MÉNAGE À QUATRE
Sunday, July 27th, 2025
What would you do if you found out that your spouse and your longtime best friend were having an affair? What if so happened that your spouse’s illicit lover was her own bff as well? These questions and more are posed and answered to terrifically entertaining effect in Peter Lefcourt’s Ménage À Quatre, the prolific L.A. playwright’s best new comedy since 2015’s Café Society.
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OUTSIDE MULLINGAR
Sunday, June 22nd, 2025
Playwright John Patrick Shanley has rarely been as quirkily charming as he is in his tangy Irish comedy Outside Mullingar, now in the final weekend of a scrumdiddlyumptious The 6th Act revival at the Matrix.
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FOSTERED
Tuesday, June 17th, 2025
A soap opera’s worth of family secrets and lies come to hilarious life in Chaya Doswell’s Fostered, the Ken Ludwig-worthy farce now tickling audiences’ funny bones at Venice’s Pacific Resident Theatre.
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THE ANGEL NEXT DOOR
Saturday, June 14th, 2025
The stakes are sky-high when an about-to-be-published young novelist discovers that the inspiration for his debut opus may not be The Angel Next Door he’s imagined her to be in the Los Angeles Premiere of Paul Slade Smith’s latest comedic bonbon, a surefire late-spring hit for International City Theatre.
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HARVEY
Saturday, May 31st, 2025
Mary Chase’s 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy classic about a man and an invisible six-foot-one-and-a-half-inch-tall rabbit called Harvey returns 81 years after its Broadway debut to close out Whittier Community Theatre’s 101st season on a delightfully (and thought-provokingly) winning note.
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BECKY’S NEW CAR
Sunday, May 18th, 2025
Great play. Great direction. Great cast. Great design. Theatre 40’s intimate revival of Becky’s New Car, Steven Dietz’s unorthodox look at marital devotion and extramarital hanky-panky has everything it takes to make it one of Theatre 40’s most all-around fabulous productions in years.
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NOISES OFF
Saturday, February 8th, 2025
Westwood’s esteemed Geffen Playhouse and Chicago’s illustrious Steppenwolf Theatre Company join creative forces to give L.A. audiences a fabulously entertaining revival of what may well be the most inventive and uproarious farce ever written, Michael Frayn’s Noises Off.
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FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT
Friday, February 7th, 2025Multiple mistaken identities, a slew of slammed doors, and plenty of physical comedy spark Larissa FastHorse’s hilarious if not quite fabulous World Premiere satiric culture-clash farce Fake It Until You Make It at the Mark Taper Forum.
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