ON THE OTHER HAND WE’RE HAPPY
Monday, March 14th, 2022
On The Other Hand We’re Happy, Daf James’ insightful look at a British couple’s efforts to adopt, not only marks an exciting return for Rogue Machine, it’s a perfect example of a story best told, not as a movie or miniseries, but on a nearly bare stage with just three remarkable actors bringing at least twice as many characters to vivid life.
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HOODED, OR BEING BLACK FOR DUMMIES
Sunday, March 13th, 2022
Playwright Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm mixes absurdist comedy, farce, and surrealist fantasy sequences to intoxicating effect in the Echo Theater Company Los Angeles Premiere of Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies, a play every bit as provocative as its title.
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TRAYF
Saturday, March 12th, 2022
Jewish teen besties find both their Orthodox convictions and their lifelong friendship tested in 1991 New York City in Lindsay Joelle’s TRAYF, the entertaining, enlightening, thought-provoking latest from The Geffen Playhouse.
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CELESTIAL EVENTS
Monday, March 7th, 2022
Nineteen IAMA Theatre Company members (five writers, two directors, and twelve actors) have joined creative forces to celebrate IAMA’s return to live-and-in-person productions with Celestial Events, an engaging, entertaining World Premiere takeoff on such star-studded Hollywood fare as Valentine’s Day and Crazy, Stupid, Love.
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NEXT TO NORMAL
Sunday, March 6th, 2022
A gifted young director has reinvented Broadway’s Next To Normal for USC’s Musical Theatre Repertory in an all-student production blessed by a uniformly superb cast, seamlessly integrated choreography, and an electrifying lighting design.
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A GRAND NIGHT FOR SINGING
Thursday, March 3rd, 2022Inland Valley Repertory Theatre bids a bittersweet farewell to its longtime Claremont home with A Grand Night For Singing, a tuneful collection of Rodgers & Hammerstein songs, from Broadway classics like “Something Wonderful,” “If I Loved You,” and “I’m In Love With A Wonderful Guy” to lesser known gems like “I Know It Can Happen Again.”
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MARVIN’S ROOM
Monday, February 28th, 2022
It takes a gifted playwrights to find comedy in the darkest of scenarios and a talent-blessed theater company to bring these words to pitch-perfect life, which is why Actors Co-op’s long-awaited revival of Scott McPherson’s Marvin’s Room succeeds in evoking abundant laughter through well-earned tears, with an emphasis on the former.
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A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Sunday, February 27th, 2022
A splendid cast, innovative direction, the most gorgeous costumes in town, and Stephen Sondheim at his most sublime are just several of the reasons to celebrate Knot Free Productions’ intimate staging of the rarely revived A Little Night Music at Greenway Court Theatre.
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