SKELETON CREW
Friday, June 15th, 2018
If Arthur Miller had written a play about auto workers facing the personal and professional consequences of a possible plant closure, it might have been Skeleton Crew, which is about the highest praise I can bestow upon Dominique Morisseau’s powerful blue-collar drama, now making a breathtakingly designed, directed, and performed Geffen Playhouse debut.
TAR
Sunday, June 10th, 2018
L.A.’s fabled Bimini Hot Springs and Sanitarium (1903-1956) provide the backdrop for Tom Jacobson’s The Ballad of Bimini Baths trilogy, the prolific Angelino playwright’s most ambitious project to date, and if the Playwrights’ Arena World Premiere Tar is any indication of what Plunge and Mexican Day hold in store, audiences are in for an exhilarating, elucidating three-part treat.
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ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST
Friday, June 1st, 2018
The audience is locked up side by side with the loonies in After Hours Theatre Company’s über-immersive One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, and if Dale Wasserman’s stage adaptation of Ken Kessey’s novel isn’t ideally served by this you-are-there approach or the production’s younger-than-written crazies, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest The Experience is a theatrical adventure you won’t want to miss.
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HOSTAGE
Tuesday, May 29th, 2018
A Wisconsin mother visits her captive son at the height of the Iran Hostage Crisis in Michelle Kholos Brooks’ compelling, eye-opening, fact-based World Premiere drama Hostage, the latest from Skylight Theatre Company.
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SPRING AWAKENING
Thursday, May 24th, 2018
A century before Spring Awakening The Musical took Broadway by storm (and won eight Tony awards in the bargain), German playwright Frank Wedekind shocked and outraged audiences on both sides of the Atlantic with Frühlings Erwachen, whose 2007 Jonathan Franzen translation proves a sensational UCLA Department Of Theater showcase for its director, designers, and cast.
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WOOD BOY DOG FISH
Sunday, May 20th, 2018
Wood Boy Dog Fish, Rogue Artists Ensemble’s deliciously twisted take on Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio has moved uptown and upscale from the Bootleg to Toluca Lake, terrific news for those who like their fairy tales dark and dirty and theatrically magical.
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THE BABY DANCE: MIXED
Sunday, May 6th, 2018
Playwright Jane Anderson factors in race to her 1991 hit The Baby Dance’s already heady mix of adoption and class to give 2018 audiences a play distinct enough from its source material to merit World Premiere status, Rubicon Theatre Company’s compelling, talk-provoking The Baby Dance: Mixed.
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CARDBOARD PIANO
Saturday, May 5th, 2018
War and homophobia wreak havoc on the lives of an overseas missionary couple’s teenage daughter, her Ugandan girlfriend, and the outwardly maimed, inwardly wounded 13-year-old soldier who interrupts their impromptu wedding ceremony one dark and devastating night in Hansol Jung’s Cardboard Piano, the gut-punching latest from International City Theatre.
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