Posts Tagged ‘Playwrights’ Arena’
THREE
Wednesday, February 21st, 2024If you’re a die-hard Chekhov fan, Nick Salamone’s 20th/21st-century “queer meditation” on the Russian playwright’s 124-year-old classic Three Sisters, a Playwrights’ Arena/Los Angeles LGBT Center World Premiere, will likely be more up your alley than it was mine.
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LAVENDER MEN
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022
Queer playwright Roger Q. Mason explores the love that dared not speak its name between Abraham Lincoln and his “close friend” Elmer Ellsworth in Lavender Men, at once a gay American history fantasia, a very public therapy session for its self-described “black, fat, femme” author, and one of the most stunning productions in town.
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APARTMENT LIVING
Sunday, March 20th, 2022
Playwright Boni B. Alvarez takes us back to the early months of the pandemic in Apartment Living, the latest Playwrights’ Arena/Skylight Theatre Company World Premiere, and assuming you’re okay with reliving those days of apprehension and uncertainty, Alvarez’s latest offers an adeptly balanced mix of comedy and drama, laughter and fears performed by an all-around fabulous acting ensemble and featuring the most ingenious set design in town.
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A HIT DOG WILL HOLLER
Saturday, November 13th, 2021
Sparks fly, terrors are confronted, and truths are revealed to powerful effect when an African-American social media activist opens her door to a stranger in the World Premiere of Inda Craig Galván’s A Hit Dog Will Holler, a Playwrights Arena/Skylight Theatre Company co-production at the Skylight.
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WAITING
Sunday, July 25th, 2021Live performances have returned to the Atwater Village Theatre for the first time in over sixteen months, and though I’m not quite sure what to make of Daniel A. Olivas’s absurdist comedy Waiting, at the very least the latest Playwrights’ Arena World Premiere serves as a taste of what lies ahead.
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RED INK
Monday, January 20th, 2020What’s been happening to print journalism since the Internet took control could drive a newspaper person crazy, or so a certain alternative press reporter discovers quite literally in Steven Leigh Morris’s brand new play Red Ink, the exciting, adventurous latest from Playwrights’ Arena.
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LAS MUJERES DEL MAR
Tuesday, September 24th, 2019Playwrights’ Arena closes its all-around terrific 2019 season with Las Mujeres Del Mar (The Women Of The Sea), Janine Salinas Schoenberg’s 3-generation, 2-country, 72-minute Mexican-American family saga told from a female point of view.
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THE END OF BEAUTY
Tuesday, June 4th, 2019Musings on art and beauty serve as an intellectual prelude to a provocative look at a marriage in crisis in Cory Hinkle’s The End Of Beauty, the latest Playwrights’ Arena World Premiere.
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