ABUNDANCE
Thursday, October 29th, 2015
Imagine a big-screen Technicolor Western Epic told as if women had run the studios with a contemporary indie sensibility back in Hollywood’s Golden Era and you’ll get an idea of Beth Henley’s Abundance, the Crimes Of The Heart scribe’s look back at a quarter-century of Wyoming history in a play now celebrating its 25th-anniversary with a pitch-perfect South Coast Repertory revival.
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NEED TO KNOW
Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
Among the many advantages to New York City living, moving in next door to a man like Mark Manners is not one of them, or so a couple of L.A.-to-NYC transplants discover in Jonathan Caren’s seductively suspenseful comedy Need To Know, now getting a world-class World Premiere at Rogue Machine.
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RENT
Sunday, October 25th, 2015
Rent is back … in the big-stage, big-talent production the now iconic Jonathan Larson Broadway smash deserves, news which ought to send every Renthead zooming over to La Mirada to catch as sensational a regional Rent as you’ll ever see.
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SCOTT AND HEM
Saturday, October 24th, 2015
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway spend an evening together in a place called The Garden Of Allah in Mark St. Germain’s Scott And Hem, an enjoyable bit of Hollywood nostalgia now getting a terrifically acted Falcon Theatre production under the snappy direction of Falcon favorite Dimitri Toscas.
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SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM
Friday, October 23rd, 2015
If you’re a Stephen Sondheim fan here in L.A., you’ve likely enjoyed Side By Side By Sondheim and/or Putting It Together, perhaps multiple times. Chances are, however, that you’ve never seen a Stephen Sondheim Revue starring none other than Steve himself (albeit on video), which is why International City Theatre’s Los Angeles Premiere of Broadway’s 2010 Sondheim On Sondheim comes as news worth trumpeting far and wide.
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WICKED LIT 2015
Thursday, October 22nd, 2015
Wicked Lit is back for 2015 at Altadena’s Mountain View Mausoleum And Cemetery, a venue so mysterious and spooky that it’s helped make this creepy, kooky trio of terrorific one-acts an annual L.A. tradition for the past half-dozen years and counting.
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WEST SIDE STORY
Tuesday, October 20th, 2015
Candlelight Pavilion Dinner Theatre follows its multiple Scenie-winning In The Heights with that show’s half-century-earlier predecessor, the one that started it all, West Side Story, and like ITH, WSS is one of Candlelight’s finest productions to date.
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HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
Sunday, October 18th, 2015RECOMMENDED
Sherlock Holmes is back and Actors Co-op’s got him, though Tim Kelly’s stage(y) adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Hound Of The Baskervilles proves an only okay showcase for both its cast and its master sleuth protagonist.
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