SUNDAY DINNER
Friday, January 31st, 2020
An abundance of secrets and lies get revealed over the course of one eventful evening in Tony Blake’s funny, engaging, twist-filled Sunday Dinner, now getting a spiffy, splendidly acted World Premiere production at Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40.
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IT’S ONLY A PLAY
Sunday, January 19th, 2020
If you love live theater and the people who make it, you will absolutely adore Morgan-Wixson Theatre’s delectable latest, and even if you don’t know Ben Brantley from Ben Franklin, you’ll have a smashingly good time at Terrence McNally’s It’s Only A Play.
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EARTHQUAKES IN LONDON
Friday, January 17th, 2020
Epic in its scope and timeframe, intimate in its intersecting family dramas, bleak in its depiction of a world doomed by climate change, and as thrillingly theatrical as stage storytelling gets, Rogue Machine’s West Coast Premiere of Mike Bartlett’s Earthquakes In London is sure to be one of the season’s most talked-about productions.
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BAD HABITS
Monday, January 6th, 2020
A nonagenarian TV legend spars with a quintet of salty-tongued singing nuns in Steve Mazur’s comedic crowd-pleaser Bad Habits, a holiday hit for Santa Monica’s Ruskin Group Theatre held over to start 2020 with a bang.
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DISPOSABLE NECESSITIES
Sunday, December 15th, 2019
Playwright Neil McGowan gives a futuristic spin to the age-old question “What would you do if you could live forever?” in his gender-bending, race-bending, relentlessly clever dark comedy Disposable Necessities, a Rogue Machine Theatre World Premiere.
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LOVE ACTUALLY LIVE
Thursday, December 5th, 2019
Love Actually Live is back, and even if you were fortunate enough to savor its every magical musical minute last Christmas at The Wallis, a cast that’s two-thirds new for 2019 makes this year’s reincarnation that much more of a holiday must-see.
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KEY LARGO
Saturday, November 16th, 2019
The Geffen Playhouse reboots a 1948 black-and-white movie classic live in living color in Jeffrey Hatcher and Andy Garcia’s rip-roaring World Premiere stage adaptation of the Bogie-&-Bacall suspense thriller Key Largo, directed with abundant flair by Tony winner Doug Hughes.
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THE DROWSY CHAPERONE
Monday, October 7th, 2019
A veritable who’s who of Morgan-Wixson Theatre regulars, a director on a roll, and a crackerjack team of production designers join forces to make Broadway’s The Drowsy Chaperone the all-around best Morgan-Wixson musical I’ve reviewed since first raving about their Thoroughly Modern Millie back in 2009.
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