AFTERGLOW
Saturday, May 7th, 2022
Can an open marriage survive if one husband embarks on a sexual relationship with one of the couple’s occasional bed guests? This is the provocative question posed by playwright S. Asher Gelman in Afterglow, a surefire seat-filler thanks to its extended softcore sex scenes early on but a West Coast Premiere whose real dramatic fire begins once the clothes have come back on.
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THE EFFECT
Saturday, May 7th, 2022
Paul Rush delivers one of the most electrifying performances I’ve seen this past year opposite a captivating, compelling Jackie Jandrell in Sixty-Six Productions’ Los Angeles Premiere of Lucy Prebble’s The Effect.
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A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2
Tuesday, April 19th, 2022Impeccably acted by a admirably diverse cast, Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2 would be another all-around International City Theatre winner if its midsection didn’t get bogged down in a talky rehashing of past events.
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ANNA IN THE TROPICS
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
Illicit passions set a Florida cigar factory aflame in Nilo Cruz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anna Of The Tropics, the dramatic latest from A Noise Within.
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ON THE OTHER HAND WE’RE HAPPY
Monday, March 14th, 2022
On The Other Hand We’re Happy, Daf James’ insightful look at a British couple’s efforts to adopt, not only marks an exciting return for Rogue Machine, it’s a perfect example of a story best told, not as a movie or miniseries, but on a nearly bare stage with just three remarkable actors bringing at least twice as many characters to vivid life.
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POWER OF SAIL
Saturday, February 19th, 2022
The consequences are catastrophic when a respected Ivy League professor invites an infamous white nationalist to speak at Harvard in Paul Grellong’s Power Of Sail, a powerhouse Geffen Playhouse West Coast Premiere sure to have audiences talking long after the lights go out, and not just because of Bryan Cranston’s riveting lead performance and Amy Brenneman’s fiery featured turn.
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THE CHILDREN
Sunday, November 28th, 2021Its Best Play Tony nomination aside, I found Fountain Theatre’s Los Angeles Premiere of Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children to be a depressing, upsetting downer.
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PARADISE BLUE
Saturday, November 20th, 2021
A nightclub owner haunted by a lifetime of demons meets a woman who spells “trouble” with a capital T in Dominique Morisseau’s Paradise Blue, the kind of noir Hollywood could have made back in the late 1940s but didn’t, an explosive West Coast Premiere at the Geffen.
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