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Month: January 2019
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The Long Weekend is a play about two couples spending a long weekend together in the country. We discover the two friends’ spouses are having affairs, and the audience witnesses what happens to the characters due to their choices.
Written by Patrick Chavis Murder, murder, and more murder — who knows the subject better than the queen of the murder mystery herself, Agatha Christie. In her lifetime Christie wrote over 50 different novels, mostly focusing on a genre she mastered, the murder mystery. Christie’s stories are all different and unique, but one thing they have in common is a mysterious death and a group of people that all seem to look guilty. This trope is consistent in Stages Theatre presents Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Nile. While the climax and twist ending in this production give a much-needed boost of energy to the show, the buildup in the first act lacks a kick and feels almost irrelevant after watching the whole story play through. Continue reading →
1776, the electrifying musical about the founding of America. Featuring a contemporary cast, this Tony Award-winning smash begins with a deadlocked Congress – sound familiar? Its attempts to adopt the Declaration of Independence are boiling over in heated confrontations. Taken from the website.
Chicano/Latino performance troupe comprised of writer-comedians Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas and Herbert Sigüenza. Their work ranges from comedic sketches to full-length plays and screenplays that feature political and social satire. Taken from the website.
(Photos by Giovanni Solis of bracero)Estranged brothers Frank and Jesse reunite to plan a kidnapping in a squalid motel room on a hellish day in Barstow. When day turns into night and their hostage is brought out of the trunk, the siblings find their troubles have just begun. Taken from thewebsite
Paul Rush is a founder of the Sixty-six Theater Co, located at the historic Marilyn Monroe Theatre in West Hollywood. He fell in love with theater while studying at the University of Maine. His disciplined and heartfelt approach he attributes to his time in the woods of Maine and in his service in the U.S. Air Force. He is dedicated to engaging audiences with honest and thought-provoking theater. He has produced numerous films and theater on both East and West coasts. A quote from Henry David Thoreau has been present throughout his life, ‘Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.’
Kerry Kazmierowicztrimm is a Los Angeles-based playwright, book writer, lyricist, screenwriter, and actor. He’s had over 170 productions of his plays and musicals staged in four countries. His play WOUNDED just premiered Off-Broadway at the Soho Playhouse as part of the “Fringe Encore Series” (chosen from thousands of Fringe shows from all over the world). He’s won and placed for over twenty playwriting awards, including being a Finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference and the David Ross Fetzer Foundation for Emerging Artists Grant. Taken from the website.
