A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Sunday, July 3rd, 2022
Director James Fowler and Open Fist Theatre Company discover astonishing new depth and meaning in a centuries-old classic by transposing William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream from ancient Greece to the Antebellum South.
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ARENA: A House MUSIC-al
Sunday, June 26th, 2022A young gay Latino exits the closet to a ‘90s dance club beat in Abel Alvarado’s ARENA: A House MUSIC-al, a heartfelt but overpopulated coming-of-age story that works best when the spotlight is on Alvarado stand-in Lucio, particularly as brought to engaging, charismatic life by newcomer Preston Gonzalez Valle.
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SISTER MARY IGNATIUS EXPLAINS IT ALL TO YOU
Tuesday, June 21st, 2022Christopher Durang takes hilarious, harrowing aim at hardcore Catholicism in his 1980 one-act Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, revived to droll, terrifying life at this year’s Hollywood Fringe.
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INTERSTATE
Sunday, June 19th, 2022
A 20something trans man and his lesbian best friend take a road trip across America (and in so doing transform the life of a transgender Kentucky teen) in East West Players’ powerful, exhilarating World Premiere musical Interstate.
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ANDRÉ & DORINE
Sunday, June 12th, 2022
Not a single word needs to be spoken for Spain’s Kulunka Teatro to make theatrical magic with André & Dorine, now paying an all too brief visit to The Los Angeles Theatre Center in Downtown L.A.
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KING JAMES
Thursday, June 9th, 2022
Two young men forge a life-changing best-friendship thanks to their shared love of basketball (and more specifically of b-ball superstar LeBron James) in Rajiv Joseph’s heart-stopping brom-com King James, now bringing audiences to their feet at the Mark Taper Forum.
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COME FROM AWAY
Thursday, June 2nd, 2022
The 2017 Broadway Tony winner Come From Away has returned to the Ahmanson Theatre for a two-week run, once again proving that heroism, humanity, and heart can triumph over terror. Not only that, but this supremely feel-good musical remains one of the best directed and most powerfully performed National Tours I’ve seen in many a year.
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UNTITLED BABY PLAY
Friday, May 27th, 2022Performances are impeccable (and laughs are abundant, at least in Act One), but by the time Laila Ayad, Anna Rose Hopkins, Courtney Sauls, Sonal Shah, Jenny Soo, and Sarah Utterback finally take their bows (at close to 11:00 p.m. on Opening Night), a more suitable title for Nina Braddock’s Untitled Baby Play would be Interminable Baby Play.
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