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The following productions were reviewed during 2006. At this time, as reviews are being moved from an earlier web program, reviews are available to read in pd form only. To receive a copy by email, send your request, by sending an email through the "Contact Us" button above.



All My Sons / Geffen Playhouse

And the Winner Is / Laguna Playhouse

Arms and the Man / A Noise Within

As You Like It  / A Noise Within

As You Like It / Pasadena Playhouse

Autobahn  / Open Fist Theatre

Bach at Leipzig  / South Coast Repertory

The Bigger Man  / Circle X

The Black Rider  / Ahmanson Theatre

Blue Door  / South Coast Repertory

A Body of Water / Old Globe Theatre

Boston Marriage / Geffen Playhouse

Christmas on Mars  / Old Globe Theatre

The Constant Wife / Old Globe Theatre

Curtains  / Ahmanson Theatre

Demeter in the City  / Cornerstone Theater Company

Fences  / Pasadena Playhouse

The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler / South Coast Repertory

God of Hell  / Geffen Playhouse

Hitchcock Blonde / South Coast Repertory

The Importance of Being Earnest / Ahmanson Theatre



FAVORITE THEATER EXPERIENCE OF 2006


In the Continuum

In the Continuum  / Kirk Douglas Theatre


Jitney  / Stagewalkers / Lillian Theatre

Last Easter  / Laguna Playhouse

The Last Five Years  / Pasadena Playhouse

Lewis and Clark Reach the Euphrates / Mark Taper Forum

Little Egypt  / Matrix Theatre

Man from Nebraska / South Coast Repertory

A Marvellous Party: A Noel Coward Celebration  / Laguna Playhouse

Mouther Courage  / La Jolla Playhouse

Much ADoobie Brothers About Nothing  / Troubadour Theatre Company

Nightingale  / Mark Taper Forum

Nothing Sacred  / South Coast Repertory

Othello  / Old Globe Theatre

Phaedra  / A Noise Within

The Price / A Noise Within

Pyrenees  / Kirk Douglas Theatre

The Real Thing  / South Coast Repertory

Ridiculous Fraud  / South Coast Repertory

Shear Madness  / Laguna Playhouse

Sherlock Holmes  / Pasadena Playhouse

Sister Act: The Musical  / Pasadena Playhouse

The Sisters Rosensweig  / Old Globe Theatre

The 60s  / Pacific Resident Theatre

Slow Dance on the Killing Ground  / Athena Theatre

Sonia Flew  / Laguna Playhouse

The Studio / South Coast Repertory

The Tempest  / A Noise Within

Tick, Tick . . . BOOM  / Coronet Theatre

The Time of Your Life  / Open Fist Theatre

The Times They Are A-Changin' / Old Globe Theatre

A Touch of the Poet  / A Noise Within

Trying  / Old Globe Theatre

Two Pianos, Four Hands / Laguna Playhouse

Ubu Roi / A Noise Within

The Violet Hour  / Old Globe Theatre

Water & Power  / Mark Taper Forum

Wishful Drinking  / Geffen Playhouse

Without Walls  / Mark Taper Forum

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? /  Ahmanson Theatre

The Winter's Tale   /  A Noise Within

The Women of Lockerbie /  Actors’ Gang

Yellow Face /  Mark Taper Forum

'Rearview' Citations



Kimberly Scott and Susannah Schulman
Premiere | Playwright

The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler

by Jeff Whitty | South Coast Repertory


Deborah Strang and Alan Blumenthal
Revival

Ubu Roi

Julia Rodriguez Elliott, director/choreographer | A Noise Within


The Black Rider set
Musical

The Black Rider: The Casting
of the Magic Bullets

Robert Wilson, Tom Waits and William S. Burroughs | Ahmanson Theatre


Bill Rauch
Director

Bill Rauch

'The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler' | South Coast Repertory
'As You Like It' | Pasadena Playhouse / Cornerstone Theater Company
(co-production)


Kirsten Potter
Female Lead

Kirsten Potter

'As You Like It' | A Noise Within


Eric D. Steinberg
Male Lead

Eric D. Steinberg

'Nothing Sacred' | South Coast Repertory


Missy Yager
Featured Female

Missy Yager

'Rabbit Hole' | Geffen Playhouse


Geoff Elliott and Len Lesser
Featured Male

Len Lesser

'The Price' | A Noise Within


Set

A Body of Water

Michael Vaughn Sims | The Old Globe


Costumes

Maggie Morgan

'Bach at Leipzig' | South Coast Repertory


Lights

Colin Young

'In the Continuum' | Kirk Douglas Theatre / Center Theatre Group


Music / Sound

Gina Leishman

'Mother Courage' | La Jolla Playhouse