IN THE NEXT ROOM (or the vibrator play)
Saturday, March 19th, 2022
Open Fist Theatre Company scores another hit with Sarah Ruhl,s In The Next Room (or the vibrator play), the sparklingly provocative, unexpectedly touching 2010 Best Play Tony nominee that gave the award-winning playwright her first Broadway credit.
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ON THE OTHER HAND WE’RE HAPPY
Monday, March 14th, 2022
On The Other Hand We’re Happy, Daf James’ insightful look at a British couple’s efforts to adopt, not only marks an exciting return for Rogue Machine, it’s a perfect example of a story best told, not as a movie or miniseries, but on a nearly bare stage with just three remarkable actors bringing at least twice as many characters to vivid life.
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HOODED, OR BEING BLACK FOR DUMMIES
Sunday, March 13th, 2022
Playwright Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm mixes absurdist comedy, farce, and surrealist fantasy sequences to intoxicating effect in the Echo Theater Company Los Angeles Premiere of Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies, a play every bit as provocative as its title.
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NEXT TO NORMAL
Sunday, March 6th, 2022
A gifted young director has reinvented Broadway’s Next To Normal for USC’s Musical Theatre Repertory in an all-student production blessed by a uniformly superb cast, seamlessly integrated choreography, and an electrifying lighting design.
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A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Sunday, February 27th, 2022
A splendid cast, innovative direction, the most gorgeous costumes in town, and Stephen Sondheim at his most sublime are just several of the reasons to celebrate Knot Free Productions’ intimate staging of the rarely revived A Little Night Music at Greenway Court Theatre.
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ASSASSINS
Monday, February 21st, 2022
Presidential killers and would-be killers take center stage at East West Players in Assassins, Stephen Sondheim at his most provocative, innovative, and engrossing.
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SLAVE PLAY
Thursday, February 17th, 2022
A trio of interracial couples let it all hang out in group therapy as Center Theatre Group presents the Broadway production of Jeremy O. Harris’s daringly provocative, deliberately discomforting, and frequently damn funny Slave Play.
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EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, the feel-fabulous West End musical hit, has arrived in Los Angeles, an across-the-pond stop in its 2022 UK tour that’s worthy of an all-out L.A. celebration.
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