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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VENUS IN FUR
Saturday, May 14th, 2022
A sizzling Sam Bianchini ignites the Atwater Village Theatre stage opposite the dynamic Roland Ruiz in David Ives’ Venus In Fur, as provocative and daring as it is maddeningly cryptic.
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AFTERGLOW
Saturday, May 7th, 2022
Can an open marriage survive if one husband embarks on a sexual relationship with one of the couple’s occasional bed guests? This is the provocative question posed by playwright S. Asher Gelman in Afterglow, a surefire seat-filler thanks to its extended softcore sex scenes early on but a West Coast Premiere whose real dramatic fire begins once the clothes have come back on.
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MASAO AND THE BRONZE NIGHTINGALE
Monday, May 2nd, 2022Playwrights Dan Kwong and Ruben Funkahuatl Guevara have quite a tale to tell about post-WWII Little Tokyo and Boyle Heights in Masao And The Bronze Nightingale and an ethnically, culturally, linguistically diverse cast of characters to tell it with, but the World Premiere play-with-songs’ hefty three-hour running time begs the question, how much of a good thing is too much?
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HADESTOWN
Friday, April 29th, 2022
Like Rent, Spring Awakening, and Hamilton before it, Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, the 2019 Tony winner for Best Musical, revitalizes the genre in the most electrifyingly original of ways.
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LEGALLY BLONDE
Monday, April 25th, 2022Ragged around the edges but blessed with some terrific lead performances, Cupcake Theatre’s intimate revival of Broadway’s Legally Blonde would have me singing its praises even louder had the show not started thirty minutes late to accommodate walk-ins.
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BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY
Saturday, April 16th, 2022
Love, hate, and jealousy. Pearl Cleage’s Blues For An Alabama Sky has them all, and an abundance of laughs to boot, in Center Theatre Group’s sensatinal revival of the Atlanta-based playwright’s 1995 hit, directed by none other than its original Alliance Theatre Company star Phylicia Rashad.
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A CHORUS LINE
Monday, April 4th, 2022
The annual USC spring musical is back after a three-year hiatus with director Tim Dang and choreographer Cedric Dodd’s strikingly fresh take on A Chorus Line, a talent showcase for a couple dozen Trojan triple-threats on their way to the top.
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