All Night Long at Atwater Village Theatre

All Night Long

Atwater Village Theatre
3269 Casitas Ave Atwater Village

The thin line between waking and dreaming, the conscious and subconscious, is exposed in playwright John O'Keefe's outrageously funny, surreal sit-com about 18 hours in the life of an all-American nuclear family.

Thru - Oct 21, 2018

Price: $25 with advance purchase, $30 at the door

Show Type: Comedy

Box Office: 323-644-1929

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All Night Long Reviews

Average Rating based on 5 reviews

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On Stage Los Angeles - Recommended

"...Figuring out what's real and what's going on in some colossal time warp may leave the audience in a tizzy, which may be O'Keefe's plan all along. This is absurdist nonsense that making sense of may be a fool's errand."

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- Michael Sheehan

Stage Raw - Somewhat Recommended

"...O'Keefe's writing is literate, funny, dark and absurdist, and I often enjoyed his intellectual playfulness. Perhaps it's deliberate that this work has no real plot or definable meaning, and that the characters feel more like symbols than people for an audience to connect with. That's fine. People who are more interested in wild creativity and the flow of ideas than in traditional dramatic works may well love this play. I found it somewhat frustrating, but I also appreciated it - and I think that Open Fist is to be commended for a terrific production of a tricky work. That said, the play is also probably too long, a bit self-indulgent and I imagine might be too flamboyantly odd for a general theatre audience. If it sounds like your cup of tea, however, I encourage you to check it out."

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- Terry Morgan

Theatre Notes - Highly Recommended

"...This is some serious stuff served up as wild comedy. Mr. Munroe has wrung brilliant work out of a cast that goes for broke with broad, hyper-charged playing that is rendered with extraordinary precision. Here is an example from late in the play. In the throes of wild confusion, the players become ventriloquists. Upstage characters say things that the downstage characters as living ventriloquist dummies mouth with perfect precision. It is a bravura, tour-de-force moment."

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- Paul Myrvold

Peoples World - Highly Recommended

"...Genre spoofs are among my favorite types of productions, the paragons being Mel Brooks's parodies, such as his loopy lampooning of the Western in Blazing Saddles. In John O'Keefe's wonderfully, wildly witty and wry All Night Long the conventions of 1950s and '60s sitcoms such as The Donna Reed Show are raked over the comedic coals as America's nuclear family is exploded."

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- Ed Rampell

USTheatre - Highly Recommended

"...The acting, in all cases, is exceptional, and the company expresses in this revival of the San Francisco Magic Theater production the freshness of this 38-year-old play. O'Keefe himself, remains, perhaps a little more grizzled than when I last saw him, a powerful and intelligent figure who seems, at the moment to be making a kind of comeback, with another play, Don't You Ever Call Me Anything But Mother appearing this fall at Zombie Joes Underground."

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- Douglas Messerli

All Night Long at Atwater Village Theatre

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All Night Long Reviews

On Stage Los Angeles - Recommended

Stage Raw - Somewhat Recommended

Theatre Notes - Highly Recommended

Peoples World - Highly Recommended

USTheatre - Highly Recommended

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