The hit Off-Broadway parody “Silence! The Musical” gets a take-no-prisoners L.A. premiere at the Hayworth Theatre, with Davis Gaines and Christine Lakin in the leading roles.
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Everything That Is the Case for Two Young Women on the Eve of the Great War Among Other Elegant Lies
Frank Boudreaux’s cleverly titled “Everything That Is the Case for Two Young Women on the Eve of the Great War Among Other Elegant Lies,” at Incubator Arts, is fun but too dense.
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How CD Sarah Finn Went from Acting in Theater to Casting Marvel's Movies
The casting director cut her teeth at New York's Ensemble Studio Theatre, with actor Mark Ruffalo, before becoming one of the top CDs in Hollywood.
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Directed too deliberately by its author, Athol Fugard’s 2009 play “The Train Driver,” getting its NYC premiere at Signature Theatre, is barely dramatic and too obviously symbolic.
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Employing Chinese brocades as puppets and featuring films of disappearing ink paintings, “Strange Tales of Liaozhai,” at Here, is visually exquisite but theatrically somnolent.
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In its L.A. premiere, Joan Didion’s 2007 one-woman memoir-turned-play, “The Year of Magical Thinking,” offers Judy Jean Berns in a strong performance that still has room to grow.
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Actor-author Michelle Clunie’s didactic new play “Us,” now Off-Broadway at the Lion Theatre, uses a romantic breakup as an allegory for liberals’ affair with President Obama.
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Adam Szymkowicz’s busy new comedy “The Why Overhead,” from Zootopia Theatre Co., employs a dozen fine actors to portray the lives, loves, and terrors at a customer call center.
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“Silent,” actor-author Pat Kinevane’s rich, detailed solo show about a homeless man’s guilt over his brother’s suicide, at Irish Arts Center, dazzles but lacks emotional resonance.
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Third Street Theatre’s intimate production of David Yazbek and Terrence McNally’s 2000 Broadway musical “The Full Monty” is charmingly determined though slightly off-kilter.
