Tim Toyama and Aaron Woolfolk's new play is based on the account of a lad (a heartbreaking Jeff Manabat) who, instead of submitting to being carted off to a "relocation" camp with all other Americans of Japanese descent during World War II, holes up in his family's abandoned ...
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Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage
The time of your life? Though ad slogans promise that possibility, this bizarre screen-to-stage transplant offers only intermittent flashes of down-and-dirty fun. Add to that a by-the-numbers rehash of the film’s soapy story, and the victory of crass commercialism over creativity is complete.
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Not only something for the audience's mind to feast on, the play is a great vehicle for two actors.
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Musical theater fans trying to remember the kind of September when this beloved Tom Jones–Harvey Schmidt tuner wasn't playing won't be able to think of many.
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Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' has often been classified, with good reason, as a "problem play."
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Actor-playwright Wallace Shawn's plays have a distinctly literary, quirky, and ambling quality about them.
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The Katselas Theatre Company aims at the heights of the Tom Stoppard experience but doesn't always make it through the sound and fury of tedious bombast and earnest actors trying to sound like British actors playing British actors.
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What we have in this 50-minute production is less a conventional play and more a slice of life presented as a conversation between two working-class sisters.
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Forbidden Broadway: Greatest Hits, Volume One
Since 1982, creator-writer Gerard Alessandrini has raked Broadway over the coals with his annually updated 'Forbidden Broadway' series, which ended its venerable Off-Broadway run in March.
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Once you get past the fact that this "new" 1898 play by Mark Twain is receiving its West Coast premiere 111 years after it was written, its tale of the European art scene circa the mid-19th century is quite strikingly contemporary.
