HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
The Grinch has been stealing Christmas for the past fifty-two years, ever since the now classic Dr. Seuss children’s book first hit the stands, yet who would have thought then that the curmudgeonly cave-dweller with a heart “two sizes too small” would go on to conquer the small screen (in a 1966 animated special featuring the voice of Boris Karloff as the Grinch), the big screen (Jim Carrey played the hairy Green One in 2000), and even Broadway (in musical theater form in 2006 and ’07)? Not even Dr. Seuss himself could have imagined such a future for his 1957 picture book.
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THE NEW CENTURY
Sunday, December 6th, 2009
Paul Rudnick fans will be in gay theater heaven for the month of December as the playwright’s latest comedy, The New Century, gets its West Coast Premiere at San Diego’s Diversionary Theatre in a terrific production under the able direction of Igor Goldin.
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A RUBICON FAMILY CHRISTMAS
Saturday, December 5th, 2009
A Rubicon Family Christmas is back for a second year with most of its sensational 2008 cast intact, good tidings indeed for Ventura residents and Angelinos alike. Even better news for those who saw and loved last December’s concert (but may have reservations about seeing it a second time) is that almost half its songs are new for 2009, making this hour-and-a-half of holiday favorites must-see Christmas entertainment for absolutely everyone in search of holiday cheer. Though L.A. stages will soon be filled with A Christmas Carols and holiday-themed comedies galore, the Rubicon is the place to go for music of the season, especially as performed by six of the finest musical theater talents the Southland has to offer.
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PETER PAN
Friday, December 4th, 2009
Peter Pan is back in a spectacular new production which heralds the arrival of Southern California’s most exciting new professional theater company—3-D Theatricals.
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THE SANTALAND DIARIES
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
For any December theatergoer who’s ever said, “Not another Christmas Carol!”, The Blank Theatre offers the perfect holiday solution—Nicholas Brendon in David Sedaris’s The SantaLand Diaries, the true story of Sedaris’s humiliating but hilarious-in-retrospect stint as a Christmas elf at New York City Macy’s “SantaLand.”
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EXTINCTION
Sunday, November 29th, 2009
In Gabe McKinley’s deep-dark world premiere comedic drama Extinction, now playing at the Elephant Space in Hollywood, it is not an endangered species that faces the end of its days but rather the longtime friendship of Max and Finn, best buds since college. These two 30ish compadres have been spending their vacations together in Atlantic City since their undergrad days, drinking, drugging, and girl-hunting, but as Bob Dylan once put it, “The times they are a-changin.’” What happens when best friends’ paths in life diverge, one leaving the other in the lurch? Ask yourself this question: How would you react if your closest friend told you that he’d moved on? How far would you go to save this friendship, or failing that, to destroy it forever?
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KIDNAPPED BY CRAIGSLIST
Sunday, November 29th, 2009
A gorgeous barker/ringmaster/dominatrix rises out of wooden box and asks the assembled audience: Do you want to find a date? Sell your couch? Engage in sexual fantasies? Expose unspeakable secrets? She is soon surrounded by a band of loonies, including a woman wearing a saucepan as a hat—“It keeps the aliens out.” “Where are we?” you ask yourself, before realizing the obvious truth. We’re in the wacky world of Craigslist, as seen by Katie Goan and Nitra Gutierrez in their outrageously funny one-act, Kidnapped By Craigslist, now getting its West Coast Premiere in a snazzy production by the illustrious TheSpyAnts.
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WINTER WONDERETTES
Saturday, November 28th, 2009
The marvelous foursome known as the Wonderettes are back in town just in time for the holidays, making this is the best kind of news for theatergoers in search of Christmas cheer. Like The Marvelous Wonderettes, the show that made them famous, Winter Wonderettes is two acts of comedy, harmony, and nostalgia, and a seasonal treat for old and young alike.
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