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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Los Angeles Theater Review: FOREVER (Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City) by G. Bruce Smith

ORLANDERSMITH CAN SEE FOREVER There is a timeless quality to stories about families, particularly families riddled with alcoholism, drug addiction, bitterness, hatred, sadness, and lost dre…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:24PM

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Los Angeles Theater Review: AN EVENING OF CLASSIC LILY TOMLIN (Valley Performing Arts Center, CSUN) by G. Bruce Smith

HAS THE BLOOM WORN OFF THE LILY, OR IS IT ME? Dear Lily: I’ve adored you ever since you burst into my consciousness – and the nation’s – way back in 1969 on Laugh-In. Who could forge…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:00PM

Monday, April 7, 2014

Los Angeles Theater Review: COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA (A Noise Within) by G. Bruce Smith

COME BACK TO A NOISE WITHIN The current production of Come Back, Little Sheba at Pasadena’s A Noise Within proves that William Inge’s breakout 1950 Broadway hit is still relevant today. …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:44PM

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Los Angeles Theater Review: A NICE INDIAN BOY (East West Players) by G. Bruce Smith

GAY BOYS AND INDIANS A Nice Indian Boy, currently enjoying its world premiere production at East West Players, is a charming little comedy about love, marriage, culture clash and the shiftin…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:44PM

Monday, February 17, 2014

Los Angeles Theater Review: GOING TO ST. IVES (Actors Co-op in Hollywood) by G. Bruce Smith

A BLESSING FROM BLESSING Playwright Lee Blessing has done a gutsy thing. He puts himself in the head and heart of the mother of a ruthless African dictator who murders and tortures his compa…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 09:18PM

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Los Angeles Theater Review: ABOVE THE FOLD (Pasadena Playhouse) by G. Bruce Smith

BELOW THE FOLD Above the Fold, a new play making its debut at the Pasadena Playhouse, has two major flaws that result in an evening of uninspired theater: both a lack of credibility and comp…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:04PM

Monday, September 30, 2013

Los Angeles Theater Review: FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON (Deaf West) by G. Bruce Smith

MOUSE TRAP Flowers for Algernon has had many incarnations since it was first published as a short story in 1959 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction: a novel, a telecast, a film (w…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:27PM

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Los Angeles Theater Review: ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI… (Rogue Machine) by G. Bruce Smith

THE X FACTOR How many times have we mused that we would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when ___________? That’s exactly what playwright Kemp Powers has done in his One Night in …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:22PM

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