GOOD BOYS
Monday, July 1st, 2019
An explicit sex tape involving a prep school jock and a young woman decidedly not his girlfriend sets off a chain of events that will forever change the lives of one entitled Washington DC family in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s suspenseful, provocative Good Boys, now riveting audiences at Pasadena Playhouse.
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ANNE, A NEW PLAY
Monday, June 17th, 2019
Anne Frank is alive and well and living in Paris when first we meet her in Anne, A New Play, Nick Blaemire’s trimmed-down adaptation of a 2014 Dutch-language hit whose powerful U.S. Premiere more than merits a visit to the Museum Of Tolerance.
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LADIES
Friday, June 14th, 2019An all-female creative team join forces to bring a quartet of mid-18th-century pre-feminist Englishwomen to sporadically intriguing but too often meandering 21st-century life in Kit Steinkellner’s Ladies, a Boston Court Pasadena World Premiere.
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SUCKER PUNCH
Wednesday, June 5th, 2019South London accents either too thick to be understood or virtually non-existent along with loads of British slang prove detrimental to Coeurage Theatre Company’s site-specific West Coast Premiere of Roy Williams’ Sucker Punch. So do view-blocking sight lines for certain audience members squeezed into the Tiger Boxing Gym just off Melrose.
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THE END OF BEAUTY
Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
Musings on art and beauty serve as an intellectual prelude to a provocative look at a marriage in crisis in Cory Hinkle’s The End Of Beauty, the latest Playwrights’ Arena World Premiere.
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THE CHRISTIANS
Saturday, June 1st, 2019
A bombshell announcement dropped one Sunday morning by the pastor of a major American megachurch threatens the future of the institution he has spent years building into mega-proportions in Lucas Hnath’s extraordinary 2014 drama The Christians, now getting a superb L.A.-cast production at Actors Co-op.
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BE A GOOD LITTLE WIDOW
Saturday, May 25th, 2019
Life presents unexpected challenges to a newlywed bride in Bekah Brunstetter’s gut-puncher of a dramedy Be A Good Little Widow, a particularly fine visiting production at West L.A.’s Odyssey Theatre.
M. BUTTERFLY
Monday, May 20th, 2019
Victor/Victoria’s gender-bending trickery pales in comparison to the deception perpetrated on M. Butterfly’s Rene Gallimard in David Henry Hwang’s 1988 Best Play Tony-winning rumination on race, gender, and sexuality, whose 2017 Broadway-revival rewrite now burns up the South Coast Repertory stage with two of the most powerful lead performances in town.
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