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FINKS at Rogue Machine

John Perrrin Flynn
November 15, 2018Terry Morgan  -  Talkin’ Broadway The cost of integrity is never cheap, but it varies. Sometimes one can lose relationships with family or friends, lose a job or, in the direst circumstance, lose one’s life. In the early 1950s, the House Un-American Activities Committee wielded Cold War communist paranoia to attack people whose views they
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CHARLES DICKENS’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Geffen Playhouse

Chris Whitaker
November 14, 2018Jonas Schwartz -  TheaterMania The world premiere of this new adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol draws out the chills and thrills of this ghostly tale while still conveying the joy inherent in the famous parable about goodwill toward all men. Read more… Now running through December 2

A BRONX TALE at the Pantages Theatre

Joan Marcus
November 11, 2018Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen “The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices you make will shape your life forever.” A Bronx Tale, a musical based on the play of the same name, opened at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles this week after a nearly two year run on
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BAYOU BLUES at the Bootleg Theatre

Lily Kravetz
November 10, 2018Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw In Bayou Blues, part of the 2018 Solo Queens Fest at Bootleg Theatre, writer/performer Shaina Lynn mixes storytelling and spoken word to relay her experience as a woman of color from New Orleans. Read more… Now running through November 18

BLISS – Moving Arts at Atwater Village Theatre

Mae Koo Photography
November 10, 2018Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Although Bliss (Or Emily Post is Dead!), is set in North Orange, New Jersey in the 1960s, a rudimentary knowledge of Greek mythology is helpful in fathoming the themes of Jami Brandli’s ambitious but muddled satire, directed by Darin Anthony. Read more… Now running through December 2

VALLEY OF THE HEART at the Mark Taper Forum

Craig Schwartz
November 8, 2018Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen Two immigrant families, one Mexican and one Japanese-American, have lived peacefully as neighbors on a ranch in the Santa Clara Valley for years, working together in the fields. The oldest children from each family have even fallen in love with each other—and then Pearl Harbor happens, and soon
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COST OF LIVING at the Fountain Theatre

Geoffrey Wade Photography
November 8, 2018Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen The actual “cost of living” can take on many forms—physical, emotional, financial. In Cost of Living, Martyna Majok’s 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning play now in its west coast premiere at the Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles, two very different relationships between people with disabilities and their caregivers are examined
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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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