THE PAINTED ROCKS AT REVOLVER CREEK
Tuesday, November 17th, 2015
Premier South African playwright Athol Fugard once again puts a personal face on apartheid in his deeply moving two-act drama The Painted Rocks Of Revolver Creek, now getting a gorgeously-acted West Coast Premiere at Fugard’s Los Angeles home, the award-winning Fountain Theatre.
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THE FEAST
Sunday, November 15th, 2015
A suddenly meatless world serves as the pretext for what well may be the most bizarre dinner party in the history of contemporary theater in Celine Song’s absurdist black comedy The Feast, now being given a terrific Los Angeles New Court Theatre L.A. Premiere in precisely the kind of DTLA loft-with-view in which said dinner party might actually take place.
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MIRAVEL
Saturday, November 14th, 2015RECOMMENDED
Cyrano de Bergerac gets a jazz-infused contemporary update in Jake Broder’s play with music Miravel, a Sacred Fools World Premiere that scores high marks for performance, both vocal and instrumental, but could use some tweaking and tightening, particularly in its overlong first act.
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NEED TO KNOW
Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
Among the many advantages to New York City living, moving in next door to a man like Mark Manners is not one of them, or so a couple of L.A.-to-NYC transplants discover in Jonathan Caren’s seductively suspenseful comedy Need To Know, now getting a world-class World Premiere at Rogue Machine.
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CARRIE The Killer Musical Experience
Saturday, October 10th, 2015
You don’t have to travel to NYC to see CARRIE The Killer Musical Experience on Broadway, not now that director Brady Schwind’s multiple Scenie-winning*, thrillingly audience-immersive Carrie has reopened at the historic Los Angeles Theater at 615 S. Broadway … smack dab in the middle of DTLA.
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2015
A hit Broadway show performed in the intimacy of a living-room for a lucky thirty invited guests is what the talented students of USC’s Musical Theatre Repertory are offering audiences in their 11th-season opener, [title of show], and it’s hard to imagine a better show to put on for friends and family than the 2004 Broadway gem, one which could easily have started its life in the living rooms of its writer-performers Jeff Bowen (music and lyrics) and Hunter Bell (book) and works every bit as well in USC Hillel’s “living room” as in a more traditionally theatrical setting.
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IN LOVE AND WARCRAFT
Tuesday, October 6th, 2015
Playwright Madhuri Shekar updates a genre at least as old as Shakespeare, sets it in today’s world of online gaming, and populates it with an appealing college-age cast to give live theater audiences a delightful, mostly successful romcom for the 21st century in In Love And Warcraft, the latest from the Asian-American troupe Artists At Play (in association with The Latino Theater Company).
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CHINGLISH
Thursday, September 17th, 2015
East West Players continues its two-year-long 50th-anniversary celebration with Chinglish, David Henry Hwang’s hilarious, perceptive, eye-opening look at Chinese-American relationships (including one of a particularly romantic/sexual nature), a Los Angeles Premiere that could well prove one of EWP’s most popular productions ever. It’s certainly one of the finest I’ve seen onstage at the David Henry Hwang Theater.
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