Back Stage West

31. THE SUNSHINE STATE
In his solo show, playwright/actor Steve Sobel presents a persona that's ingratiatingly cheerful and wholly likable. Yet melancholy lurks around the fringes of the bittersweet ...
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32. SWING!
To badly paraphrase that era's theme song, it ain't swing if it don't got that thing. That deceptively easygoing style and sophistication marking the music ...
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33. SLOTNICK, KATZ, AND LEHR
Hundreds of theatregoers who prefer their Monday-night comedy live are bailing on TV's Raymond and Ally and catching Slotnick, Katz, and Lehr's improvisational comedy at ...
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34. ART
This Yasmina Reza work has been alternatively praised as a serious examination of the nature of art and the nature of friendship, or dismissed as ...
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35. OLIVER!
Theirs is the only regional theatre production of Oliver! to be seen this year; Cameron Mackintosh has a national tour planned, and the rights to ...
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36. RESIDENT ALIEN
If you took Gore Vidal's elegant, reasoned play of an extraterrestrial in our midst, Visit to a Small Planet, and beat it about the neck ...
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37. FUNNY, YOU DON'T LOOK LIKE A GRANDMOTHER
Granny gets the glory here at Santa Monica Playhouse, which simultaneously celebrates grandma and its 37th year. They don't look their ages. This ingratiating little ...
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