@PLAYAZ
Sunday, November 14th, 2021
A trio of adult gamers face post-lockdown challenges in Dana Schwartz’s engaging World Premiere comedy @Playaz, a play so of-the-moment it seems incredible that the 2019 O’Neill Finalist was originally written pre-Covid.
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A HIT DOG WILL HOLLER
Saturday, November 13th, 2021
Sparks fly, terrors are confronted, and truths are revealed to powerful effect when an African-American social media activist opens her door to a stranger in the World Premiere of Inda Craig Galván’s A Hit Dog Will Holler, a Playwrights Arena/Skylight Theatre Company co-production at the Skylight.
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WAITING IN THE WINGS: THE MUSICAL
Monday, November 8th, 2021A Montana gay boy with stardom in his eyes gets accidentally cast in an off-off-off-Broadway male strip show and multiple complications ensue in the stage adaptation of Jeffrey A. Johns’ 2016 movie musical hit Waiting In The Wings, now getting its World Premiere at Westminster’s Rose Center Theater.
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POOR CLARE
Sunday, October 24th, 2021
Contemporary speak proves an ideal fit for Poor Clare, Chiara Atik’s screwball-comedy look at a 13th-century Paris Hilton who gave it all up for God and ended up a Saint.
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THE CALORIE COUNTERS
Saturday, October 23rd, 2021Excess pounds may be no laughing matter, but playwright Molly Wagner finds equal parts comedy and drama in a 20something’s efforts to shed them in The Calorie Counters, a crowd-pleasing Loft Ensemble World Premiere.
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THE NINTH DOOR
Sunday, October 10th, 2021
A playwright/actor’s two Marine Corps deployments in Afghanistan inform Matthew Domenico and Katherine Connor Duff’s The Ninth Door, now holding audiences riveted at West Hollywood’s The Other Space.
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ASCENSION
Friday, October 8th, 2021D.G. Watson’s trippy Ascension may run a good fifteen minutes too long and leave an audience wondering what on earth this “immersive, interactive, sci-fi mystery thriller” was all about, but the Echo Theater Company World Premiere is nothing if not different, and a terrific showcase for its designers.
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AS GOOD AS GOLD
Sunday, September 26th, 2021Theatre 40 opens its 2021-2022 season with Marilyn Anderson’s As Good As Gold, a Hollywood satire not nearly as good as the solid gold cast who do their darnedest to make it shine.
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