THE SPANISH PRAYER BOOK
Saturday, September 21st, 2019The Road Theatre’s three-year streak of winners ends with Angela J. Davis’s convoluted, uninvolving The Spanish Prayer Book, the company’s 2019-2020 World Premiere season opener.
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THE SOLID LIFE OF SUGAR WATER
Friday, September 13th, 2019
Sex, described by its participants in the most graphic of terms, begins the recovery process for a young married couple in Jack Thorne’s The Solid Life Of Sugar Water, a provocative British two-hander made something quite special indeed when translated into American Sign Language and staged by Deaf West Theatre in its American Premiere.
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THE JOY LUCK CLUB
Tuesday, August 27th, 2019Sierra Madre Playhouse offers audiences a timely salute to the immigrant experience while exploring the generation/culture gap that separates four middle-aged Chinese women from their grown American daughters in an exquisitely staged and designed production of Susan Kim’s not entirely successful adaptation of Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club.
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BEAST ON THE MOON
Saturday, August 24th, 2019Richard Kalinsoki’s Beast On The Moon may have been performed in over twenty countries and translated into nineteen languages, but its latest incarnation at International City Theatre reveals flaws both in the play itself and in the production now on stage in Long Beach.
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FRANKENSTEIN
Sunday, August 18th, 2019
Playwright Nick Dear humanizes the monster commonly if incorrectly known as Frankenstein in his 2011 stage adaptation of the Mary Shelley classic, an A Noise Within season opener as compelling as it is unexpectedly poignant.
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DOPE QUEENS
Saturday, August 17th, 2019Dope Queens, Grafton Doyle’s seamy dissection of the go-nowhere lives of three drug-addicted, fresh-out-of-prison LGBTQ street walkers (two of them gender non-conforming POCs and one a GWM) is not just a major downer, it’s an overwrought, all-over-the-place two-acter that overstays its welcome by at least half an hour.
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AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
Monday, August 5th, 2019Ellen Geer updates Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy Of The People to 1980 and Americanizes it to South Fork, South Carolina in a problematic World Premiere adaptation that would probably work better if its Theatricum Botanicum cast didn’t have a week off between each performance.
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APPLE SEASON
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019
Childhood abuse survivors return to the Oregon farm they once called home in E.M. Lewis’s compact dramatic gem Apple Season, a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere now riveting audiences at Atwater Village Theatre.
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