Girls Talk at Marilyn Monroe Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Creative Center

Girls Talk

Marilyn Monroe Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Creative Center
7936 Santa Monica Blvd West Hollywood

After an eight-year absence from the Los Angeles theatre scene, following turnaround, starring David Schwimmer, Jonathan Silverman and Tom Everett Scott, Roger Kumble returns for his fourth foray into the world of narcissistic Hollywood power brokers. This time he sets his sights on Brentwood's status climbing mommies. These "d girls" from the nineties now find themselves caught up in a world filled of their own power plays – including nanny poaching, elitist book clubs, and worst of all…pre-school applications - in this hilarious new comedy that is sure to get all of Hollywood's boys and girls "talk"-ing.

Thru - May 7, 2011

Price: $34

Show Type: Comedy

Box Office: 1-800-595-4849

Running Time: 1hr, 30mins

www.strasberg.com

Girls Talk Reviews

Average Rating based on 9 reviews

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Los Angeles Times - Highly Recommended

"...Roger Kumble's "Girls Talk," premiering at the Lee Strasberg Theatre, is billed as a "vicious new play" and it lives up to both adjectives. Not even inserting "deliciously" or "bracingly" could oversell the fun of seeing L.A. society moms so gleefully skewered."

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- Margaret Gray

Variety - Recommended

"...That events become so absorbing despite the contrivance is partly because Kumble sets aside the details for an incisive consideration of motherhood vs. career in general. Mostly it's due to the cast's skill: Shields has never been more confident or winning, and Bendewald and Zimmer are equally matched as formidable confidantes at cross purposes."

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- Bob Verini

LA Weekly - Highly Recommended

"...Roger Kumble's new seriocomedy sets out to debunk that famous feminist promise that women can have it all -- the career, the family and their sanity. As lights go up on a beached Brooke Shields, a milk pump attached to each breast, Kumble softens up his audience with broad comic strokes and entertainment industry in-jokes."

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- Pauline Adamek

Backstage - Somewhat Recommended

"...Kumble helms a breezily paced romp that seems to end too abruptly. Though there are plenty of belly laughs and choice zingers, the audience may feel vaguely dissatisfied at the play's end. We want a bit more story and/or a bit more substance. Though the broad comedy occasionally flirts with darker thematic implications, nonstop one-liners bring us back to the world of Nick at Nite frothiness. "

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- Les Spindle

Edge - Somewhat Recommended

"...A strong cast led by Brooke Shields assaults your ears and tickles your funny bone with rapid-fire, rapier-sharp dialogue making the ninety minutes of Girls Talk go by before you know it. Yet an ambiguous ending leaves you up in the air."

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- Gil Kaan

Stage Scene LA - Recommended

"...It's entirely fitting that Girls Talk should get its world premiere in L.A., the only city where a movie/TV/stage star like Brooke Shields can be seen in an intimate theater setting with busy TV series regulars and longtime stage vets-for about half of what you'd pay to see the same play anywhere else. If last night's Thursday crowd is any example, Girls Talk is likely to be one of the biggest ticket draws of the year, its audiences made up of equal parts married moms and single career gals, with some thoroughly entertained men thrown in. Some will side with Jane and others with Claire-and just about everyone will emphasize with Lori, stuck smack dab in the middle."

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- Steven Stanley

StageHappenings.com - Recommended

"...Kumble has filled this play with a great deal of humor. However, as entertaining and enjoyable as it may be, it creates some prickly moments when it is obvious that he has stereotyped the Jewish women of Brentwood. The actresses give wonderful performance, including Eileen Galindo who plays ZuZu, Lori's temporary housekeeper."

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- Carol Kaufman Segal

Examiner - Somewhat Recommended

"...Girls Talk, which starts out as a laugh riot, turns into an actual riot at the end. But in the end, unfortunately, no one is laughing."

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- Cynthia Citron

CurtainUp - Highly Recommended

"...The cast makes it work, especially Brooke Shields as Lori. She's realistic and loveable while working as hard at being a successful Mom as she did at screenwriting. A fit of hysterics nearly ends it but there's a twist. The final curtain brings a welter of familiar noise."

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- Laura Hitchcock

This show has been Jeff Recommended*

*The designation of "Jeff Recommended" is given to a production when at least ONE ELEMENT of the show was deemed outstanding by the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee.

Girls Talk at Marilyn Monroe Theatre at the Lee Strasberg Creative Center

Girls Talk

Girls Talk Reviews

Los Angeles Times - Highly Recommended

Variety - Recommended

LA Weekly - Highly Recommended

Backstage - Somewhat Recommended

Edge - Somewhat Recommended

Stage Scene LA - Recommended

StageHappenings.com - Recommended

Examiner - Somewhat Recommended

CurtainUp - Highly Recommended

This show has been Jeff Recommended*

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