THE SOLDIER DREAMS & NEVER SWIM ALONE
Sunday, November 7th, 2021
Daniel MacIvor’s unique gifts are on display in Open Fist Theatre Company’s The Soldier Dreams and Never Swim Alone, best seen as an evening double feature to fully appreciate the Canadian playwright at his most rule-breaking and rewarding.
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THE ADDAMS FAMILY
Sunday, October 31st, 2021
Musical Theatre Repertory, USC’s entirely student-produced, student-directed, student-cast, student-designed troupe of multitalented Trojans is back in business after a twenty-month hiatus, and audiences lucky enough to catch their ninety-minute “quarantined concert version” of Broadway’s The Addams Family can count themselves every bit as fortunate as the student talents at long last given new opportunities to shine.
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POOR CLARE
Sunday, October 24th, 2021
Contemporary speak proves an ideal fit for Poor Clare, Chiara Atik’s screwball-comedy look at a 13th-century Paris Hilton who gave it all up for God and ended up a Saint.
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ASCENSION
Friday, October 8th, 2021D.G. Watson’s trippy Ascension may run a good fifteen minutes too long and leave an audience wondering what on earth this “immersive, interactive, sci-fi mystery thriller” was all about, but the Echo Theater Company World Premiere is nothing if not different, and a terrific showcase for its designers.
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OUR MAN IN SANTIAGO
Friday, September 24th, 2021
The CIA enlists the most improbable of assassins to rid Chile of its democratically elected president in Mark Wilding’s edge-of-your-seat hilarious Our Man In Santiago, an incisively directed, pitch-perfectly performed World Premiere from Theatre West.
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STAND UP IF YOU’RE HERE TONIGHT
Saturday, August 14th, 2021If you’re in the mood for an hour of decidedly offbeat whimsy, then John Kolvenbach’s Stand Up If You’re Here Tonight, now getting its West Coast Premiere at Atwater Village, just might be your theatrical thing. At the very least, you’ll reward its star Jim Ortlieb with much earned cheers.
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DURANG!
Wednesday, August 11th, 2021Christopher Durang reveals his trademark outlandishness times four at Studio/Stage this month in Mmmkay Productions and Crown City Theatre Company’s Durang!, a quartet wild and crazy Hollywood Fringe Festival one-acts, directed with pizzazz by Kristin Towers-Rowles.
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WAITING
Sunday, July 25th, 2021Live performances have returned to the Atwater Village Theatre for the first time in over sixteen months, and though I’m not quite sure what to make of Daniel A. Olivas’s absurdist comedy Waiting, at the very least the latest Playwrights’ Arena World Premiere serves as a taste of what lies ahead.
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