Posts Tagged ‘Theatre Of NOTE’
THE DIGNITY CIRCLE
Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
If someone offered you the chance to get rich quick and improve your self-esteem in the bargain, would you take it? That’s the question posed by playwright Lauren Smerkanich in The Dignity Circle, the provocative, entertaining latest from Theatre of NOTE.
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TUNE IN
Wednesday, August 13th, 2025
Playwright Carlos Lacámara tackles university politics, mental illness, psychedelic drug therapy, childhood trauma, and women in academia in the early 1960s, stirs in at least one soap opera-worthy plot twist, and garners more than a few laughs along the way in Tune In, another fabulous Theatre Of NOTE World Premiere.
DISTRACTIONS AT THE CRASH SITE: SHORT PLAYS BY STEVE YOCKEY
Friday, May 3rd, 2024The seven one-acts that comprise Theatre of NOTE’s Distractions At The Crash Site: Short Plays by Steve Yockey are a mixed bag, and even at an intermissionless ninety minutes the West Coast Premiere runs about ten minutes too long, but Yockey fans will enjoy seeing the Wolves/Mercury playwright (and The Flight Attendant showrunner) in short-form mode.
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THE ALLSTORE
Saturday, March 23rd, 2024
Life is a living hell for the minimum-wagers staffing The AllStore in Evan Marshall’s pitch-black, trigger warning-packed, frequently hilarious counterpoint to ABC TV’s feel-good Superstore, now getting its World Premiere at Theatre of NOTE.
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KILL SHELTER: THE RED CAST
Saturday, September 30th, 2023
A return visit to Theatre Of NOTE to catch the “Red Cast” in Ashley Rose Wellman’s Kill Shelter provides additional proof that (to quote from my original review) this is “not only one of the most remarkable new plays I’ve seen in a very long time, it’s the best Theatre of NOTE production I’ve reviewed since the company’s streak of winners in the mid-2010s.”
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KILL SHELTER: THE BLUE CAST
Saturday, September 2nd, 2023
Not only is Ashley Rose Wellman’s Kill Shelter one of the most remarkable new plays I’ve seen in a very long time, it’s the best Theatre of NOTE production I’ve reviewed since the company’s streak of winners in the mid-2010s.
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NIMROD
Monday, February 13th, 2023Criminal Minds’ Kirsten Vangsness steals every scene she’s in as our 45th president seen through a farcical Shakespearean lens in Phinneas Kiyomura’s Nimrod, a wild and wacky Theatre of NOTE World Premiere that’s a bit too all over the place to truly hit the mark.
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CLOWNFISH
Saturday, July 16th, 2022Playwright Amy Dellagiarino’s script shows considerable promise, but her Theatre of NOTE World Premiere comedy Clownfish would work a whole lot better had the director reined in one particularly over-the-top performance (and those around it in the play’s frenetic midsection).
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