METEOR SHOWER
Saturday, November 25th, 2023
Leave it to “a wild and crazy guy” like Steve Martin to write a wild and crazy play like Meteor Shower, the deliciously quirky, stealthily surreal hour-long gem now tickling audiences at San Pedro’s Little Fish Theatre.
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A FAMILY BUSINESS
Saturday, November 18th, 2023
All hell breaks loose when a dating couple and two sets of parents get together for the first time in A Family Business, Matt Chait’s thoroughly entertaining follow-up to Bearings, which won the playwright a 2022-2023 Best Of The Year Scenie.
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LOVE AMONG THE RUINS
Monday, October 9th, 2023
Star power lights up the El Portal stage in Love Among The Ruins, as delectable an evening or afternoon of live theater as any playgoer could wish for.
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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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