EVANSTON SALT COSTS CLIMBING
Saturday, February 1st, 2025Characters whose eccentricities are carried to the extreme and a plot whose raison d’être escapes me are two reasons why Rogue Machine Theatre’s West Coast Premiere of Will Albery’s Evanston Salt Costs Climbing proves a major disappointment from the playwright and company who gave us one of 2023’s most critically acclaimed box office successes with Heroes Of The Fourth Turning.
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ONCE UPON A MATTRESS
Saturday, December 14th, 2024
A supercharged lead performance by triple-threat extraordinaire Sutton Foster and Amy Sherman-Paladino’s freshly adapted book are just two reasons to celebrate the December arrival at the Ahmanson of Once Upon A Mattress direct from its Broadway run.
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THE GODDAMN COUPLE DOWN THE HALL (OH… AND MERRY CHRISTMAS)
Sunday, December 1st, 2024
Your favorite Hallmark Christmas movie meets Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window meets the Farrelly Brothers at Theatre West in Mark Wilding’s wild-and-wacky, expectations-subverting The Goddamn Couple Down the Hall (Oh… and Merry Christmas), the appetizingly astringent antidote to all the sugar-sweet holiday fare playing around town this time of year.
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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
Saturday, November 23rd, 2024
CASA 0101 triumphs like never before with the musical stage adaptation of Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame in a production that more than holds its own against L.A.’s most prestigious 99-seat theaters.
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DRY LAND
Friday, November 22nd, 2024
Dry Land, Ruby Rae Spiegel’s darkly comic, graphically disturbing off-off-Broadway play about a high school swimmer desperate to terminate her unwanted pregnancy by whatever means possible, returns to Los Angeles in an impressive limited-run guest production at the Atwater Village Theatre.
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FIRST DATE
Sunday, November 17th, 2024
Chromolume Theater is back after a six-year hiatus with a sparklingly performed intimate revival of the smart, funny 2013 Broadway romcom musical First Date.
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PACIFIC OVERTURES
Monday, November 11th, 2024
Stephen Sondheim fans could not wish for a more spectacular pick-me-up from post-election blues than East West Players’ Broadway-couldn’t-do-it-better production of Sondheim and John Weidman’s rarely-revived 1976 classic Pacific Overtures.
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ANTÍKONI
Monday, November 11th, 2024If Greek tragedy and/or Native American folklore are your thing, Native Voices’ World Premiere production of Beth Piatote’s Antíkoni may be right up your alley. I, unfortunately, found my interest flagging and my mind drifting almost from the get-go.
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