FOSTERED
Tuesday, June 17th, 2025
A soap opera’s worth of family secrets and lies come to hilarious life in Chaya Doswell’s Fostered, the Ken Ludwig-worthy farce now tickling audiences’ funny bones at Venice’s Pacific Resident Theatre.
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LEAR REDUX
Monday, June 2nd, 2025
A stage-and-screen legend battles dementia and a couple of greedy offspring remarkably similar to those of a legendary Shakespearean monarch in Lear Redux, the audacious, imaginative latest from adapter-director-choreographer John Farmanesh-Bocca, now getting a stunning World Premiere at the Odyssey.
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FLASHES OF LIGHT
Tuesday, May 27th, 2025It takes chutzpah to juxtapose Greek mythology with 20th-century American history, but this is precisely what the creators of the tuneful World Premiere musical Flashes Of Light have done on the Sierra Madre Playhouse stage, albeit more successfully in the show’s delightful first act than in its more far-out second half.
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HIDE & HIDE
Sunday, May 18th, 2025
The American Dream ends up little more than an urban legend for the two star-crossed protagonists of Roger Q. Mason’s compelling, heart-rending two-hander Hide & Hide, a sensationally acted, directed, and designed Skylight Theater World Premiere.
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TASTY LITTLE RABBIT
Saturday, May 10th, 2025
Is it pornography or is it art? That is the question posed by prolific playwright Tom Jacobson in his provocative latest, Tasty Little Rabbit, now tantalizing audiences at Moving Arts.
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CORKTOWN ’39
Sunday, April 20th, 2025
Tensions reach a breaking point when an Irish-American family finds itself knee-deep in an assassination plot in John Fazakerley’s slow-boiling thriller Corktown ‘39, another sensational Rogue Machine Theatre Company World Premiere.
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MEMORY LANE IS A DESERT ROAD
Sunday, April 6th, 2025
A daughter sifts through her war correspondent father’s photos to better understand his life and her own in Nabra Nelson and Michael B. Nelson’s autobiographical gem Memory Lane Is A Desert Road, a World Premiere drama strikingly staged and terrifically performed by the young artists of Eight Ball Theatre.
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