Posts Tagged ‘david c. nichols’
HARAM IRAN: 0% Bitter
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Human rights issues in Iran deserve a great play to be written about them, and Michael Matthews deserves a great play to direct, one at the level of his talents. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
KINGS OF THE KILBURN HIGH ROAD: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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The setting, the characters, the behavior — a pub, heavy drinking, nastiness — are all quite stereotypical Irish in Jimmy Murphy’s “The Kings of the Kilburn High Road,” receiving its [...]
ORPHEUS DESCENDING: 86% Sweet – UPDATED
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Frantic Redhead Productions’ presentation of Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descending is a prime example of Los Angeles theater at its finest. A big-name trio of leading players with serious theatrical [...]
11, SEPTEMBER: 0% Bittersweet – UPDATED
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The play rides the line between exploring and exploiting coincidences, yet it gets bogged down in its own psychological realism. This raises questions that can’t be answered by chaos theory, [...]
F*CKING MEN: 86% Sweet
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With a title like F*cking Men and the promise of full frontal male nudity, the latest Celebration Theatre production will have no problem attracting audiences. Joe DiPietro’s modern gay twist [...]
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 [...]
THE TROJAN WOMEN: 100% Sweet
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The approach risks overload, some things unnecessarily explained, and director Michel occasionally struggles to keep the tone consistent. Still, if the aim is to yank “Trojan Women” into our consciousness, [...]
“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, [...]
