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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JOCASTA: A MOTHERF**KING TRAGEDY
Sunday, January 13th, 2019Technical marvels and some inventive directorial touches aren’t enough to rescue The Ghost Road Company’s Jocasta: A Motherf**king Tragedy from its performance-artsy approach to Greek tragedy and its lackluster lead.
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WINK
Saturday, December 29th, 2018Casting a non-binary actor as a non-binary protagonist merits snaps, but the two-hour suspension of disbelief required of an audience by Neil Koenigsberg’s Wink sinks whatever good intentions may have prompted its playwright to put fingertips to keyboard.
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FINKS
Tuesday, November 27th, 2018
Joe McCarthy’s Communist witch hunts and the ensuing Hollywood blacklist may have seemed misty water-colored memories of sixty-year-old injustices when Joe Gilford’s Finks made its off-Broadway debut in the Obama-era early 2010s. Such is not the case a half dozen-years later, just one of many reasons not to miss its searing Los Angeles Premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre.
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