AVA: THE SECRET CONVERSATIONS
Saturday, April 15th, 2023
Elizabeth McGovern proves herself as accomplished a playwright as she is a gifted actress in Ava: The Secret Conversations, the Academy Award nominee’s fascinating look at the life and loves of screen goddess extraordinaire Ava Gardner.
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COLONIALISM IS TERRIBLE, BUT PHỞ IS DELICIOUS
Monday, April 10th, 2023
You don’t have to be a Vietnamese food fan to fall for Dustin H. Chinn’s culture clash comedy Colonialism is Terrible, But Phở is Delicious, now getting a tangy World Premiere production at Anaheim Hills’ Chance Theater.
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BLUE
Sunday, April 9th, 2023
Award-winning L.A. stage star June Carryl proves herself a playwright to be reckoned with in Rogue Machine’s Blue, a ripped-from-today’s-headlines stunner now riveting audiences in the Matrix Theatre’s ultra-intimate Henry Murray Stage.
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UNRIVALED
Sunday, March 26th, 2023I was often tickled but only occasionally engaged by the madcap antics and contemporary speak of the trio of 11th-century Japanese women whose friendship/enmity (frenmity?) Rosie Narasaki writes about in Unrivaled, now getting its World Premiere as a Boston Court Pasadena-Playwrights’ Arena co-production.
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DID YOU SEE WHAT WALTER PAISLEY DID TODAY?
Sunday, March 19th, 2023
Move over Little Shop Of Horrors. There’s a new killer musical in town and it’s Randy Rogel’s murderously clever dark-comedy gem Did You Hear What Walter Paisley Did Today?, now making its World Premiere debut at the La Mirada Theatre.
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THE LONELY FEW
Saturday, March 18th, 2023Tony-winning sensation Lauren Patten returns to SoCal theater as a queer musician trapped in smalltown Kentucky in The Lonely Few, a Geffen Playhouse World Premiere that shifts somewhat jarringly halfway through from a dramatic play interspersed with live rock club performances into a more traditional musical in which songs take the place of dialog.
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THE HUMAN COMEDY
Sunday, March 12th, 2023
Smalltown America circa WWII has rarely been brought to life as charmingly and powerfully, or staged as imaginatively as it is in Actors Co-op’s captivating World Premiere adaptation of William Saroyan’s The Human Comedy.
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COME GET MAGGIE
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023Rogue Machine Theatre’s World Premiere 1950s sci-fi spoof Come Get Maggie has almost everything a new original musical ought to have. It’s funny, it’s quirky, it’s clever, and it’s terrifically performed. What it lacks is an infectiously hummable score.
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