Posts Tagged ‘The Actor’s Company’

CHRISKIRKPATRICKMAS


Rapper-turned-movie star Marky Mark plays Angel Clarence to a former boy bander’s down-and-out George Bailey in Chriskirkpatrickmas, Alison Zatta and Valen Shore’s clever, tuneful, utterly winning mash-up of It’s A Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol, and the international phenomenon that was *NSYNC.
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CELESTIAL EVENTS


Nineteen IAMA Theatre Company members (five writers, two directors, and twelve actors) have joined creative forces to celebrate IAMA’s return to live-and-in-person productions with Celestial Events, an engaging, entertaining World Premiere takeoff on such star-studded Hollywood fare as Valentine’s Day and Crazy, Stupid, Love.
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THE NINTH DOOR


A playwright/actor’s two Marine Corps deployments in Afghanistan inform Matthew Domenico and Katherine Connor Duff’s The Ninth Door, now holding audiences riveted at West Hollywood’s The Other Space.
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THE DIRECTION HOME

Tonally it’s all over the place and its lackluster title is unlikely to prove a box-office draw, but Greg Vie’s autobiographical The Direction Home works for the most part as a nostalgic, touching coming-of-age comedy set in WeHo only a few years before the music died.
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BACHELORETTE

Mean girls reign supreme in Bachelorette, Leslye Headland’s acidly funny glimpse into the ugliness that can hide behind pretty faces, back for a return L.A. engagement just a mile from where its 2008 World Premiere put playwright Headland and IAMA Theatre Company on the map.

This time round it’s the year-old Mine Is Yours Theatre Company who bring Becky, Gena, Katie, and Regan (and a couple of not-so-nice young men) to hilariously vicious life, and though these are not folks you’d normally want to spend even an hour with, Bachelorette’s ninety minutes add up to outrageously biting entertainment, albeit quite the opposite of “sugar and spice and everything nice.”
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