BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA
Sunday, September 24th, 2023
A lifetime of failed opportunities to connect weighs heavy on the hearts of the father-daughter protagonists of Anna Ouyang Moench’s haunting Birds Of North America, exquisitely acted by Arye Gross and Jacqueline Misaye at the Odyssey Theatre.
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OUR DEAR DEAD DRUG LORD
Tuesday, August 29th, 2023The four complex, authentic teen characters Alexis Scheer has created and the direction, performances, and design of Our Dear Dead Drug Lord’s West Coast Premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre are all so rave-worthy, it’s disappointing that the play’s gratuitously violent, deliberately unintelligible, and “WTF is that supposed to mean?” last twenty minutes are not.
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A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
Tuesday, August 29th, 2023
Arthur Miller and Santa Monica’s Ruskin Group Theatre once again prove a match made in heaven with A View From The Bridge, magnificently performed in an intimate staging that turns every single audience member into a fly on the wall of this gritty Greek tragedy set on the waterfront of 1950s Brooklyn.
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A PERFECT GANESH
Tuesday, August 15th, 2023Theatricum Botanicum takes a break from the Bard in its otherwise entirely Shakespearean 2023 season with Terrence McNally’s A Perfect Ganesh, a play not nearly as appealing as McNally’s Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, It’s Only A Play, Master Class, Corpus Christi, and Love! Valour! Compassion!
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DORIS AND IVY IN THE HOME
Monday, August 7th, 2023
Norm Foster invites audiences to spend a couple of hours with Doris And Ivy In The Home, the prolific Canadian playwright’s latest laugh-packed crowd-pleaser at Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40.
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IN THE HEIGHTS
Tuesday, July 11th, 2023Spirited performances make In The Heights, Lin Manuel Miranda’s celebration of life in New York’s Washington Heights, a Morgan-Wixson Theatre crowd-pleaser, however the production loses points for its lighting and sound designs.
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THE ANTS
Monday, July 3rd, 2023Ramiz Monsef’s horror play The Ants, now getting its World Premiere at the Geffen, has a gripping, suspenseful midsection. Its bizarre opening sequence and its even weirder, seemingly endless final scene are another matter.
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ACCOMMODATION
Monday, June 19th, 2023
A veteran high school teacher, a concerned parent, and a school administrator caught between them square off on how best to educate a 9th-grader with ADHD in Greg Burdick’s gripping, talk-provoking Accommodation, now being given a playwright’s dream of a World Premiere production at the Odyssey.
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