Posts Tagged ‘Theatre 40’
WHAT OPA DID
Tuesday, January 27th, 2026Audiences in search of uplifting, escapist entertainment in the dismal times we’re living through will not find it in Christopher Franciosa’s Holocaust drama What Opa Did, a Theatre 40 World Premiere not done any favors by James Paradise’s misguided direction.
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AN INSPECTOR CALLS
Tuesday, November 25th, 2025
Leave it to director Cate Caplin to take a play I had previously found to be heavy-handed and preachy, J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, and transform it into something quite magical at Theatre 40.
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BECKY’S NEW CAR
Sunday, May 18th, 2025
Great play. Great direction. Great cast. Great design. Theatre 40’s intimate revival of Becky’s New Car, Steven Dietz’s unorthodox look at marital devotion and extramarital hanky-panky has everything it takes to make it one of Theatre 40’s most all-around fabulous productions in years.
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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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JANE AUSTEN IN 89 MINUTES
Monday, September 30th, 2024
Jane Austen fans are guaranteed to go gaga for Jane Austen In 89 Minutes, Syrie James’s deliciously clever retelling of every single novel Jane ever published, now getting a scintillatingly performed World Premiere production at Theatre 40.
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THE EXPLORERS CLUB
Tuesday, May 28th, 2024
Things get wild and wacky when a comely female anthropologist is proposed for membership in a heretofore all-male scientific society in Nell Benjamin’s madcap Victorian romp The Explorers Club, now getting a delectably acted West Coast Premiere at Theatre 40.
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STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
Monday, February 5th, 2024
Theatre 40 hits a suspense thriller bullseye with Craig Warner’s edge-of-your-seat take on Patricia Highsmith’s dark and twisted page-turner Strangers On A Train.
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THE MANOR: MURDER AND MADNESS AT GREYSTONE
Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024
The Manor: Murder and Madness at Greystone is back for the first time since its last pre-Covid run, exciting news for L.A. theatergoers eager to return to the L.A. mansion where the titular “murder” and “madness” actually occurred.
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