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WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL “EVERYBODY’S TALKIN’: THE MUSIC OF HARRY NILSSON”...
Jack Lyons Theatre & Film Critic San Diego Repertory Theatre, one of the country’s finest urban theatre venues has a winning world premiere hit on its hands thanks to two Tony Award-winning actors...
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NATIONAL TOUR OF “MATILDA THE MUSICAL” BEGINS AT THE AHMANSON THEATRE IN LOS...
Jack Lyons Theatre & Film Critic It’s a huge cast show that is colorfully uber-produced beyond belief. More than 30 actors, singers, dancers, and performers plus a world-class technical team of...
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INSPIRING WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL AT LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE
Jack Lyons Theatre & Film Critic One never knows where the next small exquisite gem of a play or musical will come from. Story ideas are all around us just waiting to be discovered by talented and...
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THOUGHT PROVOKING COMEDY HAS AUDIENCES TALKING
Jack Lyons Theatre & Film Critic Nothing gets conversation started as quick and as passionate as aficionados of sports, or the divisiveness of political discourse, or, the radio-active subject of...
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NORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE DOES SONDHEIM PROUD
Jack Lyons Theatre & Film Critic Stephen Sondheim is arguably the most influential American lyricist over the last 50 years; forever changing the face of the American musical genre. Angelina Réaux...
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OLD GLOBE PREMIERE’S KEN LUDWIG’S NEWEST HILARIOUS COMEDY
Jack Lyons Theatre & Film Critic Although he winces when people refer to his comedy plays as “farces”, there is no doubt that he is one of America’s finest practitioners of the genre. Most famous...
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OLD GLOBE THEATRE PRESENTS A DAZZLING COMEDY GEM
Jack Lyons Theatre & Film Critic Shakespeare’s classic comedy tale of mistaken identity – long a staple arrow in the quiver of Playwrights ranging from Greeks and Romans to no less a savvy...
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HAUNTING JEANINE TESORI MUSICAL AT SAN DIEGO REP THEATRE
Jack Lyons Theatre & Film Critic Forty years ago San Diego REPertory Theatre co-founders Sam Woodhouse and D.W. Jacobs opened the doors of their theatre whose Mission Statement in part read ”…...
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TEEN SUMMER POPCORN MOVIE JUGGLES VIRGINITY WOES
Jack Lyons Theatre & Film Critic Another summer, another movie about 19 year-old males “losing it” before they turn twenty will be available before the end of the year. I’m not sure if it’s going...
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GROVES CABIN THEATRE PRESENTS A WINNING PRODUCTION
Jack Lyons Theatre & Film Critic One of the Coachella Valley’s most honored theatres, The Groves Cabin Theatre of Morongo Valley, launched their 2015/2016 Season with the Pulitzer Prize-winning...
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STUNNING WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL/DANCE PRODUCTION AT SAN DIEGO’S OLD GLOBE...
Jack Lyons Theatre & Film Critic Don’t be surprised to discover that there are less than a half-dozen scripted words of dialogue spoken in the entire production of “In Your Arms”, the World...
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KEN LUDWIG FARCE AT NORTH COAST REPERTORY THEATRE
Jack Lyons Theatre & Film Critic Some people think golf is a silly game played mostly by aging, white seniors who are struggling with their ‘arrested development’ syndromes and plunging...
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DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES ARE STILL INTRIGUING TO WATCH
Jack Lyons Theatre & Film Critic Dysfunctional families have always been low-hanging fruit as subjects for stories, plays, movies, TV series, and novels for centuries. And why not. It’s reflective...
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PASADENA’S A NOISE WITHIN THEATRE PRESENTS “ALL MY SONS
Jack Lyons Theatre & Film Critic A Noise Within (ANW) Theatre production of Arthur Miller’s powerful drama “All My Sons”, opened on the actual date and year of Miller’s 100 year annivesary. He was...
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COLLEGE OF DESERT STAGES A COMPELLING MUSICAL PRODUCTION OF “RENT”
Jack Lyons Theatre & Film Critic The College of the Desert (COD) hits all the right notes in its compelling production of “RENT” that opened last Friday at the on- campus Pollock Theatre. The rock...
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AMERICAN MUSICAL PHENOMENON “HAMILTON” WOWS NYC
Jack Lyons Theatre & Film Critic A fresh and a creative wind has blown into the Great White Way in game-changing fashion, potentially altering the way some American musicals will be staged and...
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KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE PREMIERES NEW COMEDY PLAY
Jack Lyons Theatre & Film Critic Plays can have hidden agendas, veiled or guarded plot points, and various twists on the endings. Usually, it’s a device to keep the narrative text from tipping off...
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PROVOCATIVE AND INTRIGUING DRAMA TESTS BELIEF TENETS
Jack Lyons Theatre & Film Critic As the old saying goes, two subjects considered to be off-limits for discussion by polite people and friends at social gatherings or at dinner parties, are the...
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27th PALM SPRINGS INTERNATONAL FILM FESTIVAL (PSIFF) WRAPS
Jack Lyons Theatre & Film Critic With the 2016 Oscar nominations now announced we are in the dark, same as the general public as to which Foreign films will take home that coveted gold covered...
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WORLD PREMIERE COMEDY AT NORTH COAST REP THEATRE
Jack Lyons Theatre & Film Critic Loyal fans of the brilliant, and idiosyncratic fictional English sleuth Sherlock Holmes, know from memory that he never visited Alaska to solve a case. Lousi...
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