MY WHITE HUSBAND
Monday, May 27th, 2024Despite a promising setup, Leviticus Jelks’s My White Husband turns out to be an awkward mix of 1950s sitcom spoofery, marital discord dramatics, sex comedy raunch, network TV politics, and Black Lives Matter activism.
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MIX-MIX: THE FILIPINO ADVENTURES OF A GERMAN JEWISH BOY
Saturday, May 25th, 2024
Prolific Filipino-American playwright Boni B. Alvarez takes audiences on the most thrilling and danger-packed of WWII escapes in Mix-Mix: The Filipino Adventures of a German Jewish Boy, a fact-based action-adventure epic as vividly cinematic as it is imaginatively theatrical.
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TWO STOP
Friday, May 24th, 2024
A Korean convenience store owner and a half-Black, half-Korean teen square off as the Los Angeles riots rage only blocks away in David Johann Kim’s you-are-there-on-the-edge-of-your-seat World Premiere drama Two Stop, the pulse-pounding latest from Ensemble Studio Theatre Los Angeles.
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PANG SPA
Tuesday, May 21st, 2024
Chalk Repertory Theatre returns with its first fully-staged production since 2018’s Death And Cockroaches, an absolutely superb World Premiere staging of David Johann Kim’s mesmerizing Pang Spa.
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AMERICAN MARIACHI
Monday, May 13th, 2024
A half-dozen years after its Old Globe world premiere, José Cruz González’s American Mariachi makes an endlessly entertaining Latino Theater Co. L.A. debut under under José Luis Valenzuela’s incisive direction at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.
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H*TLER’S TASTERS
Sunday, April 28th, 2024
Playwright Michelle Kholos Brooks finds laughter even in the darkest of situations in her provocatively titled, fact-based H*tler’s Tasters, the latest uber-intimate “Upstairs at the Matrix” Rogue Machine hit.
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KAIROS
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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MONSTERS OF THE AMERICAN CINEMA
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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