MURDER ON THE LINKS
Monday, October 28th, 2024
Playwright Steven Dietz has taken Agatha Christie’s 1923 whodunnit Murder On The Links and adapted it as a rollicking, tongue-in-cheek six-actor farce that only the most diehard Christie purist could fail to love.
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Sunday, October 20th, 2024
Inspired direction, pitch-perfect performances, and a gorgeous production design combine to make Antaeus Theatre Company’s 2024 season opener about as perfect a The Importance Of Being Earnest as any Oscar Wilde lover could wish for.
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JANE AUSTEN IN 89 MINUTES
Monday, September 30th, 2024
Jane Austen fans are guaranteed to go gaga for Jane Austen In 89 Minutes, Syrie James’s deliciously clever retelling of every single novel Jane ever published, now getting a scintillatingly performed World Premiere production at Theatre 40.
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MEDEA COMES TO OUR TOWN
Tuesday, August 27th, 2024Euripides’ murderous mama visits Thornton Wilder’s iconic New England burg in the aptly titled Medea Comes To Our Town, and if you’re a theater trivia whiz who loves the two aforementioned playwrights equally, Tony Foster’s clever mashup of their chefs-d’oeuvre will be right up your alley. I enjoyed most of it quite a lot.
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THE HISPANIC/LATINO/LATINA/LATINX/LATINÉ VOTE
Monday, August 26th, 2024
If pre-election worries have got you feeling all angsty about November 5, then head on over to Theatricum Botanicum for The Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latiné Vote, Bernardo Cubría’s couldn’t-be-more-topical-or-entertaining cure for the pre-election blues.
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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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