Posts Tagged ‘Center Theatre Group’
KING JAMES
Thursday, June 9th, 2022
Two young men forge a life-changing best-friendship thanks to their shared love of basketball (and more specifically of b-ball superstar LeBron James) in Rajiv Joseph’s heart-stopping brom-com King James, now bringing audiences to their feet at the Mark Taper Forum.
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TAMBO & BONES
Sunday, May 8th, 2022Dave Harris’s Tambo & Bones, a Center Theatre Group World Premiere, takes black anger against white America to such extremes that sitting through ninety minutes of it had me wishing I were anyone other than inside the Kirk Douglas Theatre. And it didn’t help that at least forty-five of its ninety minutes are devoted to ear-splitting, N-word/expletive-filled rap.
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HADESTOWN
Friday, April 29th, 2022
Like Rent, Spring Awakening, and Hamilton before it, Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, the 2019 Tony winner for Best Musical, revitalizes the genre in the most electrifyingly original of ways.
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BLUES FOR AN ALABAMA SKY
Saturday, April 16th, 2022
Love, hate, and jealousy. Pearl Cleage’s Blues For An Alabama Sky has them all, and an abundance of laughs to boot, in Center Theatre Group’s sensatinal revival of the Atlanta-based playwright’s 1995 hit, directed by none other than its original Alliance Theatre Company star Phylicia Rashad.
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SLAVE PLAY
Thursday, February 17th, 2022
A trio of interracial couples let it all hang out in group therapy as Center Theatre Group presents the Broadway production of Jeremy O. Harris’s daringly provocative, deliberately discomforting, and frequently damn funny Slave Play.
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EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, the feel-fabulous West End musical hit, has arrived in Los Angeles, an across-the-pond stop in its 2022 UK tour that’s worthy of an all-out L.A. celebration.
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Thursday, December 2nd, 2021
No matter how many A Christmas Carols you’ve sat through (whether voluntarily or under family duress), the multiple-Tony-winning production whose National Tour marks the grand reopening of the Ahmanson Theater is likely to be the most wildly imaginative, profoundly moving A Christmas Carol you’ve ever seen, or ever will see, performed live on stage.
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THE LAST SHIP
Thursday, January 23rd, 2020
Sting celebrates his working-class Northern English roots in The Last Ship, the pop superstar’s gloriously scored-and-sung new(ish) musical, now bringing Ahmanson audiences to their feet.
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