Posts Tagged ‘Atwater Village Theatre’
BLOOD AT THE ROOT
Sunday, September 10th, 2023
Headline-making real-life events propel Dominique Morisseau’s hot-button Blood At The Root, an Open Fist Theatre Company Los Angeles Premiere given electrifying theatricality by director Michael A. Shepperd, choreographer Yusuf Nasir, and a cast of gifted young up-and-comers.
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STARMITES
Monday, June 5th, 2023
Starmites might possibly be the least remembered Best Musical Tony nominee of the 1980s, but there’s nothing in the least bit forgettable about Open Fist Theatre Company’s irresistibly entertaining intimate revival of the 1989 Broadway gem.
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THE THIN PLACE
Monday, March 20th, 2023
You don’t have to believe in psychic phenomena to find yourself spellbound by Lucas Hnath’s mysterious and spooky The Thin Place, the latest Echo Theater Company winner at the Atwater Village Theatre.
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DO YOU FEEL ANGER?
Sunday, January 29th, 2023Mara Nelson–Greenberg takes #metoo rage to absurdist extremes in Circle X Theatre Company’s Do You Feel Anger?, a West Coast Premiere that starts out a major laugh getter (and stays that way for most of its ninety-minute running time), but ends up a major bummer the moment Nelson–Greenberg’s anti-male message gets sledgehammered in in the play’s suddenly surreal final scene.
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SMILE
Monday, November 14th, 2022A guidance counselor and a 17-year-old student find their lives intertwined to explosive effect in Melissa Jane Osborne’s Smile, an IAMA Theatre Company World Premiere as compelling as it is exasperating.
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TO THE BONE
Sunday, October 9th, 2022
Pay no mind to its frustratingly cryptic and even off-putting title. Catherine Butterfield’s alternately sidesplitting/heartstrings-tugging To The Bone is not only one of the year’s best new plays, like David Lindsay-Abaire’s similarly set Good People, the Open Fist Theatre Company World Premiere will keep you guessing—and keep surprising you—from its hilarious start to its unexpected, laughter-through-tears finish.
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BABE
Monday, September 26th, 2022Cliffhangers are perfectly fine if you’re writing a series pilot or season finale. Not so much if you’ve written what purports to be a full-length play, which is why, engaged as I was throughout Echo Theater Company’s Babe, I left feeling frustrated, angry, and confused as to why playwright Jessica Goldberg didn’t finish what she’d started so provocatively sixty-five minutes earlier in a more satisfyingly conclusive way.
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Sunday, July 3rd, 2022
Director James Fowler and Open Fist Theatre Company discover astonishing new depth and meaning in a centuries-old classic by transposing William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream from ancient Greece to the Antebellum South.
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