Posts Tagged ‘santa monica mirror’
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 [...]
LOVE IN BLOOM: 100% Sweet
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It was as if we were watching Shakespeare set to music with its Faerie King Orion (Chris DeCarlo) and Faerie Queen Talia (Evelyn Rudie) at the helm of Love in [...]
THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES: 89% Sweet – UPDATED
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The script has an unending flow of verbal and physical high jinks but too many sitcom-quality one-liners and a lazy reliance on popular culture for easy laughs. There also is [...]
WRECKS: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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Yet, thanks to Harris’ Herculean acting feat, the contrived ending almost becomes beside the point. Harris’ portrayal of Edward Carr, a grieving middle-aged Midwestern man at a funeral parlor, sorting [...]
THE COLLECTOR: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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After you’ve watched the subtle, nuanced performance of Dane Zinter as Fredrick, a pathetically lonely, obsessed madman in “The Collector,” you may be excused for concluding that the actor [...]
A SONG AT TWILIGHT: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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In this age of Facebook, Twitter, and texting, where the English language has been reduced to grunts and groans and fractured grammar, Noel Coward has come to the rescue, at [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
PALESTINE, NEW MEXICO: 38% Bitter – UPDATED
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This curious development leads to a fantasy sequence featuring, among other harebrained shenanigans, a golem in the shape of a cactus. The high jinks have a fatuous air that aims [...]
THE BROWNING VERSION: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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The actors give amazing performances, under Marilyn Fox’s elegant direction, including the superb Orson Bean as the unctuous headmaster and Michael Redfield and Caitlin Beitel as the newlywed Gilberts, who [...]
