THE DOUBLE V
Monday, August 26th, 2024A little-known aspect of World War II-era African-American history is brought to life in Carole Eglash-Kosoff’s entertaining, elucidating, mostly successful The Double V, an International City Theatre World Premiere.
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CREVASSE
Saturday, July 27th, 2024
Adolph Hitler’s favorite filmmaker meets the man who made animated movie stars of Snow White, Pinocchio, and Bambi in Tom Jacobson‘s Crevasse, a fascinating, stunningly staged co-production of Son of Semele and The Victory Theatre Center.
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THE BAUHAUS PROJECT: BAUHAUS WEIMER
Saturday, July 20th, 2024Over the past two decades, Tom Jacobson has established himself as one of L.A.’s most adventurous and original playwrights, creating such risk-taking winners as Bunbury, Ouroboros, The Twentieth Century Way, and his extraordinary Bimini Baths Trilogy. I can’t, unfortunately, add Bauhaus Weimer, Part One of his World Premiere triptych The Bauhaus Project, to that list.
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THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE
Sunday, July 14th, 2024Five years after his acclaimed star turn as Willy Loman, Rob Morrow returns to the Ruskin Group Theatre in another powerhouse role, that of Holocaust survivor-turned-New York publisher Isaac Geldhart in Jon Robin Baitz’s The Substance Of Fire, a family drama unfortunately not in the same league as Death Of A Salesman.
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UNBROKEN BLOSSOMS
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024
Hollywood history comes alive at East West Players in Philip W. Chung’s Unbroken Blossoms, a fascinating and elucidating behind-the-scenes look at the silent movie classic that was Hollywood’s first interracial love story.
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THE SANDWICH MINISTRY
Sunday, June 30th, 2024Performances could hardly be better, but 65 minutes isn’t nearly long enough for playwright Miranda Rose Hall to fully flesh out her three protagonists or the issues raised in The Sandwich Ministry, now nearing the end of its run at the Skylight Theatre.
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BLACKBIRD
Sunday, June 16th, 2024
Dakota Wolf and Ron Hastings deliver powerhouse performances as a 20something woman and the decades-older man who had sex with her when she was only 12 in David Harrower’s Blackbird, a harrowing, disturbing, utterly compelling guest production at Anaheim’s Chance Theater.
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TWO STOP
Friday, May 24th, 2024
A Korean convenience store owner and a half-Black, half-Korean teen square off as the Los Angeles riots rage only blocks away in David Johann Kim’s you-are-there-on-the-edge-of-your-seat World Premiere drama Two Stop, the pulse-pounding latest from Ensemble Studio Theatre Los Angeles.
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