LADCC Critics

BRIEF ENCOUNTER at the Bram Goldsmith Theater at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

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Myron Meisel – The Hollywood Reporter Possibly his most recognized work, Noel Coward’s screenplay for David Lean’s 1945 British film Brief Encounter, with its proper and decent married lovers resolutely resisting adultery, was indubitably the adult romance of its time, with the swells of Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto counterpointing the personal sacrifice of ardor for order … Read more

DISASSEMBLY at Theatre of Note

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Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly While the overarching message in playwright Steve Yockey’s fractured farce Disassemblyisn’t quite clear, its clever irony is nonetheless unmistakable. Each of the comedy’s daft desperate-for-love characters spins in his or her own idiosyncratic orbit. One exception to this needy bunch would be Evan (Alexis DeLaRosa), an accident-prone jock worshipped by both his … Read more

WHITE at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

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Pauline Adamek  – ArtsBeatLA Continuing their commitment to presenting high quality theater for children, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is staging another imported show. The award-winning Catherine Wheels Theatre Company from Scotland presents White, a magical and delightful production for the very young, in the Wallis’ smaller space, the intimate Lovelace Studio Theater. Read more… Dany Margolies  –  Arts In LA … Read more

The LADCC Nominees Reception 2014

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LADCC nominees gather at the Colony Theatre on Feb. 24 to mingle and celebrate their nominations. The theater-makers met old friends and made new ones, visiting with their colleagues and chatting with nominees in other categories. They even met the critics and seemed to enjoy our company. The awards ceremony is scheduled for March 17 … Read more

THE RECOMMENDATION at the Asylum Theatre

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Myron Meisel – The Hollywood Reporter IAMA Theatre Company returns from its off-Broadway run of two recent productions without breaking stride, with yet another robustly contemporary offering, again characterized by distinctively fresh language. The aspiring son of an Ethiopian immigrant father, Iskinder (Brandon Scott), finds himself simultaneously charmed, fascinated and resentful of his freshman dorm … Read more

SEX AND EDUCATION at the Colony Theatre

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Les Spindle –  Edge on the Net The best news about the Colony Theatre’s production of Lissa Levin’s comedy “Sex and Education” is the star performance of Stephanie Zimbalist, the accomplished veteran of stage, film and television, who is perhaps most widely known for her role as a sexy detective in the hit 1980s television … Read more

THE MUSIC MAN at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center

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Les Spindle –  Edge on the Net Celebrated composer-lyricist Meredith Willson (1902-1984) had a colorful but surprisingly limited Broadway career, which included “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” (1960), “Here’s Love” (1963), and his most indelible musical, “The Music Man” (1957). Read more… Shirle Gottlieb Yeah, you’re right, “The Music Man” is an old war-horse over fifty years old; but it still … Read more

Love, Noel: The Letters And Songs Of Noel Coward at the Lovelace Studio Theater, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

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Myron Meisel – The Hollywood Reporter The new intimate room at the old Beverly Hills post office has been nostalgically configured as a vintage supper club with alcohol and food service for this sentimental yet substantial cabaret performance of Noel Coward‘s words and music by a pair of genuine theatrical stars, John Glover and Judy Kuhn. In a satisfyingly … Read more

GOING TO ST. IVES at the Crossley Theatre at Actors Co-op

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Neal Weaver  – Arts In LA Lee Blessing’s taut and subtle two-character drama proves that a play with a small cast can deal with large issues. Cora Gage (Nan McNamara) is a British ophthalmologist, living in St. Ives, who is approached for treatment by May N’Kame (Inger Tudor), the empress of an unidentified African nation … Read more

INHERIT THE WIND at the Grove Theatre Center

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Deborah Klugman – ArtsBeatLA One would have thought (perhaps hoped is the better word) that Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee’s 1955 play Inherit the Wind, about the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, would have lost some of its relevance by now. Like Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, it was written in response to the close-mindedness and prosecution of freedom of thought that swept through the … Read more