Everything You Touch at Boston Court Performing Arts Center

Everything You Touch

Boston Court Performing Arts Center
70 N. Mentor Ave. Pasadena

Victor is a ruthless fashion designer in the 1970s at the top of his game. Esme, his glamorous protégé and muse, is pushed aside when an ordinary Midwestern woman inspires Victor to make his artistry accessible to the masses. A generation later, a woman grappling with a healthy dose of self-loathing must wrestle her own family demons to find her way through the world of fashion that won't give a woman her size a second look. Skipping back and forth in time, Everything You Touch is a viciously funny look at the struggle to find an identity that's more than skin deep.

Thru - May 18, 2014

Thursdays: 8:00pm

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 8:00pm

Sundays: 2:00pm

Price: $17-$34

Show Type: Comedy/Drama

Box Office: 626-683-6883

www.bostoncourt.com

Everything You Touch Reviews

Average Rating based on 7 reviews

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Los Angeles Times - Recommended

"...The performances, particularly of the two leads, are confident, nuanced and memorable. And the rich sensory feast Kubzansky and her team have served up - which also includes lighting by Jeremy Pivnick, sound by John Zalewski and witty props by John Burton - is a powerful reminder of why beauty, heartless though it may be, holds us in such thrall."

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- Margaret Gray

Stage and Cinema - Somewhat Recommended

"..."Why are we doing all the work?" a friend asked after he saw the show. If Callaghan (or Kubzansky for that matter) simply must be post-modern, don't leave us in limbo for quite so long that we lose a willingness to do the work required to appreciate the effort."

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- Tony Frankel

The Hollywood Reporter - Recommended

"...I had the luck to hear the play in a reading at the Boston Court a couple years ago, and while impressed, it is a wonderment what Kubzansky has wrought with its physical realization. The quirky dialogue requires just as much deft intonation as David Mamet, with which it otherwise has nothing else in common save its individuality. The director has the flexible control to indulge in extended moments of hauteur-like stateliness without slackening the pace. And above all, the design is one of the most extensively expressive of any in recent memory, especially for a smaller theater."

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- Myron Meisel

Stage Scene LA - Recommended

"...There's no L.A. theater quite like The Theatre @ Boston Court for challenging audiences with plays that can, when things go as right as they do in Sheila Callaghan's initially mystifying Everything You Touch, both stimulate the brain cells and touch the heart."

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- Steven Stanley

ArtsInLA - Recommended

"...Seldom does anything make such a spirited and elaborate point while telling a story so simple at its core. Callaghan is the theatrical poet laureate of her generation, and we are lucky to be around as she continues to make clear what a mess our species has become with such delicate grace camouflaged by her wicked, unpredictable, wonderfully dark humor."

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- Travis Michael Holder

Neon Tommy - Not Recommended

"...Perhaps, though, this is a script better left on the page, better appreciated when it's read than when it's staged."

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- Katie Buenneke

The Stage Struck Review - Recommended

"..."Everything You Touch" delivers that remarkable combination of satisfaction and conversation starter that makes for one kind of excellent theater. And since shows that make you think are The Theatre at Boston Court's bread and butter, it is no surprise that the show is being held over. The special efforts it took to make this world premiere happen certainly prove to be worth it."

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- Frances Baum Nicholson