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YELLOW FACE at the Beverly Hills Playhouse

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August 18, 2018Frances Baum Nicholson – The Daily Breeze When Rachel Dolezal was forced to step down from the presidency of the local branch of the NAACP in Spokane, Wash., in 2015 because she was not (as she had claimed) African-American, it spurred a debate on the nature of race and cultural appropriation which was long past
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SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM at the Odyssey Theatre

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August 18, 2018Dany Margolies – The Daily Breeze Apparently the songs of composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim are not failsafe. He’s the genius behind some of the last century’s and some of this one’s best musicals. Some of his early songs are showcased in the revue titled “Side by Side by Sondheim,” currently at the Odyssey in West Los
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SHINING CITY at the Hudson Guild Theatre

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August 12, 2018Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Irish playwright Colin McPherson explores the dark hollows of the human psyche in this penetrating drama. A sad, intensely human story, the play speaks knowingly to the guilt, regret and unfulfilled desires that dwell within many of us. Read more… Now running through August 26

TITUS ANDRONICUS in Griffith Park

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August 8, 2018Ellen Dostal – Broadway World TITUS ANDRONICUS is one of Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedies. Characters are stabbed, beheaded, mutilated, raped, baked in a pie, and one is even buried up to his neck and left to die. At first glance it may not sound like an obvious choice for families……. Read more... Now running through September
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WAITRESS at the Pantages Theatre

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August 5, 2018Erin Conley – On Stage and Screen You cannot walk five feet in the Pantages Theatre without encountering a bunch of mini pies for sale, perfectly setting the scene for Waitress, the hit Broadway musical that opened in Los Angeles for the first time last night. Read more… Rob Stevens – Haines His Way In 2007 writer/director/actress
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BEETHOVEN at the Wallis Annenberg Center

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August 5, 2018Neal Weaver  – Stage Raw Actor/writer/musician/producer/designer/musicologist Hershey Felder is about as close as they come to a modern Renaissance man. He has racked up an impressive array of musical biographies — one-man shows in which he plays noted composers. Read more… Now running through August 12  

THE MOTHER-F**KER WITH THE HAT at the Gloria Gifford Conservancy

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August 5, 2018Lovell Estell III — Stage Raw Plays about broken people dealing with issues of addiction, violence, and toxic sexuality are legion, but they don’t always translate into provocative and humorous theater. Both qualities are found in this dour comedy by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright . Read more… Now running through August 26

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UNDER MILK WOOD – Open Fist Theatre Company at the Atwater Village Theatre

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Tuesday, July 31st, 2018
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Terry Morgan  -  Stage Raw

If one were to attempt to find a work comparable to Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood, it would likely be Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. Both plays deal with the mundane and the sacred, and both delve into the complexities of small communities.
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Now running through August 25

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DON’T YOU EVER CALL ME ANYTHING BUT MOTHER at Atwater Village Theatre

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Friday, May 26th, 2017
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Paul Birchall  – Stage Raw

The second in a set of two one-person plays, John O’Keefe’s Don’t Ever Call Me Anything But Mother may be that unique monologue that is literally unlike anything you’ve witnessed before — though whether it will beguile or appall you really depends on your mood and ability to deal with creepy darkness. Read more…

Now running through May 30

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