2016 Gypsy Rose Lee Awards Winners Announced!
by BWW News Desk - Jan 27, 2017
The 'large theater' productions of ACT Theatre's The Royale and The 5th Avenue Theatre's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying take top honors and the 'small theater' productions of ArtsWest's Death of a Salesman and Washington Ensemble Theatre's The Things Are Against Us take top honors - for most category wins!?
BWW Review: Hard Hitting ROYALE at ACT Examines Consequences of Being First
by Jay Irwin - Sep 16, 2016
Let me start, Dear Readers, by saying I have never had an appreciation for boxing. I've just never understood why it's important to find out who can beat up someone else the best or, alternatively, who can take a beating the best. Having said that, the current production of Marco Ramirez's stirring play "The Royale" at ACT is not about boxing. Sure the backdrop of the story is boxing but moreover it's about the choice to take personal groundbreaking victories even in the shadow of danger to your friends and family. And that is a much more interesting fight than who can punch who the hardest.
Photo Flash: THE WHIPPING MAN Celebrates Opening at Pasadena Playhouse
by BWW News Desk - Feb 6, 2015
The Pasadena Playhouse presents, in association with South Coat Repertory, Matthew Lopez's multi-award winning play THE WHIPPING MAN as the fourth production of the 2014-2015 season. THE WHIPPING plays through March 1, 2015 at The Pasadena Playhouse. Stage and television star Charlie Robinson (NBC's 'Night Court') plays Simon in this Obie Award-winning drama. The production also stars Adam Haas Hunter and Jarrod M. Smith and is directed by Martin Benson. BroadwayWorld has photos from the opening night festivities below!
BWW Reviews: SCR Stages Captivating Post-Civil War Drama THE WHIPPING MAN
by Michael L. Quintos - Jan 19, 2015
In South Coast Repertory's excellent new production of Matthew Lopez's captivating play THE WHIPPING MAN---now playing at the Tony Award-winning Costa Mesa theater through January 25---an internal, theological tug-of-war is brewing just as the Civil War has come to an end. The absorbing, character-driven drama presents the uneasy return of an injured war veteran back to his family's home where two of his father's slaves---now free men under the law---have remained. The homecoming coincides with the Jewish holiday of Passover, which all three celebrate inside the war-torn ruins of this once grand Southern mansion.
STAGE TUBE: South Coast Rep Presents THE WHIPPING MAN
by Sally Henry Fuller - Dec 20, 2014
The Pasadena Playhouse announced that they will present Matthew Lopez's multi-award winning play THE WHIPPING MAN, the fourth production of the 2014-2015 season. Watch the teaser below!
