A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Thursday, March 5th, 2020
Superb lead performances and a production design that looks as if it were designed with A Streetcar Named Desire in mind make Inland Valley Repertory Theatre’s revival of the 1947 Tennessee Williams classic one of the company’s best productions ever.
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A BODY OF WATER
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020
Get ready to have your mind boggled in the most provocative of ways as Actors Co-op tantalizes and challenges audiences with the gripping if frustrating brainteaser that is Lee Blessing’s A Body Of Water.
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jackbenny: And on the 366th Day
Monday, March 2nd, 2020
When a date happens only once every four years, it acquires event status, which is why jackbenny’s February 29, 2020 one-nighter at the Luckman Fine Arts Center Intimate Theatre, cleverly dubbed “And on the 366th Day,” not only proved a musical extravaganza of epic proportions, the next time the singing, songwriting twins will be able to repeat the event won’t be for another 1461 days.
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IN MY MIND’S EYE
Saturday, February 29th, 2020A visually impaired middle-schooler comes of age in The Group Rep’s 35th-anniversary revival of Doug Haverty’s engaging dramedy In My Mind’s Eye.
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BRIGHT STAR
Friday, February 28th, 2020
Glendale Centre Theatre treats audiences to Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Bright Star, not only a heady mix of love, betrayal, hope, and redemption but a masterful example of how to convert a great big Broadway show from its multimillion-dollar proscenium roots to a mini-budgeted in-the-round retooling with zero loss of emotional impact.
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WEST ADAMS
Monday, February 24th, 2020If your idea of a good time is spending eighty minutes with a bunch of downright disagreeable individuals doing some downright despicable deeds, you might want to check out West Adams, Skylight Theatre’s self-described “dark comedy about race, class, and bouncy houses.” Others might want to stick to their own neighborhood.
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MEASURE FOR MEASURE
Sunday, February 23rd, 2020
A powerful government official offers to suspend a sex offender’s death sentence in exchange for a night of love-making with the convicted man’s virginal sister.
William Shakespeare foreshadows the #MeToo movement by about four hundred years in Measure For Measure, a four-century-old play given stunning contemporary relevance by directors Armin Shimerman and Elizabeth Swain at Antaeus Theatre Company.
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THE ANDREWS BROTHERS
Saturday, February 22nd, 2020
International City Theatre’s 35th season gets off to a nostalgically tuneful, breezily comedic start with The Andrews Brothers, Roger Bean’s seniors-targeted journey back to the 1940s, engagingly directed and choreographed for ICT by Jamie Torcellini..
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