Category Archives: Reviews
“Beau Jest” Delights the Audience
The romantic comedy Beau Jest, which opened at Pierson Playhouse on January 12 is delightful. There truly is not enough love and laughter in the country today, and the actors give the audience several hours of happy respite from national and...
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Westside Ballet’s Nutcracker Features Palisades Dancers
The Westside Ballet of Santa Monica opened its 50th-anniversary of The Nutcracker, over Thanksgiving weekend to sellout performances. The show, which features special guest stars Tiler Peck, Lucia Connolly and Lyrica Woodruff as the Sugar Plum Fairy, has also...
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Detective Thriller “Towards Zero” Provides Memorable Night
By LIBBY MOTIKA Circling the News Contributor Agatha Christie is in the air. Our cultural tastes seem to run in the detective procedural genre these days, and Christie novels, plays and revivals pop up regularly. PBS has been airing a...
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“Mean Girls” Provides Terrific Fun and a Delightful Evening
Only at Pacific Palisades High School, could you experience a Broadway caliber musical, without having to leave town. Mean Girls opened tonight, October 5 at Mercer Hall. This show is exceptional on several levels, starting with the talent. Director Nancy...
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Oedipus’ Fate Redeemed in Musical Revival at Getty Villa
By LIBBY MOTIKA Circling the News Contributor Getty Museum Director Tim Potts greeted the sold out, opening night audience for the 17th season of the Villa Outdoor Classical Theater with a promise. “This is going to be a really...
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“Coming Out West” Featured at Santa Monica History Museum
By LIBBY MOTIKA Circling the News Contributor Gay and trans men and women living as themselves, with jobs and marriages and dogs and cats and visibility. Extraordinarily ordinary. This is the triumph of community, solidarity, and yes, decades of...
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A Delightful “Anastasia” Opens Friday at Pierson
One of the most anxiously awaited summer theater events, the Theatre Palisades Youth’s production of Anastasia, will open on Friday, July 21, and run select evenings and matinees through Sunday, July 30. Anastasia is a family-friendly musical that features a...
Former Palisades Honorary Mayor Guttenberg Receives Rave Reviews
Former Palisades Honorary Mayor Steve Guttenberg has put the story of his life into a play. Tales from the Guttenberg Bible has received rave reviews, during a month run at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey....
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REVIEW–Romantic Comedy at Theatre Palisades Provides Delightful Evening
The romantic comedy, Bell, Book & Candle, which opened Friday, June 2, at Theatre Palisades, provided a delightful evening and accomplished acting. Based on the 1950 play by John Van Druten, the story centers around a witch, Gillian Holroyd (Jasmine...
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Run For Your Wife Explodes with Delight, then Fizzles
By LIBBY MOTIKA Circling the News Contributor Timing, set-up, doors for clandestine entrances and exits, spiraling ruses and whip-smart dialogue add up to essential ingredients for farce. Theatre Palisades’ Run For Your Wife by Ray Cooney, now on stage at Pierson...
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