Posts Tagged ‘keisha7’
OEDIPUS EL REY: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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Alfaro spins much of this in a colloquial lexicon that makes it all the more forceful. Some of his passages — Tiresias’ musings on what a father really is, after [...]
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 [...]
SWEENEY TODD: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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I have seen this show more than a few times and I have to say I thoroughly enjoy this production. Norman Large comfortably heads a formidable company of talented performers [...]
Critique of the Week
ORPHEUS DESCENDING
by Keisha7 – LASplash
Somewhere in the forgotten South, back in the not so distant past, the locals of a small country town await the arrive of one of it’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
ITALIAN AMERICAN RECONCILIATION: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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The gloves come off in John Patrick Shanley’s romantic comedy at the Ruskin Group Theatre. Performed by an outstanding cast, the play follows the delightful mishaps of love and hate [...]
“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 [...]
