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November, Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum
Photo by Craig Schwartz. November by David Mamet. Pauline Adamek – ArtsBeatLA David Mamet’s grubby and farcical political play November, now playing at the Mark Taper Forum Downtown, is a riot of...
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You Can’t Take It With You, Antaeus Company at Deaf West Theatre
Photo by Geoffrey Wade. You Can’t Take It With You by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. Dany Margolies – ArtsInLA.com The family at the heart of this George S. Kaufman–Moss Hart play is so cheerful,...
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Seminar, Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre
Photo by: Craig Schwartz Seminar by Theresa Rebeck. Hoyt Hilsman – The Huffington Post Plays about writers and writing present major challenges for both audiences and playwrights. Because writing...
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The Snake Can, Odyssey Theatre
Photo by Ed Krieger. The Snake Can by Kathryn Graf. Hoyt Hilsman – The Huffington Post Kathryn Graf’s paen to the perils of middle-aged dating has a solid premiere under the skillful direction of...
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LADCC Annual Awards – Monday March 18th – Host and Presenters announced
French Stewart, TV star (“3rd Rock From the Sun”) and local theatre mainstay (“Stoneface”: “Voice Lessons”) will host the 44th Annual Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) Awards on Monday, March...
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The Miser, Parson’s Nose Productions
Photo by Sasha. The Miser by Moliere, adaptation by Lance Davis. Hoyt Hilsman – The Huffington Post Los Angeles has a star shining brightly in its theatrical firmament. Parson’s Nose Productions, a...
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Master Class, International City Theatre
Photo by Suzanne Mapes. Master Class by Terrence McNally. David C. Nichols – L.A. Times It’s a softer-grained “Master Class” than usual in Long Beach, but just try to look away. Although more muted...
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THE CRUCIBLE at the Antaeus Company
Photo by Karianne Flaathen THE CRUCIBLE by Arthur Miller. Neal Weaver – LA Weekly Arthur Miller’s play, first produced on Broadway in 1953, was Miller’s impassioned response to McCarthyism and...
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Sleepless in Seattle at the Pasadena Playhouse
SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE – Music by Ben Toth, lyrics by Sam Forman. Hoyt Hilsman – Huffington Post After a long journey from the screen to the musical stage – which included numerous comings-and-goings of...
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RADAR FESTIVAL LA: STONES IN HER MOUTH at the Palace Theatre
Photo: MAU Hoyt Hilsman – Huffington Post This performance piece by Samoan choreographer Lemi Ponifasio, which had its world premiere at the Radar Festival in Los Angeles this week, is a perplexing...
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I’LL GO ON at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
Steven Leigh Morris – LA Weekly Photo by Craig Schwartz “That’s the story!” repeated with droll unctuousness becomes a motif in actor Barry McGovern’s solo performance of stories by Samuel Beckett,...
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FIREMEN at Atwater Village Theatre
Photo by Jeff Galfer Photography Bob Verini - ArtsInLA The Echo Theater Company has gone to some lengths to sidestep, in its pre-opening publicity, the subject matter of Tommy Smith’s remarkable new...
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MAN IN A CASE at the Broad Stage
Photo by T. Charles Erickson Hoyt Hilsman - Huffington Post Even in this subdued and somber rendering of a pair of Chekhov stories, Mikhail Baryshnikov and his creative partners from the Big Dance...
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A COFFIN IN EGYPT at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Photo by Lynn Lane Hoyt Hilsman - Huffington Post A Coffin in Egypt, a rarely produced 1980 play by Horton Foote would seem an unlikely subject for an opera, but in the hands of the marvelous...
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AUSSIE WAVE HITS LA THEATER SCENE
Photo by Michelle Day Over the past couple of decades, Australia has produced a bumper crop of movie icons, from Mel Gibson and Nicole Kidman to Hugh Jackman and Cate Blanchett. But what most fans...
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BACKYARD at Atwater Village Theatre
Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly Backyard wrestling – the emulation of the aggressive antics of professional wrestlers by ordinary folk – serves as the point of departure for Mickey Birnbaum’s funny,...
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THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL at the Ahmanson Theatre
Photo by Craig Schwartz Margaret Gray – LA Times Michael Wilson’s revival of Horton Foote’s “The Trip to Bountiful,” which has just opened at the Ahmanson Theatre, premiered on Broadway in 2013 to a...
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COCK at Rogue Machine Theatre
Les Spindle – Edge on the Net Also known as “Cockfight Play,” a perhaps less threatening title preferred in some media outlets, Mike Bartlett’s Olivier Award winning British play, “Cock,” makes its...
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ZEALOT at South Coast Repertory
Photo by Debora Robinson Myron Meisel – Stage Raw Set entirely in the confines of the office of the British Consul in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, during the first day of the annual Hajj pilgrimage, Zealot, by...
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WHAT THE BUTLER SAW at the Mark Taper Forum
Photo by Craig Schwartz Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly If ever there were a writer dedicated to society’s subversion it was Joe Orton. Orton despised the status quo and made it his mission to wreak havoc...
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