical wizardry to pay a visit to Beverly Hills’ Wallis Center For The Performing Arts.
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THE HEART OF ROBIN HOOD
Saturday, December 2nd, 2017
If you think (or hope) you’ve seen the last of Robin Hood, think again. The Heart Of Robin Hood has arrived at the Wallis, and any lover of theatrical magic and thrills who skips this Robin because they’ve already seen Errol or Kevin or Russell bring Mr. Hood to the silver screen should suffer one of evil Prince John’s unspeakable punishments, or at the very least a good tongue-lashing. Trust me. You’ve never seen Robin Hood (or any on-stage adventure story) quite like this theatrical dazzler.
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THE PRIDE
Thursday, June 15th, 2017
The Pride, Alexi Kaye Campbell’s provocative, daringly constructed look at the changes wrought over five decades of Contemporary Gay History, has at long last arrived in L.A., masterfully directed at the Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts by its brilliant Artist-In-Residence Michael Arden.
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EDWARD ALBEE’S AT HOME AT THE ZOO
Saturday, March 11th, 2017
Edward Albee fans will find themselves in absurdist heaven, more traditionally minded theatergoers may wonder what all the Albee hoopla has been about, but both will relish the experience of seeing Edward Albee’s At Home At The Zoo (the playwright’s name is part of the title) translated into American Sign Language and performed by three of Deaf West Theatre’s brightest stars at Beverly Hills’ Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts.
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946: THE AMAZING STORY OF ADOLPHUS TIPS
Sunday, February 12th, 2017
World War II England comes breathtakingly to life as Cornwall’s Kneehigh Theatre returns to the Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts with the magical, musical, mesmerizing (and fact-based) 946: The Amazing Story Of Adolphus Tips.
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