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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

THE GLASS MENAGERIE at A Noise Within

Craig Schwartz
March 16, 2019Dany Margolies – The Daily News If you had a perfectly happy childhood with ideal parents, good for you. Tennessee Williams did not, and this led to some of literature’s most-affecting, most-enduring plays. Many in his audiences didn’t, either, and that’s why we keep coming back to his classics, particularly “The Glass Menagerie.” Indeed, its
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PURE NATIVE at the Wells Fargo Theater at the Autry Museum of the American West

Craig Schwartz
March 15, 2019Terry Morgan  -  Stage Raw Theatrically, Los Angeles is blessed in many ways, and one of them is the presence of Native Voices at the Autry, the only Equity theatre company devoted exclusively to developing and producing new works from Native American, Alaska Native and First Nations playwrights. Their shows are often specific and insightful
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THE OLD MAN AND THE OLD MOON at The Wallis-Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

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Thursday, March 7th, 2019
Kevin Parry

Kevin Parry

Ellen Dostal – Broadway World

Remember the joy of being a kid and spending hours upon hours acting out stories using whatever you could find? When two sticks stood in for a swordfight to save the day or a towel became the mantle of a king? That’s what it feels like watching PigPen Theatre Co. in THE OLD MAN AND THE OLD MOON at The Wallis.
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Now running through March 17

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