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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ARRIVAL & DEPARTURE
Monday, July 16th, 2018
A deaf New York film professor and a hearing-impaired bookkeeper fall head over heels into adulterous love in Arrival & Departure, playwright Stephen Sachs’ 21st-century updating of Noel Coward’s über-romantic cinematic classic Brief Encounter, a compelling, excitingly staged, terrifically acted Fountain Theatre World Premiere whose script could still use some work.
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jackbenny
Tuesday, July 10th, 2018
The singing, songwriting twins known professionally as jackbenny (and individually as Jack and Benny Lipson) have set up monthly residency at Silver Lake’s Lyric Hyperion Café, guaranteeing audiences two hours a month of original music, laughter, an occasional cover, and a guest artist (or two or three) to spice up the already savory mix.
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THE HUMANS
Wednesday, June 27th, 2018
Laughter and fears go hand in hand at Thanksgiving dinner in Stephen Karam’s justifiably honored Best Play Tony-winner The Humans, now playing at the Ahmanson with its Tony-winning stars Jayne Howdyshell and Reed Birney (and all but one of its original Broadway ensemble members) intact.
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MEXICAN DAY
Saturday, June 16th, 2018
Following the hallucinogenic surrealism of Plunge and the real-time fireworks of Tar, playwright Tom Jacobson concludes his mammoth Bimini Bath Trilogy with no less than an old-fashioned 1940s-style screwball comedy (with dramatic overtones) called Mexican Day, like its predecessors an enthralling, enlightening look at 20th-century L.A. history.
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PLUNGE
Wednesday, June 13th, 2018
Long-buried secrets of power, passion, and perversion propel Plunge, the first installment of Tom Jacobson’s concurrently running Bimini Baths Trilogy, as provocative a World Premiere play as you’re likely to experience any time soon.
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TAR
Sunday, June 10th, 2018
L.A.’s fabled Bimini Hot Springs and Sanitarium (1903-1956) provide the backdrop for Tom Jacobson’s The Ballad of Bimini Baths trilogy, the prolific Angelino playwright’s most ambitious project to date, and if the Playwrights’ Arena World Premiere Tar is any indication of what Plunge and Mexican Day hold in store, audiences are in for an exhilarating, elucidating three-part treat.
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