BORN TO WIN
Sunday, February 17th, 2019
Little Miss Sunshine hopefuls could learn a thing or two from the Texas-based partners (business and otherwise) who coach preschool pixies to beauty pageant stardom in Matthew Wilkas and Mark Setlock’s Born To Win, the outrageously funny latest from Celebration Theatre.
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HELLO, DOLLY!
Thursday, January 31st, 2019
Betty Buckley is making matches right and left while earning ovation after ovation as only a Broadway legend can in the 10-Tony-award-winning 1964 classic Hello, Dolly!, now paying L.A. a three-week visit to Hollywood’s Pantages.
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JOCASTA: A MOTHERF**KING TRAGEDY
Sunday, January 13th, 2019Technical marvels and some inventive directorial touches aren’t enough to rescue The Ghost Road Company’s Jocasta: A Motherf**king Tragedy from its performance-artsy approach to Greek tragedy and its lackluster lead.
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YES, VIRGINIA
Monday, December 17th, 2018Mindy Sterling and Arnetia Walker do some late-ish-in-life female bonding on New Year’s Eve in Stan Zimmerman and Christian McLaughlin’s feel-good holiday two-hander Yes, Virginia, the latest from Pop-Up Playhouse.
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A HARMONY BOYS CHRISTMAS: LIVE FROM WAIKIKI BEACH!
Monday, December 10th, 2018
The Harmony Boys throw good taste out the window, and thank Santa for that, as Bobby, Barry, Billy, and Xian Ling Moon Harmony reunite at the Grand Kahulahani Resort And Sacred Indigenous Burial Grounds for “some Christmas cheer, some song and dance, and some very poorly researched appropriation of Pacific Island culture” in A Harmony Boys Christmas: Live From Waikiki Beach, Aaron Matijasic’s gift to L.A. theatergoers in search of politically incorrect, R-rated fun for the holidays.
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MORE GUNS!
Sunday, November 25th, 2018
Would the United States actually be safer if every single one of us owned a gun? Philip Labes and Michael O’Konis take that notion and run with it in their clever, tuneful, unexpectedly heart-filled More Guns! A Musical Comedy About The NRA, a Saturday night smash for Hollywood’s The Second City.
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SHE LOVES ME
Monday, November 19th, 2018
Director-choreographer Cate Caplin and a pitch-perfect cast do everything right in Actors Co-op’s intimate revival of the 1963 Broadway charmer She Loves Me, perhaps better known today as the pre-Internet You’ve Got Mail.
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MIDDLE8
Monday, November 19th, 2018
If Thornton Wilder were still alive to write a rock opera about five musicians dealing with issues of love, life, death, and what comes after, he might choose to title it Our Band. Stefan Marks calls his play-with-songs Middle8, and for anyone who’s seen the playwright-actor-director-musician-designer’s past work, it should come as no surprise that Middle8 is label-defyingly special.
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