AN UNDIVIDED HEART
Sunday, March 18th, 2018
Pedophile Catholic priests and toxic waste-dumping chemical plants form the backdrop of Yusuf Toropov’s An Undivided Heart, a Circle X. Theatre Co./Echo Theater Company World Premiere that despite occasional tonal inconsistency and lack of clarity proves a powerful indictment of church-and-corporation-sanctioned abuse.
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A RAISIN IN THE SUN
Monday, March 5th, 2018
A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry’s piercing look at racial discrimination, gender roles, family values, and burgeoning African-American identity in the pre-Civil Rights Era 1950s gets revived to powerful effect at Pasadena’s A Noise Within.
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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Sunday, March 4th, 2018
Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire undergoes a radical reinvention at The Theatre @ Boston Court where director Michael Michetti has transposed the seven-decade-old classic to 21st-century New Orleans to stunning effect.
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THE HAPPIEST SONG PLAYS LAST
Friday, February 23rd, 2018
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes concludes her deservedly acclaimed “Elliot Trilogy” with The Happiest Song Plays Last, its powerful Latino Theater Company California Premiere made momentous by the fact that Parts 1 at 2 are both currently playing in L.A.*
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THE CHOSEN
Wednesday, February 14th, 2018
Friendship has rarely felt so good or hurt so bad, nor have father-son relationships caused more joy or pain than they do in Chaim Potok’s exquisite coming-of-age novel The Chosen, adapted for the stage by Aaron Posner and Potok and now making an absolutely superb Fountain Theatre debut.
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ELLIOT, A SOLDIER’S FUGUE
Sunday, February 4th, 2018
Three generations of Marines serving in three different wars have their stories told in four distinct voices in Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, the first in Quiara Alegría Hudes’s acclaimed “Elliot Trilogy” now making a lyrically told, gorgeously staged, superbly acted Kirk Douglas Theatre debut.
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A DELICATE SHIP
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
Questions of “What if…” haunt the memories of the trio of 30somethings who propel Anna Ziegler’s A Delicate Ship, the latest dramatic sensation from North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company and a play that will stick with you long after its final fade to black.
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THE LAST WIFE
Saturday, January 20th, 2018A captivating Olivia Saccomanno rules the stage as Queen Katherine Parr in Kate Hennig’s fascinating feminist take on The Last Wife (of Henry VIII), now getting its Los Angeles Premiere at Theatre 40 in a production not quite ready for its Opening Night.
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