Posts Tagged ‘sarah taylor ellis’
CAROUSEL: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
BITTERSWEET
Michetti’s story-theater approach surely will be the most talked-about aspect of this production. The stage directions, meant for the production team’s eyes only, are spoken, “Our Town”-like, by the grandfatherly, [...]
Critique of the Week – Runner Up
CAMELOT
by Sarah Taylor Ellis – Compositions on Theatre
During my freshman year at Duke, I took a writing seminar entitled “Images of Arthur”; in one of my first academic papers [...]
BOBRAUSCHENBERGAMERICA: 78% Sweet – UPDATED
SWEET
Bart DeLorenzo’s staging preserves the tone, inherent the text, that’s both wry and frivolous, abstract and pop, with one breakout poetical excursion into Walt Whitmanesque grandeur, delivered by a hobo [...]
To Review or Not to Review
I’d like to introduce the lovely and talented Kat Primeau and her newish Los Angeles based blog Adventures in La-La Land. Actor, writer and fledgling critic, Kat contacted us [...]
WHISPER HOUSE: 83% Sweet – UPDATED
BITTER
Composer Duncan Sheik’s voice, which entered the world of stage tuners with a roar in 2004’s “Spring Awakening,” is reduced to a whisper in “Whisper House,” the somnolent chamber musical [...]
Critique of the Week – Runner Up
ORDINARY DAYS
by Sarah Taylor Ellis – Compositions on Theatre
I drove a full two hours to reach South Coast Repertory this past Friday evening. Cast recordings of Floyd Collins and [...]
The Democratization of Theatre Criticism
We received a lovely note from a relatively new Lemon Head named Sarah Taylor Ellis, a UCLA PhD student in Theatre and Performance Studies. She asked us to take [...]
CAMELOT: 73% Sweet – UPDATED
SWEET
In 1960 two legendary tuners bowed in Gotham exactly seven months apart: two-planks-and-a-passion romance “The Fantasticks” (May 3) and lavish spectacle “Camelot” (Dec. 3). Fifty years later at the Pasadena [...]
ORDINARY DAYS: 83% Sweet – UPDATED
SWEET
The lesson: Simple joys have a way of secretly expanding. If you go into “Ordinary Days” with reasonable expectations, you’ll likely come out feeling as if you’ve just had an [...]
