JACK CRADDOCK IS HAVING A PARTY
Saturday, May 13th, 2023
Actor Harrison Harvey proves himself an accomplished first-time playwright with Jack Craddock Is Having A Party, an incisive, insightful look at three Millennials and a Zoomer, ninety real-time minutes that start out bright and breezy, then gradually darken as lies get exposed and secrets revealed.
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UNDER THE SKIN
Monday, May 8th, 2023
A philandering father suffering from kidney failure. An estranged daughter ill-inclined to donate one of her own. A tearjerker-movie-of-the-week plot-propeller if there ever was one, but one that has inspired an honest-to-goodness comedy, Michael Hellinger’s Under The Skin, the terrific latest from International City Theatre.
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A NEW BRAIN
Sunday, May 7th, 2023
Gender-expansive casting revitalizes William Finn’s New Brain, now being given the most gloriously imaginative of intimate revivals by Celebration Theatre at the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
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THE LARAMIE PROJECT
Saturday, May 6th, 2023An impressive, gender-bending cast salute Matthew Shepard’s memory in The Laramie Project, Moises Kaufman’s powerful examination of the aftermath of the gay Wyoming university student’s murder, though the Hollywood Fringe Festival look it is given at the Group Rep does the play no favors.
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HAIRSPRAY
Thursday, May 4th, 2023
Hairspray remains as fresh and fabulous at the ripe old age of 21 as it was when it made its Broadway debut back in 2002, and if you doubt my words, check out the spiffy National Tour now stopping at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre.
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A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Monday, May 1st, 2023
Pasadena Playhouse’s epic Sondheim Celebration continues this month with A Little Night Music, a Broadway-couldn’t-do-it-better revival that tops even February’s magnificent Sunday In The Park With George.
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FOOTLOOSE THE MUSICAL
Sunday, April 30th, 2023
A star-making lead performance by fresh-out-of-college triple threat Thomas Whitcomb tops the reasons why Footloose The Musical is well worth a drive to the Simi Valley Performing Arts Center.
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MOOSE ON THE LOOSE
Saturday, April 29th, 2023
A moose on the loose in an icy, snowy Northern Ontario town is all it takes for hilarity to ensue in Dina Morrone’s appropriately titled slice-of-immigrant-Italian-family-life Moose On The Loose, as laughter-and-love-packed a comedy as I’ve seen in ages.
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