Posts Tagged ‘f. kathleen foley’
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 [...]
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 BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL: 83% Sweet – UPDATED
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The problem may be one of taste, but it ties directly back to the compulsion to spill the guts theatrically. Finney’s staging of the abduction starts brilliantly, with a pair [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
WHO IS CURTIS LEE?: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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Once again the MET, known for discovering brilliant African-American playwrights, often in the early stages of promising, distinguished careers, has set before us a compelling and consequential production. Ashford [...]
SPIKE HEELS: 100% Sweet
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Rebeck’s comical archetypes – the siren, the bookworm, the prude and the rogue – are cleverly inverted, and the cast, particularly the effectively charming bad boy Dunne, imbue their characters [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
LIFE COULD BE A DREAM: 89% Sweet (Run Extended)
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If you’re in the mood for Eugene O’Neill, give this show a pass. However, if you want unapologetically escapist entertainment, superbly rendered in every particular, this is your ticket. “Dream” [...]
