CONEY ISLAND LAND, OR THE GREAT EXISTENTIAL ACTUALITY AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE
Monday, March 4th, 2024
High school sweethearts reunite for the first time since their breakup thirty years earlier in Timothy Braun’s absorbing World Premiere two-hander Coney Island Land, or The Great Existential Actuality at The End of The Universe, a terrifically acted and designed guest production at North Hollywood’s Theatre 68 Complex.
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FATHERLAND
Monday, February 26th, 2024
Words like riveting and gut-wrenching only begin to describe Stephen Sachs’ ripped-from-the-headlines World Premiere docudrama Fatherland and the performances delivered at The Fountain Theatre by Los Angeles stage dynamo Ron Bottitta and remarkable L.A. newcomer Patrick Keleher.
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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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PICK OF THE VINE 2024
Tuesday, January 30th, 2024
Little Fish Theatre treats audiences to its 22nd-annual New Play Festival, one whose four fabulous comedy shorts, two powerful dramatic pieces, and only one unfortunate dud add up to an almost entirely winning Pick Of The Vine 2024.
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BRUSHSTROKE
Monday, January 29th, 2024
There’s nothing quite like a book, movie, TV show or play that has audiences gasping “I did not see that coming.” Case in point: John Ross Bowie’s World Premiere wow of a comedy thriller, Brushstroke, now getting a world-class World Premiere at the Odyssey.
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LA COCINA
Saturday, January 20th, 2024
The high-stress, high-intensity back-of-house goings-on at a classy New York City eatery come excitingly to life in Tony Menéses’s La Cocina, the latest from North Hollywood’s Loft Ensemble, and a particular treat for fans of Hulu’s The Bear.
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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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MADAME SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL MUSICAL
Sunday, December 24th, 2023
A Glendale landmark is reborn as The Nocturne Theatre just in time to treat holiday audiences to Madame Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Musical, Meyer2Meyer Entertainment’s fabulous new, gender-bending musical twist on the Charles Dickens Christmas classic.
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