THE CIVIL TWILIGHT
Monday, November 4th, 2024
Two strangers seeking refuge in a dingy motel room reveal their deepest, darkest secrets to riveting effect in The Civil Twilight, Shem Bitterman’s lollapalooza of a two-hander now getting a brilliantly acted World Premiere at the Broadwater Studio Theatre.
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PASCAL AND JULIEN
Sunday, September 22nd, 2024
A boy in search of a father. A man who wants nothing more than to be left alone with his crossword puzzles. A year of unexpected changes in both their lives. This is Daniel Keene’s Pascal and Julien, the magical U.S. Premiere from the 24th Street Theatre.
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THE LAST FIVE YEARS
Sunday, May 19th, 2024
Jayde Mitchell and Jackie Bonsignore and Bryan Mittelstadt and Margaret Berkowitz deliver four breakout star turns in the eighteenth production I’ve seen of Jason Robert Brown’s mesmerizing romantic musical two-hander The Last Five Years, Sierra Madre Playhouse’s first traditional stage production since its reimagining as a performing arts center and one I made it a point to see with two equally fabulous casts.
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MONSTERS OF THE AMERICAN CINEMA
Sunday, April 7th, 2024
What starts out a sitcom-style two-hander about a precocious teen being reared by his late father’s gay black husband ends up something far darker and deeper and more powerful in Christian St. Croix’s Monsters Of The American Cinema, the latest in a string of world-class Rogue Machine winners.
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CONEY ISLAND LAND, OR THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL ACTUALITY AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Monday, March 4th, 2024
High school sweethearts reunite for the first time since their breakup thirty years earlier in Timothy Braun’s absorbing World Premiere two-hander Coney Island Land, or The Great Existential Actuality at The End of The Universe, a terrifically acted and designed guest production at North Hollywood’s Theatre 68 Complex.
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SEX WITH STRANGERS
Saturday, February 24th, 2024
Sexual sparks fly when a one-flop-wonder of a novelist and a best-selling chronicler of a year’s worth of one-night stands find themselves the only guests in a rural bed-and-breakfast in Sex With Strangers, Laura Eason’s provocative, conversation-provoking two-hander, now playing at the McCadden Place Theatre.
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THE SOUND INSIDE
Tuesday, September 12th, 2023
Amy Brenneman delivers a bravura performance opposite gifted newcomer Anders Keith in Adam Rapp’s unnerving, electrifying The Sound Inside, a phenomenal season opener for the Tony-winning Pasadena Playhouse.
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THE TURN OF THE SCREW
Saturday, July 15th, 2023
Michael Mullen and Shayna Gabrielle deliver bravura performances at Sierra Madre Playhouse in Jeffrey Hatcher’s adeptly adapted retelling of Henry James’ classic horror novella The Turn Of The Screw.
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