GROUP THERAPY
Sunday, July 23rd, 2023
A therapist’s waiting room provides No Exit for two impatient patients—and the sudden arrival of a third individual makes things a whole lot dicier—in Group Therapy, Peter Lefcourt’s latest World Premiere gem, a guest production at North Hollywood’s spiffily refurbished Theatre 68 Arts Complex.
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THE ANTS
Monday, July 3rd, 2023Ramiz Monsef’s horror play The Ants, now getting its World Premiere at the Geffen, has a gripping, suspenseful midsection. Its bizarre opening sequence and its even weirder, seemingly endless final scene are another matter.
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ACCOMMODATION
Monday, June 19th, 2023
A veteran high school teacher, a concerned parent, and a school administrator caught between them square off on how best to educate a 9th-grader with ADHD in Greg Burdick’s gripping, talk-provoking Accommodation, now being given a playwright’s dream of a World Premiere production at the Odyssey.
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BACK PORCH
Saturday, June 3rd, 2023
Playwright Eric Anderson pays affectionate tribute to William Inge in Back Porch, the play Inge might himself have written had mid-20th-century Middle America not kept the gay Kansan locked tightly in the closet.
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A TRANSPARENT MUSICAL
Friday, June 2nd, 2023Center Theatre Group celebrates diversity just in time for Pride Month with A Transparent Musical, an exhilarating but overlong adaptation of the hit TV series Transparent.
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NO PLACE LIKE GANDERSHEIM
Sunday, May 28th, 2023A terrific cast score plenty of laughs in No Place Like Gandersheim, Elizabeth Dement’s time-traveling screwball feminist farce, but the Skylight Theatre World Premiere tries too hard to do too much for it to work the way it should.
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THE BOTTOMING PROCESS
Friday, May 19th, 2023Nicholas Pilapil’s The Bottoming Process may start off as an engaging contemporary gay romcom in the same vein as Fire Island and Bros but what it ends up being is a playwright’s rancor-fueled diatribe.
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ON THIS SIDE OF THE WORLD
Wednesday, May 17th, 2023The performances are sparkling, the melodies are tuneful, and the show’s heart is in the right place, but without a plot, dialog, or interconnected characters to keep an audience spellbound, a nearly two-and-a-half-hour running time is much too long for a song cycle like Paulo K Tiról and Noam Shapiro’s On This Side Of The World.
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