A HIT DOG WILL HOLLER
Saturday, November 13th, 2021
Sparks fly, terrors are confronted, and truths are revealed to powerful effect when an African-American social media activist opens her door to a stranger in the World Premiere of Inda Craig Galván’s A Hit Dog Will Holler, a Playwrights Arena/Skylight Theatre Company co-production at the Skylight.
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FIREFLIES
Tuesday, January 14th, 2020An oversexed Martin Luther King-like preacher and his overstressed wife find the cracks in their marriage increasingly tough to overlook in Fireflies, Donja R. Love’s overwrought Civil Rights-era two-hander whose melodramatic overload proves distressingly underwhelming.
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THE LAST FIVE YEARS
Saturday, June 8th, 2019
If you’re any kind of musical theater buff, you’ve probably seen Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years at least once. But trust me. You’ve never seen, heard, or breathed in anything like The Last Five Years: A Multisensory Experience, the latest from the adventurous After Hours Theatre Company.
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THE LAST FIVE YEARS
Thursday, May 30th, 2019
The Last Five Years, Jason Robert Brown’s exquisite musical two-hander, showcases UCLA talent to stunning effect as part of Pacific Resident Theatre’s Sunday Concert Series in the company’s newly inaugurated intimate cabaret space.
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SHEEPDOG
Monday, April 22nd, 2019
UNARMED BLACK TEEN SHOT, KILLED BY POLICE The headline happens to come from the June 20, 2018 issue of USA Today, but it could just as well describe the shooting experienced first-hand by Cleveland police officers Ryan and Amina in Kevin Artigue’s conversation-provoking Sheepdog, a gut-punching South Coast Repertory World Premiere.
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TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE
Tuesday, February 26th, 2019
A dying septuagenarian college professor with life lessons to impart. A career-obsessed 30something sports reporter in dire need of them. Welcome to Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom’s stage adaptation of Albom’s international best-seller Tuesdays With Morrie, a chuckles-inducing, crowd-pleasing tear-jerker from Sierra Madre Playhouse.
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PARADISE
Monday, January 28th, 2019
A Columbia University professor reduced to teaching science in an overcrowded, underfunded Bronx high school and a Muslim-American student with dreams far loftier than her Yemeni immigrant family are likely ever to allow. From these two disparate, desperate souls, Laura Maria Censabella has written Paradise, as intelligent, thought-provoking, compelling, heartbreaking, and satisfying a two-hander as I’ve seen in a good long while.
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YES, VIRGINIA
Monday, December 17th, 2018Mindy Sterling and Arnetia Walker do some late-ish-in-life female bonding on New Year’s Eve in Stan Zimmerman and Christian McLaughlin’s feel-good holiday two-hander Yes, Virginia, the latest from Pop-Up Playhouse.
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