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NAT TURNER: FOLLOWING FAITH at Theatre/Theater

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Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly

I first read about Nat Turner in my grade school history book.

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Now running through Dec. 6

SISTER at Theatre Theater

Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw

Sister opens on a dark bare stage, its single set piece being a plain white toilet, the kind you find in rundown apartments. The story takes place in a crummier section of Hollywood. We learn about that when the main character Denise (Erica Gimpel) directs a trick to her residence, in the vicinity of Western Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard. There’s even a scene where the anxious john stops in at the local El Pollo Loco for a quick bite before proceeding to the rendezvous. Read more…

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BLOOD at Theatre Theater

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Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly

Writer-director Michael Phillip Edwards drew inspiration for his spooky comedy Blood from a Jamaican storyteller he knew in childhood, a man named Parsons, whose wild tales mixed moral imperative, ominous foreboding and pitch-black humor.Read more…

Now running through May 30.