Posts Tagged ‘edge los angeles’
WHISPER HOUSE: 83% Sweet – UPDATED
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Composer Duncan Sheik’s voice, which entered the world of stage tuners with a roar in 2004’s “Spring Awakening,” is reduced to a whisper in “Whisper House,” the somnolent chamber musical [...]
CIRCUS WELT: 75% Sweet – UPDATED
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It’s an intriguing idea, as is the decision to launch each of the play’s four acts with chilling 1933 news updates performed as satirical clown routines. But Cerny lacks the [...]
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 [...]
Critique of the Week
PALESTINE, NEW MEXICO
by Trevor Thomas – EdgeLosAngeles
“Nobody’s happy here. Nobody knows who they are.” So says one character in Richard Montoya’s Palestine, New Mexico now onstage at the Mark Taper [...]
PALESTINE, NEW MEXICO: 38% Bitter – UPDATED
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This curious development leads to a fantasy sequence featuring, among other harebrained shenanigans, a golem in the shape of a cactus. The high jinks have a fatuous air that aims [...]
BONNIE & CLYDE: 50% Bitter
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It’s theoretically possible to turn the “Bonnie & Clyde” saga into a conventional musical play, but the eponymous tuner at La Jolla Playhouse hasn’t found the magic formula. Flummoxed by [...]
TREE: 100% Sweet
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In “Tree,” there is no true love without pain. Hébert suggests that real families are the people who know you well enough to push you into becoming someone new. Now [...]
“Oleanna”: 100% Sweet
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“Oleanna” still fills me with reservations — artistic as well as political. Yes, the debate is tendentiously rigged. But you can’t argue with a play that retains the power to [...]
