Sight UnSeen at Lounge Theatre

Sight UnSeen

Lounge Theatre
6201 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles

American artist Jonathan Waxman, as superstar, attends a celebrated opening of his work at a prominent London Gallery. The hazardous and humorous entanglement begins when, upon his arrival in England, he visits his former lover and muse in a village where she now lives with her British husband. After seeing an early painting that hangs in her house, he realizes that he must recapture the inspiration and purity he felt when he first painted her. Plunged into the exorbitant hype of the art world, where a publicist is as necessary as a brush and canvas, Jonathan begins to flail in this toxic triangle as he defends his work, his relationships, and even himself against anti-Semitism and sexism.

Thru - Apr 26, 2015

Fridays: 8:00pm

Saturdays: 8:00pm

Sundays: 7:00pm

Price: $25

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 323-469-9988

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Sight UnSeen Reviews

Average Rating based on 4 reviews

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Examiner - Recommended

"...As to the subject of art, according to the character of Nick, "Art is devised as a celebration of beauty," and yet he finds nothing beautiful in Waxman's work, save perhaps one work done of his wife Patricia. Waxman though stresses that Art is participatory. Perhaps the line that best fits the title of the play, "In art, as in life we tend to affect people in ways we can't always see." Perhaps stealing a quote from the Russian philosopher Leo Tolstoy, "Art is truth." The play shows the conflict in society between the starving artist creating work for a higher cause, versus the artist who is driven to make a living and some of the disillusionment in that hero worship."

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- Laura Tull

ArtsInLA - Not Recommended

"...Then again, Sight Unseen might indeed be a good play; everything else written by Margulies has grabbed a generally appreciative critical response, and this particular effort garnered him an Obie Award and a Pulitzer nomination in 1992. Considering as reference only this incredibly awful revival, however, it would be difficult to tell. From Adam Haas Hunter's clumsy and unwieldy set accentuated by equally clumsy and unwieldy set changes, to the 16-minute-late start time with a restless audience forced to sit through old Elton John and Beatles tunes turned into excruciating elevator music fed through a synthesizer, nearly everything about this production is insufferable."

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- Travis Michael Holder

Total Theater - Recommended

"...Wasatch Theatrical Ventures has done Margulies proud, and the L.A. theater world is the better for it."

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- Willard Manus

The Los Angeles Post - Not Recommended

"...In Sight Unseen, playwright Donald Margulies has interesting and provocative things to say about art and ego and how people use each other. He also has fun things to say about the modern tendency to turn an artist whose talent may be mediocre into a superstar so in demand that collectors with more money than sense will pay to be on a waiting list for his next painting – whatever it may look like. Unfortunately, this listless, disappointing production dulls the sharp edges, and makes it unlikely you'll be awake enough to debate the ideas when you leave the theatre."

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- Dan Berkowitz

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Sight UnSeen Reviews

Examiner - Recommended

ArtsInLA - Not Recommended

Total Theater - Recommended

The Los Angeles Post - Not Recommended

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