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FIFTY WORDS at the Lounge Theatre

Zadran Wali
March 22, 2019Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Playwright Michael Weller’s messy marital drama transpires over the course of one night, during which time a married couple unleash all the frustration, disappointment and unrequited passion they’ve kept bottled inside for 18 long years. Read more… Now running through April 7

INCOGNITO at Son of Semele Ensemble

Son of Semele
March 22, 2019Rob Stevens – Haines His Way When Albert Einstein died of a brain aneurysm at Princeton Hospital in 1955, the pathologist who performed the autopsy ended up stealing Einstein’s brain.      Read more… Now running through April 7  

BLACK SUPER HERO MAGIC MAMA at the Geffen Playhouse

Chris Whitaker
March 21, 2019Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw It’s hard to imagine a more painful life event than the death of a child — especially when that child is shot by police and the perpetrator goes free. That almost unbearable grief that a mother must feel is creatively addressed in Black Super Hero Magic Mama, Inda Craig-Galván’s latest play…. Read
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HAMLET at the New American Theatre

Karianne Flaathen
March 20, 2019  Lovell Estell III — Stage Raw Shakespeare’s best plays are a rich source of complex, conflicted characters and readily lend themselves to creative, critical exploration or inspired adaptations. Of course, there are always risks when treading the path of the unconventional, but there are also creative successes. Director Matthew Leavitt’s updated take on the
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THE WOLVES – ECHO THEATER COMPANY at Atwater Village Theatre

Darrett Sanders
March 20, 2019Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen “We are the Wolves. We are the Wolves,” a group of teenage girls chants, each repetition of the phrase growing in both volume and urgency. The Wolves are a high school indoor soccer team, and the subject of Sarah DeLappe’s play of the same name currently in its
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LACKAWANNA BLUES at the Mark Taper Forum

Craig Schwartz
March 20, 2019Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen Lackawanna Blues, Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s autobiographical solo show, has been on quite a journey since it first premiered at the Public Theater in New York in 2001. After that first production, which won a special citation Obie Award, it played at multiple regional theaters across the United States before being
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PHOTOGRAPH 51 AT South Coast Repertory

Jordan Kubat/SCR
March 16, 2019Margaret Gray – LA Times Every once in a while we experience a flare-up of puzzlement about why so few women pursue careers in math and science — even now, despite progress in gender equality. Read more… Now running through March 24

Archive for Lunatics and Actors

LUNATICS AND ACTORS at the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles

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Saturday, May 14th, 2016

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Jenny Lower – Stage Raw

Lunatics & Actors, the latest world premiere by Jeremy Aluma’s clowning troupe Four Clowns, is less a fixed narrative than a series of funny, unpredictable, and menacing vignettes that excavate the distinction between creative performance and insanity.

Pauline Adamek – ArtsBeatLA

Four Clowns’ newest theatrical staging is Lunatics & Actors, written by David Bridel. Bridel’s one-act drama is posited as an anthropological and scientific experiment in progress, with some results and further experimentation being presented this night to a collection of interested persons (being us, the audience).  The play commences when an eccentric neurologist, Dr. Duchenne du Boulogne (Thaddeus Shafer) introduces himself to us and explains his work to date; being the science of electrophysiology. Read more...

Now running through May 28

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