OUR TOWN
Saturday, November 29th, 2025The Group Rep takes us back to Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire circa 1901 for a solid if not extraordinary revival of Thornton Wilder’s classic bit of Americana, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town.
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AN INSPECTOR CALLS
Tuesday, November 25th, 2025
Leave it to director Cate Caplin to take a play I had previously found to be heavy-handed and preachy, J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, and transform it into something quite magical at Theatre 40.
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MASCOGOS
Saturday, November 1st, 2025Memorable performances and a stunning production design go a long way towards overcoming a tangled storyline and the absence of supertitles in Latino Theater Company’s thrillingly acted and visually stunning World Premiere drama Mascogos, now playing at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.
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anthropolgy
Saturday, October 11th, 2025
What if an algorithm could bring back someone you’d lost, or a near-perfect facsimile of that person? What if that algorithm could then investigate their disappearance and come up with answers even the police couldn’t find? This is the heady premise of Lauren Gunderson’s anthropology, the latest slam dunk for Rogue Machine Theatre.
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THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
Wednesday, October 8th, 2025
Boston Court Pasadena revitalizes Tennessee Williams’s last Broadway success with artistic director Jessica Kubzansky’s excitingly cast and powerfully performed The Night Of The Iguana.
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OTHERKIN
Sunday, September 28th, 2025If fantasy fiction is your thing, or you grew up playing Dungeons and Dragons, N.T. Vandecar’s Otherkin might be right up your alley. If not, only the play’s more human elements are likely to grab you.
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MASALA DABBA
Monday, September 15th, 2025
An Indian widow pays an unexpected visit to the adult daughter she hasn’t communicated with in over fifteen years, her daughter’s African-American husband, and the teenage granddaughter she has never met in Wendy Graf’s cross-cultural family drama Marsela Dabba, an impressive International City Theatre World Premiere.
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THE WOOLGATHERER
Monday, August 25th, 2025I’m usually a sucker for a wounded-souls-can’t-help-falling-in-love two-hander, but based on the guest production now playing at the Victory Theatre Center, William Mastrosimone’s The Woolgatherer would seem to be the exception to that rule.
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