Posts Tagged ‘Center Theatre Group’
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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MATTHEW BOURNE’S SWAN LAKE
Wednesday, December 11th, 2019
Choreographer extraordinaire Matthew Bourne returns to the Ahmanson with his thrillingly original take on Swan Lake, the Tchaikovsky ballet that first put Bourne’s name on the dance map in the 1990s with its stageful of bare-chested male swans and the handsome prince who found himself smitten with their seductive leader.
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AUGUST WILSON’S JITNEY
Monday, November 25th, 2019
Father-son conflict, romantic friction, and the threat of imminent unemployment ignite dramatic sparks amidst tension-relieving laughter in August Wilson’s Jitney, whose 2017 Broadway debut now visits the Mark Taper Forum after a well-earned Best Revival Tony win.
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THE NEW ONE
Saturday, October 26th, 2019
Stand-up comedy at the Ahmanson? Say what?
Now before you rush to judgment, be aware that the stand-up comic in question is actor-director-producer-writer Mike Birbiglia and The New One, the show he’s now touring the country with, comes direct from a successful run on Broadway no less. In other words, if you can afford $35 to $145 per ticket, you won’t find eighty more entertaining, relatable, ultimately powerful minutes of solo-performance theater in town.
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LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS
Tuesday, September 10th, 2019
If John Leguizamo’s Latin History For Morons sounds like it’s going to be nothing more than a light-hearted accumulation of dates and names and facts we all ought to know but don’t, think again. Though Leguizamo’s one-man show is indeed as funny and elucidating as any theater-going moron could wish for, it’s also a justifiably rage-filled attack on those who’d rather see his people erased not just from history books (as they already are) but from America itself.
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