OPHELIA
Saturday, April 13th, 2024
Award-winning writer-director-actor-designer Stefan Marks is back, and wearing all four hats at once, with Ophelia, his latest blend of theatrical magic, whimsy, and profundity.
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Tags: Los Angeles Theater Review, Odyssey Theatre, Stefan Marks
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MONSTERS OF THE AMERICAN CINEMA
Sunday, April 7th, 2024
What starts out a sitcom-style two-hander about a precocious teen being reared by his late father’s gay black husband ends up something far darker and deeper and more powerful in Christian St. Croix’s Monsters Of The American Cinema, the latest in a string of world-class Rogue Machine winners.
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Tags: Christian St. Croix, Los Angeles Theater Review, Matrix Theatre, Rogue Machine Theatre
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FAT HAM
Sunday, April 7th, 2024
Risk-taking, rule-breaking, exuberant joie de playwriting won James Ijames the Pulitzer Prize for his contemporary comedic queer African-American take on Hamlet, Fat Ham, now blowing audiences’ minds at the Geffen Playhouse.
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Tags: Geffen Playhouse, James Ijames, Los Angeles Theater Review
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COULD I HAVE THIS DANCE?
Saturday, March 30th, 2024
To get tested or not to get tested? This is the dilemma faced by 30something sisters Monica and Amanda Glendenning in Doug Haverty’s captivating, compelling family dramedy Could I Have This Dance?, now getting a terrifically acted 33rd-anniversary revival at the Group Rep.
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Tags: Doug Haverty, Los Angeles Theater Review, The Group Rep
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FATHERLAND
Monday, February 26th, 2024
Words like riveting and gut-wrenching only begin to describe Stephen Sachs’ ripped-from-the-headlines World Premiere docudrama Fatherland and the performances delivered at The Fountain Theatre by Los Angeles stage dynamo Ron Bottitta and remarkable L.A. newcomer Patrick Keleher.
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Tags: Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles Theater Review, Stephen Sachs
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