Rotterdam at Skylight Theatre

Rotterdam

Skylight Theatre
1816 1/2 N. Vermont Los Angeles

New Year's. Rotterdam, 2018. Alice has finally found the courage to email her parents and tell them she's lesbian. But before hitting send, her girlfriend reveals that she has always identified as male, and now wants to start living as one.

Thru - Nov 30, 2017

Mondays: 8:00pm

Fridays: 8:30pm

Saturdays: 8:30pm

Sundays: 3:00pm

Price: $15 - $39

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 213-761-7061

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Rotterdam Reviews

Average Rating based on 7 reviews

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Los Angeles Times - Recommended

"...Winner of a 2017 Olivier Award in London and buzzed about in a festival appearance in New York this year, "Rotterdam" arrives in Los Angeles in a pitch-perfect staging at the Skylight Theatre in Los Feliz. Working with a gifted young cast, director Michael A. Shepperd, whose credits include the recent "The View UpStairs" at the Celebration, mines the play's rich specificity in a production that often feels like a rom-com yet plunges so deeply into the heart of the matter that we respond with whole catalogs of emotion."

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- Daryl H. Miller

Broadway World - Highly Recommended

"...This Skylight Theatre Company's production of playwright Jon Brittain's west coast premiere of ROTTERDAM receives a stunning mounting with a pitch-perfect aligning of talents supporting and complementing each other. Michael A. Shepperd deftly directs his spot-on cast of four bringing to life Brittain's detailed, sensitive, yet witty script on a person transitioning and its effects on those close to the day-to-day situations."

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- Gil Kaan

Edge - Recommended

"...Jon Brittain's latest drama, "Rotterdam," set in the Dutch seaport, is very topical (it debuted in London this year), dealing as it does with the very essence of self-awareness and sexual dynamics, thoroughly intriguing in its script and in this production."

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- Dale Reynolds

Stage Scene LA - Highly Recommended

"...Imagine that your husband, wife, boyfriend, or girlfriend suddenly announced that they were no longer the person you believed them to be, could you still remain coupled, or would this be a deal-breaker? It is precisely this question that lies at the heart of Jon Brittain's Olivier Award-winning Rotterdam, now getting a riveting, thrillingly staged West Coast Premiere at Skylight Theatre on Vermont."

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- Steven Stanley

The Los Angeles Post - Recommended

"...The actors are also extraordinary, compelling and realistic, theatrical without going over the top. Ashley Romans, who made such an impression in last season's Charm at Celebration Theatre, once again assays an androgynous role and pitches it perfectly: Fiona is a bit too butch as a woman, while Adrian is a tad too femme as a man. Ms Romans makes us see a character who's uncomfortable in both her skin and his clothes."

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- Dan Berkowitz

Stage Raw - Highly Recommended

"...Playwright Brittain has wrought a compelling new age love story that is enhanced by its transcendent casting. Director Sheppard has fashioned an attractive showcase; Nailaa Aladdin Sanders' costumes are play perfect."

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- Julio Martinez

On Stage and Screen - Highly Recommended

"...Rotterdam, written by Jon Brittain, is currently in its west coast premiere at the Skylight Theatre in Los Angeles after a world premiere two years ago that won an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. The story could not feel more timely or prescient, and the production, directed by Michael A. Shepperd, is a fantastic achievement, exploring complex issues rarely seen in media with honesty and sensitivity."

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- Erin Conley