Posts Tagged ‘don shirley’
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG: 100% Sweet
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With this excellent revival, Oanh Nguyen once again proves himself a master at making the very best of Sondheim. Perhaps what Broadway needs to finally get that hit production [...]
BACKWARDS IN HIGH HEELS: 86% Sweet – UPDATED
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“Backwards in High Heels” has no great plot or momentum, but if you happen to be in the vicinity of Long Beach you might want to give this slight, modestly [...]
Critique of the Week
THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES
by Don Shirley – LA Stage Watch
David Mamet was in the Taper audience on Sunday evening – an especially noteworthy appearance because it was Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow [...]
LOBBY HERO: 100% Bittersweet – UPDATED
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There are no real heroes here, and no true villains either, just nimble moral equivocators who tap-dance their way through the ever-shifting rationales of Lonergan’s keenly observed social satire. [...]
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 [...]
EXILES: 100% Sweet
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The show’s pacing sags occasionally, particularly toward the end, which feels inordinately drawn out — and the breakdown of the boat seems like a forced plot development to keep [...]
The “Stew Review” Becomes a Veritable Pasta Medley
See? I knew it. Don Shirley got the ball rolling with his Stew Review and now everybody wants a taste.
The latest Stew Review comes from Cynthia Citron over at [...]
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, [...]
Don Shirley’s Spanking New “Stew Review”!
That’s right, the ever-inventive, always insightful, irrepressible LA Theatre Critic, Don Shirley, currently hanging his virtual shingle at LA Stage Watch and famous for – well famous to ME at [...]
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 [...]
