Laugh at Studio Theatre

Laugh

Studio Theatre
1501 14th St. NW Washington

The West. The 1920s. Mabel’s had a hard few weeks: A dynamite accident at a gold mine has left her wealthy but orphaned, and she’s shipped off to a calculating aunt whose nephew is charged with seducing her to control Mabel’s fortune. This hapless courtship reveals a shared love of silent movies and a plan for greater things. A story of mishaps and moxie, the romance of Hollywood and ultimately a Hollywood-caliber romance. A world-premiere slapstick comedy from the Pulitzer-Prize winning playwright of Crimes of the Heart.

Thru - Apr 19, 2015

Tuesdays: 8:00pm

Wednesdays: 8:00pm

Thursdays: 8:00pm

Fridays: 8:00pm

Sundays: 2:00pm & 7:00pm

Price: $44 - $78

Running Time: 2hrs; 20mins;one intermission

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Average Rating based on 5 reviews

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Washington Post - Recommended

"...The way the stage pro brings this faux exchange to life, complete with cartoonish voices and almost musical dialogue, confirms what both the arts fairy and Wayne Barker himself already know: This guy clearly belongs in the theater."

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- Jen Chaney

MetroWeekly - Not Recommended

"...Perhaps she succeeded on some personal level with Laugh, but it just doesn’t work onstage. I didn’t laugh — out loud or otherwise — once during the world premiere run of her new play at Studio Theatre. Certainly, it’ll fare well with those who have a fetish for slapstick, and can tolerate the show’s excesses of physical comedy, rudimentary wordplay, puns, and downright groan-inducing pranks and jokes. But it was too much when she stooped to having characters toss cream pies in each others’ faces."

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- Doug Rule

Talkin Broadway - Recommended

"...In addition to the solidly entertaining and heartfelt performances of Cespedes and Garnick, four other actors-the indomitable Townley, Zes, Jacob Ming-Trent, and Felicia Curry-shape-shift into all the other characters."

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- Susan Berlin

MD Theatre Guide - Recommended

"...Laugh is good for one or two, even if it strings things a bit too long. The good work of the actors under the bold direction of David Schweitzer largely keeps the plates spinning. But one can't imagine a life for Laugh without them."

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- Roger Catlin

DCTheatreScene - Recommended

Capturing that seltzer fizz, cream pie lightness of classic slapstick is far trickier than it looks. Even the queen of loopy Southern Gothic, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley, slips on the banana peel trying to recreate the side-splitting in Laugh, a world-premiere comedy at Studio Theatre.

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- Jayne Blanchard

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Washington Post - Recommended

MetroWeekly - Not Recommended

Talkin Broadway - Recommended

MD Theatre Guide - Recommended

DCTheatreScene - Recommended

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