BEAST ON THE MOON
Saturday, August 24th, 2019Richard Kalinsoki’s Beast On The Moon may have been performed in over twenty countries and translated into nineteen languages, but its latest incarnation at International City Theatre reveals flaws both in the play itself and in the production now on stage in Long Beach.
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FRANKENSTEIN
Sunday, August 18th, 2019
Playwright Nick Dear humanizes the monster commonly if incorrectly known as Frankenstein in his 2011 stage adaptation of the Mary Shelley classic, an A Noise Within season opener as compelling as it is unexpectedly poignant.
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DOPE QUEENS
Saturday, August 17th, 2019Dope Queens, Grafton Doyle’s seamy dissection of the go-nowhere lives of three drug-addicted, fresh-out-of-prison LGBTQ street walkers (two of them gender non-conforming POCs and one a GWM) is not just a major downer, it’s an overwrought, all-over-the-place two-acter that overstays its welcome by at least half an hour.
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AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE
Monday, August 5th, 2019Ellen Geer updates Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy Of The People to 1980 and Americanizes it to South Fork, South Carolina in a problematic World Premiere adaptation that would probably work better if its Theatricum Botanicum cast didn’t have a week off between each performance.
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APPLE SEASON
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019
Childhood abuse survivors return to the Oregon farm they once called home in E.M. Lewis’s compact dramatic gem Apple Season, a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere now riveting audiences at Atwater Village Theatre.
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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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