THE SOUND INSIDE
Tuesday, September 12th, 2023
Amy Brenneman delivers a bravura performance opposite gifted newcomer Anders Keith in Adam Rapp’s unnerving, electrifying The Sound Inside, a phenomenal season opener for the Tony-winning Pasadena Playhouse.
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BLOOD AT THE ROOT
Sunday, September 10th, 2023
Headline-making real-life events propel Dominique Morisseau’s hot-button Blood At The Root, an Open Fist Theatre Company Los Angeles Premiere given electrifying theatricality by director Michael A. Shepperd, choreographer Yusuf Nasir, and a cast of gifted young up-and-comers.
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WALKING IN SPACE
Saturday, September 9th, 2023
Four young adult siblings confront their drug-addicted mother to shattering effect in Walking In Space, Gary Michael Kruger’s powerful, fact-based follow-up to his Best-of-2016 winner A Thorn In The Family Paw.
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THE BLUEST EYE
Monday, September 4th, 2023Performances are uniformly topnotch and the A Noise Within season opener is imaginatively directed and stylishly designed. I only wish I had enjoyed Lydia R. Diamond’s undoubtedly faithful stage adaptation of Toni Morrison’s downer of a novel The Bluest Eye even half as much as the Grade A treatment it’s been given.
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KILL SHELTER: THE BLUE CAST
Saturday, September 2nd, 2023
Not only is Ashley Rose Wellman’s Kill Shelter one of the most remarkable new plays I’ve seen in a very long time, it’s the best Theatre of NOTE production I’ve reviewed since the company’s streak of winners in the mid-2010s.
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A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
Tuesday, August 29th, 2023
Arthur Miller and Santa Monica’s Ruskin Group Theatre once again prove a match made in heaven with A View From The Bridge, magnificently performed in an intimate staging that turns every single audience member into a fly on the wall of this gritty Greek tragedy set on the waterfront of 1950s Brooklyn.
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EXIT WOUNDS
Saturday, August 26th, 2023
A father at the end of his rope seeks help for his delinquent teenage son from a woman he hasn’t seen in twenty-five years in Wendy Graf’s compelling, cathartic family drama Exit Wounds, now getting an absorbing World Premiere at Long Beach’s International City Theatre.
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HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING
Sunday, August 20th, 2023
If the idea of spending two hours listening to Catholic conservatives inveigh against abortion, LGBT rights, and other left-wing causes sounds off-putting, think again.
There’s a reason why Will Arbery’s Heroes Of The Fourth Turning, now getting an absolutely sensational Rogue Machine Theatre Los Angeles Premiere, was a 2020 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Drama. There’s a reason why the New York Times called it “astonishing and riveting.”
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