Posts Tagged ‘Odyssey Theatre’
THE PITCH
Monday, July 29th, 2024A widowed single father finds himself in hot water with the IRS soon after embarking on a phone sales job he seems woefully ill suited for in Tom Alper’s overly padded but mostly entertaining The Pitch, an Odyssey Theatre visiting production.
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OPHELIA
Saturday, April 13th, 2024
Award-winning writer-director-actor-designer Stefan Marks is back, and wearing all four hats at once, with Ophelia, his latest blend of theatrical magic, whimsy, and profundity.
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BRUSHSTROKE
Monday, January 29th, 2024
There’s nothing quite like a book, movie, TV show or play that has audiences gasping “I did not see that coming.” Case in point: John Ross Bowie’s World Premiere wow of a comedy thriller, Brushstroke, now getting a world-class World Premiere at the Odyssey.
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ACCOMMODATION
Monday, June 19th, 2023
A veteran high school teacher, a concerned parent, and a school administrator caught between them square off on how best to educate a 9th-grader with ADHD in Greg Burdick’s gripping, talk-provoking Accommodation, now being given a playwright’s dream of a World Premiere production at the Odyssey.
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REMEMBERING THE FUTURE
Monday, August 1st, 2022
Imagine if the person you were at age 18 could tell 58-year-old you exactly what they think of your life choices. Playwright Peter Lefcourt does precisely this in his entertaining new “existential comedy” Remembering The Future, now tantalizing audiences with “What ifs” at the Odyssey Theatre.
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GOD OF CARNAGE
Sunday, May 22nd, 2022
Yasmina Reza’s God Of Carnage has returned to Los Angeles eleven years after it broke Ahmanson box office records, this time round at the Odyssey Theatre, an intimate setting that better suits Reza’s hilariously edgy comedy of manners (and lack thereof), terrifically performed by a crackerjack ensemble of four.
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A PUBLIC READING OF AN UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY ABOUT THE DEATH OF WALT DISNEY
Monday, March 28th, 2022There may well be a compelling play to be written about Walt Disney’s life, but Lucas Hnath’s A Public Reading of An Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney is not that play.
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