On Theater: Playhouse musical a precursor to new season
The new season doesn't start for another month, but the Costa Mesa Playhouse is getting a head start this weekend.
Friday night through Sunday only, the playhouse will stage its annual musical fundraiser, this one entitled "That Was Then ... This is Now!" Revenue raised from the benefit will go toward replacing equipment stolen in a recent break-in at the theater.
Jason Holland is directing "That Was Then" with musical direction by Stephen Hulsey. The show is described as a "musical journey through the best of Broadway hits from the 1940s to the present day."
Curtain time is 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday with Sunday's matinee scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday's show will feature a VIP gala with a silent auction and champagne and appetizer reception. Tickets are $20 for Friday and Sunday, and $23 for Saturday.
The new season, the playhouse's 47th, opens Sept. 2 with Noel Coward's popular comedy "Blithe Spirit," about a novelist whose second marriage is threatened by the appearance of the ghost of his first wife. Timothy MacDougall is directing the show, which runs through Sept. 25.
If you missed Michael Dale Brown's B-movie spoof "Earthlings Beware" when it premiered at the playhouse in 2007, you'll have a chance to catch it on its return visit from Oct. 28 through Nov. 20. Brown again directs his "savvy and silly homage to those unintentionally hilarious B-grade sci-fi flicks of the 1950s, with hokey dialogue, stiff acting and cheesy special effects," Brown promises.
The musical comedy "Nunsense," centered on a benefit variety show staged by sisters from a convent, has inspired six sequels. The playhouse will present the original from Feb. 10 to March 11 under the direction of Jason Holland.
Things turn deadly serious April 13 when Arthur Miller's epic drama of 17th century "witchcraft," "The Crucible," takes the stage. John McQuay will direct this powerful period piece written during the repressive McCarthy era of the 1950s. The show will run through May 6.
Wrapping up the new season will be a local premiere, "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," a cult rock musical by John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask. Director Stephen Hulsey describes it as "a brutally honest musical theater experience. The R-rated show will play from June 8 through July 8.
Performances will be given at the playhouse, 611 Hamilton St., Costa Mesa, and advance reservations may be obtained by calling the theater at (949) 650-5269. Further information is available online at http://www.CostaMesaPlayhouse.org.
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Things turn deadly serious April 13 when Arthur Miller's epic drama of 17th century "witchcraft," "The Crucible," takes the stage. John McQuay will direct this powerful period piece written during the repressive McCarthy era of the 1950s.
But it was "The Crucible" that was overtly the most political, a candid reflection on the post-war climate of suspicion and paranoia that destroyed lives and reputations in the McCarthy era. In his Massey lecture, "The Crucible in History" at Harvard
In “Young Guns,” the conservative manifesto Cantor co-wrote last year with his House colleagues Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the congressman drew an explicit analogy between their churchgoing and his own synagogue attendance.
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Pablo Picasso created Guernica in response to the bombing of a Basque village by Hitler’s war machine during the Spanish Civil War. Widely dismissed at the time, the painting is now considered modern art’s most powerful anti-war statement.* Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible as an allegory of the McCarthy-era, when the U.S. Government persecuted its own citizens, many of them artists, for suspected Communist ties. The play opened to unfavorable reviews, but today it is studied nationwide as a revolutionary work of theatre, an American classic.
Other artists have produced vital works that triumph as both protest and art — Jimi Hendrix’s anti-war song “Machine Gun;” Larry Kramer’s AIDS activism play, A Normal Heart; Costa Gravas’ film on Chile’s disappeared, Missing. But do artists have a unique obligation to create work that can stir discontent or spark revolution?
Given the Chinese Government’s temporary imprisonment of artist Ai Wewei, and revelations of the FBI’s hounding of Ernest Hemingway, it is useful to ask why the powerful can become afraid of the artists in their midst. Can a piece of art become a force for change greater than the will of any government or army? Is the pen mightier than the sword — and do we have a political responsibility to use it?
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*While living in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, Picasso suffered harassment from the Gestapo. One officer allegedly asked him, upon seeing a photo of Guernica in the artist’s apartment, “Did you do that?” Picasso responded, “No, you did.”
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