DESIGN FOR LIVING
Sunday, July 7th, 2024An Americanized trio of romantic protagonists and a gay subtext made explicit are two reasons Odyssey Theatre Ensemble’s provocative but problematic staging of Noël Coward’s Design For Living is a far cry from the one Broadway audiences first discovered back in 1933.
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ANNIE
Saturday, July 6th, 2024That little orphan named Annie is back, reminding audiences at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center that the sun will indeed come out tomorrow in Actors’ Repertory Theatre Of Simi’s entertaining community theater revival of the Broadway musical smash.
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THE LINCOLNS OF SPRINGFIELD
Friday, July 5th, 2024Garrett Deagon’s chameleon-like transformation into our nation’s 16th President opposite Samantha Craton’s luminous Mary Todd Lincoln elevates Terrence L. Cranert’s The Lincolns Of Springfield into something more than the overly romanticized by-the-numbers Abraham Lincoln bio-musical it would be without their presence on the Colony Theatre stage.
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UNBROKEN BLOSSOMS
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024
Hollywood history comes alive at East West Players in Philip W. Chung’s Unbroken Blossoms, a fascinating and elucidating behind-the-scenes look at the silent movie classic that was Hollywood’s first interracial love story.
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THE SANDWICH MINISTRY
Sunday, June 30th, 2024Performances could hardly be better, but 65 minutes isn’t nearly long enough for playwright Miranda Rose Hall to fully flesh out her three protagonists or the issues raised in The Sandwich Ministry, now nearing the end of its run at the Skylight Theatre.
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SEMINAR
Saturday, June 29th, 2024
Theresa Rebeck’s darkly comedic, dramatically potent Seminar gives five talented L.A. actors the chance to dazzle under Jeremy Luke’s razor-sharp direction at North Hollywood’s Theatre 68.
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CHESS THE MUSICAL
Friday, June 28th, 2024
Jaxx Theatricals treats audiences to a fully-staged production of Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus’s rarely revived Chess The Musical, sensationally performed in the company’s spiffy East Hollywood digs.
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THE OUTSIDER
Monday, June 24th, 2024
Things get hilariously out of hand when the seemingly ineffectual lieutenant governor of an unnamed state suddenly finds himself the man in charge in Paul Slade Smith’s The Outsider, a front-runner for the year’s funniest and smartest comedic treat.
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