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THE GIN GAME at the Sierra Madre Playhouse

Gina Long
September 18, 2018Frances Baum Nicholson –The Stage Struck Review When a play being produced locally has a long history of excellence, that can be both a blessing and a curse for a theater company, especially a comparatively small one. Read more… Now running through October 7

SWANSONG at the Skylight Theatre

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September 18, 2018Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw In Swansong, Irish playwright Conor McDermottroe drafts a portrait of a disturbed and angry man unable to quell his sudden fits of rage or find balm for the inner wound that’s been festering since his childhood. Read more… Now running through October 7

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME at Whittier Community Theatre at The Center Theater

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September 15, 2018Frances Baum Nicholson –The Stage Struck Review It is quite remarkable how many times the Victor Hugo novel, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” has been dramatized, in film, on television, and on the stage. Read more… Now running through September 22

BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL at the Pantages Theatre

Joan Marcus
September 15, 2018Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen Jukebox bio-musicals are seemingly a dime a dozen these days—Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations is currently playing at the Ahmanson Theatre, and the Pantages Theatre was recently home to On Your Feet, the Gloria and Emilio Estefan musical. But Beautiful: The Carole King Musical,
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NATIVE GARDENS at the Pasadena Playhouse

Jenny Graham
September 15, 2018Frances Baum Nicholson –The Stage Struck Review There is a fine line between humor which skewers privilege and prejudice by making its claims sound as ridiculous as they are, and writing which pronounces the same beliefs and then does a kind of wink to indicate that, really, it was said to be funny. Read more…
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CYMBELINE – The Porters of Hellsgate at the Whitmore-Lindley Theatre

Mandi Moss Holmes
September 15, 2018Terry Morgan  -  Stage Raw There’s a reason that Shakespeare’s Cymbeline doesn’t get produced very often. It’s not that it’s bad per se, but that it’s familiar without being extraordinary. Read more… Now running through October 14

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY at South Coast Repertory

Jordan Kubat
September 15, 2018Margaret Gray – LA Times It is a truth universally acknowledged that a stage or screen adaptation of a Jane Austen novel, however well-intentioned, must be unfavorably compared to the original. Read more… Now running through September 30

Archive for Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre

STOMACH CONTENTS at Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre

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Saturday, March 10th, 2018
Sharon Yablon

Sharon Yablon

Neal Weaver  – Stage Raw

These three one-acts by Sharon Yablon are all set in the bleak Mojave Desert, and they share an equally bleak vision, albeit touched with fantasy and surrealism.
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Now running through March 25

 

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UNCOVER THE MOON at Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre

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Thursday, November 9th, 2017
(Photo by Susan Chambers)

(Photo by Susan Chambers)

Lovell Estell III — Stage Raw

Writer/director Susan Chambers scores a modest success with this short coming-of-age tale that meshes allegory with fairy tale, nature myths, and a dash of feminist esprit.
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Now running through November 25

 

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CAPTAIN DIXON vs. THE MOTH SLUTS FROM THE FIFTH DIMENSION at Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre

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Sunday, August 25th, 2013

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Pauline Adamek – LA Weekly

A nicely acted, crisply directed and neatly written piece of 1950s sci-fi comedy, featuring nearly naked, green-painted, go-go-dancing space aliens — what’s not to love?! Playwright Matthew Sklar stars as Captain Dan Dixon in his creature-feature retro romp through space.
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Now running through September 14.

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The Para Abnormals, Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre

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Thursday, August 30th, 2012

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The Para Abnormals by Thomas J. Misuraca.

 

Pauline Adamek – LA Weekly

A trio of paranormal investigators has several close encounters with menacing spirits in The Para Abnormals, Thomas J. Misuraca’s comedy thriller now playing at Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre in NoHo. Just the opening moments of this little low-budget supernatural chiller manages to offer far more effective shivers and scares than a recent staging of The Exorcist over at the Geffen.   Read more…

 

 

 

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