THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
Sunday, January 26th, 2025
Everything goes right where laughter is concerned in The Play That Goes Wrong, the West End-to-Broadway comedy smash that that just might set a laughs-per-minute record at the La Mirada Theatre.
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THE CURIOUS SAVAGE
Sunday, January 19th, 2025
It’s not the crazies who should be committed in John Patrick’s 1950 comedic gem The Curious Savage, the auspicious start to what promises to be the best season in years for North Hollywood’s the Group Rep.
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SANTASIA – A HOLIDAY COMEDY
Sunday, December 8th, 2024
Santasia – A Holiday Comedy is back at Sherman Oaks’ Whitefire Theatre for its 25th annual mash-up of madcap SNL-style skits, clever Claymation videos, hilarious Broadway musical parodies, nostalgic Christmases memories, and Brandon Loeser in drag, the best possible news for audiences seeking holiday comedy rated R-for-language and H-for-heart.
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MRS. DILBER’S CHRISTMAS CAROL
Sunday, December 8th, 2024It’s a clever, promising premise, and were it given less over-the-top treatment, Arthur M. Jolly’s Mrs. Dilber’s Christmas Carol just might be a winner, but excessively broad performances squander much of the good cheer Jolly’s script might otherwise inspire. (It would help too if you could understand more than half of what the actors are saying.)
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THE GODDAMN COUPLE DOWN THE HALL (OH… AND MERRY CHRISTMAS)
Sunday, December 1st, 2024
Your favorite Hallmark Christmas movie meets Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window meets the Farrelly Brothers at Theatre West in Mark Wilding’s wild-and-wacky, expectations-subverting The Goddamn Couple Down the Hall (Oh… and Merry Christmas), the appetizingly astringent antidote to all the sugar-sweet holiday fare playing around town this time of year.
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FOUR TOP
Sunday, November 24th, 2024
An initially promising hook-up gone suddenly, disastrously amiss is just the start of the romcom roundelay that is Michael B. Kaplan’s laugh-packed World Premiere Four Top, the latest winner presented Upstairs at the Group Rep.
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BARBRA’S WEDDING
Saturday, November 2nd, 2024
Nick Bredosky and Kaylin Zeren deliver the comedic goods in a savvily gender-swapped take on Daniel Stern’s married-couples comedy Barbra’s Wedding, now halfway through its two-Fridays-only run at LA Connection Comedy Improv Theatre.
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THE 22+ WEDDINGS OF HUGO MULITPLE
Friday, November 1st, 2024
Latino Theater Company treats L.A. audiences to a rarity in this city of almost a million-and-a-half Spanish speakers, teatro en español (with English supertitles) thanks to Gala Hispanic Theater’s The 22+ Weddings Of Hugo Multiple, Gustavo Ott’s simply marvelous look at love and immigration in today’s America.
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