The Scarlet Pimpernel is an action/adventure musical comedy based on Baroness Orczy’s famous 20th-century novel about the French Revolution: the battle for Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. As French aristocrats are being sent to the guillotine for the merest infraction, there is only one man who is able to save them, the Scarlet Pimpernel. He alters his personality to become a vain, self-absorbed socialite interested only in fashion and no one suspects him as the dashing hero who rescues the unjustly convicted. His nemesis Chauvelin, the head of state security, carefully constructs his own net of intrigue in aims of capturing the infamous hero himself! Music by Frank Wildhorn and book and lyrics by Nan Knighton.
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Eat More Art Vegas - Nov 3, 2016
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When the Rain Stops Falling
by Andrew Bovell
Gabriel York awaits the arrival of his grown son whom he hasn't seen since he was seven. "I know what he wants. He wants what all young men want from their fathers. He wants to know who he is. Where he comes from. Where he belongs. And for the life of me I don't know what to tell him." That's the beginning of this compelling family saga that takes us back and forth in time from one generation to another, from 1959 to 2039, from London to Australia. With four generations of fathers and sons, their mothers, lovers and wives, the play is epic in its scope, yet at the same time extraordinarily intimate.
The worlds of wrestling and theatre don’t often mix—but Kristoffer Diaz’s Putlizer Finalist play The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity brings the heat. Cockroach Theatre built a professional wrestling ring and body slammed the Valley Awards team, earning a Valley Recommendation for their production.
“Drama has rarely been so visceral in its execution,” said Jacob Coakley, executive director of the Valley Theatre Awards. “Chad Deity takes the ridiculousness of professional wrestling seriously, and grapples with it to find out what’s really going on under its melodrama. I’m happy to say its Valley Recommended.”
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz is a serious minded comedy about wrestling, geopolitics, and raisin bread. It won the 2011 Obie Award for Best New American Play, the 2008 National Latino Playwriting Award and was a finalist for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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