Posts Tagged ‘North Coast Repertory Theatre’
‘Fallen Angels’ Ignores the Important Stuff
Men do enjoy fooling themselves into thinking they’re something they’re not, and it’s their wives’ job to join in the fun accordingly. That’s the take-away from North Coast Repertory Theatre’s ‘Fallen Angels.’ Now, if it only had some characters to impart the lesson…
Read MoreNorth Coast’s ‘Romance/Romance’ Is Fair, No Thanks to the Second Show
The title contains two identical words that mean two different things – love, after all, is a many-faceted phenomenon, and it shows in North Coast Repertory Theatre’s Romance/Romance, in which the decent first piece softens you up for the dismal second act to come.
Read MoreThe TCG Conference Is Here: Why Should You Care?
I’ve been at the Hilton, sitting in on a variety of plenary and breakout groups, and struggling with how to make the conference relevant to readers who are interested in theatre but who are not theatre professionals. The question that kept coming up for me was, “Why should you care?”
Read MoreFaded Glory Celebrates a Blackguard’s American History
Daniel Edgar Sickles’ life should have been a movie – or perhaps a television mini-series…The Sickles story is the equivalent of a blackguard’s American history, and its sweep is all but guaranteed to enthrall…It’s too bad, then, that Tim Burns’ play about Sickles, Faded Glory, now in its world premiere production at North Coast Rep, trades sweep for being shut up with a grumpy old man at the end of his life…
Read More“Cuba” a Worthy Start But Needs Work
There’s the start of a fine play in Becoming Cuba, but a first-rate script will require a fair amount of revision…
Read MoreTheatre Communications Group to Hold Its 2014 National Conference Here
Theatre Communications Group (TCG) announced today that its 2014 national conference will be held June 19-21 in San Diego. Theatre company artistic and managerial staff members, board members, individual theatre artists, and students from across the country are the prime audience for the gathering, which will be centered at the Hilton Bayfront Hotel, near Petco Park and the convention center.
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