CLOWNFISH
Saturday, July 16th, 2022Playwright Amy Dellagiarino’s script shows considerable promise, but her Theatre of NOTE World Premiere comedy Clownfish would work a whole lot better had the director reined in one particularly over-the-top performance (and those around it in the play’s frenetic midsection).
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COCK
Thursday, June 16th, 2022
A young man finds himself torn between two lovers, one male and one female, in Mike Bartlett’s provocative comedic four-hander Cock, one of the most impressively staged and performed productions I’ve seen at Hollywood Fringe since the festival was inaugurated back in 2010.
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THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA MCBRIDE
Monday, June 13th, 2022
A soon-to-be legendary Florida Panhandle drag queen lights up the stage in International City Theatre’s supremely entertaining production of Matthew Lopez’s 2016 off-Broadway comedy smash The Legend Of Georgia McBride.
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KING OF THE YEES
Sunday, May 29th, 2022
Sierra Madre Playhouse is back in business with Lauren Yee’s affectionate, affecting, winningly amusing tribute to her Chinese-American dad in King Of The Yees.
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UNTITLED BABY PLAY
Friday, May 27th, 2022Performances are impeccable (and laughs are abundant, at least in Act One), but by the time Laila Ayad, Anna Rose Hopkins, Courtney Sauls, Sonal Shah, Jenny Soo, and Sarah Utterback finally take their bows (at close to 11:00 p.m. on Opening Night), a more suitable title for Nina Braddock’s Untitled Baby Play would be Interminable Baby Play.
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THE PLAY’S THE THING
Monday, May 23rd, 2022There’s a reason why so-called “old chestnuts” are rarely revived, evidence of which can be found in Theatre 40’s mostly sluggish 2022 revival of Ferenc Molnar’s 1920s chestnut The Play’s The Thing.
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GOD OF CARNAGE
Sunday, May 22nd, 2022
Yasmina Reza’s God Of Carnage has returned to Los Angeles eleven years after it broke Ahmanson box office records, this time round at the Odyssey Theatre, an intimate setting that better suits Reza’s hilariously edgy comedy of manners (and lack thereof), terrifically performed by a crackerjack ensemble of four.
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BUYER & CELLAR
Monday, April 4th, 2022
Mike Millan and Barbra Streisand share the Broadwater Second Stage in Jonathan Tolins’ deliciously dishy Buyer & Cellar, Celebration Theatre’s long awaited return to live-and-in-person programming.
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