CLARKSTON
Sunday, September 15th, 2024
No one writes with more insight, depth, and compassion about ordinary lives in the American Northwest than prolific Idaho playwright Samuel D. Hunter, whose unique talents are once again on display in the West Coast Premiere of Clarkston, the latest Echo Theater Company spellbinder.
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DUEL REALITY
Friday, September 13th, 2024
The most thrilling seventy-five minutes of live theatrical entertainment you’re likely to experience this or any year can now be had at the Ahmanson where eleven superhumanly gifted performers take death-defying flight in Duel Reality.
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HUMAN ERROR
Sunday, August 11th, 2024
A fertility clinic snafu wreaks hilarious havoc on the lives of two married couples, one Red State, one Blue State, in Rogue Machine Theatre’s Los Angeles Premiere of Eric Pfeffinger’s smart, topical, and very, very funny Human Error.
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CLUE
Thursday, August 1st, 2024
Audiences craving a cure for the summertime blues need look no further than Clue, eighty minutes of nonstop whodunit hilarity presented Live On Stage at the Ahmanson.
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INTO THE WOODS
Monday, July 22nd, 2024
There’s something particularly magical about Knot Free Productions’ intimate revival of Into The Woods at the Greenway Court Theatre, and as someone who’s seen 22 different live productions of the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine classic, I know what I’m talking about.
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THE BAUHAUS PROJECT: BAUHAUS WEIMER
Saturday, July 20th, 2024Over the past two decades, Tom Jacobson has established himself as one of L.A.’s most adventurous and original playwrights, creating such risk-taking winners as Bunbury, Ouroboros, The Twentieth Century Way, and his extraordinary Bimini Baths Trilogy. I can’t, unfortunately, add Bauhaus Weimer, Part One of his World Premiere triptych The Bauhaus Project, to that list.
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UNBROKEN BLOSSOMS
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024
Hollywood history comes alive at East West Players in Philip W. Chung’s Unbroken Blossoms, a fascinating and elucidating behind-the-scenes look at the silent movie classic that was Hollywood’s first interracial love story.
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THE SANDWICH MINISTRY
Sunday, June 30th, 2024Performances could hardly be better, but 65 minutes isn’t nearly long enough for playwright Miranda Rose Hall to fully flesh out her three protagonists or the issues raised in The Sandwich Ministry, now nearing the end of its run at the Skylight Theatre.
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