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CONSTELLATIONS at the Geffen Playhouse

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June 21, 2017Jonas Schwartz -  TheaterMania Constellations, the character piece by Nick Payne that is now playing in a new production at the Geffen Playhouse, requires a talented cast to succeed. The expansive themes of love in an ever-expanding cosmos, the jarring sequencing of the moments, and their repetition could turn audiences off quickly.    Read more…
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NICKY – Coeurage Theatre Company at Greenway Court Theatre

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June 10, 2017Paul Birchall  – Stage Raw Playwright Boni B. Alvarez cunningly adapts Anton Chekhov’s 19th century drama “Ivanov,” shifting the setting from the Russian provinces to California’s own land of internal exile  (that is, if you’re a gay man of a certain age), Palm Springs.   Read more… Now running through July 1

S/HE & ME at the Renberg Theatre at The Village at Ed Gould Plaza

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June 9, 2017Lovell Estell III — Stage Raw A few minutes into her autobiographical show, acclaimed transgender artist Alexandra Billings plops down on a stool center stage, and in an easy conversational tone tells her audience fifteen things about herself. Among these are that she has AIDS, is a recovering heroin addict, was a prostitute for six
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ARCHIPELAGO at Son of Semele

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June 9, 2017Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw In Archipelago, Caridad Svinch spins a love story about a man and a woman from two different cultures, and sets it against a backdrop of war and apocalyptic upheaval. Director Barbara Kallir oversees an attractive and imaginative staging, but the vagueness of the play’s dramatic events and the absence of
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MAN OF LA MANCHA at La Mirada Theatre

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June 8, 2017Jonas Schwartz -  TheaterMania Director Glenn Casale helms a masterful production of one of Broadway’s greatest musicals. Man of La Mancha is a triumph of visuals and vocal talents. Sharing the stage with a gifted ensemble, Davis Gaines astonishes as the mad but pure Don Quixote. Read more…

≈ [ALMOST EQUAL TO] at City Garage Theatre

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June 7, 2017Paul Birchall  – Stage Raw In addition to challenging the Stage Raw copy editing department with a title that uses one of those squiggly math signals, playwright Jonas Hassen Khemeri’s powerful drama embraces such a multitude of themes that it’s hard to adequately sum them up. One thing’s for sure, though: Donald Trump would hate
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DOGFIGHT at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre

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June 6, 2017Rob Stevens – Haines His Way The composing team of Benji Pasek and Justin Paul are very hot right now having just won an Academy Award for their song in the film La La Land. Read more… Neal Weaver  – Stage Raw This new musical, with book by Peter Duchan and music and lyrics by the
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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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