DRY LAND
Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
Fearless only begins to describe the performances being given by Teagan Rose and Connor Kelly-Eiding, the two extraordinary young stars of Ruby Rae Spiegel’s darkly comic, graphically disturbing Dry Land, now getting a riveting West Coast Premiere by The Echo Theater Company.
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A SINGULAR THEY
Monday, March 28th, 2016
Lily Nicksay gives one of this year’s most unforgettable performances as intersex teen Burbank, né Christine, in Aliza Goldstein’s engaging, conversation-starting A Singular They, now World Premiering at The Blank on Hollywood’s Theatre Row.
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GOING TO A PLACE WHERE YOU ALREADY ARE
Wednesday, March 16th, 2016
Questions of life and death and what awaits beyond lie at the heart of Bekah Brunstetter’s heartstrings-tugging Going to a Place where you Already Are, a South Coast Repertory World Premiere you will be talking and thinking about long after its final scene.
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ONLY THE MOON HOWLS
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
Star-crossed love gets a fresh new highly theatrical spin as Theatre Unleashed gives Dean Farell Bruggeman’s 50-minute Hollywood Fringe Festival gem, Only The Moon Howls, a thoroughly engaging first full staging.
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POCATELLO
Sunday, February 28th, 2016
Small lives matter in Pocatello, just as they do in all of Samuel D. Hunter’s “Idaho plays,” the latest of which now gets an impressive West Coast Premiere by the theater company that gave L.A. audiences Hunter’s equally memorable A Bright New Boise and A Permanent Image.
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BROKEN FENCES
Saturday, February 27th, 2016
The effects of urban gentrification on two Chicago couples, one upwardly mobile and white, the other financially challenged and black, are examined in Broken Fences, a Road Theatre Company World Premiere whose star performances and impressive production design largely overcome the tonal inconsistencies and missed opportunities of Steven Simoncic’s thought-provoking, often quite powerful script.
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COLONY COLLAPSE
Monday, February 22nd, 2016
Overambitious Colony Collapse may well be, and run about fifteen minutes longer than it should, but Stefanie Zadravec’s interweaving of five crisscrossing monologs with a realistic family drama plus a mysterious girl inhabiting a world of her own add up to a compelling World Premiere for The Theatre @ Boston Court, one sure to provoke much post-performance discussion with its themes of children gone missing, family relationships broken by drug-addiction, and a mysterious disease that has caused the death of over ten million North American bees in the past ten years.
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SALOME
Friday, February 12th, 2016RECOMMENDED
You may love it, you may hate it, you may leave the theater scratching your head and wondering “WTF was that about?” … but one thing is certain. There’s nothing else in town quite like the “militantly erotic epiphany for the 21st Century” that is Christopher Adams-Cohen’s Salome, the playwright/actor’s “radically queer reinvention of the ancient tale of [you guessed it] Salome.”
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