POOR CLARE
Sunday, October 24th, 2021
Contemporary speak proves an ideal fit for Poor Clare, Chiara Atik’s screwball-comedy look at a 13th-century Paris Hilton who gave it all up for God and ended up a Saint.
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HAVE A GOOD ONE
Sunday, October 3rd, 2021A trio of 20ish Midwesterners, two of them shirtless greeters at a trendy clothing chain called Penderleigh & Ashe, come of age circa Y2K in Stan Zimmerman and Christian McLaughlin’s Have A Good One, the crowd-pleasing latest from Pop-up Playhouse.
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CLUE
Monday, September 27th, 2021
McCoy Rigby Entertainment returns live and in person to La Mirada with Clue, eighty minutes of nonstop whodunit hilarity guaranteed to cure the pandemic blues.
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AS GOOD AS GOLD
Sunday, September 26th, 2021Theatre 40 opens its 2021-2022 season with Marilyn Anderson’s As Good As Gold, a Hollywood satire not nearly as good as the solid gold cast who do their darnedest to make it shine.
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OUR MAN IN SANTIAGO
Friday, September 24th, 2021
The CIA enlists the most improbable of assassins to rid Chile of its democratically elected president in Mark Wilding’s edge-of-your-seat hilarious Our Man In Santiago, an incisively directed, pitch-perfectly performed World Premiere from Theatre West.
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DURANG!
Wednesday, August 11th, 2021Christopher Durang reveals his trademark outlandishness times four at Studio/Stage this month in Mmmkay Productions and Crown City Theatre Company’s Durang!, a quartet wild and crazy Hollywood Fringe Festival one-acts, directed with pizzazz by Kristin Towers-Rowles.
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WAITING
Sunday, July 25th, 2021Live performances have returned to the Atwater Village Theatre for the first time in over sixteen months, and though I’m not quite sure what to make of Daniel A. Olivas’s absurdist comedy Waiting, at the very least the latest Playwrights’ Arena World Premiere serves as a taste of what lies ahead.
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THE $5 SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
Saturday, February 8th, 2020
Aficionados of L.A.’s intimate theater scene will find themselves in 99-seat heaven at The $5 Shakespeare Company, Matthew Leavitt’s ever so clever, ever so delightful World Premiere backstage comedy gem.
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