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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Nothing To Hide: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Neil Patrick Harris directs two acclaimed young magicians at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:55PM
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

In the Red and Brown Water: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

An acclaimed young playwright explores elemental emotions amidst a housing project in the Louisiana bayou.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:24PM
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Build: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

A brilliant yet troubled videogame designer conjures an artificial intelligence "robot" of his deceased wife.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:35PM
Wednesday, October 24, 2012

A Bright New Boise: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Playwright Samuel D. Hunter won an Obie Award last year for this dark comedy, which deals with themes of family, religion and responsibility.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:41PM
Friday, October 19, 2012

The Rivals: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Richard Brinsley Sheridan's first play, which gave the world the term "malapropism" in 1775, is staged in Culver City.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:35PM
Thursday, October 18, 2012

Seminar: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

'Smash' creator Theresa Rebeck's searching Broadway play about an intense fiction writing workshop comes to L.A.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:59PM
Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Krapp's Last Tape: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Oscar-nominated John Hurt stars in Samuel Beckett's elegiac, sentimental piece.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:40PM
Tuesday, October 16, 2012

The Fainting Couch: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Narcissism, powerlessness, castration fears and more are the focus of this North Hollywood production by Zombie Joe.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:58AM
Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Three Views of the Same Object: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

An older couple and a terminal illness are depicted kaleidoscopically, with three different scenarios playing out for the husband and wife.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:29PM
Monday, October 8, 2012

November: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

David Mamet's Broadway-bred Oval Office comedy of 2008 bows in L.A. at the height of another election season.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:00PM
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Cymbeline: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Shakespeare's late-period, lesser-known romantic tragedy is refreshed with a successful staging in Pasadena.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:03PM
Monday, October 1, 2012

Shiner: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

The 1994-set play centers on an adolescent couple who aim to score tickets to the band's Hollywood Bowl concert and then jump off a freeway overpass.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:23PM

Orestes 3.0: Inferno: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Playwright Charles M. Lee takes on Euripides in this production by avant-garde company City Garage.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:04PM

Potential Space: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Kirsten Vangsness writes and stars in a thoughtful yet laugh-loaded meditation on sex and relationships.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:24PM
Saturday, September 29, 2012

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of "Ruined" addresses the quandaries facing African-American artists in early 1930s Hollywood, first in the moment and then in hindsight. read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:16AM

Rome at the End of the Line: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Playwright Daniel Serrano continues his trilogy, "Impossible Cities (Ciudades Imposibles)," with a meditation on the passage of time.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:17AM
Thursday, September 13, 2012

The Book of Mormon: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez bring their Tony-winning Broadway blockbuster to the Pantages Theatre. read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:58PM
Thursday, September 6, 2012

Euripides' 'Helen': Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Nick Salamone's musical adaptation of the 412 B.C. play gets a late-summer staging at the Getty Villa's antiquity-styled outdoor amphitheater.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:20PM
Monday, August 13, 2012

Red: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Alfred Molina reprises his role as painter Mark Rothko in the L.A. debut of the 2010 Tony Award winner for best play.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:11PM
Monday, August 6, 2012

The Government Inspector: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Nikolai Gogol's satirical Russian comedy of greed and corruption from 1836 is imbued with topical immediacy, from the Great Recession to Occupy Wall Street.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:12PM
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Macbeth: Theatre Review by Myron Meisel

The Antaeus Company takes on Shakespeare's classic in a double-cast North Hollywood production directed by Jessica Kubzansky.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:11PM
Friday, July 13, 2012

The Exorcist: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Playwright John Pielmeier interprets William Peter Blatty's iconic suspense novel for the stage.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:37PM
Saturday, February 25, 2012

The Jacksonian: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Myron Meisel Ed Harris, Amy Madigan and Bill Pullman star in the bold play set in the titular hotel on the outskirts of Jackson, Miss. by playwright Beth Henley.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:30PM
Monday, February 6, 2012

Clybourne Park: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Myron Meisel This provocative winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama made news when lead producer Scott Rudin abruptly walked away from the upcoming Broadway transfer over a dispute wit…

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:51PM

NO good DEED: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Myron Meisel Director Damaso Rodriguez's film follows ordinary men who are transformed into superheroes.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:35PM
Friday, January 20, 2012

Our Town: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Myron Meisel Helen Hunt stars in David Cromer's revival of Thornton Wilder's award-winning production.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:01PM
Thursday, April 28, 2011

The Escort: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Myron Meisel A sex worker shares the tricks of her trade with her OB/GYN in this Geffen Playhouse production.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:36PM

Daddyo Dies Well: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Myron Meisel The fifth play of a projected cycle of eight in Murray Mednick's "The Gary Plays" stars Hugh Dane.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:45PM
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Theater Review: L.A.'s 'God of Carnage' by Myron Meisel

Myron Meisel The original Broadcast cast stars in the "impeccably accessible comedy of despair" at Ahmanson Theatre through May 29.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 12:49PM
Thursday, March 24, 2011

Re-Animator the Musical: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Myron Meisel Stuart Gordon directs this musical, playing at L.A.'s Steve Allen Theater through May 29, with the same brio as a verismo opera while striking a resolutely contemporary attitud…

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:04AM

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