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GLORIA – Echo Theater Company at Atwater Village Theatre

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September 23, 2018Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Although the publishing world serves as the framework for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ scathing dramedy, his story is less about the decimation of a once flourishing profession as it is about the impoverishment of our lives and our relationships with others, or lack thereof. Read more… Erin Conley – On Stage &
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ALL NIGHT LONG at Atwater Village Theatre

Darrett Sanders
September 22, 2018Terry Morgan  -  Stage Raw Not every work of art is designed with the mass audience in mind. Some are experiments or explorations, or maybe just a diverting goof. All these terms might apply to John O’Keefe’s All Night Long, a kaleidoscopic fever dream of a play that revels in erudition and silly humor but
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FAIRY TALE THEATRE 18 & OVER: THE MUSICAL at Ammunition Theatre Company at The Pico

Jeff Lorch
September 22, 2018Ellen Dostal – Broadway World Ammunition Theatre Company ventures into the wacky world of fractured fairy tales for its latest production, FAIRY TALE THEATRE 18 & OVER: THE MUSICAL. Read more… Now running through October 7

THE UNTRANSLATABLE SECRETS OF NIKKI CORONA at the Geffen Playhouse

Darrett Sanders
September 21, 2018Jonas Schwartz -  TheaterMania Life and death have always been intertwined. People spend much of their life worrying when they will pass away, how their beliefs will protect them in the next realm, and if they’ll be able to share experiences with those who have already died. Read more… Now running through October 7

LIZZIE at Color and Light Theatre Ensemble @ Resident LA

Corwin Evans
September 20, 2018Ellen Dostal – Broadway World How much rage would a person need to feel to kill two people with 29 whacks of an axe? The short answer is, a lot. That’s the number Andrew Borden and his second wife Abby actually sustained in 1892 – not the 81 immortalized in this haunting nursery rhyme. Read
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THE GIN GAME at the Sierra Madre Playhouse

Gina Long
September 18, 2018Frances Baum Nicholson –The Stage Struck Review When a play being produced locally has a long history of excellence, that can be both a blessing and a curse for a theater company, especially a comparatively small one. Read more… Now running through October 7

SWANSONG at the Skylight Theatre

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September 18, 2018Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw In Swansong, Irish playwright Conor McDermottroe drafts a portrait of a disturbed and angry man unable to quell his sudden fits of rage or find balm for the inner wound that’s been festering since his childhood. Read more… Now running through October 7

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GLORIA – Echo Theater Company at Atwater Village Theatre

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Sunday, September 23rd, 2018
Darrett Sanders

Darrett Sanders

Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw

Although the publishing world serves as the framework for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ scathing dramedy, his story is less about the decimation of a once flourishing profession as it is about the impoverishment of our lives and our relationships with others, or lack thereof.
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Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen

When Gloria, a Pulitzer Prize-finalist play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins currently in its west coast premiere at The Echo Theater Company, begins, it seems like a modern workplace comedy.
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Now running through October 21

 

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ALL NIGHT LONG at Atwater Village Theatre

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Saturday, September 22nd, 2018
Darrett Sanders

Darrett Sanders

Terry Morgan  -  Stage Raw

Not every work of art is designed with the mass audience in mind. Some are experiments or explorations, or maybe just a diverting goof. All these terms might apply to John O’Keefe’s All Night Long, a kaleidoscopic fever dream of a play that revels in erudition and silly humor but doesn’t hew to a traditional dramatic structure or feature a standard resolution.
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Now running through October 7

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FAIRY TALE THEATRE 18 & OVER: THE MUSICAL at Ammunition Theatre Company at The Pico

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Saturday, September 22nd, 2018
Jeff Lorch

Jeff Lorch

Ellen Dostal – Broadway World

Ammunition Theatre Company ventures into the wacky world of fractured fairy tales for its latest production, FAIRY TALE THEATRE 18 & OVER: THE MUSICAL.
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Now running through October 7

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THE UNTRANSLATABLE SECRETS OF NIKKI CORONA at the Geffen Playhouse

