SUKKOT
Sunday, January 14th, 2024
Few situations are riper for raucous laughter, long-festering rage, and buckets of tears than the much dreaded family reunion, and since almost everybody on this planet has attended at least one (if not dozens) of them, expect to find much to identify with and relish in Matthew Leavitt’s marvelous new family-reunion dramedy Sukkot.
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THE DEATH OF ME YET
Thursday, January 11th, 2024
Life-threatening illness and human mortality aren’t usually the stuff of comedy, but expect to laugh your socks off at solo-show whiz David Dean Bottrell’s The Death Of Me Yet, now paying a five-performance-only visit to Rogue Machine’s Matrix Theatre.
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SO MANY STARS
Monday, December 11th, 2023
Theatre West celebrates Holiday Season 2023 with So Many Stars, the most glorious sixty-five minutes of songs, songs, and more songs I’ve seen and heard all year.
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A CHRISTMAS STORY: THE MUSICAL
Saturday, December 9th, 2023
Entertainment Weekly’s 2nd-Best Christmas Movie of All Time* comes to irresistible song-and-dance life at the Ahmanson as Center Theatre Group treats audiences of all ages to Broadway’s A Christmas Story: The Musical.
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FREIGHT
Wednesday, November 29th, 2023
Audiences are flocking to the Fountain Theatre and with good reason. J. Alphonse Nicholson’s tour-de-force star turn as a man with five lives in Howard L. Craft’s off-Broadway-to-L.A. hit Freight is the stuff awards are made for.
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MAMA MAMA CAN’T YOU SEE
Saturday, November 11th, 2023
Wars past and present merge into an uber-theatrical fever-dream mix of life-or-death drama and mesmerizing modern dance in Stan Mayer and Cecilia Fairchild’s Mama Mama Can’t You See, now blowing audience minds at Studio/Stage.
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RESET
Tuesday, November 7th, 2023Described in press materials as a “sci-fi morality play,” Howard Ho’s Reset, the latest Moving Arts World Premiere, features an intriguing premise, a promising opening sequence, and a particularly appealing lead performance.
Unfortunately, things go downhill, way downhill, once a character known as “Old Man” shows up.
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LINES IN THE DUST
Sunday, November 5th, 2023
Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Nikkole Salter examines inequities in public education in her powerful, thought-provoking, thoroughly engrossing Lines In The Dust, a memorable debut collaboration between Collaborative Artists Bloc and Support Black Theatre at the Matrix.
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