Name: Cristofer Gross
Dateline: Southern California
Weblog: www.theatertimes.org
Articles: 42
First Published: Saturday, September 30, 2006
Last Published: Thursday, August 23, 2007
Currently listing articles 42-1:
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Theater Review (Los Angeles): Cesar & Ruben at NoHo Art Center— Ed Begley Jr. revives his 2003 musical about Chavez and Salazar in a production that integrates numerous forms.
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Theater Review: The Deception at La Jolla Playhouse, California— Marivaux's intricate game of deceit gets a new rendering in a beautiful production directed by Dominque Serrand.
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Theater Review: Can-Can at the Pasadena Playhouse— Director David Lee and company make Cole Porter's story of a censorship-plagued dance hall a lively entertainment.
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Theater Review: A New Carmen Musical at the La Jolla Playhouse— Prosper Merimee's gypsy woman will survive to sin again after the dulling effects of an oddly uninspired vision from a Cirque d'Soleil founder.
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Theater Review: Jersey Boys at the Ahmanson Theatre (L.A.)— Driven by intimacy with their hits and interest in their history, audiences can't take their eyes off this ode to all Four Seasons.
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Theater Review: The Verdi Girls by Bernard Farrell, Laguna Playhouse— The Laguna Playhouse premieres a new work by the traveling Irish writer who has come to call the seaside company his California home.
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Theater Review: David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face at the Mark Taper Forum— The author of M. Butterfly puts himself onstage in a fictionalized documentary.
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Theater Review: W. Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife— The Pasadena Playhouse has a consistent winner in Art Manke's staging with Megan Gallagher in the lead.
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Theater Review: Neil LaBute's Fat Pig— Prejudging a book by its cover is bad for people - and this play, now getting its West Coast premiere at L.A.'s Geffen Playhouse.
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Theater Review: South Coast Repertory's Pacific Playwrights Festival— SCR’s 10th Pacific Playwrights Festival introduces plays while making the case that readings are their own reward.
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Theater Review: David Wiener's System Wonderland at South Coast Repertory— A new drama about Hollywood recalls some classic characters as it marks an important debut.
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Theater Review: Assassins by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman— L.A.'s Sight Unseen Theatre Company brings the 1990 musical black comedy back to life.
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Theater Review: Greater Tuna in La Mirada, California— With the originals at the wheel, there's still life and laughs in this quarter-century old vehicle from the third smallest town in Texas.
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Theater Review: The Women of Lockerbie— L.A.'s Actor's Gang offers a powerful staging of Deborah Brevoort's drama about the PanAm 103 bombing.
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Theater Review: My Wandering Boy at SCR in Costa Mesa, California— A young writer reveals an old soul in her existential detective story about gumshoes, tramping, and the footloose gene.
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Theater Review: The Master of the House at the Laguna Playhouse
— The American Premiere of the top 2003 drama in Israel reveals a foundation that may or may not have too many stories.
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Theater Review: Amy Freed's Restoration Comedy at San Diego's Old Globe— A bawdy new comedy shows the British theater pushed the boundaries for two centuries until its licentiousness was revoked.
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Theater Review: Twelve Angry Men at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles— The National Tour of Roundabout's Broadway hit arrives back in Hollywood where the whole story started.
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Theater Review: Lisa Loomer's Distracted in Los Angeles— The third in the playwright's series of life lessons finds our heroine trying to raise a 9-year-old Lenny Bruce.
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Theater Review: Charles Randolph-Wright’s Cuttin' Up at the Pasadena Playhouse— Despite a title that threatens some kind of urban 'Hee-Haw,' Charles Randolph-Wright's adaptation of Craig Marberry's book is serious entertainment.
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Theater Review: Julia Cho's The Piano Teacher in Costa Mesa, California— A brilliant new play reveals the dark side of storytelling as it celebrates the playwright's craft.
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Theater Review: Jeffrey Hatcher's A Picasso at the Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles— Of genius and genocide in Jeffrey Hatcher’s genial cat-meets-mouse, cat-loses-mouse, mouse-paints-cat into a corner drama.
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Theater Review: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles— The Kathleen Turner-Bill Irwin production arrives in Los Angeles after hit runs in London and New York.
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Theater Review: Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet at Geffen Playhouse, L.A.— Jon Tenney, Alicia Silverstone and Greg Germann remind L.A. theatergoers why Mamet is worthwhile and Hollywood worrisome.
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Theater Review: Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles— Hagedorn's stage adaptation of her novel is a rare opportunity for a large Asian-American cast to portray the Philippines under Marcos.
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Theater Review: Daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary— Writer-performer Marissa Chibas evokes her extraordinary past.
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Theater Review: Greg Kotis' Pig Farm - South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California— From the author of Urinetown, Pig Farm is a stylish production of the new comedy that brings a balanced message of regulatory excess.
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Theater Review: Jason Robert Brown's 13 Premieres in L.A.— A musical about pre-teen angst takes another step back in the material development of this gifted American composer.
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Theater Review: Don't Look Back at the Unknown Theatre, L.A.— Kenneth Patchen loved jazz but wrote poetry. In 1958 he encouraged America to listen to – and face – the music.
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Theater Review: Richard Dresser's The Pursuit of Happiness— This is light entertainment that works; especially for the Boomers who remember when it was taken for granted that ideals would always be with us.
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Theater Review: In the Continuum in Los Angeles— Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter are headed for Connecticut, Philadelphia, and Chicago with a drama that succeeds on every level.
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Theater Review: A Marvelous Party: The Noël Coward Celebration— "I went to a marvelous party, I must say the fun was intense... And I couldn't have liked it more."
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Theater Review: Wishful Drinking— Carrie Fisher hijacks a production slot at the Geffen for a funny – if non-theatrical – seminar on celebrity.
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Theater Review: Sister Act, The Musical at the Pasadena Playhouse— For an audience-pleasing mix of '70s R&B and traditional Broadway ballads, get thee to this nunnery.
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Theater Review: August Wilson's Jitney— Claude Purdy comes full circle with August Wilson's historic ten-play cycle, at Hollywood's Lillian Theater.
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Theater Review: As You Like It at Los Angeles' A Noise Within— Thanks to in part to two impressive debuts, Shakespeare's play gets a very 'likable' staging.
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Theater Review: Ridiculous Fraud in Costa Mesa, California— Southern exposure reveals another weak link in family ties, but more good fun from Beth Henley.
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Theater Review: The Marvelous Wonderettes at the El Portal Theater, North Hollywood, California— Four women spin a score of ol' 45s into an endearing night of musical heaven.
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Theater Review: Lynn Redgrave's Nightingale— Lynn Redgrave bases her one-woman show on a forgotten family member.
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Theater Review: A Touch of the Poet— The lone completed work from Eugene O'Neill's proposed 11-play cycle gets a staging at A Noise Within in Glendale, California.
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Theater Review: The 60s— The premiere of Trish Soodik's The 60s is a great coming of old-age comedy for the my-generation generation.
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Theater Review: Rabbit Hole - One Degree of Separation— The West Coast premiere of David Lindsay-Abaire's 'Rabbit Hole' shows the writer – and his characters – moving on.
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