Margaret Gray – LA Times
The stripper whose wildest dream is of marriage. The high-stakes gambler who falls for a missionary. Both live on the sweet, homely Broadway of Damon Runyon, whose short stories about Depression-era gamblers and others on the seedy side of the street of dreams inspired the great American musical “Guys and Dolls: A Musical Fable of Broadway. Read more…
Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly
Writer-director-adapter Mary Zimmerman is perhaps best known in Los Angeles for Metamorphoses, her adaptation of Ovid’s epic poem (and other myths), which played at the Mark Taper Forum in 2008. Years before, I caught her 1993 staging of The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre. Read more…
Dany Margolies – The Daily News
Considering it combines the imagination and experience of director Mary Zimmerman with the resources of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the staging of “Guys & Dolls” at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts ought to have been sheer heaven. It’s not. Read more…
Pauline Adamek – Stage Raw
A tremendously successful Broadway musical, Guys & Dolls ran for 1200 performances, winning five Tony Awards in 1951 including the award for Best Musical. The popular romantic comedy — written by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows and featuring Frank Loesser’s catchy tunes and clever lyrics — sparkles with humor, drama, song and dance.
Now running through December 20.