AN OCTOROON
Tuesday, June 29th, 2021
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins resurrects and reimagines a creaky pre-Civil War melodrama in his adventurous, genre-bending, meta-theatrical 2014 Obie Award winner An Octoroon, not only a long-awaited Fountain Theatre Los Angeles Premiere but a much-anticipated return to live, in-person play-going on the Fountain’s newly constructed open air stage.
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jackbenny: And on the 366th Day
Monday, March 2nd, 2020
When a date happens only once every four years, it acquires event status, which is why jackbenny’s February 29, 2020 one-nighter at the Luckman Fine Arts Center Intimate Theatre, cleverly dubbed “And on the 366th Day,” not only proved a musical extravaganza of epic proportions, the next time the singing, songwriting twins will be able to repeat the event won’t be for another 1461 days.
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WEST ADAMS
Monday, February 24th, 2020If your idea of a good time is spending eighty minutes with a bunch of downright disagreeable individuals doing some downright despicable deeds, you might want to check out West Adams, Skylight Theatre’s self-described “dark comedy about race, class, and bouncy houses.” Others might want to stick to their own neighborhood.
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FOUND
Friday, February 21st, 2020
Audiences in search of something excitingly original where musical comedies are concerned need look no further than Found, the latest from IAMA Theatre Company.
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THE BOOK OF MORMON
Thursday, February 20th, 2020
It’s taken eight years of touring the U.S. for The Book Of Mormon to pay its first visit to the Ahmanson, but the 2011 Best Musical Tony winner’s distinctive mix of raunch, romance, hilarity, and heart make it a show worth waiting for as it continues to pack them in NYC.
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NEVER BEEN KISSED: THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL
Sunday, February 2nd, 2020
1990s teen romcom fans in particular won’t want to miss Rockwell Table & Stage’s latest musical-comedy romp, Never Been Kissed: The Unauthorized Musical.
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THIS SIDE OF CRAZY
Saturday, February 1st, 2020
No one writes about the sordid lives of Southern Baptist women with more vinegar-laced love and affection than Del Shores, once again delighting Zephyr Theatre audiences with his latest dramedic treat, a rib-tickling, tear-jerking Kentucky-fried feast appropriately dubbed This Side Of Crazy.
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THE WATER TRIBE
Saturday, January 25th, 2020Playwright Don Cummings could well have titled his strange-but-never-boring new play Trainwreck rather than The Water Tribe because like an accident about to happen, you simply can’t take your eyes away from its hot mess of a female protagonist or Hannah Prichard’s tornado of a lead performance.
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