Name: Robert Machray
Dateline: Los Angeles and beyond
Weblog: stagehappenings.com
Articles: 120
First Published: Friday, November 16, 2007
Last Published: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Currently listing articles 120-101:
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Theater Review (LA): Shock Therapy by Tom Baum at the Lillian Theatre— Psychiatrists, escaped cons, cheating wives, TV therapy, and fun.
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Theater Review (LA): School of Night by Peter Whelan at the Mark Taper Forum— Kit Marlowe, spy, atheist, rebel, victim, homosexual, and genius.
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Theater Review (LA): Waiting in The Wings by Noel Coward at Theatre West — A loving look at actresses in retirement.
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Theater Review (LA): Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks by Richard Alfieri at the Falcon Theatre— Playing beautifully off each other, Jason Graae teaches Constance Towers to dance.
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Theater Review (LA): Money Shot by Daniel Keleher at the Alexandria Hotel— Exciting, disgusting, engrossing, and pointless - but worth a look-see.
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Theater Review (LA): Spring Awakening at the Ahmanson Theatre— Those naughty German teens are on tour.
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Theater Review (LA): Mary's Wedding by Stephen Massicotte at the Colony Theatre— Love in Calgary - and on the battlefield - is all a dream.
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Theater Review (LA): Thyestes' Feast by Peter Wing Healey at the Whitmore-Lindley Theatre— What happened before the fall of the House of Atreus: a reconstruction of fragments with camp overtones.
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Theater Review (LA): The Witching Hour by L. G. Ross and Rodney Sciba at the Actor's Workout Studio— Four tales for All Hallows Eve - more creepy and funny than really scary.
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Theater Review (LA): The Lady With All The Answers by David Rambo at the Pasadena Playhouse— Mimi Kennedy plays Ann Landers in a delightful one-person show.
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Theater Review (LA): The Rainmaker by N. Richard Nash at A Noise Within— Now seems a good time to see this 1954 play, which is filled with hope, self-acceptance, and human renewal.
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Theater Review (Thousand Oaks, CA): The King And I at the Cabrillo Music Theatre— Debbie Gibson is almost too strong for her role in this enjoyable revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic.
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Theater Review (Pasadena): The Sequence by Paul Mullin at The Theatre @ Boston Court— The mapping of the human genome live, onstage - and it's funny too.
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Theater Review (LA): Hamlet by William Shakespeare at A Noise Within— Overacting and overreaching, Freddy Douglas makes an unsympathetic Hamlet.
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Theater Review (LA): Girl's Room by Joni Fritz at the El Potal— Carol Lawrence and Donna McKechnie in a star vehicle that works well.
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Theater Review (LA): Louis and Keely Live at The Sahara— Louis Prima and Keely Smith live again in Los Angeles.
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Theatre Review (La Jolla, CA): The Third Story by Charles Busch at the La Jolla Playhouse— Scientists, clones, misshapen experiments, a female mob boss, an old Russian folk tale, and Charles Busch.
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Theatre Review (Costa Mesa, CA): Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl at South Coast Repertory— Answer a dead man's cell phone and you might get a life.
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Concert Review: LA Philharmonic Gala with Esa-Pekka Salonen Conducting— The LA Philharmonica presents a Salonen gala with Dawn Upshaw, Audra McDonald, and Barbara Hannigan.
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Theatre Review (Ventura, CA): She Loves Me by Masterhoff, Bock, and Harnick— Just when you think the story is going to get sentimental, Masterhoff changes the mood with a joke.
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