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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, [...]
BROADS, THE MUSICAL: 50% Bittersweet – UPDATED
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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
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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 [...]
THE PRICE: 89% Sweet – UPDATED
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Miller’s characters all seem to struggle with responsibilities and guilt. This play offers the same type of individuals, but because of its long, drawn-out and repetitive dialogue, it is not [...]
NAKED IN THE TROPICS: 0% Bitter
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Nanin’s predictable soap-opera script combines countless genres — including lesbian romance, boylesk, after-school special, musical and courtroom drama — to very little purpose, and the author’s slack direction doesn’t help. [...]
PROOF: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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Auburn’s powerful play hinges on the issues of trust and faith. As the playwright Bertolt Brecht observed, “the inflexible rule [is] that the proof of the pudding is in the [...]
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 [...]
THAT PERFECT MOMENT: 73% Sweet
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Rave reviews prompted producer Racquel Lehrman to bring back That Perfect Moment following its October-November run at the NoHo Arts Center. The return engagement (at Burbank’s Little Victory Theatre) is [...]
“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 [...]
“Our Town”: 91% Sweet – UPDATED
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The jury’s still out on “Our Town”: Is it a high school staple for a reason, or a victim of sentimentalists? The new production of Thornton Wilder’s 1937 classic at [...]
