REVENGE PORN OR THE STORY OF A BODY
Saturday, October 1st, 2022
A disgruntled ex gets back at his onetime bed partner in the most publicly demeaning of ways by posting online the nude selfies she’d sent him years earlier in Carla Ching’s Revenge Porn or The Story of a Body, the thrillingly hot-button latest from Ammunition Theatre Company.
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BABE
Monday, September 26th, 2022Cliffhangers are perfectly fine if you’re writing a series pilot or season finale. Not so much if you’ve written what purports to be a full-length play, which is why, engaged as I was throughout Echo Theater Company’s Babe, I left feeling frustrated, angry, and confused as to why playwright Jessica Goldberg didn’t finish what she’d started so provocatively sixty-five minutes earlier in a more satisfyingly conclusive way.
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EVERYBODY
Saturday, September 24th, 2022If 90 minutes of occasionally amusing but more often longwinded philosophizing about the meaning of (among other things) Life, Love, Friendship, Beauty, Material Possessions, and Death sounds like your thing, then Antaeus Theatre Company’s Everybody, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ 21st-century adaptation of a 600-year-old morality play, might just be your cup of tea. It wasn’t mine.
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SANCTUARY CITY
Monday, September 19th, 2022
Martyna Majok puts a personal face on the plight of undocumented Americanized teens in Sanctuary City, a riveting, thought-provoking Los Angeles Premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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OKLAHOMA!
Friday, September 16th, 2022
Forget every Oklahoma! you’ve ever seen. Forget everything you’ve ever heard or said or thought about the 79-year-old classic. Director Daniel Fish’s radically revisionist revival of the Broadway musical that reinvented the genre back in 1943 now feels every bit as revolutionary in 2022 as Rent did in 1994, Spring Awakening in 2006, and Hamilton just a handful of years back.
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JAGGED LITTLE PILL
Friday, September 16th, 2022
A double album’s worth of Alanis Morissette’s Greatest Hits provide the plot-propelling dramatic soundtrack to Jagged Little Pill, the thrillingly of-the-moment Tony winner that redefines the oft-derided “jukebox musical” to stunning effect.
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13 THE MUSICAL
Monday, September 12th, 2022
Ventura county teens reveal budding triple-threat talents in Panic! Productions’ exhilarating live staging of Jason Robert Brown’s 13 The Musical at the Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center.
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SILENT SKY
Sunday, September 11th, 2022
Sierra Madre Playhouse pays tribute to a groundbreaking, trailblazing astronomer who refused to let her gender hold her back in Lauren Gunderson’s engaging, informative biodrama Silent Sky.
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