THEATERTIMES | FEBRUARY 2017
FEBRUARY 2017 Click title to jump to review FOR PIANO AND HARPO by Dan Castellaneta | Falcon Theatre Relevant observations
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MARK RUCKER’S CURTAIN CALL | 4
MARK RUCKER’S CURTAIN CALL I | II | III | IV ‘It means so much to me that this is my first show as Associate Artistic Director. One of the first things Carey asked me to do when I came here was to build bridges in the community, and I couldn’t have imagined anything like
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MARK RUCKER’S CURTAIN CALL | MISCELLANY
MARK RUCKER’S CURTAIN CALL | MISCELLANY I | II | III | IV ‘You found yourself utterly disarmed – open, unfettered, and believing you could: you can go there, you can be that, you can wear that (or not wear it), you can sing that, you can dance that. And not only can you dance
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MARK RUCKER’S CURTAIN CALL I | II | III | IV ‘It felt like magic. It really felt like all these great things coming together.’ –Cindy Katz, Kate, The Taming of the Shrew, South Coast Repertory (1996) Act II, Sc 2: All’s Well in the West ark Rucker hated being told to do Shakespeare the
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MARK RUCKER’S CURTAIN CALL | 2
MARK RUCKER’S CURTAIN CALL I | II | III | IV ‘Shakespeare contains us; he always gets there before us, and always waits for us, somewhere up ahead.’ – Harold BloomShakespeare: The Invention of the Human ACT I, SC 3: North by Northeast Rising late on a Monday in the middle of that month, Rucker
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OCTOBER 2016
A theater piece about Donald Trump’s run for President seemed doomed to a short life in September 2016. But well before the surprising results of the election Mike Daisey’s The Trump Card provided a penetrating profile of the billionaire political dilettante with a dire take away.
THEATERTIMES | SEPTEMBER 2016
SEPTEMBER 2016 Click title to jump to review ALL THE WAY by Robert Schenkkan | South Coast Repertory ARCADIA by Tom Stoppard | A Noise Within THE MAIDS by Jean Genet | A Noise Within Legacy of will
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THEATERTIMES | AUGUST 2016
AUGUST 2016 Click title to jump to review ONE OF THE NICE ONES by Erik Patterson | Echo Theater Company Nice work
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BETTY BUCKLEY – p2
INTERMISSION BETTY BUCKLEY COMIN’ BACK 1 | 2 Continued The meetings of record Theatertimes You met T Bone Burnett around this time? Buckley We had this great record store in Fort Worth called Record Town that was owned by Sumpter Bruton, and he had two sons, Sumter Jr. and Stephen. Stephen was this great guitar-player,
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BETTY BUCKLEY
COMIN’ BACK Betty Buckley The Tony®-winner and Theater Hall-of-Famer is back where it started. hen Betty Buckley isn’t in a major musical, like the revival of Grey Gardens now at the Ahmanson Theatre, or performing her cabaret act, as she will be in late October at Segerstrom Center’s Samueli Theater, she is back in the