THE THIN PLACE
Monday, March 20th, 2023
You don’t have to believe in psychic phenomena to find yourself spellbound by Lucas Hnath’s mysterious and spooky The Thin Place, the latest Echo Theater Company winner at the Atwater Village Theatre.
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THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT
Tuesday, March 7th, 2023
A simple fact-finding assignment pits Gen Z against Gen X and accuracy against truth in The Lifespan Of A Fact, the very funny—and very discussion-prompting—latest from the Fountain Theatre.
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THE SECRET GARDEN
Tuesday, February 28th, 2023
Inspired direction, stunning performances, a striking production design, and sumptuous orchestrations add up to something Los Angeles musical theater lovers have been waiting decades to experience, a Broadway-caliber revival of the Tony-winning The Secret Garden.
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FOR THE LOVE OF A GLOVE
Sunday, February 26th, 2023
Aliens from outer space give five boys from Indiana voices that will propel them to the top of the charts in For The Love Of A Glove, Julien Nitzberg’s shamelessly irreverent, gleefully filthy, 100% unauthorized look at the controversial life of a certain King Of Pop, now eliciting shocked laughs galore in downtown-adjacent Echo Park.
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COME GET MAGGIE
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023Rogue Machine Theatre’s World Premiere 1950s sci-fi spoof Come Get Maggie has almost everything a new original musical ought to have. It’s funny, it’s quirky, it’s clever, and it’s terrifically performed. What it lacks is an infectiously hummable score.
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DO YOU FEEL ANGER?
Sunday, January 29th, 2023Mara Nelson–Greenberg takes #metoo rage to absurdist extremes in Circle X Theatre Company’s Do You Feel Anger?, a West Coast Premiere that starts out a major laugh getter (and stays that way for most of its ninety-minute running time), but ends up a major bummer the moment Nelson–Greenberg’s anti-male message gets sledgehammered in in the play’s suddenly surreal final scene.
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ANATOMY OF GRAY
Saturday, January 21st, 2023
An offbeat stranger’s sudden arrival via tornado smack dab in the middle of “the most boring place in the world” sets in motion a series of events destined to transform the lives of a plucky Midwest teen and her fellow Indiana townsfolk in Jim Leonard’s Anatomy of Gray, the simply marvelous latest from Open Fist Theatre Company.
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BROTHERS PLAY
Monday, January 16th, 2023
Traumatic childhood memories haunt a trio of 40something male siblings on a fateful Christmas Eve in Brothers Play, Matthew Doherty’s darkly comedic walloper now getting a spectacularly acted, directed, and designed World Premiere production at Legacy LA.
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