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.
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Just as existentialism is a philosophy concerned with finding the meaning of life through personal responsibility and free choice, playwright Zach Fehst's heady, 75-minute romp is concerned with sorting out all of this business in a one-act performance.
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With a title that truncates the fictional Rossum's Universal Robots into an early example of marketable corporate abbreviation, Capek's vision is today still eerily fatalistic.
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Skewering the pursuit of idle happiness is hardly an earth-shattering theatrical concept.
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This Our Town is heavier on sarcasm than sentimentality, and it pushes more comedy and politics—with mixed results.
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"Sophistry" presents scenarios meant to show various perspectives on such subjects as the nature of power, substance abuse, and sexual aggressiveness.
