IT’S ONLY A PLAY
Monday, April 3rd, 2023
It’s theatrical heaven for Broadway buffs this month as Theatre 40 treats audiences to the venerable Beverly Hills company’s third surefire laugh-getter in a row, Terrence McNally’s It’s Only A Play.
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UNRIVALED
Sunday, March 26th, 2023I was often tickled but only occasionally engaged by the madcap antics and contemporary speak of the trio of 11th-century Japanese women whose friendship/enmity (frenmity?) Rosie Narasaki writes about in Unrivaled, now getting its World Premiere as a Boston Court Pasadena-Playwrights’ Arena co-production.
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PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE
Monday, March 13th, 2023
Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso square off to both whimsical and profound effect in Picasso At The Lapin Agile, Steve Martin’s delightful theatrical soufflé, now weaving its magic spell at the Ruskin Group Theatre.
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CARDENIO
Monday, March 13th, 2023Art imitates life as Stephen Greenblatt and Charles L. Mee imitate Shakespeare (albeit in contemporary prose) in Cardenio, and while the playwriting duo’s take on the Bard’s mismatched-lovers comedies is a bit hit-and-miss, its City Garage debut is nothing if not a feast for the eyes.
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LOVE AND INFORMATION
Saturday, March 4th, 2023
Eight actors play over a hundred characters in four dozen mostly comedic vignettes over the course of a briskly moving seventy-five minutes in Caryl Churchill’s Love and Information, the provocative, mind-blowing latest from Antaeus Theatre Company.
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INCIDENT AT OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
Tuesday, February 7th, 2023
Katie Forgette puts a 1970s blue-collar Irish-American Catholic comedic spin on the memory play in Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, the crowd-pleasing latest from Theatre 40.
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DO YOU FEEL ANGER?
Sunday, January 29th, 2023Mara Nelson–Greenberg takes #metoo rage to absurdist extremes in Circle X Theatre Company’s Do You Feel Anger?, a West Coast Premiere that starts out a major laugh getter (and stays that way for most of its ninety-minute running time), but ends up a major bummer the moment Nelson–Greenberg’s anti-male message gets sledgehammered in in the play’s suddenly surreal final scene.
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LITTLE THEATRE
Sunday, December 18th, 2022
Justin Tanner’s ’90s-nostalgia-filled autobiographical gem Little Theatre once again showcases the prolific playwright’s gift for out-of-left-field laughs, especially when delivered by a couldn’t-be-better trio of Rogue Machine stars.
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