Recent production doesn’t quite capture spirit of the original
A Chorus Line set itself up for easy billboard praise the moment the lyric âone singular sensationâ was included in its signature song, and when it opened on Broadway in 1975, thatâs exactly what the musical deserved to be called. Picking up nearly every award that mattered, including a Pulitzer Prize and an embarrassment of [...]
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âHello, suckers!â cries Terra C. MacLeodâs sultry Velma Kelly at the beginning of Chicagoâs second act. Sheâs speaking, of course, to us, the audience, and we chuckle because we know sheâs right. Chicago â in ways far slinkier and shadier than we might originally think or expect â makes suckers of us all, and itâs [...]
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Das Liebesverbot will be staged for the second time in North America by USC students.
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Theater is immersion. So when some chump a few rows over is making moment-killing noises during a show â whether thatâs pneumonic coughs or ill-timed whoops of praise â standard protocol is to give them the stink eye. I have never known an exception to this rule. I like my theaters kept relatively silent, especially [...]
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Performing Shakespeare is notoriously difficult to pull off â even more difficult than listening to it. So when the USC School of Theatreâs Masters of Fine Arts in Acting Program class of 2010 learned that it would be staging Shakespeareâs Pericles, Prince of Tyre as one of a series of three student performances, it must [...]
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Theater is definitely not entertainment for the everyday person that enjoys a good story. Itâs more for an audience that appreciates the art of acting and enjoys a live performance, in addition to a good story. Unlike most untrained screen actors, theater actors have a deep love for the stage where they are able to [...]
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The year-old Urban Theatre Movement acting company debuts its first show, which sees the popular comic characters as teenagers.
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Waiting For Godot
A Noise Within
Length: 105 min.
Now playing through Jan. 24
Irish-themed show entertains with song and dance
Riverdance
Pantages Theatre
Length: 130 min.
Playing through Jan. 24
The Lovely Bones: Peter Jackson helms his first project since 2005âs King Kong with this adaptation of Alice Seboldâs best-selling novel. Saoirse Ronan, fresh off her Oscar-nominated performance in Atonement, plays a murdered girl who attempts to communicate with her family from beyond the grave. The Spy Next Door: Borrowing its thematic elements from Vin [...]
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