Kentwood Players

BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS – Kentwood Players at the Westchester Playhouse

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Dany Margolies – The Daily Breeze For good reason, playwright Neil Simon has been loved by the theatergoing public for decades. For even better reason, his “Brighton Beach Memoirs” is widely considered to be among his best plays. Read more… Now running through August 15.

ORPHANS at the Westchester Playhouse

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Dany Margolies  –  Arts In LA The three actors of Orphans hurl themselves to the floor, barrel across the stage, and bound around with their ankles tied together. Theirs are athletic, fully energized portrayals that turn Kentwood Players’s Westchester Playhouse into a virtual athletic field.   But their subtle and truthful internalized reactions to their characters’ circumstances, as … Read more

SORDID LIVES at the Westchester Playhouse

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Dany Margolies  –  Arts In LA Give Kentwood Players credit for mounting this production. Del Shores’ “Sordid Lives,” at Westchester Playhouse through Aug. 16, focuses on social outcasts who ignite ire, if not disgust and even hatred.  Read more… David C. Nichols – LA Times Pity the survivors of the late Peggy Ingram, whose bizarre demise … Read more

THE HOLLOW at the Westchester Playhouse

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Dany Margolies  –  Arts In LA This Agatha Christie play might be a classic murder mystery, but the legendary author underpins the script with her perceptiveness about human behavior. As directed by George Kondreck, Kentwood Players’ production, pretty much finds the undercurrents. They flow while the characters spend a long weekend in 1948 at an … Read more