SOMEONE LIKE ME / IN WHOSE EYES?
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024Art Of Acting Studio debuts two very different World Premiere one-acts, Richard Gustin’s Someone Like Me and George Kappaz’s In Whose Eyes?, and in the case of the former, you’ll be seeing a quite different play than the one reviewed here.
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¡PASAJE!
Monday, October 14th, 2024If I were grading on good intentions alone, then J Quiroz and Asdru Sierra’s ¡Pasaje! would earn high marks. Unfortunately, this musical salute to la vida latina in South El Monte is no In The Heights.
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JANE AUSTEN IN 89 MINUTES
Monday, September 30th, 2024
Jane Austen fans are guaranteed to go gaga for Jane Austen In 89 Minutes, Syrie James’s deliciously clever retelling of every single novel Jane ever published, now getting a scintillatingly performed World Premiere production at Theatre 40.
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BROOKLYN’S WAY
Sunday, September 22nd, 2024An on-fire Amye Partain is a definite find, but an off-putting male protagonist, an overly tangled time frame, and an approach that takes meta to the extreme do neither the play’s leading lady nor the audience any favors in Sam Henry Kass’s Brooklyn’s Way, a Theatre 68 World Premiere.
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A GOOD GUY
Monday, September 16th, 2024
Playwright David Rambo tackles the hot-button topic of school shootings from the point of view of a teacher who takes matters into her own hands in A Good Guy, a gripping, suspenseful, surprise twist-packed Rogue Machine World Premiere.
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THE CIVILITY OF ALBERT CASHIER
Monday, September 9th, 2024
There have been a handful of musicals about the American Civil War, but probably never one as eye-opening, entertaining, or emotionally powerful as The Civility Of Albert Cashier, the truth-is-stranger-than fiction Civil War musical now enthralling audiences at Burbank’s Colony Theatre.
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HAPPY FALL: A QUEER STUNT SPECTACULAR
Friday, August 30th, 2024The stunts, the puppetry, and the multimedia effects are indeed spectacular, but Lisa Sanaye Dring and Rogue Artists Ensemble’s Happy Fall: A Queer Stunt Spectacular ends up biting off more than it can chew in combining all of the above with the doomed love story of two gay stuntmen, one proudly out, one deeply closeted, in an industry where being heterosexual is a must.
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MEDEA COMES TO OUR TOWN
Tuesday, August 27th, 2024Euripides’ murderous mama visits Thornton Wilder’s iconic New England burg in the aptly titled Medea Comes To Our Town, and if you’re a theater trivia whiz who loves the two aforementioned playwrights equally, Tony Foster’s clever mashup of their chefs-d’oeuvre will be right up your alley. I enjoyed most of it quite a lot.
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