SHREW!
Wednesday, April 4th, 2018Amy Freed returns to South Coast Repertory with another hit-or-miss (but mostly miss) World Premiere comedy, this time a purportedly feminist take on William Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew retitled simply Shrew!
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AKUMA-SHIN
Sunday, April 1st, 2018Terrific performances and an ingenious production design cannot salvage the perplexing jumble that is Kenley Smith’s big-ideas sci-fi-parody-fantasy-thriller black comedy Akuma-Shin, a Sacred Fools Theater Company World Premiere, any more than its cast of characters—Dr. Joyce Brothers, William F. Buckley, Jr., Truman Capote, and Norman Mailer among them—are able to save Tokyo from Godzilla.
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LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR
Saturday, March 24th, 2018
Neil Simon takes us back to 1953 when Sid Caesar’s Your Show Of Shows ruled the airwaves in Laughter On The 23rd Floor, his 1993 Broadway valentine to TV’s early years now getting a sensationally directed and performed Toluca Lake revival at The Garry Marshall Theatre.
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BINGO HALL
Saturday, March 17th, 2018A high school boy navigating unrequited feelings for a female best friend while making college plans either to stay close to home or to travel thousands of miles away is a tale, if not as old as time, at least as ancient as the John Hughes 1980s, but it feels fresh and new when the high schooler in question has only ever known life on a New Mexico Indian reservation in Dillon Chitto’s World Premiere comedy Bingo Hall.
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EL NIÑO
Tuesday, March 6th, 2018
No one mines more laughs from dysfunction than Justin Tanner, and if you don’t believe me, check out the latest from the playwright who gave the world Voice Lessons, Teen Girl, Oklahomo!, Space Therapy and more, and whose latest, El Niño, proves the perfect Rogue Machine follow-up to the darkness and depravity of Ruth Fowler’s bled for the household truth.
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THE GRADUATE
Monday, March 5th, 2018
Melanie Griffith delivers a superstar turn as befits a Best Actress Oscar nominee, director Michael Matthews once again proves himself an L.A. theater superstar, and newcomer Nick Tag reveals emerging-star power in Laguna Playhouse’s The Graduate, a production so stellar you might just think you’re seeing a Broadway show.
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IRONBOUND
Saturday, February 10th, 2018
A dark cloud may seem to follow Polish immigrant Darja across New Jersey, but that doesn’t stop Marin Ireland from lighting up the stage like nobody’s business in the West Coast Premiere of Martyna Majok’s astringently funny, surprisingly affecting Ironbound, now getting a superb West Coast Premiere with its original off-Broadway leading lady joining it for its five-week visit to L.A.
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THE HOTHOUSE
Saturday, January 27th, 2018
The nuts are running the nuthouse in the darkly comedic, rarely performed Harold Pinter gem that is the latest from Antaeus Theatre Company, written when Pinter was a mere twenty-seven but shelved till he turned fifty, and perhaps more than any other partner-cast Antaeus gem before it, one that truly merits a second visit.
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