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Commentary, Reviews

CTG’s Desai decision…and the Ahmanson’s 1776. Hitting the Road in Scintilla.

Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Plus ‘Private Lives’ and ‘Ava’ Snehal Desai is approaching a high wire. No tightrope in LA theater is higher than the balance beam that challenges the artistic director of Center Theatre Group — the job…

LADCC Critics
April 21, 2023

Reviews

1776 at the Ahmanson Theatre

Katie Buenneke – Theater Digest. I would not, normally, choose to be watching the musical 1776. Just thinking about it brings back memories of watching the movie in my US history class, junior year of high school, with Abigail Adams…

LADCC Critics
April 19, 2023

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