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In praise of… Molière
8 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST
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There is no point pretending that the play itself will be the main attraction to lots of the audience at London's Comedy Theatre when its new show officially opens next week. The West End debut of Keira Knightley will irresistibly get all the headlines and shift a lot of the tickets, though the rest of the cast of The Misanthrope – including Damian Lewis, Dominic Rowan and Tara Fitzgerald – are not exactly duffers. A special word of welcome is due, nevertheless, for the overdue return to the London stage of any play by Molière, who is an all too rarely performed dramatist in this country these days. We haven't yet reached the point where any reference to Molière requires a footnote to explain that he was a celebrated 17th-century French comic playwright. Yet things may be heading that way. Even the National Theatre, which in its early days was a staunch champion of his work,
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Stage West Presents Liz Lochhead's Good Things
17 October 2009 12:59 AM, PDT
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Stage West presents Liz Lochhead's wry and funny Good Things.
49-year-old Susan is going through what is generally described as a bit of a rough patch. Her husband has left her for a much younger woman, she has lost her job, her father is slipping into senility, and her teenage daughter is behaving like-well-a teenager.
Now she's volunteering in a resale shop, and maintaining a (mostly) cheerful determination not to fall into victimhood, in Liz Lochhead's comedy Good Things, beginning Thursday, October 29 at Stage West's Vickery playhouse.
Susan's co-workers, the nurturing and possibly gay Frazer, and the micro-managing Marjorie, are eager to see Susan's life sorted out in appropriately fairy-tale fashion. They've encouraged her attempts at online and speed-dating, though she herself is less than enthusiastic. It hasn't worked out very well so far; she's currently having to dodge the attentions of one particularly creepy match-up. And then into the shop comes David,
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Abosch to Helm Irish Production of 'Tartuffe'
26 May 2009 7:27 AM, PDT
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Director/Photographer Kevin Abosch is set to begin production on his second feature project this year, 'Tartuffe', an Irish production of Molière's classic French stage-play. Abosch, who recently wrapped photography on his debut feature 'Vena', plans to begin shooting the comic tale at the end of July. In what the director calls "a contemporary abstraction of the original work with Tartuffe re-imagined as a spiritual guru," the film is a direct adaptation of the stage-play with a contemporary Irish setting.
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Dog Run's Tartuffe with Buterbaugh, Decicco, Ford, Maitner & More Begins Seaport Run 3/6
12 February 2009 6:43 PM, PST
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Dog Run Rep announces, as part of the South Street Seaport Winter Theatre Season, a new American adaption of Moliere's classic comedy Tartuffe, directed by Jeff Cohen. Tartuffe will play a four-week limited engagement @Seaport (210 Front Street), presented, in part, through the generous support of General Growth Properties. Performances begin Friday, March 6 and continue Saturday, April 5. Opening Night is Monday, March 9 (7 p.m.).
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Dog Run Rep Presents Winter Theater At South Street Seaport
2 February 2009 10:19 AM, PST
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Dog Run Rep presents Winter Theatre At South Street Seaport featuring Dog Run Rep, Abraxas Stage Company, Studio 42, and Unknown Productions. Celebrating its 3rd season, Dog Run Rep?s mission is to enhance cultural programming in Lower Manhattan.
As part of its Seaport Semester program, General Growth Properties, the owners of the South Street Seaport, is teaming up with the collaboration by providing the @Seaport! venue at 210 Front Street for Winter Theatre at South Street Seaport. The line up includes:
*Dog Run Rep presents Moliere?s Tartuffe, adapted and directed by Jeff Cohen. Tartuffe, set in 1930?s New York, begins performances on Friday, March 6th and runs through Sunday, March 29. *Abraxas Stage Company?s Crazy Head Space, a new musical, begins performances on Thursday March 12th and runs through Sunday April 5. *Studio 42?s New Play Reading Series will be presented on Monday evenings, February 16th through March 30th. *Unknown Production?
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