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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Theater Review: A RAISIN IN THE SUN by Lorraine Hansberry, directed by Phylicia Rashad (Los Angeles) by Tony Frankel

UNCOMMON GRACE In order to validate his experience of a play, a reviewer should dissect and probe the components of a production, but once in a while a show comes along which catapults the h…

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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Theater Review: SUMMER OF LOVE by Roger Bean (Long Beach) by Tony Frankel

TAKING JUKEBOX MUSICALS TO TASK Grab those love beads and tie-dye shirts, smoke a bowl, and head down to Long Beach to hear kick-ass songs from the 60s and 70s delivered with professional gu…

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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Theater Review: BONDED by Donald Jolly (Los Angeles) by Tony Frankel

THE BOYS IN THE BOND Regarding his play bonded, black playwright Donald Jolly has said that he is trying to lay claim to his own place in this world by using tales of his enslaved ancestors …

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Saturday, April 2, 2011

Theater Review: RE-ANIMATORâ„¢ THE MUSICAL (Hollywood) by Tony Frankel

SON OF A HORROR FLICK How lucky we Angelenos are that Re-Animatorâ„¢ The Musical a funny, campy, thoroughly entertaining gore-fest, opened here before splattering itself on legions of cu…

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Theater Review: PRIVATE LIVES by Noel Coward (Laguna Beach) by Tony Frankel

COWARD ON THE BEACH Noël Coward's oft-produced classic Private Lives is indeed, as one of his characters states, jagged with sophistication. The story is of a divorced, fiercely contentio…

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Saturday, March 12, 2011

'TIL DEATH DO US PART: LATE NIGHT CATECHISM 3 by Maripat Donovan " Carrie Hamilton Theatre at The Pasadena Playhouse " Los Angeles (Pasadena) Theater Review by Tony Frankel

AND THEN THERE WAS NUN 'Til Death Do Us Part: Late Night Catechism 3 is actually the fourth installment of Maripat Donovan's phenomenally successful series of one-woman shows (a fifth is due…

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