SUCH SMALL HANDS
Sunday, March 9th, 2025
Adam Szymkowicz writes writes about Alzheimer’s from a spouse/caretaker’s point of view and does so with humor, compassion, and perception in Such Small Hands, a powerful Chance Theater World Premiere.
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BACON
Tuesday, February 25th, 2025
Wesley Guimarães and Jack Lancaster deliver a pair of searing star turns as 19-year-old Londoners with an explosive shared past history in Sophie Swithinbank’s Bacon, brilliantly reconceived by director Michael Matthews for its West Coast Premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre.
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FOUR WOMEN IN RED
Sunday, February 23rd, 2025The missing and murdered Indigenous women Laura Shamas writes about in Four Women In Red deserve a better play and production than the latest Victory Theatre World Premiere.
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I WANT A COUNTRY
Monday, February 10th, 2025
Eleven characters in search of a land they can call home meet a director with a singular vision in Greek playwright Andreas Flourakis’s remarkably topical I Want A Country, the latest from City Garage Theatre.
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THE BROTHERS ABELSON SINCE 1946
Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
Dramatic fireworks explode when a 26-year-old New York-based graphic novelist is summoned back to the family home in Dennis Danziger’s powerful autobiographical three-hander The Brothers Abelson Since 1942, a guest production at Venice’s Electric Lodge.
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THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME
Tuesday, January 21st, 2025
CCAE Theatricals’ acclaimed production of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time has arrived at the Lewis Family Playhouse to dazzle audiences with a spectacular mix of thrilling storytelling, superb performances, and dazzling multimedia magic.
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Sunday, January 19th, 2025Panic! Productions’ midsize revival of Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman fails to live up to Salesman’s reputation as the playwright’s greatest achievement due to a combination of inappropriate casting, ineffective direction, and snail-slow pacing on the Colony Theatre stage.
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DRY LAND
Friday, November 22nd, 2024
Dry Land, Ruby Rae Spiegel’s darkly comic, graphically disturbing off-off-Broadway play about a high school swimmer desperate to terminate her unwanted pregnancy by whatever means possible, returns to Los Angeles in an impressive limited-run guest production at the Atwater Village Theatre.
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