TWELVE O’CLOCK TALES WITH AVA GARDNER
Monday, January 23rd, 2023
Alessandra Assaf delivers a spellbinding solo turn as one of the most glamorous screen goddesses in Hollywood history in Twelve O’clock Tales with Ava Gardner, now playing Sunday matinees at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks.
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BROTHERS PLAY
Monday, January 16th, 2023
Traumatic childhood memories haunt a trio of 40something male siblings on a fateful Christmas Eve in Brothers Play, Matthew Doherty’s darkly comedic walloper now getting a spectacularly acted, directed, and designed World Premiere production at Legacy LA.
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LITTLE THEATRE
Sunday, December 18th, 2022
Justin Tanner’s ’90s-nostalgia-filled autobiographical gem Little Theatre once again showcases the prolific playwright’s gift for out-of-left-field laughs, especially when delivered by a couldn’t-be-better trio of Rogue Machine stars.
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INVINCIBLE – THE MUSICAL
Saturday, December 3rd, 2022
Power ballads and rock classics made famous in the ‘80s by the legendary Pat Benatar provide the pulsating soundtrack to Invincible – The Musical, Bradley Bredeweg’s edgy, exhilarating take on Shakespeare’s Romeo And Juliet, now getting its World Premiere at The Wallis in Beverly Hills.
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REMEMBERING BOYLE HEIGHTS: PART 2
Sunday, November 27th, 2022
Casa 0101 Theater’s Remembering Boyle Heights: Part 2 continues playwrights Josefina López and Corky Dominguez’s eye-opening look at events that helped shape the L.A. neighborhood’s identity as a center of Chicano-American culture.
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SMILE
Monday, November 14th, 2022A guidance counselor and a 17-year-old student find their lives intertwined to explosive effect in Melissa Jane Osborne’s Smile, an IAMA Theatre Company World Premiere as compelling as it is exasperating.
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ACCORDING TO THE CHORUS
Saturday, October 22nd, 2022
Backstage comedies pretty much have me at hello. No wonder then that I’ve fallen head over Capezios for According To The Chorus, Arlene Hutton’s captivating journey back in time to Broadway circa 1984, the latest World Premiere delight from North Hollywood’s Road Theatre Company.
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A CLEAN BRUSH
Monday, October 10th, 2022After having given a number of Norm Foster comedies their American or West Coast Premieres, Theatre 40 now gets first dibs on Foster’s latest. Unfortunately, A Fresh Brush proves one of the prolific comic master’s lesser efforts, but that doesn’t mean that its cast of Canadian oddballs don’t earn their fair share of chuckles.
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