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DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA

Friday, September 7th, 2007

In a city where most plays run 6 weeks or less, The Elephant Theater’s
production of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, John Patrick Shanley’s
unexpected love story of two very lost and damaged souls, has become a real
L.A. theater phenomenon. Recipient of the very hard-to-get L.A. Times “Critics
Choice,” Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, now in its fifth sold-out month, has
been extended yet again, through October. Last night I found out why.
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MATTER OF HONOR

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

Near the beginning of Michael J. Chepiga’s Matter of Honor, the audience at
the Pasadena Playhouse is plunged into darkness. We hear a loud noise, like a
powerful echoing drumbeat, then a series of cries. A beating is taking place. We
know from that moment that we are in for a theatrical experience very much
out of ordinary.
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CALLING APHRODITE

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Beauty is at the heart of Velina Hasu Houston’s new play Calling Aphrodite,
currently having its world premiere production at Long Beach’s International
City Theatre. Beauty as something divine, beauty as a thing to be envied,
beauty as something destroyed by war, beauty as a sign of hope.
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