Lovell Estell III

A STEADY RAIN at the John Kirby Studio

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Lovell Estell III — Stage Raw Continuing its successful run at the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival, Keith Huff’s dark two-character play is centered on the long time, combustible relationship between a pair of Windy City cops, whose professional and personal lives are thrown into freefall by circumstance and tragedy. Read more… Now running through July 30

S/HE & ME at the Renberg Theatre at The Village at Ed Gould Plaza

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Lovell Estell III — Stage Raw A few minutes into her autobiographical show, acclaimed transgender artist Alexandra Billings plops down on a stool center stage, and in an easy conversational tone tells her audience fifteen things about herself. Among these are that she has AIDS, is a recovering heroin addict, was a prostitute for six … Read more

THE LYONS at The Road Theatre on Lankershim

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Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Playwright Nicky Silver has written over a dozen plays which have mostly been produced off-Broadway and at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. South Coast Repertory produced his Pterodactyls and Raised in Captivity in the early 1990s. Read more… Lovell Estell III – Stage Raw Nicky Silver’s mordant comedy revisits the familiar … Read more

OF MICE AND MEN at The Belfry Stage at the Crown Theater

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Lovell Estell III — Stage Raw No American writer chronicled the unpleasant reality of the Depression era with more clarity and inventiveness than John Steinbeck. His gift for creating memorable characters underscores his best work, and this is no truer anywhere than in his 1937 novella about the ill-fated relationship between two itinerant migrant workers … Read more

SUPPER at Theatre of NOTE

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Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly In the program notes for Supper, Phinneas Kiyomura remarks that his play about four right-wing billionaire brothers is not about the Koch brothers. But you could have fooled me. Read more… Lovell Estell III — Stage Raw The clan on display in Phinneas Kiyomura’s bleak comedy brings to mind that familiar adage of Tolstoy’s … Read more

LETTERS FROM GAY YOUNG MEN at Studio C

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Lovell Estell III — Stage Raw The inspiration for this show was drawn from Letters to a Young Poet, the famous tome by the great Austrian romantic poet, Rainer Marie Rilke. Rilke wrote the letters to a young Austrian Army cadet who had sought advice on whether he should pursue a career in the army, or … Read more

PLASTICITY at the Hudson Guild Theatre

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Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen The human brain is a powerful and fascinating thing. In Plasticity, a world premiere play written by Alex Lyras and Robert McCaskill, a man in a coma struggles to become conscious again, all while his family and friends are forced to make difficult decisions regarding his life and future. Read … Read more

THE TEMPEST at Zombie Joe’s Underground

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Lovell Estell III — Stage Raw One thing about the folks at Zombie Joe’s Underground Theater is that they never seem to run out of bold inventive ways to reinvent the classics. They’ve mined the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Lewis Carroll and Edgar Allan Poe with considerable success in the past, and now, once again, … Read more

THE SUPER VARIETY MATCH BONUS ROUND! – Rogue Machine at The Met Theatre

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Lovell Estell III – Stage Raw Ernest and Margaret Eagleton (Mark L. Taylor, Bonnie Bailey-Reed), are small town Texas folks whose nondescript lives are transformed by a visitor, in this lively comedy by Deb Hiett. Read more… Now running through December 19