WITNESS UGANDA
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
A gay black NYU student heads off to Africa to help build a school only to come back transformed for life in Witness Uganda, Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews’ off-Broadway “Documentary Musical” thrillingly performed and excitingly restaged for L.A. audiences at Beverly Hills’ Wallis Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts.
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IT IS DONE
Friday, February 1st, 2019
Sparks fly in the most horrifyingly unexpected of ways in a seedy bar ninety miles from nowhere in Alex Goldberg’s edge-of-your-seat chiller It Is Done, the risk-taking latest from Beverly Hills’ venerable Theatre 40.
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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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LOVE ACTUALLY LIVE
Thursday, December 13th, 2018
Forget about streaming it on Netflix for the umpteen December or pulling out your much viewed DVD for another annual look-see. Instead, run, don’t walk to Beverly Hills for The Wallis & For The Record’s Love Actually Live.
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BUS STOP
Friday, December 7th, 2018
No one wrote about 1950s middle-America more accurately, astringently, and affectionately than “Playwright of the Midwest” William Inge, proof positive of which can now be seen in Theatre 40’s absolutely terrific revival of Inge’s 1955 gem. (read more)
FINKS
Tuesday, November 27th, 2018
Joe McCarthy’s Communist witch hunts and the ensuing Hollywood blacklist may have seemed misty water-colored memories of sixty-year-old injustices when Joe Gilford’s Finks made its off-Broadway debut in the Obama-era early 2010s. Such is not the case a half dozen-years later, just one of many reasons not to miss its searing Los Angeles Premiere at Rogue Machine Theatre.
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OPPENHEIMER
Tuesday, November 27th, 2018
Epic in scope. As cinematic as it is theatrical. A lesson in history and a cautionary tale for future generations. Tim Morton-Smith’s monumental bio-drama Oppenheimer is all this and a spectacular achievement for Rogue Machine Theatre in its American Premiere.
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STEAMBATH
Saturday, November 24th, 2018Six towel-clad men and one similarly draped young woman kvetch about the insignificant lives they have left behind as they await who knows what lies ahead in Bruce Jay Friedman’s Steambath, an only fitfully diverting Odyssey Theatre Ensemble revival of a 1970 off-Broadway play that, even with Anthony Perkins as its star, couldn’t manage to make it past 128 performances.
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