THE EIGHT: REINDEER MONOLOGUES
Sunday, December 23rd, 2018
A salacious Santa’s unspeakable indiscretions aren’t nearly so laughable in a #metoo era as they were when Jeff Goode premiered The Eight: Reindeer Monologues twenty-five Christmases ago, just one reason his quarter-century old collection of R-rated solo confessions proves even more powerful and relevant than when it debuted in 1994, a dark comedy gone darker than ever as its ingeniously staged, splendidly performed Crown City Theatre Company debut makes abundantly clear.
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ROPE
Monday, December 17th, 2018Director Anna Safar puts an unexpected but not unwelcome comedic spin on Patrick Hamilton’s Rope, a Robo & Bash Production at NoHo’s Avery Schreiber Playhouse.
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IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: THE RADIO PLAY
Friday, December 14th, 2018
There’s more than one Christmas miracle in store for the cast and characters of Theatre Unleashed’s It’s A Wonderful Life: The Radio Play, Jim Martyka’s double-your-pleasure adaptation of the holiday perennial.
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KING LEAR
Monday, December 3rd, 2018No one trims the Bard down to basics better than director-of-all-trades Denise Devin, and with Robert A. Prior editing and adapting Shakespeare’s mammoth text in addition to delivering a masterful star turn in the title role, Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre Group’s 90-minute King Lear packs a powerful punch whenever His Royal Majesty is center stage.
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A CAROL CHRISTMAS
Monday, December 3rd, 2018
A bossy, workaholic fashion mogul makes major life changes thanks to a trio of late-night visitors in The Group Rep’s World Premiere holiday musical A Carol Christmas, a tuneful Charles Dickens-inspired crowd-pleaser that with some astute revisions could well end up a regional December delight.
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THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY
Monday, October 15th, 2018
Thirteen multitalented millennials, an inspired director and choreographer, and one of the most tuneful and insightful scores in years make for musical theater magic in Neil Bartram and Brian Hill’s The Theory Of Relativity, now playing at NoHo’s Gray Studios.
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STROKE OF LUCK
Thursday, October 4th, 2018
Farley Cadena, whose scene-stealing performances as Singin’ In The Rain’s Miss Dinsmore, The Producers’ Hold-Me-Touch-Me, and Bye Bye Birdie’s Doris MacAfee have made her a SoCal musical theater treasure now gets the center-stage star vehicle that has long been her due in Stroke Of Luck (or how my brain broke & I crawled my way back), her inspired, inspiring one-woman show.
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THE RESCUED
Saturday, September 22nd, 2018
Abuse survivors living in a group home would seem unlikely to inspire a comedy as sweet and touching and funny as Julie Marie Myatt’s The Rescued, but the Road Theatre Company’s latest World Premiere proves an utterly charming if still-a-bit-in-need-of-a polish gem.
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