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DIXIE’S TUPPERWARE PARTY at the Kirk Douglas Theatre

Bradford Rogne
December 7, 2018Dany Margolies – The Daily News Sure, “Dixie’s Tupperware Party” keeps its audience amused. The show also educates, teaching us a bit about the history of Tupperware and the woman, Brownie Wise, who invented the Tupperware party. But mostly, at least if you’re interested in comedy as an art form, this solo show is mighty
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Geffen Playhouse

Chris Whitaker
December 5, 2018Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen Around this time of year, productions of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol are a dime a dozen, but none is quite like the moody, spooky version currently running at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Read more… Now running through December 16

MIDDLE8 at the Stella Adler Theatre

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December 3, 2018Margaret Gray – LA Times The eponymous, fictional Kansas City rock band in Stefan Marks’ new play, “Middle8,” now at the Stella Adler Theatre in Hollywood, almost made it big — 20-some years ago. Now losing their hair, paunchy, slogging away at ordinary jobs to support ordinary families, the five of them are still haunted
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A MILE IN MY SHOES at the Hudson Backstage Theatre

Rich Clark
December 3, 2018Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw In A Mile in My Shoes, writer and solo performer Kathryn Taylor Smith dramatizes the crisis in homelessness by portraying various homeless people and some of the community figures who interact with them. The production has heart and a message that needs to be heard, but its staging requires some
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COME FROM AWAY at the Ahmanson Theatre

Matthew Murphy
December 3, 2018Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen On paper, it feels a bit wrong to call a musical about September 11th, 2001 “uplifting.” It is easy to wonder how that could possibly be true…until seeing Come From Away, a true marvel of a show that manages to take a large story everyone knows about one
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SHOWPONY at the Victory Theatre

Tim Sullens
November 30, 2018Lovell Estell III — Stage Raw Like so many of our social and/or cultural environments, today’s workplace is radically different from what it was many decades ago when the centers of power were pretty much the sole province of white males. American women had their “stations,” and not too much concern was given over to
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CLEO THEO AND WU at Theatre of NOTE

Karianne Flaathen
November 26, 2018Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Commendable for its support of female empowerment and its flashes of wit, Cleo, Theo and Wu can be a frustrating experience if you’re a theatergoer who prefers a coherent story to a chaotic one. Read more… Now running through December 6

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A BRONX TALE at the Pantages Theatre

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Sunday, November 11th, 2018
Joan Marcus

Joan Marcus

Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen

“The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices you make will shape your life forever.” A Bronx Tale, a musical based on the play of the same name, opened at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles this week after a nearly two year run on Broadway.
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Now running through November 25

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