TRAYF
Saturday, March 12th, 2022
Jewish teen besties find both their Orthodox convictions and their lifelong friendship tested in 1991 New York City in Lindsay Joelle’s TRAYF, the entertaining, enlightening, thought-provoking latest from The Geffen Playhouse.
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MARVIN’S ROOM
Monday, February 28th, 2022
It takes a gifted playwrights to find comedy in the darkest of scenarios and a talent-blessed theater company to bring these words to pitch-perfect life, which is why Actors Co-op’s long-awaited revival of Scott McPherson’s Marvin’s Room succeeds in evoking abundant laughter through well-earned tears, with an emphasis on the former.
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GOOD PEOPLE
Sunday, December 12th, 2021
Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40 gives David Lindsay-Abaire’s consistently compelling Good People an impeccably acted intimate theater revival whose only real minus is its scenic design.
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@PLAYAZ
Sunday, November 14th, 2021
A trio of adult gamers face post-lockdown challenges in Dana Schwartz’s engaging World Premiere comedy @Playaz, a play so of-the-moment it seems incredible that the 2019 O’Neill Finalist was originally written pre-Covid.
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THE CALORIE COUNTERS
Saturday, October 23rd, 2021Excess pounds may be no laughing matter, but playwright Molly Wagner finds equal parts comedy and drama in a 20something’s efforts to shed them in The Calorie Counters, a crowd-pleasing Loft Ensemble World Premiere.
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TAMING THE LION
Monday, July 12th, 2021
1930s Hollywood lives again at Theatre 40 in Taming The Lion, Jack Rushen’s absorbing, entertaining, enlightening look back at Top 5 Box Office draw William Haines, who gave up stardom for the man he loved.
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AN OCTOROON
Tuesday, June 29th, 2021
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins resurrects and reimagines a creaky pre-Civil War melodrama in his adventurous, genre-bending, meta-theatrical 2014 Obie Award winner An Octoroon, not only a long-awaited Fountain Theatre Los Angeles Premiere but a much-anticipated return to live, in-person play-going on the Fountain’s newly constructed open air stage.
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