THEATRE REVIEWS
Pirates Invade Vista’s Broadway Theatre
Vista’s Broadway Theater’s production of The Pirates of Penzance makes Joseph Papp’s famed and extremely funny interpretation seem like
Read MoreEphron’s Lasting Impression: Love, Loss, and What I Wore
A new production of a comedy-drama written by Ephron and her talented sister, Delia Ephron, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, is currently playing at the Lyceum Theatre.
Read MoreDiversionary’s Good ‘Bathwater’: The A’s, E’s, I’s, O’s and U’s Have It
Playwright Christopher Durang has hauled out the big guns in ‘Baby with the Bathwater,’ his ode to lousy parenting and lousy parents. In this very good Diversionary Theatre entry, Helen and John Dingleberry never knew what hit ’em.
Read MoreNCR’s ‘Chapter Two’: For Once, Neil Simon (Horrors!) Isn’t All That Bad
Neil Simon sucks, God bless him, except when he doesn’t. North Coast Repertory Theatre is mounting a very good ‘Chapter Two,’ Simon’s tribute to his second wife Marsha Mason and a nod to the pain of widowerhood — for once, this criminally overrated playwright is on to something.
Read MoreOut of Chaos Comes Order in Lamb’s’ ‘You Can’t Take It with You’
We’re dependent on only ourselves, in good times and bad, for our happiness. Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s ‘You Can’t Take It with You’ is a big-time reminder of all that — and Lamb’s Players Theatre mounts the lesson with its usual expertise.
Read MorePoets Face Death in Old Globe ‘The Twenty-Seventh Man’
Four Yiddish poets await their fate in a dank Soviet cell as Nathan Englander’s borrows from Russian history for ‘The Twenty-Seventh Man,” now at the Old Globe Theatre.
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