Monday, April 8th, 2024
What starts off a meet-cute romcom ends up something a good deal more thought-provoking and profound in Kairos, Lisa Sanaye Dring’s intriguing examination of love, life, and the search for eternal youth, now getting a terrifically acted East West Players’ World Premiere.
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Sunday, April 7th, 2024
What starts out a sitcom-style two-hander about a precocious teen being reared by his late father’s gay black husband ends up something far darker and deeper and more powerful in Christian St. Croix’s Monsters Of The American Cinema, the latest in a string of world-class Rogue Machine winners.
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Tags: Christian St. Croix, Los Angeles Theater Review, Matrix Theatre, Rogue Machine Theatre
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Thursday, April 4th, 2024
Katerina McCrimmon gives the touring performance of this or any year as comedy legend Fanny Brice in the Broadway National Tour of Funny Girl, its songs as unforgettable as ever, its revised Harvey Fierstein book a marked improvement on the Isobel Lennart original, and its direction (by Michael Mayer) as inspired as direction gets.
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Sunday, March 17th, 2024
If you’ve ever been twelve years old, you’ll get an extra special kick out of Becky Wahlstrom’s wild and wacky and way-out-there coming-of-age comedy A Froggy Becomes, now getting the most exhilarating of World Premiere stagings at Open Fist Theatre.
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Saturday, February 10th, 2024
An Uber ride through the traffic-jammed streets of Midtown Manhattan proves life-changing for both driver and passenger in Juan José Alfonso’s Middle Of The World, a compelling, thought-provoking, surprise-packed Rogue Machine Theatre West Coast Premiere now playing at the Matrix.
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Thursday, February 1st, 2024
Daringly reconceived, thrillingly choreographed, and dazzlingly performed, the North American Premiere of Matthew Bourne’s Romeo And Juliet is the latest absolute must-see from the UK-based dance company that has made the Ahmanson Theatre its American home away from home for the past twenty-six years.
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Tags: Ahmanson Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles Theater Review, Matthew Bourne, Sergei Prokofiev
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Sunday, January 14th, 2024
Few situations are riper for raucous laughter, long-festering rage, and buckets of tears than the much dreaded family reunion, and since almost everybody on this planet has attended at least one (if not dozens) of them, expect to find much to identify with and relish in Matthew Leavitt’s marvelous new family-reunion dramedy Sukkot.
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