ANIMAL FARM


A superlative cast, inspired direction, and designs that are the epitome of imaginative top the list of reasons not to miss Peter Hall’s musical adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm at A Noise Within.
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TAMBO & BONES

Dave Harris’s Tambo & Bones, a Center Theatre Group World Premiere, takes black anger against white America to such extremes that sitting through ninety minutes of it had me wishing I were anyone other than inside the Kirk Douglas Theatre. And it didn’t help that at least forty-five of its ninety minutes are devoted to ear-splitting, N-word/expletive-filled rap.
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MASAO AND THE BRONZE NIGHTINGALE

Playwrights Dan Kwong and Ruben Funkahuatl Guevara have quite a tale to tell about post-WWII Little Tokyo and Boyle Heights in Masao And The Bronze Nightingale and an ethnically, culturally, linguistically diverse cast of characters to tell it with, but the World Premiere play-with-songs’ hefty three-hour running time begs the question, how much of a good thing is too much?
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SALVAGE


The pre-pandemic hit Salvage is back, a couple of terrific cast additions adding even more grit and depth to its already compelling mix of haunted memories and haunting country-flavored songs.
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ALICE IN WONDERLAND

A Noise Within makes theatrical magic for audiences of all ages in their absolutely captivating revival of Eva Le Gallienne and Florida Friebus’s 1933 Broadway adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland.
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BAD HABITS

A nonagenarian TV legend spars with a quintet of salty-tongued singing nuns in Steve Mazur’s comedic crowd-pleaser Bad Habits, a holiday hit for Santa Monica’s Ruskin Group Theatre held over to start 2020 with a bang.
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SALVAGE

A chance visit to a run-down, out-of-the-way bar stirs up memories long-ago friendships, unfulfilled dreams, unforgotten grudges, and a woman named Jennifer in Tim Alderson’s Salvage, a World Premiere “play with music” which requires buying into more than one coincidence but offers multiple rewards, not the least of which is getting to hear some of the most haunting, gorgeously sung country music in town.
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ORRY

Legendary Hollywood costume designer Orry-Kelly lives again (at his own funeral, no less) in Nick Hardcastle’s entertaining, informative Orry, now playing a limited engagement at West Hollywood’s Lee Strasberg Theatre.
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