BLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA
Friday, March 15th, 2019Playwright Inda Craig-Galván puts a personal face on a national epidemic in Black Super Hero Magic Mama, a Geffen Playhouse that scores points for originality provided you’re a fan of Marvel/DC blockbusters.
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FOR THE LOVE OF (OR, THE ROLLER DERBY PLAY)
Monday, March 11th, 2019With director Rhonda Kohl choreographing like you’ve never seen a play choreographed before, it’s perhaps no wonder CTG picked Theatre Of NOTE’s For The Love Of (Or, The Roller Derby Play) to open year’s Block Party at the Kirk Douglas despite its overly familiar coming-of-age love story and a two-and-a-half-hour running time that could stand some significant snips.
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CANYON
Saturday, March 2nd, 2019
Memories of the way we were pre-Election 2016 ignite Jonathan Caren’s Canyon, the explosive latest from IAMA Theatre Company, Latino Theater Company, and the playwright who gave IAMA its much-awarded The Recommendation a half-dozen or so years back.
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THE JUDAS KISS
Monday, February 25th, 2019
What he did for love. What he sacrificed for love. What he suffered for love. Playwright David Hare asks audiences to ponder whether Oscar Wilde’s unconditional devotion to Lord Alfred Douglas was worth the years of pain he endured in The Judas Kiss, the powerful, provocative latest from The Theatre @ Boston Court.
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THE MOUNTAINTOP
Saturday, February 9th, 2019
America’s greatest civil rights leader spends the last night of his life with a sultry, saucy motel maid in Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop, a concept likely to rile those who prefer to remember Dr. Martin Luther King as a sin-and-vice-free saint, but one that makes for gripping, thought-provoking dramatic sparks at the Garry Marshall Theatre just in time for Black History Month 2019.
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LAST CALL
Monday, February 4th, 2019
Anne Kenney is hardly the first writer to tackle the issues confronting adult children of aging parents but her theatrical debut, Last Call, an Open Fist Theatre Company World Premiere, is as perceptive and powerful as family dramas get.
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IT IS DONE
Friday, February 1st, 2019
Sparks fly in the most horrifyingly unexpected of ways in a seedy bar ninety miles from nowhere in Alex Goldberg’s edge-of-your-seat chiller It Is Done, the risk-taking latest from Beverly Hills’ venerable Theatre 40.
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DEATH HOUSE
Saturday, January 19th, 2019
What starts off as a capital punishment-vs.-life imprisonment debate develops into something considerably deeper and more powerful in Jason Karasev’s profoundly moving Death House, a Road Theatre Company World Premiere.
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