H*TLER’S TASTERS
Sunday, April 28th, 2024
Playwright Michelle Kholos Brooks finds laughter even in the darkest of situations in her provocatively titled, fact-based H*tler’s Tasters, the latest uber-intimate “Upstairs at the Matrix” Rogue Machine hit.
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KAIROS
Monday, April 8th, 2024
What starts off a meet-cute romcom ends up something a good deal more thought-provoking and profound in Kairos, Lisa Sanaye Dring’s intriguing examination of love, life, and the search for eternal youth, now getting a terrifically acted East West Players’ World Premiere.
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MONSTERS OF THE AMERICAN CINEMA
Sunday, April 7th, 2024
What starts out a sitcom-style two-hander about a precocious teen being reared by his late father’s gay black husband ends up something far darker and deeper and more powerful in Christian St. Croix’s Monsters Of The American Cinema, the latest in a string of world-class Rogue Machine winners.
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COULD I HAVE THIS DANCE?
Saturday, March 30th, 2024
To get tested or not to get tested? This is the dilemma faced by 30something sisters Monica and Amanda Glendenning in Doug Haverty’s captivating, compelling family dramedy Could I Have This Dance?, now getting a terrifically acted 33rd-anniversary revival at the Group Rep.
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THE ALLSTORE
Saturday, March 23rd, 2024
Life is a living hell for the minimum-wagers staffing The AllStore in Evan Marshall’s pitch-black, trigger warning-packed, frequently hilarious counterpoint to ABC TV’s feel-good Superstore, now getting its World Premiere at Theatre of NOTE.
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FAITHLESS
Saturday, March 16th, 2024
A pair of 30something siblings summoned to their widowed stepfather’s home confront a family crisis involving their adopted teenaged sister in Jon Klein’s absorbing family dramedy Faithless, a laughter-and-discussion-provoking Victory Theatre Center World Premiere.
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THREE
Wednesday, February 21st, 2024If you’re a die-hard Chekhov fan, Nick Salamone’s 20th/21st-century “queer meditation” on the Russian playwright’s 124-year-old classic Three Sisters, a Playwrights’ Arena/Los Angeles LGBT Center World Premiere, will likely be more up your alley than it was mine.
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SUKKOT
Sunday, January 14th, 2024
Few situations are riper for raucous laughter, long-festering rage, and buckets of tears than the much dreaded family reunion, and since almost everybody on this planet has attended at least one (if not dozens) of them, expect to find much to identify with and relish in Matthew Leavitt’s marvelous new family-reunion dramedy Sukkot.
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