“Master Harold”…and the boys
Saturday, April 18th, 2026The miscasting of 31-year-old Ben Beatty as the teenage title character of Athol Fugard’s “Master Harold”…and the boys derails the Geffen Playhouse production of the South African writer’s most celebrated play in ways that even the magnificent John Kani can’t overcome.
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CLARA VS. INFINITY
Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Peter and the Starcatcher. And now Zack Rocklin-Waltch’s Clara vs. Infinity. Plays don’t get any more extraordinary than these.
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ENGLISH
Saturday, April 11th, 2026
You don’t have to have made a lifetime career out of teaching English to speakers of other languages as I have to be blown away by the Broadway production of Sanaz Toossi’s extraordinary Pulitzer Prize-winning play English, now paying a must-see visit to The Wallis in Beverly Hills.
THE MESSENGER
Monday, April 6th, 2026Real-life Holocaust survivor Georgia Gabor’s life is interwoven with those of three fictional women created by playwright Jenny Connell Davis in The Messenger, an impressively acted and staged Chance Theater production best suited to those who don’t mind being reminded how much hate there is in the world.
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DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Monday, March 30th, 2026
Geoff Elliott’s magnificent star turn as Willy Loman, nearly a dozen impeccable supporting performances, and inspired direction and design by an all-star A Noise Within team add up to as brilliant a revival of Death Of A Salesman as any Arthur Miller aficionado could ever hope to see.
THE DIGNITY CIRCLE
Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
If someone offered you the chance to get rich quick and improve your self-esteem in the bargain, would you take it? That’s the question posed by playwright Lauren Smerkanich in The Dignity Circle, the provocative, entertaining latest from Theatre of NOTE.
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HONOUR
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026A husband’s midlife crisis gives Marcia Cross and Matt Letscher the chance to show off their considerable acting chops, but Joanna Murray-Smith’s Honour, the first production to be staged in Ruskin Group Theatre’s gorgeous new home, proves a rather chilly affair given the play’s potentially fiery subject matter.
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ALL MY SONS
Monday, March 2nd, 2026
An absolutely sensational Antaeus Theatre Company cast under the inspired direction of Oanh Nguyen make it abundantly clear why many like this reviewer consider Arthur Miller’s All My Sons (and not his more celebrated and revived Death Of A Salesman) his masterwork.
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