SLEEPING GIANT
Saturday, January 25th, 2025
All hell breaks loose when wedding-proposal fireworks unleash monstrous horrors on a lakeside community in Sleeping Giant, the latest dark comedy treat from macabre master Steve Yockey.
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GLORIA
Monday, October 7th, 2024
Everyone’s out for their fifteen minutes of fame in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ ripped-from-today’s-headlines gut-puncher Gloria, now being given an electrifying Orange County premiere at Chance Theater.
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TROUBLE IN MIND
Sunday, October 6th, 2024A stunning Kimi Walker delivers what may well be a career-best lead performance in Actors Co-op’s mostly successful revival of pioneer African-American playwright Alice Childress’s groundbreaking Trouble In Mind.
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A GOING AWAY PARTY PLAY
Sunday, September 29th, 2024Keyanna Khatiblou pays tribute to her Iranian father and English mother while recounting the events leading up to and after the Iranian Revolution of 1979 amidst a party attended by four of her closest friends in A Going Away Party Play, and if the playwright’s approach is too all-over-the-place to be entirely successful, there is still much to recommend in this Boston Court Pasadena World Premiere.
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IF I NEEDED SOMEONE
Tuesday, August 6th, 2024
Drunken hookups aren’t what they used to be, at least according to Neil LaBute in his undeniably provocative, bitingly funny, and potentially button-pushing World Premiere two-hander If I Needed Someone at Santa Monica’s City Garage Theatre.
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THE PITCH
Monday, July 29th, 2024A widowed single father finds himself in hot water with the IRS soon after embarking on a phone sales job he seems woefully ill suited for in Tom Alper’s overly padded but mostly entertaining The Pitch, an Odyssey Theatre visiting production.
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MY WHITE HUSBAND
Monday, May 27th, 2024Despite a promising setup, Leviticus Jelks’s My White Husband turns out to be an awkward mix of 1950s sitcom spoofery, marital discord dramatics, sex comedy raunch, network TV politics, and Black Lives Matter activism.
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