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THE LYONS at The Road Theatre on Lankershim

Michele Young
May 23, 2017Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Playwright Nicky Silver has written over a dozen plays which have mostly been produced off-Broadway and at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. South Coast Repertory produced his Pterodactyls and Raised in Captivity in the early 1990s. Read more... Lovell Estell III – Stage Raw Nicky Silver’s
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HELLO AGAIN at Chromolume Theatre at the Attic

(Photo by James Esposito)
May 19, 2017Neal Weaver  – Stage Raw This long one-act by Michael John LaChiusa (The Wild Party) is a musical update of Arthur Schnitzler’s 1900 play La Ronde which, shocking for its time, featured 10 interconnected sexual encounters. The structure and the characters’ names are Schnitzler’s, though the Young Thing has been transformed from female to male
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LUCKY STIFF at Actors Co-op

Michael Lamont
May 18, 2017Neal Weaver  – Stage Raw It’s hard to imagine a more far-fetched plot than the one that animates this zany musical by Lynn Ahren (book and lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty (music), based on The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo by Michael Butterworth.    Read more… Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Lucky
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ACTUALLY at the Geffen Playhouse

Christ Whitaker
May 17, 2017Margaret Gray – LA Times He said, she said. Then he said more, and then she said more. They both kept saying things. But no matter how much they said, it was impossible to determine what had actually happened between the two freshmen in the Princeton University dorm room when they were very drunk. Was
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THE SWEETHEART DEAL at the Los Angeles Theatre Center

Grettel Cortes Photography
May 17, 2017Deborah Klugman – Capital & Main Written and directed by Diane Rodriguez, The Sweetheart Deal is an amiable blend of political agitprop and audience-pleasing melodrama that unfolds against the backdrop of the struggle to empower the United Farm Workers union. Read more… Now running through June 4

THE DESIGNATED MOURNER at REDCAT

K. HO
May 17, 2017Terry Morgan  -  Stage Raw Sometimes a play finds its moment long after its premiere and initial exposure to the world. Read more… Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly Wallace Shawn is a powerhouse storyteller, and the story he spins in The Designated Mourner is a riveting tale.    Read more… Now running through May 21

THE HOUSE IN SCARSDALE: A MEMOIR FOR THE STAGE at The Theatre at Boston Court

Ed Krieger
May 12, 2017Jonas Schwartz -  TheaterMania Dan O’Brien has written an American gothic tale on a par with Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard’s best works. Like many of the characters in Shepard’s plays, the protagonist seeks the truth, but the answers will not assuage his guilt or pain. Read more… Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Early in
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Social Media

Several of the members of the LADCC have an active presence on various social media sites. Below is a list of active links to those members’ pages on Twitter and Instagram, and their respective websites:

LA Drama Critics
@LADramaCC

Pauline Adamek
@ArtsBeatLA
www.ArtsBeatLA.com
@ExitReviews
instagram.com/paadamek

Katie Buenneke

Hoyt Hilsman
@HoytHilsman
www.hoythilsman.com

Jenny Lower
@jennylower

Jon Magaril
@Jon_sense

Dany Margolies
@ArtsinLA.com
www.artsinla.com

Terry Morgan
@TerryMorgan45

Steven Leigh Morris
@StageRaw
www.stageraw.com

Sharon Perlmutter
@PerlmutterS (AKA GrumpyCritic)

Jonas Schwartz
@jonasschwartz

Don Shirley
www.laobserved.com

Bob Verini
@BobVerini
www.bobverini.com

 

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