BUYER & CELLAR
Tuesday, October 29th, 2024
Emerson Collins delivers the solo performance of the year (opposite none other but Barbra Streisand herself) in Jonathan Tolins’ Buyer & Cellar, the latest winner from The Sixth Act.
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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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DRAGON LADY
Friday, September 13th, 2024
Broadway vet Sarah Porkalob pays loving tribute to her feisty Filipina grandmother while bringing to vivid life more than two dozen finely delineated characters and showing off exquisite three-octave pipes in her much lauded solo show Dragon Lady, now paying the most entertaining and compelling of visits to Westwood’s Geffen Playhouse.
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THE DEATH OF ME YET
Thursday, January 11th, 2024
Life-threatening illness and human mortality aren’t usually the stuff of comedy, but expect to laugh your socks off at solo-show whiz David Dean Bottrell’s The Death Of Me Yet, now paying a five-performance-only visit to Rogue Machine’s Matrix Theatre.
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FREIGHT
Wednesday, November 29th, 2023
Audiences are flocking to the Fountain Theatre and with good reason. J. Alphonse Nicholson’s tour-de-force star turn as a man with five lives in Howard L. Craft’s off-Broadway-to-L.A. hit Freight is the stuff awards are made for.
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LOVE, DOLLY
Saturday, June 10th, 2023
Dolly Parton fans will find themselves transported to country music heaven this weekend and next as Kim Eberhardt performs her spot-on tribute to Tennessee’s very own Backwoods Barbie, the lovingly titled Love, Dolly, at Sierra Madre Playhouse.
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3: BLACK GIRL BLUES
Saturday, May 20th, 2023
TV star Danielle Moné Truitt returns to her stage roots with 3: Black Girl Blues, an alternately hilarious and devastating one-woman show about a trio of grade school best friends whose lives follow drastically different paths from their teen years on.
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MR. YUNIOSHI
Saturday, January 28th, 2023
Asian-American actor J. Elijah Cho turns the tables on the dubious Golden Era Hollywood practice of casting Caucasian actors as “Orientals” in the bitingly hilarious Mr. Yunioshi, Cho’s thought-provoking look back at the 1930s/40s movie star now perhaps best known for playing Audrey Hepburn’s angry Japanese landlord in Breakfast At Tiffany’s.
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