PERFECT TIMING
Thursday, December 3rd, 2015
Audiences in search of a perfectly marvelous time at the theater could hardly make a more perfect choice than the latest from Theatre 40, Kristi Kane’s Perfect Timing, a play so perfectly delightful that you’d expect it had run a decade or more on London’s West End and not a mere six months in Van Nuys way back in the mid-80s before fading into unjust obscurity.
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ETHAN CLAYMORE
Saturday, November 28th, 2015
A handsome young widower, a pretty new schoolteacher in town, a matchmaking neighbor, and a just-deceased older brother who’s been given one last chance to make amends in the few remaining days between now and Christmas add up to a crowd-pleasing holiday romcom as Little Fish Theater treats South Bay audiences to Norm Foster’s Ethan Claymore.
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OUTSIDE MULLINGAR
Saturday, November 21st, 2015
A couple of long-feuding Irish neighbors find themselves moonstruck in John Patrick Shanley’s delightfully quirky romantic comedy Outside Mullingar, now charming audiences at the Geffen Playhouse.
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THE FEAST
Sunday, November 15th, 2015
A suddenly meatless world serves as the pretext for what well may be the most bizarre dinner party in the history of contemporary theater in Celine Song’s absurdist black comedy The Feast, now being given a terrific Los Angeles New Court Theatre L.A. Premiere in precisely the kind of DTLA loft-with-view in which said dinner party might actually take place.
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CAKE
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015
The lives of nine college town residents intersect in Wendy Gough Soroka’s World Premiere comedy Cake, the latest from Theatre Unleashed and a crowd-pleaser despite its unnecessarily lengthy scene changes.
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NEED TO KNOW
Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
Among the many advantages to New York City living, moving in next door to a man like Mark Manners is not one of them, or so a couple of L.A.-to-NYC transplants discover in Jonathan Caren’s seductively suspenseful comedy Need To Know, now getting a world-class World Premiere at Rogue Machine.
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VIETGONE
Thursday, October 15th, 2015
A couple of Vietnamese evacuees fall in love in an Arkansas refugee camp circa 1975 in Qui Nguyen’s rap-fueled, manga-spiced, profanity-packed Vietgone, now getting an electrifyingly innovative and ultimately quite powerful World Premiere at South Coast Repertory.
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