Posts Tagged ‘stagehappenings’
MEN OF TORTUGA: 75% Sweet – UPDATED
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The loss of its host company with the closing of the Pasadena Playhouse threatened the show’s very opening, let alone Furious’ future, and seems to have cast a listless gloom [...]
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
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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 [...]
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 [...]
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG: 100% Sweet
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With this excellent revival, Oanh Nguyen once again proves himself a master at making the very best of Sondheim. Perhaps what Broadway needs to finally get that hit production [...]
BACKWARDS IN HIGH HEELS: 86% Sweet – UPDATED
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“Backwards in High Heels” has no great plot or momentum, but if you happen to be in the vicinity of Long Beach you might want to give this slight, modestly [...]
FORGIVENESS: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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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 [...]
THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL: 88% Sweet – UPDATED
BITTERSWEET
The problem may be one of taste, but it ties directly back to the compulsion to spill the guts theatrically. Finney’s staging of the abduction starts brilliantly, with a pair [...]
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS: 100% Bittersweet – UPDATED
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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 [...]
FENCES: 100% Sweet
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Robinson is riveting as the conflicted man whose fanciful storytelling and outward affection for Rose is in sharp contrast to the way he handles his self-professed responsibilities and the harsh [...]
