Posts Tagged ‘robert machray’
Critique of the Week – Runner Up
DUAL CITIZENS
by Robert Machray – Stagehappenings
If you like your theatre with a European feel then Dual Citizens currently playing at the Odyssey Theatre. Ron Sossi the Artistic Director [...]
OEDIPUS EL REY: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
SWEET
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 [...]
DUAL CITIZENS: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
BITTERSWEET
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 [...]
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 [...]
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS: 100% Bittersweet – UPDATED
BITTERSWEET
The company was wise to enlist the direction of the award-winning local director Richard Israel who I think has set out to direct every musical that ever existed since he [...]
BROADS, THE MUSICAL: 50% Bittersweet – UPDATED
BITTER
I loved the four gals playing the Broads – all talented – but the show needs a major overhaul. Too many jokes are tired old cliches – and singing about [...]
THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES: 70% Sweet – UPDATED
BITTERSWEET
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 [...]
HELLZ KITCHEN ABLAZE (Extended Run): 33% Bitter
BITTER
Unfortunately, the script has the feel of a ‘wannabe’ film, perhaps one we have already seen many times before. The stereotypical characters and plot, along with the trite dialogue [...]
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 [...]
Critique of the Week – Runner Runner Runner Up
BOBRAUCHENBERGAMERICA
by Robert Machray – Stagehappenings
Robert Rauschenberg lived in the artistic period between abstract expressionism and pop art. His painting and sculptures display his belief that there is no [...]
