Posts Tagged ‘IAMA Theatre Company’
CANYON
Saturday, March 2nd, 2019Memories of the way we were pre-Election 2016 ignite Jonathan Caren’s Canyon, the explosive latest from IAMA Theatre Company, Latino Theater Company, and the playwright who gave IAMA its much-awarded The Recommendation a half-dozen or so years back.
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AMERICAN HERO
Saturday, October 6th, 2018Times are tough for the heroic “sandwich artists” of Bess Wohl’s absurdist, existentialist, surrealist, and non-stop hilarious American Hero, the latest Los Angeles Premiere from IAMA Theatre Company.
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CULT OF LOVE
Friday, May 25th, 2018There’s no place like home for a dysfunctional family Christmas as playwright Leslye Headland makes abundantly clear in her gripping, talk-provoking, edge-of-your-seat hilarious Cult Of Love, the long-awaited final installment of her Seven Deadly Plays, the series of vice-based black comedies that put both Headland and IAMA Theatre Company on the map.
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SINNER’S LAUNDRY
Monday, October 30th, 2017No playwright could ask for a better cast or finer production design than IAMA Theatre Company has given John Lavelle’s Sinner’s Laundry. Audiences, on the other hand, may find themselves leaving the Lounge Theatre clueless to the message, meaning, or simple raison d’être of Lavelle’s World Premiere absurdist existentialist comedy. I certainly did.
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REDLINE
Sunday, October 29th, 2017A decades-estranged father and son meet for the first time since a car crash ripped their family to shreds in Christian Durso’s gripping, emotionally-charged Redline, an IAMA Theatre Company World Premiere that held me in its grip from the bombshell revelation that sets it in motion to its life-and-death final seconds.
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SPECIES NATIVE TO CALIFORNIA
Sunday, May 14th, 2017Imagine if Chekhov had set The Cherry Orchard in 21st-century Mendocino County and you’ve got Dorothy Fortenberry’s Species Native To California, am IAMA Theatre Company World Premiere dramedy that proves that every good story is worth a good retelling.
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UNBOUND
Sunday, November 20th, 2016Sympathy-defying characters in credibility-challenging situations make D.G. Watson’s Unbound a less than riveting follow-up to IAMA Theatre Company hits like A Dog’s House, The Recommendation, and The Accidental Blonde.
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A DOG’S HOUSE
Monday, March 30th, 2015The webs we weave when first we practice to deceive don’t get any more tangled than the latticework of lies one couple tells another in Micah Schraft’s A Dog’s House, the latest IAMA Theatre Company World Premiere, and every bit the hilariously edgy, high-impact experience IAMA has been offering L.A. audiences for the past eight years.
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