Posts Tagged ‘la weekly’
DON JUAN DISPENSO: 33% Bitter
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If the smoky-eyed Enani rarely stokes the Don’s legendary libido with sufficient fire, blame Tanner; he transposes his characters to modern times (a period nicely suggested in designer Daniel Mahler’s [...]
A Producer and a Critic Walk into a Bar…and Beat the Shit out of Each Other!
Whoa Nellie.
Guess I left the bar a little early cuz producer Rick Culbertson and LA Weekly critic Steven Leigh Morris have been wailing on each other since last we left [...]
THE UNEXPECTED MAN: 67% Sweet – UPDATED
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I wish I could say that the play’s culmination is worth the investment of the slow buildup or that the enjoyment of art, as life, is in the journey, [...]
SLAUGHTER CITY: 50% Bitter
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Director Barbara Kallir has a tall order here—working with rich language, singing, and choreographed meat-cutting, much knife-handling, and, at its core, a dual love story that competes with Wallace’s sometimes [...]
OEDIPUS EL REY: 100% Sweet
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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 [...]
BARBRA’S WEDDING: 50% Bitter
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In Barbra’s Wedding, now showing at the Blank’s 2nd Stage Theatre, playwright Daniel Stern (the actor of Home Alone fame) has captured the pathetic ghost of showbiz past and made [...]
DUAL CITIZENS: 100% Sweet
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The story of Broken Nails is less stunning than Ms. Skubik’s performance. It is the usual story of an aging star using power and manipulation to keep her flame [...]
CAVE QUEST: 100% Sweet
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Diane Rodriguez’s direction is enhancing yet controlled, allowing both performances to be interesting while maintaining excellent contact with the main theme—which is enlightenment of a kind and, of course, justifiable [...]
FORGIVENESS: 100% Sweet
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The human heart’s capacity to get past the atrocious sins of others in order to grant forgiveness is bracingly dramatized in stage and TV scribe David Schulner’s world premiere, packing [...]
A Producer and a Critic Walk Into a Bar…
Fun little tussle going on between producer Rick Culbertson and LA Weekly critic Steven Leigh Morris over at Rick’s site. The beef: whether the Actor-Critic can remain unbiased when [...]
