Calendar’s Summer Splash : CRITIC’S CHOICES : STAGE
What am I looking forward to seeing this summer? All the shows that got past me this spring, starting with Taper Too’s “Standup Tragedy.” It transfers to the Taper mainstage on Thursday.
Also--”Phantom of the Opera,” despite the buildup (Ahmanson, Wednesday.) John Steppling’s “Teenage Wedding”--a suspiciously cheerful title from our darkest playwright (Cast Theatre, July 1.) The Padua Hills Playwrights Playwrights Festival--where Steppling and Jon Robin Baitz got started (CSU Northridge, Aug. 6.) Also--Shakespeare at the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, especially John Hirsch’s staging of “Measure for Measure” (June 29). Romulus Linney’s “Heathen Valley”--a fable of Pharisees: it won last year’s American Theatre Critics Assn. award (Gem Theatre, Aug. 18). “Fiddler on the Roof” with Topol (Pavilion, July 25.) Marlane Meyer’s “The Geography of Luck” (LATC, Aug. 26).
And much more. Theater slows down elsewhere in the summer. In Southern California it heats up.
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