THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019Children’s theater doesn’t get much darker than 24th STreet Theatre’s The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane, and not just because the lights are turned way down low on the starkest of production designs. Dwayne Hartford’s adaptation of Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo’s tale of a toy rabbit’s passage from owner to owner in Depression-era America is grim as can be, though not without hope and moments of joy.
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HYPE MAN: a break beat play
Tuesday, March 19th, 2019
The police shooting of an unarmed African-American teenager impacts the lives of a white rapper, his black backup singer, and the multiracial beat maker who completes their stardom-bound rap group in Idris Goodwin’s HYPE MAN: a break beat play, an exhilarating, discussion-provoking Fountain Theatre West Coast Premiere.
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MIDDLE8
Monday, November 19th, 2018
If Thornton Wilder were still alive to write a rock opera about five musicians dealing with issues of love, life, death, and what comes after, he might choose to title it Our Band. Stefan Marks calls his play-with-songs Middle8, and for anyone who’s seen the playwright-actor-director-musician-designer’s past work, it should come as no surprise that Middle8 is label-defyingly special.
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MARIAN, OR THE TRUE TALE OF ROBIN HOOD
Saturday, August 25th, 2018
Maid Marian is far from the only resident of Nottingham and its neighboring Sherwood Forest to blur gender and sexuality in Adam Szymkowicz’s LGBTQ-celebratory, song-and-swordplay-packed Marian, Or The True Tale Of Robin Hood, one of Theatre Of NOTE’s most exhilarating hits in years.
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VOTE, PRAY, LOVE
Monday, April 9th, 2018
Charismatic, multitalented L.A. musical theater performer Ryan O’Connor recalls the most challenging year of his life in story and song in his terrifically entertaining musical memoir Vote, Pray, Love, now playing Sundays and Mondays at the Celebration.
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CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND
Thursday, March 15th, 2018
The Cambodian genocide may seem the least likely of subject matters for a raucous rock-music comedy, but this is precisely what Lauren Yee has pulled off in Cambodian Rock Band, her most accomplished, fulfilling play to date.
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THE HEART OF ROBIN HOOD
Saturday, December 2nd, 2017
If you think (or hope) you’ve seen the last of Robin Hood, think again. The Heart Of Robin Hood has arrived at the Wallis, and any lover of theatrical magic and thrills who skips this Robin because they’ve already seen Errol or Kevin or Russell bring Mr. Hood to the silver screen should suffer one of evil Prince John’s unspeakable punishments, or at the very least a good tongue-lashing. Trust me. You’ve never seen Robin Hood (or any on-stage adventure story) quite like this theatrical dazzler.
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THE SECRET IN THE WINGS
Monday, November 13th, 2017
Life is no fairytale for the dozens of fairytale characters who people Mary Zimmerman’s dark and dazzling The Secret In The Wings, the latest from L.A.’s “Pay What You Want” Coeurage Theatre Company and as spellbinding a theatrical experience as I’ve had since Coeurage’s equally stunning Failure: A Love Story.
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