VALLEY OF THE HEART
Thursday, November 8th, 2018Epic in scope, educational in intent, and exquisite in design, Luis Valdez’s Valley Of The Heart examines America’s WWII internment of its Japanese-American citizens and their foreign-born family members in ways both familiar (the Broadway musical Allegiance played L.A. just ten months ago) and original (our narrator is Mexican-American). If only the Zoot Suit playwright proved more adept at creating authentic-sounding dialog. If only Valley Of The Heart didn’t so often feel like Wikipedia on stage.
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THE LITTLE FOXES
Friday, October 26th, 2018
Lillian Hellman might have written The Little Foxes in post-Depression 1939, but her tale of the Alabama Hubbard clan’s quest for even more filthy lucre hasn’t aged a day, just one reason her three-act Southern-fried melodrama makes for an especially scrumptious Antaeus Theatre Company three-course meal.
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KINGS
Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
Rising playwright Sarah Burgess takes deadly aim at the political strings pulled by big-money-powered PACs in Kings, a South Coast Repertory West Coast Premiere as entertaining as it is riveting as it is cynical about the state of our nation.
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A SPLINTERED SOUL
Monday, October 22nd, 2018World War II Holocaust survivors and Los Angeles theater audiences deserve far better than the preposterously plotted 1940s B-movie melodramatics of Long Beach playwright Alan L. Brooks’ A Splintered Soul, a major misfire from the almost always stellar International City Theatre.
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EVERYTHING THAT NEVER HAPPENED
Monday, October 8th, 2018
Playwright Sarah B. Mantell rights centuries of wrong done Shakespeare’s Jessica, Lorenzo, and Shylock in The Theatre @ Boston Court’s adventurous, challenging Everything That Never Happened. But be forewarned and forearmed. The more familiar you are with its Merchant Of Venice protagonists, the greater the rewards of Mantell’s World Premiere romcom will be.
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26 PEBBLES
Friday, October 5th, 2018
Playwright Eric Ulloa puts a personal face on fourth-deadliest mass shooting by a single person in U.S. history and the deadliest ever at a high school or grade school in his riveting, touching, inspiring 26 Pebbles, Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40 at its most risk-taking and cutting-edge.
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ROPE
Monday, October 1st, 2018
Cohabitating young Londoners strangle a university classmate to death, hide the body in a living room trunk, then welcome the victim’s father, his aunt, a pair of fellow students, and the teacher whose beliefs inspired their cold-blooded act for a dinner soiree in Patrick Hamilton’s Rope, easily the darkest. deadliest, and most daring offering in Actors Co-op’s 27-year history.
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A PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
Sunday, September 30th, 2018
A Picture Of Dorian Gray, Michael Michetti’s spectacular take on the Oscar Wilde classic, is back, twelve years after its Theatre @ Boston Court debut, stunningly restaged by its director-adapter and easily the most provocative, boundary-pushing production ever to ignite the A Noise Within stage.
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