BABY EYES
Tuesday, October 16th, 2018Playwright Donald Jolly takes us back to 1950s Baltimore via Ancient Greece in Baby Eyes, a Playwrights’ Arena World Premiere that scores points for ambitious intentions if not for its campy mix of ancient myth, Greek tragedy, ’50s melodrama, and men in drag.
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GLORIA
Tuesday, September 25th, 2018
The office banter amongst the millennials who toil for a New Yorker-style magazine in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Gloria may be catty, querulous, gossipy, back-stabbing, and hilarious as all get-out, but the 33-year-old playwright has far more than edgy cable sitcom humor on his mind in his 2015 off-Broadway hit, a ripped-from-today’s-headlines gut-puncher of an Echo Theater Company West Coast Premiere.
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SWANSONG
Saturday, September 15th, 2018Australian powerhouse André de Vanny does tour-de-force work as a mentally and emotionally disabled young Irishman in Connor McDermottroe’s one-man play Swansong, a star turn almost as exhausting for de Vanny to perform as the Australian Theatre Company/Skylight Theatre Company West Coast premiere is to experience.
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SWEAT
Friday, September 7th, 2018
Playwright Lynn Nottage gives voice to blue-collar America in her Pulitzer Prize-winning Sweat, now making a gut-punching Los Angeles debut at the Mark Taper Forum, a suspenseful, insightful look at an electorate so disillusioned by their failed American Dreams that they ended up doing the unthinkable.
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I GO SOMEWHERE ELSE
Monday, August 27th, 2018An emotionally abusive childhood provides the backstory to the celebration of survival that is Inda Craig-Galván’s memory play I Go Somewhere Else, a playwrights’ Arena World Premiere as superbly acted as it is strikingly designed. If only it were easier to figure out who’s who and what’s what.
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AIN’T TOO PROUD
Sunday, August 26th, 2018
The Motown sound is ready once again to take New York by storm when Ain’t Too Proud—The Life and Times of The Temptations, now earning some of the loudest Ahmanson Theatre audience cheers I’ve heard in years, transfers to Broadway’s Imperial this spring.
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WHAT HAPPENED WHEN
Wednesday, August 1st, 2018
Pitch-perfect casting makes a world of difference in the return engagement of Daniel Talbott’s haunting memory play What Happened When, an Echo Theater Company midweek gem.
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CRY IT OUT
Tuesday, July 17th, 2018
You don’t have to be a stay-at-home nursing mom to fall in love with Molly Smith Metzler’s Cry It Out, but if you are, this one’s especially for you, and it’s about time.
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