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Theatre review for LA Weekly – Antony and Cleopatra at ANW

8th Mar 12. 2 Comments

Photo Credit: Craig Schwartz

  Dear readers! This week’s theatre review for the LA Weekly is for Shakespeare’s classic romantic tragedy Antony and Cleopatra, now playing at the A Noise Within’s glamorous new theater in Pasadena.   Click here and then scroll down a little bit to read it.   ~ OR ~   You can just read it [Continue Reading...]

Resolutely unsentimental – Our Town at the Broad

1st Feb 12. 3 Comments

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“Nothing much has changed, except people lock their doors at night now.” Considering it’s generally required reading on the school curriculum, and frequently staged by amateur as well as professional companies, it’s a safe guess that most local readers and LA audiences will be familiar with Our Town, the compelling play written by Thornton Wilder [Continue Reading...]

ANW’s launches new theatre & season with Twelfth Night

13th Nov 11. 1 Comment

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The acclaimed classical repertory theatre company A Noise Within (ANW), led by Founders/Artistic Directors Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott, launched its milestone 2011-12 Season and impressive 20th Anniversary in its permanent new home, a brand new 33,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art venue, on Saturday, October 29, 2011.  The company’s handsome new Pasadena home is in the Stuart [Continue Reading...]

A Doll House – L.A. Theatre Works

20th Sep 11. 1 Comment

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This month L.A. Theatre Works moves to its new venue at the James Bridges Theater on the campus of UCLA. They’re opening their 2011-12 season with Henrik Ibsen’s classic play A Doll House* (translated by Rolf Fjelde) which is playing for six performances, this weekend only. One hundred and thirty years ago Ibsen’s domestic drama [Continue Reading...]

Cyrano de Bergerac at the Ruskin Group Theatre

3rd Dec 10. 1 Comment

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*** Ruskin Group Theatre presents Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, a story of romance and adventure, opening on Saturday, December 4, 2010. The Ruskin Group Theatre proudly presents an adventure based on the legend of 17th Century French dramatist and duelist Savinien de Bergerac, now known the world over as Cyrano.  Afflicted with an [Continue Reading...]