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Last year it was Ian McKellen's King Lear. Next year it will be Jude Law's Hamlet. But this year, it's Patrick Stewart's Macbeth...
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It's such a good story it's surprising someone hasn't made a short play
out of it. A famous, foreign dramatist living in exile in San Diego
hears good things about a small production of one of his old plays. He
and a friend drive up to Hollywood and duck into the tiny theater. The
playwright, who never watches his own plays -- unless he's the director
-- loves the staging and agrees to one day give the theater a brand new
play. Five years later, the script arrives -- and it's a smash, running
for months and eventually moving to Off-Broadway and the Edinburgh
Fringe Festival.
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There are scores of problems with Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,
the new rock musical receiving its world premiere at the Kirk Douglas
Theatre in Culver City, but before any talk of its shortcomings, one
thing should be made clear...
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Movies adapted into musicals have been Broadway's lifeblood this decade, with shows like The Producers, Hairspray and The Lion King
keeping theaters filled year-round. But this season, Broadway's two
biggest movie-based musicals have been savaged by critics and haven't
lived up to their box office expectations...
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Last fall, I saw a Barcelona theater company perform a riff on Shakespeare's Hamlet titled European House.
About an hour long---with no dialogue---it took place in the home of a
wealthy, continental family. As the language-free action unfolded, it
became clear that this unspoken drama was a modern-day prologue to
Shakespeare's classic tragedy...
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During the last 25 years, The Color Purple --- once an eloquent story about a woman named Miss Celie --- has become a full-blown, American institution...
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In American history, there are few events as grim as the burning of
Atlanta in the winter of 1864. Before laying siege to the city, General
William Tecumseh Sherman told its citizens, "You cannot qualify war in
harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.---
Mary Chestnut, an Atlantan whose diary survived the devastation, wrote
in the aftermath: "Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known,
Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone..."
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"Is there any cause in nature that makes these hard hearts." This line from Act III of Shakespeare's King Lear best sums up 2007 from the perspective of a theater-goer...
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This week it was reported that Tina Turner is preparing a Broadway
musical based which will use her songs to tell her life story on stage.
The show, tentatively titled, Simply the Best, is yet another addition to the current theatrical rage known as the "jukebox musical..."
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Rebecca Gilman is an American playwright we should be proud of. Gilman writes plays about regular people faced with serous issues---and what's more, after receiving a good deal of attention (not to mention a few awards) she hasn't bailed on the theater yet. Her most well known play, Spinning into Butter, has just been turned into a film starring Sarah Jessica Parker; but Gilman's latest works (a new play opening last week and a musical that opens next summer) are not for Hollywood, but for small theaters in Chicago...
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It is tempting to write off Alan Bennett's The History Boys as just another well-written play about a group of British prep school mates. The History Boys is very smart, very British; but it's not a simply another Dead Poets Society or To Sir With Love-style
inspirational drama. No, this is the one with the teacher who touches
each of his student's minds and some of his student's balls.
(Off-stage, thankfully.) The History Boys is a rollicking piece of good, mostly clean, theatrical entertainment...
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The strike on Broadway is now over---but the writers' strike in Hollywood
goes on. The past few weeks have shown how the dramatic arts, because
of their dependence on sets, costumes, teamsters, actors and of course
writers, are dependent on the needs of producers and money to bring
them to life...
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There are no second chances in life; but in the theater, there are revivals.-- One local theater that's been particularly good at reviving old plays---especially plays that people wouldn't consider worth re-staging---is the Fountain Theatre in Hollywood...
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Conor McPherson has not been served well by Los Angeles. The Irish
playwright is one the finest dramatists working today, but Angelinos
have had few opportunities to experience this...
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Off-Broadway and out-of town have long been the two places where producers test theatrical material before it---s ready for its close up...
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This month, Westwood's Geffen Playhouse is home to two works by women playwrights about the harsh reality of death. The first, a World Premiere by Jane Anderson, is titled The Quality of Life. It's a short, relatively cogent drama about two couples: one dealing with the death of a loved one that recently happened, the other dealing with the death of a loved one that's about to happen...
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Musicals, high school and otherwise, have been at the forefront of
theater news for the past few months, but with the new season settling
in, finally some non-musical plays are starting to appear...
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It's still two weeks until the opening night of the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of King Lear at UCLA Live, but the drama has already begun. Demand for tickets is reaching stadium concert insanity. Today, a posting on craigslist is offering two balcony seats at Royce Hall for $700 (each!) and traditional scalpers are pushing orchestra tickets for almost $1000.
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Before John Patrick Shanley wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Moonstruck and the Pulitzer-Prize winning play Doubt, he got his break back in 1984 with a two-person show titled Danny & the Deep Blue Sea.
It's a gritty, beer-soaked tale of a one-night stand that threatens to
become something more. The world premiere starred John Turturro as
Danny and it jumpstarted both his and Shanley's career. In the years
since, the play has often been revived in small theaters because it's a
perfect showcase for two young, charismatic actors. This summer, it was
revived here in LA at the Lillian Theatre and proved so successful that
it's been extended at the Elephant Performance Lab next door...
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Well, it happened. Full Puppet Nudity has finally come to Los Angeles...
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This is the last week of the 2006-2007 theatre season. In Los Angeles, the end of the season doesn't bring with it a big awards show to wrap everything up -- nor does the amount of shows produced let up for any extended period. In this way, LA theatre-going is like LA weather. It's pretty much the same all year round...
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Were it not for poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Xanadu might be
forgotten, just another gaudy summer home for a rich and powerful
medieval emperor...
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Supporting local theater is one of those earnest, well-meaning
things---like adopting puppies, volunteering at soup kitchens, and voting
in non-presidential elections---that many Angelinos talk about doing more
than they actually do...
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That's the rousing overture to Cole Porter's Can-Can---a musical homage to turn-of-the-century Paris and one of the most gloriously giddy of the composer's creations. Can-Can's
songs bubble with Porter's wit and Belle --poque Montmartre is a vintage
musical theater setting. So why is the show so rarely staged....
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Last week we talked about musicals and next week we'll be talking about
another musical, so this week we should talk about serious drama---and it
doesn't get more serious or dramatic than Shakespeare's Hamlet...
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Last week the New York Times--a newspaper with a good deal of influence on American theater---published an article which stated the following: "Patti Lupone's enormous success in Evita in 1979 permanently pegged
her as a musical star just as musicals were starting their final
descent into cultural irrelevance..."
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Why is it that Americans get so nostalgic about so many things they
weren't so crazy about the first time around. Whatever the reason, this
phenomenon has been a boon to theatrical producers over the course of
the past decade. No longer simply the territory of AM radio and VH1
specials, nostalgia is big business on Broadway and in Southern
California theaters...
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Two years ago, when August Wilson's final work Radio Golf was playing in Los Angeles, it was announced that the playwright was dying of liver cancer. Exactly two weeks after the show closed, Wilson passed away...
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Forty---five years ago, Martin Esslin published the book, The Theatre of the Absurd, which was easily the most influential theatrical text of the 1960's. Since that heady time, when playwrights like Albee, Beckett, D--rrenmatt, Pinter and others seemed to be innately connected to the zeitgeist, there have been lots of interesting plays---but no real movements.
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One year ago, at the 2006 Tony Awards Ceremony, Southern California Theaters received a fair bit of attention, as the two new musicals that won awards that night were seen first here on the West Coast. Jersey Boys, which won Best Musical, premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse; and The Drowsy Chaperone did some tuning up at the Ahmanson Theatre before heading to Broadway, where it won awards for Best Score and Best Book...
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