Posts Tagged ‘dany margolies’
OEDIPUS EL REY: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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Alfaro spins much of this in a colloquial lexicon that makes it all the more forceful. Some of his passages — Tiresias’ musings on what a father really is, after [...]
DUAL CITIZENS: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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The story of Broken Nails is less stunning than Ms. Skubik’s performance. It is the usual story of an aging star using power and manipulation to keep her flame [...]
FORGIVENESS: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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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 [...]
SIDHE: 83% Sweet – UPDATED
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Full of dark turns, Noble’s story is so packed with tension and conflict that at times it’s hard to believe only four characters are taking part. Not every twist is [...]
COUSIN BETTE: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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At least one key performance is over laden with shtick, and some fine-tuning of others is in order. Still, Doukas is terrific, delivering a consummate performance that arouses, for her [...]
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 [...]
STAGE DOOR: 67% Sweet – UPDATED
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So what’s missing here? Not all the actors are up to the challenges of this production’s style, nor any acting style. Too bad this sinks our complete enjoyment here. [...]
A SONG AT TWILIGHT: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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In this age of Facebook, Twitter, and texting, where the English language has been reduced to grunts and groans and fractured grammar, Noel Coward has come to the rescue, at [...]
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 [...]
Critique of the Week
AN OAK TREE
by Dany Margolies – Backstage
What exactly is Tim Crouch’s theatrical presentation—”play” being too limiting a word? Crouch (who wrote and who co-directs with Karl James and A. Smith) [...]
