{"id":2714,"date":"2008-06-26T15:45:30","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T22:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2008-06-26T15:45:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T22:45:41","slug":"golden-boy-at-the-new-village-arts-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2714","title":{"rendered":"Golden Boy At The New Village Arts Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/11-gb-promo5x5v2.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/11-gb-promo5x5v2.jpg','popup','width=360,height=396,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/11-gb-promo5x5v2-tm.jpg\" height=\"220\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"11 Gb Promo5X5V2\" \/><\/a><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2008\/06\/26\/entertainment\/theater\/zff7f363981dd11a18825747200558fc1.txt\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> staff writer <strong>Pam Kragen<\/strong> was surprised to find that the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newvillagearts.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Village Arts Theatre<\/a><\/strong> presentation of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clifford_Odets\" target=\"_blank\">Clifford Odets<\/a><\/strong>&#8216; &#8220;nearly three-hour long&#8221; boxing\/violin\/love story drama <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Golden_Boy_%28play%29\" target=\"_blank\">Golden Boy<\/a><\/em><\/strong> actually works, even though there are &#8220;huge casting demands, thick, ethnic accents, dated dialogue where women characters practically beg to be smacked around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yet somehow, scrappy little New Village Arts Theatre in Carlsbad has made this play work, thanks to a smartly designed two-story set that keeps the action always in motion, and Joshua Everett Johnson&#8217;s thoughtful direction that holds the play firmly in period.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Golden Boy runs Thursday through Sunday at 8 PM (a 3 PM matinee on Saturdays) from June 21st &#8211; July 13th. For more information or to buy tickets please visit the New Village Arts Theatre website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2008\/06\/26\/entertainment\/theater\/zff7f363981dd11a18825747200558fc1.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North County Times staff writer Pam Kragen was surprised to find that the New Village Arts Theatre presentation of Clifford Odets&#8216; &#8220;nearly three-hour long&#8221; boxing\/violin\/love story drama Golden Boy actually works, even though there are &#8220;huge casting demands, thick, ethnic accents, dated dialogue where women characters practically beg to be smacked around.&#8221; Yet somehow, scrappy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}