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Ride the Cyclone
Wild, weird, wacky, and most of all, wonderful are just some of the descriptors for City Lights Theatre Company’s summer-time offering of “Ride the Cyclone,” sure to be a sell-out hit for the next several weeks.
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La Rondine
With a cast of fabulous actors whose radiant, rich voices elicit our gasps of delight, moments of laughter, and expressions of tears, Pocket Opera in a co-production with Mercury Theatre presents a gripping, gorgeous, and grand “La Rondine” in a chamber setting intimate and immediate between performers and audience.
The Employee Dharma Handbook
With a keen eye for perfectly timed pacing of multiple scenes packed with increasing tensions and conflicts — those of discrimination, class, relationship, family, and personal identity (not to mention also IPO or no-IPO) — Snehal Desai deftly directs Geetha Reddy’s “The Employee Dharma Handbook” as the opening production of TheatreWorks fifty-sixth season.
Iolanthe or The Peer and The Peri
W.S. Gilbert (libretto) and Arthur Sullivan’s (music) satire of the English’s male-dominated society and government– the operetta “Iolanthe or The Peer and the Peri” — is now in a fantastically imaginative and altogether hilarious production at the ODC Theatre by the City’s much esteemed for seventy-four years company, Lamplighters Music Theatre.
SCABMUGGERS
Even though as a new play it still needs some tightening and adjusting, The Freight’s SCABMUGGERS by Yvonne Martinez leaves lasting impressions through some powerful performances and a script that both moves and educates its audience.
Absolutely Science Fiction!
For their latest premiere of short stories brought directly from the page to the stage with no written word omitted, Word for Word and Z Space present “Absolutely Science Fiction! … Stories by Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut.”
