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Monday, January 27, 2014

Queenie Pie: Opera Review by Myron Meisel, Myron Meisel

Duke Ellington's opera of intraracial satire is staged in Long Beach.An opera by Duke Ellington? Well, almost, sort of. Like many of the Master’s creations, tunes and notions for Queen…

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:42PM
Friday, January 24, 2014

Theater Review: Totem by Myron Meisel, Myron Meisel

Cirque du Soleil brings its Big Top to the Santa Monica Pier.Cirque du Soleil has certainly come a long way since it first pitched its tent on the beach at Santa Monica in 1988 (after an ini…

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:17PM

A Word Or Two: Theater Review by Myron Meisel, Myron Meisel

Christopher Plummer stars in his own staged memoir of a literature-loving life at the Ahmanson Theatre in downtown L.A.Few enticements can feel as comforting as an invitation into the inner …

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:05PM
Monday, January 20, 2014

The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart: Theater Review by Myron Meisel, Myron Meisel

This mock epic set in a Scottish bar irreverently considers folk traditions at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica.The smaller room at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica has been repurposed as a ta…

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:54PM

An Illiad: Theater Review by Myron Meisel, Myron Meisel

Denis O'Hare's adaptation of Homer's epic poem bows at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica.If war and conflict must be begrudgingly considered the natural condition of Mankind, then The Iliad of…

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:30PM
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Foxfinder: Theater Review by Myron Meisel, Myron Meisel

A dystopian drama of an authoritarian future arrives in Pasadena.Set on a distant, hardscrabble farm in a future designated by playwright Dawn King as “Soon,” Foxfinder posits a …

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:57PM

I'll Go On: Theater Review by Myron Meisel, Myron Meisel

Three Samuel Beckett books are woven into this successful staging of the Irish icon's particular brand of comic bleakness.“Nothing is more real than nothing.” One might take some…

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:35PM
Friday, December 13, 2013

The Steward of Christendom: Theater Review by Myron Meisel, Myron Meisel

Brian Dennehy stars as a Lear-like former Irish cop in this revival of Sebastian Barry's drama at the Mark Taper Forum in downtown L.A.Thomas Dunne (Brian Dennehy), based upon the great-gran…

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:41PM
Saturday, December 7, 2013

Peter and the Starcatcher: Theater Review by Myron Meisel, Myron Meisel

The national tour of Broadway's Peter Pan prequel arrives at the Ahmanson Theatre in downtown L.A.The steely durability of J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan mythology gets mightily flexed in th…

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:16PM

Parfumerie: Theater Review by Myron Meisel, Myron Meisel

The play that was later adapted by Ernst Lubitsch to become "The Shop Around the Corner" is the debut staging at the new Wallis Annenberg Center in Beverly Hills.Miklos Laszlo, a Jewish &eac…

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:52PM
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Orwellian: Theater Review by Myron Meisel, Myron Meisel

The writer so seminal that he's become an adjective finds his observations turned into a one-man play in West L.A.George Orwell remains one of the most cogent writers of the English language…

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:27PM
Monday, November 25, 2013

Play Dead: Theater Review by Myron Meisel, Myron Meisel

Teller of magic duo Penn & Teller directs this illusory consideration of mortality in Westwood.Anyone who can still relish the hokum of cunning patter and the crafty spinning of yarns should…

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:06PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards