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MARAT/SADE at the Long Beach Playhouse

Shirle Gottlieb – Stage Happenings “Marat/Sade” (subtitled “The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the direction of the Marquis de Sade” was written by Peter Weiss, set in 1808…

LADCC Critics
June 26, 2016

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SISTER ACT at Musical Theatre West

Dany Margolies – The Daily Breeze Mix mobsters, doctrinarians, disco and polyester, and the last thing this farrago should produce is a story about finding one’s blissful true self. But somehow the musical “Sister Act” does just that, particularly in…

LADCC Critics
April 21, 2016

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