Almost, Maine — playing at Cypress College — explores various forms of love during a snowy night in an imaginary town in Maine. The play echoes the romantic comedy film Love Actually that preceded it in 2003 but forges a unique path under the dark melancholy lights of the north. Continue Reading
Written by Alina Mae Wilson
Ten years ago Cypress College opened their new campus theater with a musical –Stephen Sondheim’s Follies. To celebrate their 50th anniversary, they’re doing it again. Follies has returned to Cypress. It’s a pleasant show to look at. All of the costumes are colorful and luxurious while all of the sets suit the story. Every singer is talented and well trained. The largest problems in Cypress College’s Follies do not stem from lack of effort but from a lack of natural ease. Too many actors have difficulty delivering their lines, which results in them sounding robotic and disconnected. The show occasionally switches between being fun and entertaining to being awkward because of uncomfortable line-reading. Continue Reading
Written by Alina Mae Wilson
Cypress College’s Little Women is quaint to behold and provides brief glimpses of pleasure but is ultimately joyless and gives the impression that the actors are in over their heads –or at the very least need more time to prepare. Continue Reading
Synopsis : In the not-so-distant future, a terrible water shortage and 20-year drought has led to a government ban on private toilets and a proliferation of paid public toilets, owned and operated by a single megalomaniac company: the Urine Good Company. If the poor don’t obey the strict laws prohibiting free urination, they’ll be sent to the dreaded and mysterious “Urinetown.” Taken from Website
