FLASHES OF LIGHT

Tuesday, May 27th, 2025

It 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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ONE FOR MY BABY

Tuesday, March 18th, 2025

A musical can have hit potential where songs, dances, performances, and production design are concerned, however without a compelling, coherent book to grab an audience, it can still end up a miss, case in point the 3-plus-hour-long retro jukebox musical One For My Baby, now getting its World Premiere at North Hollywood’s El Portal Theatre.
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SUCH SMALL HANDS

Sunday, March 9th, 2025


Adam Szymkowicz writes writes about Alzheimer’s from a spouse/caretaker’s point of view and does so with humor, compassion, and perception in Such Small Hands, a powerful Chance Theater World Premiere.
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FROU-FROU: A MENAGERIE OF SORTS

Monday, March 3rd, 2025


If Tennessee Williams were alive today, he might have written Frou-Frou: A Menagerie of Sorts, John Anthony Loffredo’s deliciously daring queer riff on Williams’ A Glass Menagerie, with a little bit of A Streetcar Named Desire testosterone (and some extended full-frontal male nudity) thrown in for seductive measure.
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