Posts Tagged ‘carol kaufman segal’
CELADINE: 60% Sweet – UPDATED
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Evered apparently set out to write a modern Restoration comedy, but his play is too pale, genteel, and bloodless to qualify. It’s all pleasant enough, and it’s not without charm, [...]
THE PRICE: 89% Sweet – UPDATED
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Miller’s characters all seem to struggle with responsibilities and guilt. This play offers the same type of individuals, but because of its long, drawn-out and repetitive dialogue, it is not [...]
LOVE IN BLOOM: 100% Sweet
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It was as if we were watching Shakespeare set to music with its Faerie King Orion (Chris DeCarlo) and Faerie Queen Talia (Evelyn Rudie) at the helm of Love in [...]
SOUVENIR: 83% Sweet – UPDATED
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Even with its elegant production design, including a NYC skyline that pops up when needed via slide projections, and Nick McCord’s delicate lighting design, Gregg W. Brevvort’s production is [...]
CONFUSIONS: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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The Lost Studio, a beautiful and warm, wooden-beamed structure hiding above La Brea also plays host to a small faux art exhibit. The theatre’s anteroom displayed a series of [...]
THAT PERFECT MOMENT: 73% Sweet
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Rave reviews prompted producer Racquel Lehrman to bring back That Perfect Moment following its October-November run at the NoHo Arts Center. The return engagement (at Burbank’s Little Victory Theatre) is [...]
Critique of the Week
SOUTHERN COMFORTS
by Carol Kaufman Segal – Stagehappenings
Southern Comforts, written by Kathleen Clark, is the latest offering at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills. Directed by Paul Millet, it is a romantic [...]
SOUTHERN COMFORTS: 67% Sweet
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Clarke’s characters can be warm and interesting, but there were a few problems in the play itself. Scott is a seasoned actress, but I was not struck by her performance [...]
“Breaking and Entering”: 67% Sweet
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It’s an admirably complex script, the outcome in doubt up to its denouement. Yet, though director Mark L. Taylor gets considerable mileage from Jeremy Pivnick’s lighting and Bill Froggatt’s sound, [...]
“Dirty Dancing”: 67% Sweet
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We’re all here to see Baby come into her own, but it sure takes a while. The producers could easily cut 20 minutes off the evening without losing the heart [...]
