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READY, STEADY, YETI, GO at Rogue Machine at the Electric Lodge

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June 7, 2019Margaret Gray – LA Times No folkloric Himalayan ape-men appear in David Jacobi’s play “Ready, Steady, Yeti, Go.” That may sound like a spoiler, but it’s a PSA: The friend who went with me to see Rogue Machine’s production was too disappointed by the lack of yetis to focus on what was happening onstage…… Read
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LADIES at Boston Court Pasadena

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June 7, 2019Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Four young women in their underwear take the stage at Boston Court. While bopping along to a lively mixtape/Itunes playlist, they don the corsets and panniers of the 18th century women they will be portraying in the World Premiere of Kit Steinkellner’s Ladies. Read more… Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw
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DANA H at the Kirk Douglas Theatre

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June 4, 2019Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen When playwright Lucas Hnath (A Doll’s House, Part Two, The Christians) was in college, his mother, Dana Higginbotham, went through a traumatizing ordeal. Dana struggled to speak about this painful experience with her son, so he eventually had fellow theater creator and collaborator Steve Cosson interview her about
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GATHER: SURPRISING STORIES AND OTHER MISCHIEF at the Pasadeena Playhouse

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May 30, 2019Katie Buenneke – Stage Raw Gather: Surprising Stories and Other Mischief is an unwieldy title for a theatrical piece. Then again, Gather is an unwieldy theatrical piece. It’s not immediately clear what the piece is, and the answer doesn’t come readily upon further reflection. Read more… Now running through June 22

MAMMA MIA at East West Players

Steven Lam
May 30, 2019Katie Buenneke – Stage Raw There is something soothing about the music of ABBA, the 70s Swedish pop group that brought the world such songs as “Dancing Queen,” “Take a Chance on Me,” and, of course, “Mamma Mia!” No matter how out of control the world gets, there’s always ABBA music to ease the soul,
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THE END OF BEAUTY – Playwright’s Arena at Atwater Village Theatre

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May 30, 2019Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw In its world premiere, Cory Hinkle’s The End of Beauty runs about two hours, but it’s not until the last 10 minutes that it grips one’s attention. That’s when Silas Weir Mitchell, playing one of the story’s three characters, looks back on the past with acceptance, perplexity and regret. Read more…
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LADY DAY AT THE EMERSON BAR AND GRILL at The Garry Marshall Theatre

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May 24, 2019Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Deidrie Henry delivers a soulful performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at the Emerson Bar and Grill, Lanie Robertson’s 1986 one-act about the late great jazz singer who died prematurely at the age of 44. Read more… Now running through June 2

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INCOGNITO at Son of Semele Ensemble

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Friday, March 22nd, 2019
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Rob 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

 

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THAT PRETTY PRETTY; OR, THE RAPE PLAY at Son of Semele Ensemble

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Friday, June 3rd, 2016
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Terry Morgan  -  Stage Raw

The thrill of creating an experimental theatre piece lies in being able to express something one couldn’t in the standard mode. The downside is that not all experiments are a success.   Read more…

Now running through June 19

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THE LIFE AND SORT OF DEATH OF ERIC ARGYLE at Son of Semele Ensemble

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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2014

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Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw

“Alas for those that never sing,

But die with all their music in them.”

–Usually attributed, possibly inaccurately, to Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809-1894) in “The Voiceless”

Irish playwright Ross Dungan might have had this quote in mind -– for sure he had the sentiment –- when he wrote this sad and whimsical play about the life and death of an ordinary man. Read more…

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Photo by Matthew McCray

Margaret Gray – LA Times

At first, “The Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle” by Irish playwright Ross Dungan gives the impression of a short story that somehow fell into the submission pile at Son of Semele theater — whereupon director Matthew McCray gamely gathered his ensemble and staged it anyway. Read more…

Now running through September 28.

 

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