LIFE SUCKS
Sunday, October 8th, 2023
Uncle Vanya has probably never made audiences laugh as loudly and as often as he and his fellow Chekhovians do in Aaron Posner’s Life Sucks, the Stupid F***ing Bird playwright’s contemporary take on a 124-year-old Russian classic, now getting a fabulous Interact Theatre Company Los Angeles Premiere at the Broadwater Mainstage.
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ROOM SERVICE
Saturday, September 23rd, 2023Sluggish pacing drags down the Group Rep’s 2023 revival of John Murray and Allen Boretz’s Room Service despite a delightful first act and a number of snappy performances.
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DORIS AND IVY IN THE HOME
Monday, August 7th, 2023
Norm Foster invites audiences to spend a couple of hours with Doris And Ivy In The Home, the prolific Canadian playwright’s latest laugh-packed crowd-pleaser at Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40.
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CRABS IN A BUCKET
Saturday, July 29th, 2023
If Eugene Ionesco or Samuel Beckett were writing plays today, they might well have come up with something very much like Bernardo Cubría’s tangy absurdist comedy, Crabs In A Bucket, now getting its World Premiere at Echo Theater Company.
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INTO THE BREECHES!
Monday, June 12th, 2023
Playwright George Brant reinvigorates the backstage comedy with Into The Breeches!, his crowd-pleasing look at a theater company that refused to go under when its male actors went off to do battle in World War II.
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NO PLACE LIKE GANDERSHEIM
Sunday, May 28th, 2023A terrific cast score plenty of laughs in No Place Like Gandersheim, Elizabeth Dement’s time-traveling screwball feminist farce, but the Skylight Theatre World Premiere tries too hard to do too much for it to work the way it should.
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VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE
Monday, May 22nd, 2023
Christopher Durang’s trio of hilariously squabbling siblings are back (along with a sexy boy toy named Spike) in Pacific Resident Theatre’s winning take on Vanya And Sonia And Masha And Spike.
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THE BOTTOMING PROCESS
Friday, May 19th, 2023Nicholas Pilapil’s The Bottoming Process may start off as an engaging contemporary gay romcom in the same vein as Fire Island and Bros but what it ends up being is a playwright’s rancor-fueled diatribe.
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