THE CALORIE COUNTERS

Excess pounds may be no laughing matter, but playwright Molly Wagner finds equal parts comedy and drama in a 20something’s efforts to shed them in The Calorie Counters, a crowd-pleasing Loft Ensemble World Premiere.
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GO WEST

Like its Motel 66 companion piece Head East, The Group Rep’s Go West offers L.A. audiences six short plays performed under NoHo skies, an evening of live theater worth checking out if only to quench a thirst left by what has seemed like an endless fifteen months without.
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HEAD EAST

Theatergoers eager for an experience that feels both comfortingly familiar and excitingly new after a fifteen-month hiatus from live entertainment can now Head East (or Go West on alternate nights) for an evening of six short plays performed under NoHo skies in The Yard, the Group Rep’s newly constructed outdoor space next door to the membership company’s longtime home.
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IN MY MIND’S EYE

A visually impaired middle-schooler comes of age in The Group Rep’s 35th-anniversary revival of Doug Haverty’s engaging dramedy In My Mind’s Eye.
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HAMLET THE ROCK MUSICAL

Like a long-lost rock-opera cousin to Jesus Christ Superstar and The Who’s Tommy, Hamlet The Rock Musical has arrived at North Hollywood’s El Portal, and if the show’s original Broadway incarnation flopped big way back in 1976, its 2020 revival is anything but that a bomb. Instead, it’s one of the most excitingly staged, hummably hook-blessed, and thrillingly performed rock musicals I’ve seen in a good long while.
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THE $5 SHAKESPEARE COMPANY

Aficionados of L.A.’s intimate theater scene will find themselves in 99-seat heaven at The $5 Shakespeare Company, Matthew Leavitt’s ever so clever, ever so delightful World Premiere backstage comedy gem.
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NOWHERE ON THE BORDER

Playwright Carlos Lacámara puts a personal face on the hot-button issue of illegal immigration in Nowhere On The Border, a Road Theatre Company drama that works best when focusing on its odd couple of 50something adversaries.
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DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY CHRISTMAS

Production values are low but the laughter quotient is high in writer-director Paul Storiale’s Dysfunctional Family Christmas, 70 minutes of wacky 1980s sitcom-style fun.
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