Posts Tagged ‘evan henerson’
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 [...]
BOBRAUSCHENBERGAMERICA: 78% Sweet – UPDATED
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Bart DeLorenzo’s staging preserves the tone, inherent the text, that’s both wry and frivolous, abstract and pop, with one breakout poetical excursion into Walt Whitmanesque grandeur, delivered by a hobo [...]
ORDINARY DAYS: 83% Sweet – UPDATED
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The lesson: Simple joys have a way of secretly expanding. If you go into “Ordinary Days” with reasonable expectations, you’ll likely come out feeling as if you’ve just had an [...]
Critique of the Week – Runner Runner Up
AN OAK TREE
by Evan Henerson – CurtainUp (Los Angeles)
Clancy Brown is a strong and versatile think-on-your-feet performer. As, no doubt, was Peter Gallagher the previous evening and Meagan English the [...]
AN OAK TREE: 89% Sweet – UPDATED
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On opening night, Gallagher’s grief-stricken father produced an atmosphere of anguish that cast light on some of Crouch’s impenetrable themes. Of course, the tone will necessarily change with each new [...]
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 [...]
BABY, IT’S YOU!: 57% Bittersweet
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Serious book problems hamper a strong catalog of early 1960s tunes and the efforts of a talented cast in Baby It’s You!, now at the Pasadena Playhouse. The result is [...]
“Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo”: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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An ebullient synthesizer of world data, Joseph is not just alert to the fevered geopolitical madness surrounding us, he’s also endlessly inventive in finding bold theatrical metaphors to depict the [...]
