Front Row Center By Michael Warren OUTSIDE MULLINGARBy John Patrick ShanleyDirected By Ann Swiston This play ran briefly on Broadway in 2014, and was nominated for a Tony Award in that year. Shanley is a talented playwright, best known as the author of Doubt – an intense and thought-provoking play which was well performed
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren Painting ChurchesBy Tina HoweDirected By Peggy Lord Chilton This play received considerable acclaim on its off-Broadway debut, and was subsequently nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1982. I found this hard to understand, as there are some intrinsic problems with the structure of the play, and
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren Mark Twain, UncensoredBy Ed TascaDirected and Choreographed by Barbara Clippinger This was a fun event, which opened the curtain on Season 52 at the Lakeside Little Theatre. Ed Tasca wove together some historical facts in the life of Mark Twain, and sprinkled in some of his sayings, to
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren Season 52 at the Lakeside Little Theatre Here we are again – the beginning of another season at LLT. This year there is a fundraiser Mark Twain, Uncensored opening on August 23, written by local writer Ed Tasca (who also stars.) For the first time in many years,
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Irises Vincent is framed by Paul, his luminous blue glows from the wall of a millionaire’s dying dream shaped like a Roman villa from Herculaneum perched on the cliffs above Malibu. Madness extols itself in perfect form – there is no vision more extreme, complete than these last lingering flowers of summer’s heat
Front Row Center By Michael Warren Other Desert CitiesBy Jon Robin BaitzDirected by Russell Mack This play is set in 2004 during the Bush-era Iraq war, and was first produced on Broadway in 2011. The theme of family love in spite of personal and political divisions is even more appropriate today, as this dysfunctional
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren NunsenseBy Dan GogginDirected and Choreographed by Barbara ClippingerMusic Director Judy Hendrick This musical comedy ran off-Broadway for 3,672 performances, the second longest run for such a show in history. It’s an entertaining spoof on all things Catholic and nun-like, with some awful puns (they can’t give up the
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren Good PeopleBy David Lindsay-AbaireDirected by Lynn Phelan This play was first produced in New York in 2011 and was nominated for two Tony awards that year – Best Play and Best Leading Actress in a Play (Frances McDormand) with the latter winning. So I naturally expected to see
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren Glengarry Glen RossBy David MametDirected by Bernadette Jones I went to see this production at the Bravo! theater with high expectations. After all, it won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984, and also the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play. I had also been warned that
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Front Row Center By Michael Warren RumorsBy Neil SimonDirected by Paul Kloegman Rumors ran successfully on Broadway in 1988/89, and Christine Baranski won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. It’s described as a farce, but (as you might expect from Neil Simon) there are a lot of
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