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Theater Review: THE $5 SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (The 6th Act at Theatre 68 in North Hollywood)

by Marc Wheeler

LIFE IMITATETH ART In Christopher Guest's brilliant 1996 mockumentary Waiting For Guffman, the smalltown residents of Blaine, MO, come together to put on a show. But what if instead the residents in the film made the movie themselves? That's the level of ironic self-unawareness permeating The $5 Shakespeare Company, a woeful work by Matthew Leavitt […]

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 3:53pm on February 16, 2020