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Friday, September 21st, 2018
Darrett Sanders

Darrett Sanders

Jonas Schwartz -  TheaterMania

Life and death have always been intertwined. People spend much of their life worrying when they will pass away, how their beliefs will protect them in the next realm, and if they’ll be able to share experiences with those who have already died.
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Now running through October 7

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LIZZIE at Color and Light Theatre Ensemble @ Resident LA

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Thursday, September 20th, 2018
Corwin Evans

Corwin Evans

Ellen Dostal – Broadway World

How much rage would a person need to feel to kill two people with 29 whacks of an axe? The short answer is, a lot. That’s the number Andrew Borden and his second wife Abby actually sustained in 1892 – not the 81 immortalized in this haunting nursery rhyme.
Read more…

Now running through September 29

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THE GIN GAME at the Sierra Madre Playhouse

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Tuesday, September 18th, 2018
Gina Long

Gina Long

Frances Baum Nicholson –The Stage Struck Review

When a play being produced locally has a long history of excellence, that can be both a blessing and a curse for a theater company, especially a comparatively small one.
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Now running through October 7

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SWANSONG at the Skylight Theatre

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Tuesday, September 18th, 2018
(Photo, courtesy Australian Theatre Company)

(Photo, courtesy Australian Theatre Company)

Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw

In Swansong, Irish playwright Conor McDermottroe drafts a portrait of a disturbed and angry man unable to quell his sudden fits of rage or find balm for the inner wound that’s been festering since his childhood.
Read more…

Now running through October 7

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THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME at Whittier Community Theatre at The Center Theater

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Saturday, September 15th, 2018

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Frances Baum Nicholson –The Stage Struck Review

It is quite remarkable how many times the Victor Hugo novel, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” has been dramatized, in film, on television, and on the stage.
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Now running through September 22

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BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL at the Pantages Theatre

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Saturday, September 15th, 2018
Joan Marcus

Joan Marcus

Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen

Jukebox bio-musicals are seemingly a dime a dozen these days—Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations is currently playing at the Ahmanson Theatre, and the Pantages Theatre was recently home to On Your Feet, the Gloria and Emilio Estefan musical. But Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, which just reopened at the Pantages in Los Angeles after a successful run in 2016, feels a little different and more special.
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Rob Stevens – Haines His Way

Carole King is the most successful female songwriter of the latter half of the 20th century, having written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1955 and 1999.
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Now running through September 30

 

 

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NATIVE GARDENS at the Pasadena Playhouse

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Saturday, September 15th, 2018
Jenny Graham

Jenny Graham

Frances Baum Nicholson –The Stage Struck Review

There is a fine line between humor which skewers privilege and prejudice by making its claims sound as ridiculous as they are, and writing which pronounces the same beliefs and then does a kind of wink to indicate that, really, it was said to be funny.
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Jonas Schwartz -  TheaterMania

The pursuit of happiness and property is embedded in the American dream. Thomas Jefferson even added it to the Declaration of Independence as an inalienable right. Unfortunately, with property come neighbors and the frustration of sharing a fence with a stranger. Playwright Karen Zacarías’s comedy Native Gardens demonstrates what happens when you must battle your neighbor for your own land.    Read more…

Now running through September 30

 

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CYMBELINE – The Porters of Hellsgate at the Whitmore-Lindley Theatre

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Saturday, September 15th, 2018
Mandi Moss Holmes

Mandi Moss Holmes

Terry Morgan  -  Stage Raw

There’s a reason that Shakespeare’s Cymbeline doesn’t get produced very often. It’s not that it’s bad per se, but that it’s familiar without being extraordinary.
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Now running through October 14

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SENSE AND SENSIBILITY at South Coast Repertory

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Saturday, September 15th, 2018
Jordan Kubat

Jordan Kubat

Margaret Gray – LA Times

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a stage or screen adaptation of a Jane Austen novel, however well-intentioned, must be unfavorably compared to the original.
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Now running through September 30

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