A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2
Tuesday, May 20th, 2025
It’s a whole new A Doll’s House, Part 2 at the Pasadena Playhouse with director Jennifer Chang and an ab-fab foursome of TV/stage stars bringing to scintillating life comedic elements left mostly unexplored in the two previous productions I’ve seen of Lucas Hnath’s 2017 Broadway hit.
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Tags: Los Angeles Theater Review, Lucas Hnath, Pasadena Playhouse
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BECKY’S NEW CAR
Sunday, May 18th, 2025
Great play. Great direction. Great cast. Great design. Theatre 40’s intimate revival of Becky’s New Car, Steven Dietz’s unorthodox look at marital devotion and extramarital hanky-panky has everything it takes to make it one of Theatre 40’s most all-around fabulous productions in years.
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Tags: Los Angeles Theater Review, Steven Dietz, Theatre 40
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HIDE & HIDE
Sunday, May 18th, 2025
The American Dream ends up little more than an urban legend for the two star-crossed protagonists of Roger Q. Mason’s compelling, heart-rending two-hander Hide & Hide, a sensationally acted, directed, and designed Skylight Theater World Premiere.
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CALIFORNIA STORY
Thursday, May 15th, 2025There may be times when, as the saying goes, two much is indeed not enough, but in the case of Roger Q. Mason’s audacious but overly ambitious, overlong California Story, too much is just that. Too much.
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Tags: Los Angeles Theater Review, Outside In Theatre, Roger Q. Mason
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THE HOMECOMING
Monday, May 12th, 2025
An outsider’s arrival upsets the delicate balance that has until now preserved the status quo inside a vipers’ nest of a family home in Harold Pinter’s 20th-century classic The Homecoming, the provocative latest from City Garage.
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Tags: City Garage, Harold Pinter, Los Angeles Theater Review
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A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE
Sunday, May 11th, 2025
Kasey Mahaffy delivers an exhilarating, emotion-packed, career-redefining performance as Dublin bus conductor Alfie Byrne in A Noise Within’s stirring revival of Terrence McNally, Lynn Aherns, and Stephen Flaherty’s 2002 off-Broadway musical A Man Of No Importance.
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Tags: A Noise Within, Los Angeles Theater Review, Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, Terrence McNally
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TASTY LITTLE RABBIT
Saturday, May 10th, 2025
Is it pornography or is it art? That is the question posed by prolific playwright Tom Jacobson in his provocative latest, Tasty Little Rabbit, now tantalizing audiences at Moving Arts.
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Tags: Los Angeles Theater Review, Moving Arts, Tom Jacobson
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LIFE OF PI
Thursday, May 8th, 2025
Not since War Horse has there been a theatrical experience as spectacular as Life Of Pi, the Tony-winning Broadway smash now dazzling L.A. audiences with its life-sized animal puppets, it cinematic spectacle, and Taha Mandviwala’s star-making performance in the title role.
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Tags: Ahmanson Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Lolita Chakrabarti, Los Angeles Theater Review, Yann Martel
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