It’s the opening night of The Golden Egg on Broadway, and the wealthy producer Julia Budder is throwing a lavish party in her lavish Manhattan townhouse. Downstairs the celebrities are pouring in, but the real action is upstairs in the bedroom, where a group of insiders have staked themselves out to await the reviews. The group includes the excitable playwright; the possibly unstable wunderkind director; the pill-popping leading lady, treading the boards after becoming infamous in Hollywood; and the playwright’s best friend, for whom the play was written but who passed up this production for a television series. Add to this a drama critic who’s panned the playwright in the past and a new-in-town aspiring singer, and you have a prime recipe for the narcissism, ambition, childishness, and just plain irrationality that infuse the theatre—and for comedy. But don’t worry: This play is sure to be the hit they have all been hoping for.
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RACHMANINOFF AND THE TSAR
South Coast Repertory (2/19 - 3/2) | ||
Wish You Were Here
South Coast Repertory's Julianne Argyros Stage (1/12 - 2/2) | ||
Cody Fry with Orchestra
Walt Disney Concert Hall (1/10 - 1/10) | ||
Batiashvili Plays Beethoven
Walt Disney Concert Hall (1/3 - 1/5) | ||
FARM HALL by Katherine Moar
Promenade Playhouse (1/10 - 1/26) NEW PLAY | ||
New Year's Eve with D-Nice & Friends
Walt Disney Concert Hall (12/31 - 12/31) | ||
Le Concert d’AstréeOde for St. Cecilia's Day
Walt Disney Concert Hall (3/25 - 3/25) | ||
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center (1/10 - 1/12) | ||
Le Concert d’Astrée The Triumph of Time and Disillusion
Walt Disney Concert Hall (3/27 - 3/27) | ||
Chamber Music from Armenia to Denmark
Walt Disney Concert Hall (4/22 - 4/22) | ||
Newsies
El Portal Theatre (1/10 - 1/12) | ||
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