Friday, March 13th, 2026

Playwright Marja-Lewis Ryan is back, and reunited with her One In The Chamber star Heidi Sulzman in The Best Boarding House In Delaware, not only the year’s most deliciously dark comedy but one that marks the return to the stage of the exquisite Leigh Taylor-Young.
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Tags: Electric Lodge, Los Angeles Theater Review, Marja-Lewis Ryan
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Sunday, March 8th, 2026

Inspired direction and an all-around fabulous cast overcome community theater design limitations in You Can’t Take It With You, the latest crowd-pleaser from Santa Monica’s now 80-year-old Morgan-Wixson Theatre.
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Tags: George S. Kaufman, Los Angeles Theater Review, Morgan-Wixson Theatre, Moss Hart
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2026

If someone offered you the chance to get rich quick and improve your self-esteem in the bargain, would you take it? That’s the question posed by playwright Lauren Smerkanich in The Dignity Circle, the provocative, entertaining latest from Theatre of NOTE.
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Tags: Lauren Smerkanich, Los Angeles Theater Review, Theatre Of NOTE
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026
A husband’s midlife crisis gives Marcia Cross and Matt Letscher the chance to show off their considerable acting chops, but Joanna Murray-Smith’s Honour, the first production to be staged in Ruskin Group Theatre’s gorgeous new home, proves a rather chilly affair given the play’s potentially fiery subject matter.
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Tags: Joanna Murray-Smith, Los Angeles Theater Review, Ruskin Group Theatre
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Friday, February 27th, 2026
Ann Noble delivers a tour-de-force performance in the title role, but I found Guillermo Cienfuegos’s edgy, contemporary, stunningly staged take on William Shakespeare’s Richard III hard to follow (and most of its characters hard to distinguish one from another). Then again, that just might be me and my conflicted feelings about the Bard, particularly when he is in history play mode.
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Tags: A Noise Within, Los Angeles Theater Review, William Shakespeare
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