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The Night of the Iguana. This play, written in 1961, is well produced here by A Noise Within under Michael Murray's attentive direction. It is also the only major Williams play with a male protagonist, the Reverend Lawrence Shannon (Geoff Elliott). Deborah Strang gives one of her best performances as the lusty Maxine. Tom Fitzpatrick's full-bodied voice and impeccable diction make Nonno a riveting figure and explain his granddaughter's devotion. . Jill Hill plays Hannah as a New England spinster just barely holding it together under a façade of tough serenity. Courtney Decosky is a vivid Charlotte who lets it all hang out. Julia Silverman plays Judith Fellowes for comic relief, with few layers to her rage. The play continues at : A Noise Within, 234 S.Brand Blvd., Glendale. Reservations: (818) 240-0910 x 1 through May 25, 2008 (In repertory). -- Reviewed by Laura Hitchcock on May 9, 2008.
It's been nine years since Curtainup reviewed Donald Margulies' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Dinner With Friends (review.) It still makes a strong impression in the production currently at Theater 40, on the Bevery Hills High School campus, 241 South Moreno Drive, in Beverly Hills which is graced by the performances of four powerful and appealing actors —Grinnell Morris, Julie Lancaster, Dee Ann Newkirk and Garrett McKechnie under the tight direction of Laura James.
Emergency. "We don't know what to do with our anger but we have to learn from the Jewish people,"” says Daniel Beaty at the beginning of the remarkable one-man play which he wrote, performs and sings. Now in previews, and extensively reviewed in New York where it was entitled Emergence-SEE, it showcases Beaty's performing talents as actor/singer and the flair for words with which he tells his story. Although some elements are clichéd, the 40 characters he presents with great versatility and the humor and passion of his delivery go a long way towards illuminating his historic, social and political world. At the Geffen Playhouse, 10886 LeConte Avenue, Los Angeles, April 23-May 25--extended to June 1st. Reservations: (213) 365-3500. To read our review of the New York production go here.
The Los Angeles production of Wicked will play its final performance on January 11, 2009 at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. Upon closing, the production, which is directed by Joe Mantello, will have played 791 performances and 12 previews.
Musical Theatre Guild has announced its 2008-2009 season of concert versions of classic musicals, to be presented at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California., beginning September 15th with the Cy Coleman-Dorothy Fields-Michael Bennett musical Seesaw, based on William Gibson's romantic drama Two for the Seesaw. It will be followed by Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella (November 10), based on Sidney Howard'sThey Knew What They Wanted about a lonely vineyard owner who arranges for a younger bride; the beloved Burton Lane-E.Y. Harburg-Fred Saidy musical Finian's Rainbow (February 23); Terrence McNally, John Kander and Fred Ebb's Kiss of the Spider Woman (April 20), based on the Manuel Puig novel about a pair of unlikely cellmates; and Brian Crawley and Jeanine Tesori's Violet (June 15), based on Doris Betts' short story about a scarred young woman who meets two handsome soldiers on a bus. In addition, The Most Happy Fella will be presented at the Thousand Oaks Civics Arts Plaza on November 23, and Finian's Rainbow will be seen there on March 1.
The Guild's next production will be a revised version of Cole Porter's Out of This World on April 23 at the Alex, directed and choreographed by Todd Nielsen. For tickets and information, call 818-848-6844 or visit www.musicaltheatreguild.com.
ROGUE MACHINE, a collective of award-winning and prominent Los Angeles-based directors, writers, actors, and designers launches their first season of productions as a company in residence at Theatre Theater, 5041 W. Pico Blvd. The Artistic Director is John Perrin Flynn, Emmy-nominated producer/director of dozens of TV projects including the long-running Strong Medicine TV series on Lifetime. Members and associates of ROGUE MACHINE include Roxanne Hart, Richard Fancy, Phil Casnoff , Elina DeSantos, Stephanie Kerley Schwartz, Deborah Puette, Maia Danzinger, Oz Scott, Robin Larsen, John Pollono, Barbara Kallir, Henry Murray, Matthew Elkins, and many others. Their first production, Jeffrey Hatcher's Compleat Female Stage Beauty, opens on April 26, 2008.
Still to catch at Los Angeles Theatre Works' radio theatre series: Julie Marie Myatt's Boats on a River (April 9-13, 2008), Noël Coward's Tonight at 8:30 (May 12-18, 2008), Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke (June 18-22, 2008) and Neil Simon's Broadway Bound (July 9-13, 2008). This Audio Theatre Collection is available in book stores, libraries, or digitally on audible.com For tickets to any of the productions at the Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Boulevard, call the L.A. Theatre Works box office at (310) 827-0889 or visit latw.org.
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