Posts Tagged ‘Theatre 40’

A CLEAN BRUSH

After having given a number of Norm Foster comedies their American or West Coast Premieres, Theatre 40 now gets first dibs on Foster’s latest. Unfortunately, A Fresh Brush proves one of the prolific comic master’s lesser efforts, but that doesn’t mean that its cast of Canadian oddballs don’t earn their fair share of chuckles.
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THE METROMANIACS


The rhymes come fast and furious, and so do the laughs, in Theatre 40’s 2022-2023 season-opener The Metromaniacs, David Ives’ très délicieux updating of Alexis Piron’s early-18th-century French farce of a similar name.
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THE PLAY’S THE THING

There’s a reason why so-called “old chestnuts” are rarely revived, evidence of which can be found in Theatre 40’s mostly sluggish 2022 revival of Ferenc Molnar’s 1920s chestnut The Play’s The Thing.
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GOOD PEOPLE


Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40 gives David Lindsay-Abaire’s consistently compelling Good People an impeccably acted intimate theater revival whose only real minus is its scenic design.
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AS GOOD AS GOLD

Theatre 40 opens its 2021-2022 season with Marilyn Anderson’s As Good As Gold, a Hollywood satire not nearly as good as the solid gold cast who do their darnedest to make it shine.
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TAMING THE LION


1930s Hollywood lives again at Theatre 40 in Taming The Lion, Jack Rushen’s absorbing, entertaining, enlightening look back at Top 5 Box Office draw William Haines, who gave up stardom for the man he loved.
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SUNDAY DINNER

An abundance of secrets and lies get revealed over the course of one eventful evening in Tony Blake’s funny, engaging, twist-filled Sunday Dinner, now getting a spiffy, splendidly acted World Premiere production at Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40.
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RENOVATIONS FOR SIX

Act One could stand a trim, but once its cast of characters get together for post-intermission cocktails, Norm Foster’s Renovations For Six ends up among the Canadian comedy master’s most rewarding creations … and a terrifically acted Theatre 40 gem to boot.
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