Review: MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM at A Noise Within
Director Gregg T. Daniel conducts a muscular cast delivering a production that is as fulfilling as it is shattering.…
Director Gregg T. Daniel conducts a muscular cast delivering a production that is as fulfilling as it is shattering.…
Actor WEST LIANG, delivers deeply nuanced, emotionally quiet, and completely resonant character portrayals that enhance each time capsule, in this play about historical and generational change.…
TP’s production of Abaire’s KIMBERLY AKIMBO, the 2000 play, not the musical, is a potent concoction of pitch-black humor, family dysfunction and unexpected does of sweetness that one would not expect out of a tale this offbeat.…
The Gem Theatre in Garden Grove, CA, tackles one of Broadway’s darkest musicals, Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, armed with every color of light you can think of.…
Amid the heat and haze of Bakersfield emerges a spine-shivering show of human connection, compassion, and camaraderie. One of the first community theatre productions of Come From Away brings out the best of humanity (and Bakersfield) on stage.…
With a powerhouse cast and a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about how mental illness shapes a family, Hudson Backstage's production of NEXT TO NORMAL was every bit as moving as its source material.…
Political and politically motivated, this quintet of characters offers a blistering two-hour presentation on how extremist religious views can warp minds, even that of intellectuals. It’s a smart, timely, and timeless script that is both illuminating and alarming.…
The world of Barry Edelstein’s high octane spin on MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at the Old Globe Theater is much of a much, containing much of just about everything...Of Shakespeare’s comedies, Edelstein’s cast, crew and musicians have worked awfully hard to make this merry.…
Based on characters in Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula: The Musical, with a score by Frank Wildhorn and lyrics/book by Christopher Hampton and Don Black, will no doubt attract fans of the genre and its well-known characters to see Justin Meyers bring his terrifyingly horrific yet totally mesmerizing im…
Like the playwright, several of these company members are themselves proud Topangans. Performing as they are in the center of town, in quite literally the House that Geer Built, you’ve got to figure that they have a nightly audience who will get all the hippy in-jokes.…

Playwright Tamir Yardenne brings The Young and the Rest of Us , a new dark comedy mystery set behind the scenes of a fictional daytime drama to the stage at the Group Repertory Theatre. The play is directed by Douglas Jewell and produced by Susan Carey Heenan for the Group Rep...

The Group Rep presents Robert Harling’s contemporary comedy STEEL MAGNOLIAS directed by Kathleen R. Delaney and produced by Denise Downer and Mareli-Mitchel Shields. Heartfelt, humorous, and moving, this sharp comedy celebrates the unbreakable bond of friendship and the search...

The Altruist is a new satirical play with music about a happy, seemingly healthy bachelor who discovers via his annual physical, that he has at least two terminal diseases. Seeking positivity, he decides he will donate all his organs (while they are still good) and save multiple...

The Group Rep presents Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic American Play OUR TOWN, directed by Mareli Mitchel-Shields and produced by Cynthia Payo for The Group Rep. OUR TOWN beautifully and poetically re-creates a theatrical picture of small town, USA and the...

The Group Rep Theatre Company is proud to present a haunting new musical romance, MY SPIRITS SOAR , inspired by Oscar Wilde’s “The Canterville Ghost”, with music by Adryan Russ, book by Doug Haverty, and lyrics by Russ/Haverty. The musical is directed and choreographed by...

The Group Rep presents the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-Winning modern comedy THE HEIDI CHRONICLES, written by Wendy Wasserstein, directed by Brent Beerman and produced by Melissa Strauss for The Group Rep. A perspective and funny play about an art historian and her friends...

The Group Rep presents MOTEL 66 , seven brand new one-act plays set in different cities along ‘Get Your Kicks on Route 66’. Why Route 66? What relevance does an old highway going from Chicago to Santa Monica bring to light? Route 66 starts in the heart of the country and goes...

The Group Rep presents NETWORK written by Lee Hall, based on the Paddy Chayefsky film, directed by Tom Lazarus, and produced by Stevie Stern. Adapted from the 1976 film which had an Academy Award–winning screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky. “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to...

The Group Rep is proud to present the West Coast Premiere of the notorious musical DRAT! THE CAT! with book and lyrics by Ira Levin and music by Milton Schafer. Bruce Kimmel directs as he fulfills a promise to the writer. Gerald Sternbach serves as musical director. Cheryl...

The Group Rep presents Sam Shepards Pulitzer Prize-nominated American classic TRUE WEST. Two very different brothers, one a successful family man and the other a drifter, must cooperate in writing a screenplay that will make or break both of their lives. Tension and family...
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