BLUE KISS
Monday, April 27th, 2026
All bets are off from the moment 17-year-old Susan arrives at 31-year-old Todd’s one-bedroom apartment for her first SAT tutoring session because if you think you know where things are going in Blue Kiss, Stephen Fife’s riveting two-hander now getting its World Premiere at the Ruskin Group Theatre, you’ve got another thing coming.
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THE LAST FIVE YEARS
Saturday, March 28th, 2026A charismatic Sean Yves Lessard as best-selling novelist Jamie Wellerstein cannot overcome a miscast “Shiksa Goddess,” lackluster direction, and poor sound mixing in Chalomot Productions’ well-intentioned but largely unsuccessful revival of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years at the Hudson Backstage.
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THE TYPIST
Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
A jaded novelist and the cockeyed optimist he hires to type his latest opus try hard not to fall hard for each other in 1961 Greenwich Village in Shem Bitterman’s edgy and entertaining World Premiere two-hander The Typist, now playing at the Hudson Guild Theatre.
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HEISENBERG
Saturday, December 20th, 2025
Heisenberg, Simon Stephens’s odd-couple romcom with philosophical underpinnings, now makes for a fascinating and ultimately quite moving ninety minutes of intimate theater in Los Feliz under Cameron Watson’s inspired direction.
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FLY ME TO THE SUN
Saturday, September 20th, 2025Recent Carnegie Mellon grad Gerardo Navarro gives a charismatic, moving, star-making performance in Brian Quijada’s Fly Me To The Sun, but at the very least this Fountain Theatre West Coast Premiere could use some major pruning.
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ONE JEWISH BOY
Saturday, March 29th, 2025
Is love enough to keep a couple together when one of them has been the victim of hate crime he simply can’t get past? This is the question posed by English playwright Stephen Laughton in his gut-punchingly powerful One Jewish Boy, now getting a compelling West Coast premiere at Echo Theater Company.
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SUCH SMALL HANDS
Sunday, March 9th, 2025
Adam Szymkowicz writes writes about Alzheimer’s from a spouse/caretaker’s point of view and does so with humor, compassion, and perception in Such Small Hands, a powerful Chance Theater World Premiere.
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BACON
Tuesday, February 25th, 2025
Wesley Guimarães and Jack Lancaster deliver a pair of searing star turns as 19-year-old Londoners with an explosive shared past history in Sophie Swithinbank’s Bacon, brilliantly reconceived by director Michael Matthews for its West Coast Premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre.
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