NIMROD
Monday, February 13th, 2023Criminal Minds’ Kirsten Vangsness steals every scene she’s in as our 45th president seen through a farcical Shakespearean lens in Phinneas Kiyomura’s Nimrod, a wild and wacky Theatre of NOTE World Premiere that’s a bit too all over the place to truly hit the mark.
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COCK
Sunday, February 12th, 2023
One of 2022’s finest productions has returned to the Davidson/Valentini Theatre even more impressive than it was last June thanks to an exciting new cast addition, a more polished design, and the once again stunning contributions of its gifted young director and the three returning stars who once again dazzle in Mike Bartlett’s provocative tragicomedy Cock.
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INCIDENT AT OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
Tuesday, February 7th, 2023
Katie Forgette puts a 1970s blue-collar Irish-American Catholic comedic spin on the memory play in Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, the crowd-pleasing latest from Theatre 40.
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RIDE THE CYCLONE
Sunday, February 5th, 2023
A carnival sideshow mechanical fortune teller informs six Saskatchewan teens who’ve just been hurled to their deaths that one of them will be given a second chance at life in the decidedly odd but infectiously entertaining Ride The Cyclone, now being given a sensationally performed and designed California Premiere at Anaheim Hills’ Chance Theater.
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THE DREAMER EXAMINES HIS PILLOW
Friday, February 3rd, 2023Two very good lead performances are the best reasons to check out Girl Trip Productions’ take on John Patrick Shanley’s The Dreamer Examines His Pillow at the Broadwater Black Box despite a weak third link and the dubious addition of a pair of female “fauns” not in Shanley’s script.
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DO YOU FEEL ANGER?
Sunday, January 29th, 2023Mara Nelson–Greenberg takes #metoo rage to absurdist extremes in Circle X Theatre Company’s Do You Feel Anger?, a West Coast Premiere that starts out a major laugh getter (and stays that way for most of its ninety-minute running time), but ends up a major bummer the moment Nelson–Greenberg’s anti-male message gets sledgehammered in in the play’s suddenly surreal final scene.
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MR. YUNIOSHI
Saturday, January 28th, 2023
Asian-American actor J. Elijah Cho turns the tables on the dubious Golden Era Hollywood practice of casting Caucasian actors as “Orientals” in the bitingly hilarious Mr. Yunioshi, Cho’s thought-provoking look back at the 1930s/40s movie star now perhaps best known for playing Audrey Hepburn’s angry Japanese landlord in Breakfast At Tiffany’s.
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TWELVE O’CLOCK TALES WITH AVA GARDNER
Monday, January 23rd, 2023
Alessandra Assaf delivers a spellbinding solo turn as one of the most glamorous screen goddesses in Hollywood history in Twelve O’clock Tales with Ava Gardner, now playing Sunday matinees at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks.
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