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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THE 22+ WEDDINGS OF HUGO MULITPLE
Friday, November 1st, 2024
Latino Theater Company treats L.A. audiences to a rarity in this city of almost a million-and-a-half Spanish speakers, teatro en español (with English supertitles) thanks to Gala Hispanic Theater’s The 22+ Weddings Of Hugo Multiple, Gustavo Ott’s simply marvelous look at love and immigration in today’s America.
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CAROLE COOK DIED FOR MY SINS
Friday, October 25th, 2024A sumptuous production design and a theatrical venue in L.A.’s hip Los Feliz district help distinguish Mason McCulley’s Carole Cook Died For My Sins from the slew of autobiographical solo performances on stage each summer at the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
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I, DANIEL BLAKE
Wednesday, October 16th, 2024Brilliant performances and dazzling production design aside, Dave Johns’ unrelentingly bleak stage adaptation of I, Daniel Blake, Ken Loach’s Kafkaesque 2016 film about a good man living a British bureaucratic nightmare is the most depressing 90 minutes I’ve spent in a theater in a very long time.
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AMERICAN IDIOT
Thursday, October 10th, 2024
The Mark Taper Forum is back in business with an American Idiot revival so spectacular, the sex-drugs-and-rock-and-roll-packed musical extravaganza ought to follow in the footsteps of Deaf West’s Big River and Spring Awakening and become a Broadway must-see.
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