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BLOOD SUPPLY: A Zombie Apocalypse Love Story at Theatre 68 Arts Complex – The Emerson

Photo by Rachel Gray
January 25, 2023Socks Whitmore – Stage Raw It’s not often the words “love” and “zombie” are paired together—and it’s even rarer to see them alongside the words “new musical.” Set one year after the onset of the dreaded zombie virus, Blood Supply: A Zombie Apocalypse Love Story is a folk rock saga that has populated the Emerson
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DO YOU FEEL ANGER? by Circle X Theatre Company

Napoleon Tavale, Paula Rebelo, and Rich Liccardo, Photo by Jeff Lorch.
January 25, 2023Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Circle X Theatre Company’s West Coast premiere production of Do You Feel Anger? @ Atwater Village Theatre – 10 out of 10 – Masterpiece! LA THEATRE BITES RECOMMENDED. More… Terry Morgan – Stage Raw There’s a Cowboy Junkies song from 1993 called “Hunted,” which is about the ever-present threat
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‘Mean Girls’. Mean men. Mean times.

Jasmine Rogers, Nadina Hassan, Morgan Ashley Bryant and English Bernhardt. Photo by Jenny Anderson.
January 24, 2023Don Shirley – Angeles Stage The ‘Mean’ musical. Mean men in ‘Angry’ and ‘Brothers’. The missing mean in ‘Home Front’. Theater community rallies ’round CA arts funding and massacre survivors. The word “mean” means so many different things. It’s a verb, as in the above sentence, but it also can be an adjective and a
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HOME FRONT at Victory Theatre

C.J. Lindsey and Austin Highsmith Garces. Photo by Tim Sullens.
January 21, 2023Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites West Coast Premiere: Home Front @ Victory Theatre in Burbank 7.9 out of 10 – Above Average! More…  

BROTHERS PLAY by Break With Traditions Productions at Legacy LA

Jeffrey Nordling, Rob Nagle and Jamie Wollrab. Photo by Jeff Lorch Photography
January 18, 2023Martίn Hernández – Stage Raw It is Christmas in Chicago, and for Irish American brothers Jude (Jeffrey Nordling), Francis (Rob Nagle), and Thomas (Jamie Wollrab) that means some unseemly celebrations, despite their saintly names. Jude, the oldest, is committed to visiting the local gambling boats; middle child Francis is savoring the wares at his favorite
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MEAN GIRLS at the Pantages Theatre

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January 11, 2023Harker Jones – BroadwayWorld Directed and choreographed by Tony winner Casey Nicholaw, the musical is colorful and energetic and snarky and heartfelt all at once. He gets fantastic performances from his actors and the flow from rocking to reflective in the musical sequences is smoothly done. His choreography is jaw dropping at times, especially when
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CHRISTMASTIME ORIGINS at Group Repertory Theatre

Lareen Faye. Photo by Doug Engalla.
December 21, 2022Martίn Hernández – Stage Raw Welcome to the studios of K-GRT 73, North Hollywood’s home of radio theatre, otherwise known as the upstairs space of the Group Repertory Theatre. Artistic Director Doug Haverty has adapted four works from veteran Los Angeles theater journalist and playwright Julio Martinez’s The Eight Plays of Christmas: A Series of
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GAMES ON A BOMBED OUT BEACH at the Macha Theatre

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Wednesday, May 21st, 2014

Photo by Ed Krieger

Photo by Ed Krieger

Neal Weaver  – Stage Raw

Shirl Hendryx’s play is set in an inn on a small Mediterranean island off the coast of Greece, where a group of movie-makers have gathered to prepare for a location shoot. Socially conscious American movie star Branson (Richard Chassler), who’s scheduled to head the cast, has insisted on the hiring of Brit director Paul Deckard (Jonathan Salisbury), unaware that his wife once had an affair with Deckard.   Read more…

Steven Leigh Morris  – LA Weekly

An initial impulse upon discovering a new play about Hollywood types making a movie in an exotic location is to get down on your knees and pray, “Please Lord, not another play by and about dissolute filmmakers grappling with their purpose in life.” Read more…

Now playing through June 22.

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SHADES at Macha Theatre

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Thursday, April 10th, 2014

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Neal Weaver – Stage Raw

Tom Hartley’s comedy concerns teenager Miguel (Armando Broncas) who’s in deep denial about his homosexual feelings, ‘till his girlfriend Nuria (Catherine Mersereau) gives him a mysterious pair of sunglasses through which he can see the aura of those around him. Straights, it seems, have blue auras, while gays have red ones. When he looks in the mirror while wearing the shades he discovers his aura is decidedly red.

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WOMEN ARE CRAZY BECAUSE MEN ARE A**HOLES at the Macha Theatre

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Sunday, August 25th, 2013

Les Spindle – Frontiers L.A.

During the 1970s, dinner theaters were popular throughout the nation, offering least-common-denominator entertainment served alongside overcooked roast beef and weak cocktails. It wasn’t as much about going to the theater as a quest for chuckles that didn’t tax the brain. Yuppie patrons dined on semi-digestible grub while getting buzzed.
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GARBO’S CUBAN LOVER at Macha Theatre

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Thursday, August 8th, 2013

Neal Weaver – LA Weekly

Writer-director Odalys Nanin’s fictionalized bio-play zeroes in on Mercedes De Acosta, who in the 1930s was celebrated as a poet, playwright and novelist, though nowadays she’s remembered mostly for her lesbian affairs with famous actresses including Eva LeGallienne, Alla Nazimova and Tallulah Bankhead.In Nanin’s play, De Acosta (played by the author), meets Greta Garbo (Angela Nicholas) and forms an obsessive relationship with her.
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