THE 39 STEPS
Monday, August 19th, 2024
South Pasadena Theatre Workshop treats audiences to 75 minutes of virtually nonstop laughter in their somewhat abridged take on Patrick Barlow’s masterful four-actor stage adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s movie version of John Buchan’s spy classic The 39 Steps.
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TARTUFFE: BORN AGAIN
Tuesday, August 13th, 2024
That Bible-thumping scoundrel Tartuffe is once again bound and determined to rob a wealthy family blind, albeit this time in the big-haired, big-shouldered 1980s, in Tartuffe: Born Again, Freyda Thomas’s Baton Rouge-set translation of the 1664 Moliere classic, now tickling audience funny bones under Topanga skies at Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum.
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HUMAN ERROR
Sunday, August 11th, 2024
A fertility clinic snafu wreaks hilarious havoc on the lives of two married couples, one Red State, one Blue State, in Rogue Machine Theatre’s Los Angeles Premiere of Eric Pfeffinger’s smart, topical, and very, very funny Human Error.
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CLUE
Thursday, August 1st, 2024
Audiences craving a cure for the summertime blues need look no further than Clue, eighty minutes of nonstop whodunit hilarity presented Live On Stage at the Ahmanson.
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THE SPY WHO WENT INTO REHAB
Tuesday, July 9th, 2024
A debonair British secret agent faces his evilest and most nefarious foe, i.e., his own alcohol, nicotine, gambling, and sex addictions (with anger issues thrown in for good measure), in Gregg Ostrin’s deliciously clever, fiendishly funny The Spy Who Went Into Rehab, the latest from Pacific Resident Theatre.
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DESIGN FOR LIVING
Sunday, July 7th, 2024An Americanized trio of romantic protagonists and a gay subtext made explicit are two reasons Odyssey Theatre Ensemble’s provocative but problematic staging of Noël Coward’s Design For Living is a far cry from the one Broadway audiences first discovered back in 1933.
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SEMINAR
Saturday, June 29th, 2024
Theresa Rebeck’s darkly comedic, dramatically potent Seminar gives five talented L.A. actors the chance to dazzle under Jeremy Luke’s razor-sharp direction at North Hollywood’s Theatre 68.
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THE OUTSIDER
Monday, June 24th, 2024
Things get hilariously out of hand when the seemingly ineffectual lieutenant governor of an unnamed state suddenly finds himself the man in charge in Paul Slade Smith’s The Outsider, a front-runner for the year’s funniest and smartest comedic treat.
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