GO WEST
Saturday, June 26th, 2021Like its Motel 66 companion piece Head East, The Group Rep’s Go West offers L.A. audiences six short plays performed under NoHo skies, an evening of live theater worth checking out if only to quench a thirst left by what has seemed like an endless fifteen months without.
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HEAD EAST
Sunday, June 20th, 2021Theatergoers eager for an experience that feels both comfortingly familiar and excitingly new after a fifteen-month hiatus from live entertainment can now Head East (or Go West on alternate nights) for an evening of six short plays performed under NoHo skies in The Yard, the Group Rep’s newly constructed outdoor space next door to the membership company’s longtime home.
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WEST ADAMS
Monday, February 24th, 2020If your idea of a good time is spending eighty minutes with a bunch of downright disagreeable individuals doing some downright despicable deeds, you might want to check out West Adams, Skylight Theatre’s self-described “dark comedy about race, class, and bouncy houses.” Others might want to stick to their own neighborhood.
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THE $5 SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
Saturday, February 8th, 2020
Aficionados of L.A.’s intimate theater scene will find themselves in 99-seat heaven at The $5 Shakespeare Company, Matthew Leavitt’s ever so clever, ever so delightful World Premiere backstage comedy gem.
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SUNDAY DINNER
Friday, January 31st, 2020
An abundance of secrets and lies get revealed over the course of one eventful evening in Tony Blake’s funny, engaging, twist-filled Sunday Dinner, now getting a spiffy, splendidly acted World Premiere production at Beverly Hills’ Theatre 40.
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THE WATER TRIBE
Saturday, January 25th, 2020Playwright Don Cummings could well have titled his strange-but-never-boring new play Trainwreck rather than The Water Tribe because like an accident about to happen, you simply can’t take your eyes away from its hot mess of a female protagonist or Hannah Prichard’s tornado of a lead performance.
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RED INK
Monday, January 20th, 2020
What’s been happening to print journalism since the Internet took control could drive a newspaper person crazy, or so a certain alternative press reporter discovers quite literally in Steven Leigh Morris’s brand new play Red Ink, the exciting, adventurous latest from Playwrights’ Arena.
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BAD HABITS
Monday, January 6th, 2020
A nonagenarian TV legend spars with a quintet of salty-tongued singing nuns in Steve Mazur’s comedic crowd-pleaser Bad Habits, a holiday hit for Santa Monica’s Ruskin Group Theatre held over to start 2020 with a bang.
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