THIS SIDE OF CRAZY
Saturday, February 1st, 2020
No one writes about the sordid lives of Southern Baptist women with more vinegar-laced love and affection than Del Shores, once again delighting Zephyr Theatre audiences with his latest dramedic treat, a rib-tickling, tear-jerking Kentucky-fried feast appropriately dubbed This Side Of Crazy.
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SUNDAY DINNER
Friday, January 31st, 2020
An abundance of secrets and lies get revealed over the course of one eventful evening in Tony Blake’s funny, engaging, twist-filled Sunday Dinner, now getting a spiffy, splendidly acted World Premiere production at Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40.
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THE WATER TRIBE
Saturday, January 25th, 2020Playwright Don Cummings could well have titled his strange-but-never-boring new play Trainwreck rather than The Water Tribe because like an accident about to happen, you simply can’t take your eyes away from its hot mess of a female protagonist or Hannah Prichard’s tornado of a lead performance.
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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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DISPOSABLE NECESSITIES
Sunday, December 15th, 2019
Playwright Neil McGowan gives a futuristic spin to the age-old question “What would you do if you could live forever?” in his gender-bending, race-bending, relentlessly clever dark comedy Disposable Necessities, a Rogue Machine Theatre World Premiere.
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punkplay
Monday, December 2nd, 2019
A coming-of-age tale/homoerotic teen bromance unfolding in the Reagan 1980s to a punk rock soundtrack set to mute. Meet Gregory S. Moss’s punkplay, the electrifying latest from Circle X Theatre Co., an edgy/nostalgic dramedy with occasional forays into “WTF is that supposed to mean?” territory.
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AUGUST WILSON’S JITNEY
Monday, November 25th, 2019
Father-son conflict, romantic friction, and the threat of imminent unemployment ignite dramatic sparks amidst tension-relieving laughter in August Wilson’s Jitney, whose 2017 Broadway debut now visits the Mark Taper Forum after a well-earned Best Revival Tony win.
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BURIED CHILD
Thursday, November 14th, 2019
Sam Shepard’s Buried Child, the darkest, weirdest, and most twisted black comedy ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, returns to L.A., strikingly staged and stunningly performed at A Noise Within.
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