TACOS LA BROOKLYN
Friday, October 13th, 2023
A 20something Korean-American taco stand owner finds himself on the receiving end of a Chicana influencer’s social media campaign against gentrification in Joel Ulloa’s hilarious, conversation-starting culture-clash comedy Tacos La Brooklyn, thrillingly staged at the Los Angeles Theatre Center by Latino Theater Company in association with East West Players.
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KILL SHELTER: THE RED CAST
Saturday, September 30th, 2023
A return visit to Theatre Of NOTE to catch the “Red Cast” in Ashley Rose Wellman’s Kill Shelter provides additional proof that (to quote from my original review) this is “not only one of the most remarkable new plays I’ve seen in a very long time, it’s the best Theatre of NOTE production I’ve reviewed since the company’s streak of winners in the mid-2010s.”
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MEASURE STILL FOR MEASURE
Sunday, September 17th, 2023
Rehearsals for Shakespeare’s Measure For Measure have life imitating art in Jessica Kubzansky’s Measure Still For Measure, a sensational Boston Court World Premiere that takes backstage drama to a whole new level.
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THE RIGHT IS OURS
Saturday, September 16th, 2023Tuneful songs and terrific performances do their utmost to overcome a by-the-numbers book and workshop-level production values in the Sierra Madre Playhouse World Premiere of The Right Is Ours, aka The Suffragette Musical.
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WALKING IN SPACE
Saturday, September 9th, 2023
Four young adult siblings confront their drug-addicted mother to shattering effect in Walking In Space, Gary Michael Kruger’s powerful, fact-based follow-up to his Best-of-2016 winner A Thorn In The Family Paw.
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KILL SHELTER: THE BLUE CAST
Saturday, September 2nd, 2023
Not only is Ashley Rose Wellman’s Kill Shelter one of the most remarkable new plays I’ve seen in a very long time, it’s the best Theatre of NOTE production I’ve reviewed since the company’s streak of winners in the mid-2010s.
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HUNGRY GHOST
Tuesday, August 29th, 2023A pregnant woman is visited nightly by the Stevie Nicks-loving adult ghost of her as yet unborn child in Hungry Ghost, Lisa Sanaye Dring’s surreal, supernatural head-scratcher of a play now getting its Skylight Theatre Company World Premiere.
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EXIT WOUNDS
Saturday, August 26th, 2023
A father at the end of his rope seeks help for his delinquent teenage son from a woman he hasn’t seen in twenty-five years in Wendy Graf’s compelling, cathartic family drama Exit Wounds, now getting an absorbing World Premiere at Long Beach’s International City Theatre.
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