IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU
Monday, February 17th, 2020
Judging from yesterday’s standing ovation, audiences in attendance at Musical Theatre Guild’s one-night-only concert staged reading of It Shoulda Been You most likely came to the identical conclusion as this reviewer. The 2015 Broadway musical romcom shoulda been a hit.
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CHARLEY’S AUNT
Saturday, January 4th, 2020
Effervescent performances by a pitch-perfect cast, inspired direction by a Broadway National Tour vet only just out of his teens, and a script so fresh and funny, you’d hardly guess it was written over a hundred-twenty-five years ago combine to make Glendale Centre Theatre’s in-the-round staging of Brandon Thomas’s Charley’s Aunt the year’s first bona fide comedy hit.
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EIGHT NIGHTS
Saturday, November 9th, 2019
A Holocaust survivor newly arrived in 1940s New York. An African-American couple who’ve journeyed north in the tumultuous ’60s in hopes of escaping racism down south. The Japanese-American grandson of WWII internment camp detainees circa 1988. A Syrian refugee in Trump-era America. Playwright Jennifer Maisel weaves together these characters and their interconnected stories in her decades-spanning World Premiere drama Eight Nights, an Antaeus Theatre Company triumph.
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ELIJAH
Monday, November 4th, 2019
Strangers find themselves stuck inside a rural TGI Friday’s as a hurricane rages not far from where a serial killer is about to be put to death in Judith Leora’s Elijah, 72 minutes of drama, comedy, mystery, suspense, and hot-button issues that kept me on the edge of my Victory Theatre seat from start to finish.
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THE ABUELAS
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019Departing from its tradition of reviving theatrical classics, Antaeus Theatre Company opens its 2019/2020 season with the West Coast Premiere of The Abuelas, Stephanie Alison Walker’s mostly disappointing follow-up to The Madres.
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BARNUM
Tuesday, September 24th, 2019Seven stellar triple-threat featured performers and some particularly ingenious directorial touches made Musical Theatre Guild’s one-night-only concert staged reading of the 1980 Broadway hit Barnum worth seeing despite a title performance not up to MTG standards.
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ANNIE
Friday, August 16th, 2019
A nation in the midst of its gravest economic crisis. Out-of-work Americans on the streets. Underage orphans forced into backbreaking labor. And a perky little redhead with an unquenchable hope for a better “Tomorrow.” Annie The Musical is back at Glendale Centre Theatre, proving that even the grimmest of times can inspire the most cheerful, delightful, and tuneful of musical comedy treats.
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THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
Masterfully inventive direction and a marvelously multi-talented cast work theatrical alchemy on Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle, the latest Antaeus Theatre Company triumph.
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