TWO MILE HOLLOW
Monday, October 29th, 2018Anton Chekhov meets Aaron Spelling in Leah Nanako Winkler’s Two Mile Hollow, an Artists At Play World Premiere whose first act is so deliciously, risk-takingly hilarious, one can’t help wishing there were about a quarter-hour less of Act Two.
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VIETGONE
Saturday, October 27th, 2018
Romantic comedy lovers are in for a treat as a couple of Vietnamese evacuees in an Arkansas refugee camp circa 1975 fall reluctantly in love in Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone, one of East West Players’ all-around best productions in years.
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ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
Sunday, October 14th, 2018
Tom Stoppard ponders the absurdity of life and the inevitability of death in his existentialist comedy classic Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, the thrillingly staged if occasionally inscrutable latest from A Noise Within.
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REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES
Saturday, October 13th, 2018
Real women not only have curves, they join forces to bring audiences a female-fueled revival of Josefina López’s Real Women Have Curves, a Garry Marshall Theatre crowd-pleaser if there ever was one.
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VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE
Monday, October 8th, 2018
Squabbling siblings have rarely inspired as much laughter as they do in Christopher Durang’s scrumdiddlyumptious 2013 Best Play Tony winner Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike, now being given a bang-up big-stage production at South Coast Repertory.
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AMERICAN HERO
Saturday, October 6th, 2018
Times are tough for the heroic “sandwich artists” of Bess Wohl’s absurdist, existentialist, surrealist, and non-stop hilarious American Hero, the latest Los Angeles Premiere from IAMA Theatre Company.
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SHOWPONY
Saturday, September 29th, 2018
Workplace tensions explode when the acquisition of an African-American-owned company by a major New York advertising agency adds racial sparks to already rampant sexism in Judith Leora’s scathingly funny World Premiere comedy Showpony, the latest from Burbank’s Victory Theatre Center.
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THE RESCUED
Saturday, September 22nd, 2018
Abuse survivors living in a group home would seem unlikely to inspire a comedy as sweet and touching and funny as Julie Marie Myatt’s The Rescued, but the Road Theatre Company’s latest World Premiere proves an utterly charming if still-a-bit-in-need-of-a polish gem.
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