The Second City’s “A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens!” by Peter Gwinn and Bobby Mort. Pauline Adamek – ArtsBeatLA ‘Tis the season for Christmas-themed shows and every year there are numerous versions of “A Christmas Carol.” Now playing at the Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre is a…
Gatz by Elevator Repair Service after F. Scott Fitzgerald. Pauline Adamek – ArtsBeatLA It’s engrossing, subtle and riveting. A theatrical performance that consists of the “reading” and acting out of an entire novel over the course of a single day, Gatz, by New York City’s…
Considering the ongoing, essentially bogus view of Los Angeles theater as a tertiary entity to films and television — in fact, L.A. enjoys as vibrant, actively engaged a theatrical community as any city in the nation – it’s ominous for…
Anything Goes by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse; revised by Howard Lindsay andRussel Crouse; reworked by librettist John Weidman andTimothy Crouse. Pauline Adamek – ArtsBeatLA Wall-to-wall hit tunes, ear-to-ear grin all night long F U N ! – Cole Porter’s timeless classic musical theatre masterpiece, Anything Goes, has set sail at the Center Theatre…
The Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris. Pauline Adamek – LA Weekly The season brings with it enough Christmas- and holiday-themed fare to set your teeth on edge from sugar overload. Fortunately for the cynics among us, the Blank Theatrehas brought back its not-safe-for-children,…