MEMORY LANE IS A DESERT ROAD
Sunday, April 6th, 2025
A daughter sifts through her war correspondent father’s photos to better understand his life and her own in Nabra Nelson and Michael B. Nelson’s autobiographical gem Memory Lane Is A Desert Road, a World Premiere drama strikingly staged and terrifically performed by the young artists of Eight Ball Theatre.
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I LOVE YOU BECAUSE
Sunday, March 2nd, 2025I’m too much of a fan of Ryan Cunningham and Joshua Salzman’s “modern day musical love story” I Love You Because not to feel let down and put out by the overacted, misdirected Chromolume Theatre production now playing at the Zephyr Theatre.
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BACON
Tuesday, February 25th, 2025
Wesley Guimarães and Jack Lancaster deliver a pair of searing star turns as 19-year-old Londoners with an explosive shared past history in Sophie Swithinbank’s Bacon, brilliantly reconceived by director Michael Matthews for its West Coast Premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre.
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SONDHEIM’S OLD FRIENDS
Friday, February 14th, 2025
Over three dozen of the greatest songs ever written for the musical theater stage, a cast of fifteen Broadway and West End vets headed by superstars Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga and backed by a fourteen-piece orchestra, and the most gorgeous of production designs add up to over two-and-a-half hours of musical theater bliss in Center Theatre Group’s pre-Broadway engagement of the smash West End revue Sondheim’s Old Friends.
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FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT
Friday, February 7th, 2025Multiple mistaken identities, a slew of slammed doors, and plenty of physical comedy spark Larissa FastHorse’s hilarious if not quite fabulous World Premiere satiric culture-clash farce Fake It Until You Make It at the Mark Taper Forum.
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EVANSTON SALT COSTS CLIMBING
Saturday, February 1st, 2025Characters whose eccentricities are carried to the extreme and a plot whose raison d’être escapes me are two reasons why Rogue Machine Theatre’s West Coast Premiere of Will Albery’s Evanston Salt Costs Climbing proves a major disappointment from the playwright and company who gave us one of 2023’s most critically acclaimed box office successes with Heroes Of The Fourth Turning.
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