STAY TUNED
Monday, December 19th, 2016Polish it may lack but laughs there are aplenty in Stay Tuned, Ryan Paul James’ amusing mash-up of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Orson Welles’ War Of The Worlds, Theatre 68’s holiday gift to North Hollywood and beyond.
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SNOWED INN
Monday, December 12th, 2016Love complications ensue when four couples find themselves stuck together under one roof in David Ewing’s overlong, only intermittently amusing romantic sitcom Snowed Inn, now getting its World Premiere engagement at NoHo’s El Portal Theatre.
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A TELENOVELA CHRISTMAS CAROL
Sunday, December 4th, 2016Imagine a bunch of East L.A. or Boyle Heights vecinos getting together to put on a Christmas show for friends and family and what you’ve got is A Telenovela Christmas Carol, Force Of Nature Productions’ unpolished but entertaining adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic Mexican soap opera-style.
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BOB’S HOLIDAY OFFICE PARTY
Friday, December 2nd, 2016
Let the beer chugging begin! Bob’s Holiday Office Party, the yuletide season’s side-splittingest antidote to yet another A Christmas Carol, Nutcracker, or It’s A Wonderful Life, is back in town for its 21st year of drunken Midwestern mayhem.
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KENTUCKY
Friday, November 18th, 2016Thomas Wolfe to the contrary, you can go home again. Just don’t expect to have fun once you’ve arrived, not if the family you’ve left behind in the Appalachians is as dysfunctional as Hiro’s in Leah Nanako Winkler’s Kentucky, an entertaining but hit-and-miss East West Players West Coast Premiere that could be a whole lot better without tonal shifts that take it back and forth from over-the-top sitcomish to authentically real.
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THE SUPER VARIETY MATCH BONUS ROUND!
Sunday, November 13th, 2016
Playwright Deb Hiett pokes gentle fun at the Red State-Blue State divide in her undeniably hilarious, unexpectedly moving, and utterly unique World Premiere comedy The Super Variety Match Bonus Round!, the latest from Rogue Machine Theatre.
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MilkMilkLemonade
Saturday, November 12th, 2016
An eleven-year-old girly boy named Emory, the barnyard chicken who’s his best friend, his caring but Leviticus-spouting granny, and the self-loathing, Emory-loving bad-boy-next-door add up to an hour-and-a-quarter of delightful, insightful, ultimately quite touching adult storybook fun in Joshua Conkel’s MilkMilkLemonade, the latest from Santa Ana’s Theatre Out.
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A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN NOVEMBER ON THE BANKS OF THE GREATEST OF THE GREAT LAKES
Friday, November 11th, 2016
There may indeed be “no place like home for the holidays,” but there’s surely never been a holiday home quite like the Wemblys’ in Kate Benson’s A Beautiful Day In November On The Banks Of The Greatest Of The Great Lakes, now getting a weird, wacky, wonderful West Coast Premiere at Hollywood’s Theatre Of NOTE.
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