Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
I WANT A COUNTRY
Monday, February 10th, 2025
Eleven characters in search of a land they can call home meet a director with a singular vision in Greek playwright Andreas Flourakis’s remarkably topical I Want A Country, the latest from City Garage Theatre.
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AVENUE Q
Sunday, February 9th, 2025
All-around fabulous performances and an excitingly innovative production design combine to make Wisteria Theater Company’s Avenue Q a musical-comedy must-see.
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NOISES OFF
Saturday, February 8th, 2025
Westwood’s esteemed Geffen Playhouse and Chicago’s illustrious Steppenwolf Theatre Company join creative forces to give L.A. audiences a fabulously entertaining revival of what may well be the most inventive and uproarious farce ever written, Michael Frayn’s Noises Off.
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FAKE IT UNTIL YOU MAKE IT
Friday, February 7th, 2025Multiple mistaken identities, a slew of slammed doors, and plenty of physical comedy spark Larissa FastHorse’s hilarious if not quite fabulous World Premiere satiric culture-clash farce Fake It Until You Make It at the Mark Taper Forum.
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THE BROTHERS ABELSON SINCE 1946
Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
Dramatic fireworks explode when a 26-year-old New York-based graphic novelist is summoned back to the family home in Dennis Danziger’s powerful autobiographical three-hander The Brothers Abelson Since 1942, a guest production at Venice’s Electric Lodge.
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EVANSTON SALT COSTS CLIMBING
Saturday, February 1st, 2025Characters whose eccentricities are carried to the extreme and a plot whose raison d’être escapes me are two reasons why Rogue Machine Theatre’s West Coast Premiere of Will Albery’s Evanston Salt Costs Climbing proves a major disappointment from the playwright and company who gave us one of 2023’s most critically acclaimed box office successes with Heroes Of The Fourth Turning.
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LISTING
Tuesday, January 28th, 2025
To renovate or not to renovate, that is the question when an early 20th-century architectural gem is put up for sale in Russell Brown’s Listing, an already absorbing drama when slowly but surely it reveals its true nature as one doozy of a thriller.
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THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
Sunday, January 26th, 2025
Everything goes right where laughter is concerned in The Play That Goes Wrong, the West End-to-Broadway comedy smash that that just might set a laughs-per-minute record at the La Mirada Theatre.
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