The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe: Revisited at LA Gay and Lesbian Center

The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe: Revisited

LA Gay and Lesbian Center
1125 North McCadden Place Los Angeles

For the first time in the 35-year history of Jane Wagner's iconic play The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, the author and her creative and life partner Lily Tomlin have given their approval for it to be reinvented as a fully staged production performed by a company of 12 actors as opposed to its original solo format. In The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe: Revisited audiences will embark on a hilarious, tender, and profound journey through the streets, across the world, and far beyond.

Thru - Dec 11, 2016

Price: $30

Show Type: Comedy/Drama

Box Office: 323-866-7393

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The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe: Revisited Reviews

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Stage and Cinema - Somewhat Recommended

At its best Search has value as a sort of time capsule: This protean entertainment covers a host of contemporary dislocations and dilemmas, in effect reproducing the modern world in a dozen voices. True, the script can seem self-consciously glib and epigrammatic (and all the more so given some actors offering a cartoonlike naturalism), but it remains remarkable how Wagner keeps the character humor from spinning off into star-turn self-indulgence by constantly connecting her characters in satisfying, even astonishing ways."

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- Tony Frankel

Stage Scene LA - Somewhat Recommended

"...Ten of L.A.'s finest actresses (and a couple of equally talented guys) deliver superb performances, and the production they are starring in proves one of the year's most stunningly designed. Still, as was the case when I saw Lily Tomlin perform it as a one-woman showcase back in 1987, I found The Search For Signs Of Intelligent Life In The Universe, Jane Wagner's collection of (mostly women's) monologs and occasional multi-character scenes only intermittently engaging in its Los Angeles LGBT Center intimate-stage "revisitation.""

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- Steven Stanley

ArtsInLA - Highly Recommended

"...eeing the LGBT Center's richly worthy reboot of The Search for..., I realized again one thing that so clearly contributes to any gifted performer's ability to bravely go where no one has gone before: a writer as brilliant and as in tune with the universe, its foibles, and its wonders, as Wagner."

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- Travis Michael Holder

Stage Raw - Highly Recommended

"...The current production at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe: Revisited, takes the iconic Lily Tomlin one-woman show and reconfigures it with a talented cast of twelve. If, on balance, the piece still seems like it would be more effective as a one-person vehicle, it's a small quibble, considering the wealth of terrific acting and the sharp wit and wisdom of Jane Wagner's writing still on display."

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- Terry Morgan

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