Posts Tagged ‘The Group Rep’

TWELVE ANGRY JURORS


Reginald Rose’s Emmy-winning tale of a single dissenting juror’s quest for truth and justice keeps audiences on the edge of their seats for ninety electrifying minutes in the Group Rep’s pulse-pounding revival of Twelve Angry Jurors.
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70, GIRLS, 70

Its songs may not be John Kander and Fred Ebb at their Cabaret-Chicago best, and its wisp of a book may give them little to write memorably about, but there’s no denying the exuberance of a cast made up almost entirely of performers anywhere from 50something to 93 years young in The Group Rep’s intimate revival of the 1971 Broadway flop 70, Girls, 70.
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ROOM SERVICE

Sluggish pacing drags down the Group Rep’s 2023 revival of John Murray and Allen Boretz’s Room Service despite a delightful first act and a number of snappy performances.
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THE LARAMIE PROJECT

An impressive, gender-bending cast salute Matthew Shepard’s memory in The Laramie Project, Moises Kaufman’s powerful examination of the aftermath of the gay Wyoming university student’s murder, though the Hollywood Fringe Festival look it is given at the Group Rep does the play no favors.
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PROMISES, PROMISES

A pair of thoroughly winning romantic leads brighten The Group Rep’s 99-seat revival of the 1968 Neil Simon-Burt Bacharach-Hal David Broadway hit musical Promises, Promises, though an instance of historically incompatible gender reassignment does the production no favors.
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NORMAL NOISES


If laughter is indeed the best medicine, then you’re bound to leave Normal Noises, Clara Rodriguez’s quirky sextet of “plays about real life, only more so” in the halest of health.
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THE DESPERATE HOURS

Joseph Hayes’ The Desperate Hours may have won a Tony as the Best Play of 1955, but the 67-year-old suspense melodrama is showing its age these days with its stilted dialog and Father Knows Best-meets-Dragnet characters, and some questionable casting choices don’t help its 2022 revival at the Group Rep.
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L.A. NOW AND THEN


The longer you’ve lived in Los Angeles, the more Bruce Kimmel’s L.A. Now And Then is likely to resonate with you, but even if names like Sheriff John and Engineer Bill don’t ring a bell, you’ll likely find much to enjoy in this musical love letter to the City of Angels, now playing at the Group Rep Theatre in North Hollywood.
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