FUN HOME
Thursday, September 19th, 2019
Inland Valley Repertory Theatre took its subscribers and donors on a memorable three-performance-only journey back to the 1970s and ’80s with Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir-turned-Tony-winning musical Fun Home, a young lesbian’s coming of age, coming out, and coming to grips with love and loss.
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AMERICAN MARIACHI
Monday, September 16th, 2019
I dare you not to fall for South Coast Repertory’s American Mariachi, the crowd-pleasingest season opener any major American regional theater could wish for.
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DEADLY
Sunday, September 15th, 2019
The Demon Doctor of West 63rd Street is bumping off victim after victim at the Broadwater Theatre in Vanessa Claire Stewart and Ryan Thomas Johnson’s deliciously horrorific Deadly, or as I like to call it, Murder Castle, the H.H. Holmes Musical.
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SKINTIGHT
Saturday, September 14th, 2019
Playwright Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews, Significant Other) is back at the Geffen with the uproariously funny, unexpectedly touching Skintight, a star vehicle if there ever was one for its wickedly talented leading lady.
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THE SOLID LIFE OF SUGAR WATER
Friday, September 13th, 2019
Sex, described by its participants in the most graphic of terms, begins the recovery process for a young married couple in Jack Thorne’s The Solid Life Of Sugar Water, a provocative British two-hander made something quite special indeed when translated into American Sign Language and staged by Deaf West Theatre in its American Premiere.
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LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS
Tuesday, September 10th, 2019
If John Leguizamo’s Latin History For Morons sounds like it’s going to be nothing more than a light-hearted accumulation of dates and names and facts we all ought to know but don’t, think again. Though Leguizamo’s one-man show is indeed as funny and elucidating as any theater-going moron could wish for, it’s also a justifiably rage-filled attack on those who’d rather see his people erased not just from history books (as they already are) but from America itself.
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HANDJOB
Monday, September 9th, 2019Credibility is strained and logic defied throughout a big chunk of Erik Patterson’s Handjob, an otherwise provocative, sensationally performed Echo Theater Company World Premiere.
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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
Sunday, September 8th, 2019Though production values and technical aspects fall far short of professional theater standards, there’s a good deal to entertain audiences in Whittier Community Theatre’s production of Young Frankenstein thanks to Mel Brooks’ laugh-filled, double entendre-packed book, the comedy master’s tuneful, clever songs, and an enthusiastic young cast.
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