Author Archive
RED INK
Monday, January 20th, 2020
What’s been happening to print journalism since the Internet took control could drive a newspaper person crazy, or so a certain alternative press reporter discovers quite literally in Steven Leigh Morris’s brand new play Red Ink, the exciting, adventurous latest from Playwrights’ Arena.
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IT’S ONLY A PLAY
Sunday, January 19th, 2020
If you love live theater and the people who make it, you will absolutely adore Morgan-Wixson Theatre’s delectable latest, and even if you don’t know Ben Brantley from Ben Franklin, you’ll have a smashingly good time at Terrence McNally’s It’s Only A Play.
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NOWHERE ON THE BORDER
Saturday, January 18th, 2020Playwright Carlos Lacámara puts a personal face on the hot-button issue of illegal immigration in Nowhere On The Border, a Road Theatre Company drama that works best when focusing on its odd couple of 50something adversaries.
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EARTHQUAKES IN LONDON
Friday, January 17th, 2020
Epic in its scope and timeframe, intimate in its intersecting family dramas, bleak in its depiction of a world doomed by climate change, and as thrillingly theatrical as stage storytelling gets, Rogue Machine’s West Coast Premiere of Mike Bartlett’s Earthquakes In London is sure to be one of the season’s most talked-about productions.
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FIREFLIES
Tuesday, January 14th, 2020An oversexed Martin Luther King-like preacher and his overstressed wife find the cracks in their marriage increasingly tough to overlook in Fireflies, Donja R. Love’s overwrought Civil Rights-era two-hander whose melodramatic overload proves distressingly underwhelming.
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HEATHERS THE MUSICAL
Saturday, January 11th, 2020Heathers The Musical proves a terrific talent showcase for the high schoolers, undergrads, and just-out-of-college triple-threats who strut their stuff at the Simi Valley Performing Arts Center in a Studio C Performing Arts staging marred only by an Opening Night lighting malfunction and the most rudimentary of sets.
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BLUE MAN GROUP ON TOUR
Wednesday, January 8th, 2020
The quirky trio of pseudo-extraterrestrials known round the world as Blue Man Group have arrived at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts with their 2020 Speechless Tour to dazzle and delight with their patented brand of quirky physical comedy, seemingly superhuman feats, and audience interaction for kids of all ages.
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BAD HABITS
Monday, January 6th, 2020
A nonagenarian TV legend spars with a quintet of salty-tongued singing nuns in Steve Mazur’s comedic crowd-pleaser Bad Habits, a holiday hit for Santa Monica’s Ruskin Group Theatre held over to start 2020 with a bang.
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