Posts Tagged ‘charles mcnulty’
FORGIVENESS: 100% Sweet
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The human heart’s capacity to get past the atrocious sins of others in order to grant forgiveness is bracingly dramatized in stage and TV scribe David Schulner’s world premiere, packing [...]
FENCES: 100% Sweet
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Robinson is riveting as the conflicted man whose fanciful storytelling and outward affection for Rose is in sharp contrast to the way he handles his self-professed responsibilities and the harsh [...]
THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES: 70% Sweet – UPDATED
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All right, given this impressive pedigree, what’s my beef? Well, beyond the play’s passé style, I have trouble with the workmanlike use of the symbolic roses that inspire the title [...]
NORTH ATLANTIC: 86% Sweet – UPDATED
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With an ensemble that includes such company stalwarts as Kate Valk, Ari Fliakos and Scott Shepherd, along with Oscar winner Frances McDormand, who was in the delightful 2002 Wooster Group [...]
THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES: 89% Sweet – UPDATED
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The script has an unending flow of verbal and physical high jinks but too many sitcom-quality one-liners and a lazy reliance on popular culture for easy laughs. There also is [...]
WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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Durang is getting a lot off his chest, and off ours. The laughter he generates is from nonsense about nonsense, unnervingly true and cathartic, and beautifully performed.
Steven Leigh [...]
Are Avant-Garde and a Good Story Mutually Exclusive?
I kinda know the answer to this already, sorta, but this fantastic dual-review by my current-most-favorite-Los-Angeles-critic Harvey Perr over at the Stage and Cinema site brought it back for me [...]
WRECKS: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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Yet, thanks to Harris’ Herculean acting feat, the contrived ending almost becomes beside the point. Harris’ portrayal of Edward Carr, a grieving middle-aged Midwestern man at a funeral parlor, sorting [...]
Welcome Jay McAdams to Bitter Lemons!
I’ve been remiss in writing this post and it’s almost become irrelevant “old” news, cuz Jay is already bangin’ ‘em out right and left, but I’d like to formally [...]
Critique of the Week – Runner Runner Up
WHISPER HOUSE
by Charles McNulty – LA Times
When the two singing ghosts of Duncan Sheik and Kyle Jarrow’s new indie-spirited chamber musical “Whisper House” deliver the opening number, “Better to [...]
