THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE
Sunday, July 14th, 2024Five years after his acclaimed star turn as Willy Loman, Rob Morrow returns to the Ruskin Group Theatre in another powerhouse role, that of Holocaust survivor-turned-New York publisher Isaac Geldhart in Jon Robin Baitz’s The Substance Of Fire, a family drama unfortunately not in the same league as Death Of A Salesman.
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THE SPY WHO WENT INTO REHAB
Tuesday, July 9th, 2024
A debonair British secret agent faces his evilest and most nefarious foe, i.e., his own alcohol, nicotine, gambling, and sex addictions (with anger issues thrown in for good measure), in Gregg Ostrin’s deliciously clever, fiendishly funny The Spy Who Went Into Rehab, the latest from Pacific Resident Theatre.
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DESIGN FOR LIVING
Sunday, July 7th, 2024An Americanized trio of romantic protagonists and a gay subtext made explicit are two reasons Odyssey Theatre Ensemble’s provocative but problematic staging of Noël Coward’s Design For Living is a far cry from the one Broadway audiences first discovered back in 1933.
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THE EXPLORERS CLUB
Tuesday, May 28th, 2024
Things get wild and wacky when a comely female anthropologist is proposed for membership in a heretofore all-male scientific society in Nell Benjamin’s madcap Victorian romp The Explorers Club, now getting a delectably acted West Coast Premiere at Theatre 40.
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THE BALD SOPRANO
Monday, April 29th, 2024Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco invented a whole new genre of comedy back in 1950 with his théâtre de l’absurde ground-breaker The Bald Soprano, and if its 2024 City Garage revival is still rough around the edges as of opening weekend, there remains plenty to entertain an audience.
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OPHELIA
Saturday, April 13th, 2024
Award-winning writer-director-actor-designer Stefan Marks is back, and wearing all four hats at once, with Ophelia, his latest blend of theatrical magic, whimsy, and profundity.
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FAT HAM
Sunday, April 7th, 2024
Risk-taking, rule-breaking, exuberant joie de playwriting won James Ijames the Pulitzer Prize for his contemporary comedic queer African-American take on Hamlet, Fat Ham, now blowing audiences’ minds at the Geffen Playhouse.
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A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
Monday, April 1st, 2024
Pulitzer Prize winner Arthur Miller ignites fires of lust, jealousy, and revenge at Theatre Palisades in A View From The Bridge, a community theater stunner whose riveting performances and spot-on direction rival the best that L.A. equity houses have to offer.
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