FUGUE
Saturday, March 7th, 2015
A trio of classical music composers, each involved in a deadly love triangle, find their lives interwoven fugue-style—and quite stylishly indeed—in Fugue, Tommy Smith’s mesmerizing meditation on music and madness (and musicians driven mad by love), the latest World Premiere from Echo Theater Company and one of the most provocative evenings of theater you’re likely to experience for some time to come.
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WASHER/DRYER
Friday, February 20th, 2015
Sometimes all it takes to turn a cramped, overpriced, single-occupancy big-city condo into a must-own Manhattan co-op is something as seemingly trivial as a washer/dryer, which is why newlywed Sonya will do anything to maintain ownership of her co-op in Nandita Shenoy’s terrific World Premiere Comedy Washer/Dryer—even if it means pretending that her handsome hubby is merely a frequent sleep-over chum.
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REBORNING
Friday, January 30th, 2015
The Fountain Theatre gives Zayd Dohrn’s powerful personal drama Reborning a Los Angeles Premiere that easily rivals those productions that have scored the Fountain more Ovation Award nominations and wins than any other intimate L.A. theater.
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INTO THE WOODS
Friday, January 23rd, 2015
Into The Woods is back big time, its long-awaited film adaptation joined by a couple of recent, much lauded out-of-town imports at the Old Globe and the Wallis Annenberg, community theater productions galore, and now by the supremely talented students who’ve been starring in, directing, and designing one terrific intimate revival after another at USC over the past eight years, the musical theater stars of the future who call themselves Musical Theatre Repertory.
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SERRANO THE MUSICAL
Saturday, January 17th, 2015
SoCal’s major regional houses can eat their hearts out they didn’t get first dibs on the World Premiere of Serrano The Musical, while L.A. musical theater aficionados can rejoice that this sensational contemporary adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac told Goodfellas style is making its debut in the up-close-and-personal intimacy of the Matrix on Melrose.
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PROOF
Saturday, January 17th, 2015
How many plays can you name that have won the Drama Desk Award for Best New Play, the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, the Tony and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Play, and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama?
David Auburn’s Proof is that rarity, a major prize-winner now making a welcome return to Los Angeles in an impeccably directed intimate production by Moth Theatre’s John Markland, ingeniously designed by Justin Huen and sensationally performed by Amanda Brooks, Chris Marquette, Felicity Price, and John Cirigilano, a foursome any major American theater would be thrilled to have grace their stage.
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