THE WOLVES
Sunday, March 17th, 2019
Echo Theater Company has not only scored a major coup in snagging the Los Angeles Premiere rights to Sarah DeLappe’s 2017 Pulitzer Prize finalist The Wolves, the extraordinary production Echo has mounted of DeLappe’s Altmanesque eavesdropping on six Saturdays of teen-girl soccer warmups will surely be remembered as one of 2019’s best.
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AMERICA ADJACENT
Tuesday, March 5th, 2019
The United States proves far from paradise for six Filipino women seeking a brighter future for their unborn (or recently born) infants in Boni B. Alvarez’s captivating and compelling hot-button-issue dramedy America Adjacent, a Skylight Theatre Company World Premiere.
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HIR
Thursday, February 21st, 2019
There are dysfunctional family comedies … and then there’s Taylor Mac’s Hir, a dysfunctional family comedy that takes the genre to such extremes that not everyone will make it past intermission. I, on the other hand, relished every twisted second of this Odyssey Theatre Ensemble Los Angeles Premiere.
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MAN OF GOD
Friday, February 8th, 2019
The discovery of a spy cam pointing up from inside the hotel bathroom toilet of four Korean-American teens on a mission trip to Thailand sets in motion a wild and unexpected chain of events in Anna Moench’s Man Of God, an East West Players World Premiere as funny, dramatic, and edge-of-your-seat gripping as it is a timely reminder that there are no age restrictions where the #metoo movement is concerned.
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AUGUST WILSON’S TWO TRAINS RUNNING
Sunday, February 3rd, 2019
August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated Two Trains Running arrives at the Matrix just in time for Black History Month in as powerfully staged and performed a production as any theatergoer, regardless of color, could possibly wish for.
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LINDA VISTA
Thursday, January 17th, 2019
Tracy Letts could just as easily have called his latest play Train Wreck, so hot a mess is its 50-year-old protagonist that much of the pleasure of Letts’ relentlessly funny, defiantly unsentimental Linda Vista (a Steppenwolf visitor to the Mark Taper Forum) is watching its antihero (emphasis on the anti) get what he so richly deserves.
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DESERT RATS
Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
It isn’t just aspiring kidnappers who owe it to themselves to check out Nate Rufus Edelman’s Desert Rats for a primer on what not to do when abducting a high school cheerleader but anyone seeking L.A. theater at its entertainingly edgy best.
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SISTERS THREE
Friday, December 21st, 2018A pair of quirky contemporary adult siblings bearing more than a passing resemblance to Anne and Emily Brontë generate dramatic sparks aplenty in Jami Brandli’s Sisters Three, that is until Charlotte shows up near the end and the Inkwell Theater World Premiere turns from a mostly quite absorbing two-hander to a solo performance that goes off the deep end … way off.
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