Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles Theater Review’
THE WINTER’S TALE
Saturday, March 2nd, 2024
Director Elizabeth Swain ups the Act One drama, then enhances the Act Two froth in Antaeus Theatre Company’s splendidly performed 21st-century staging of William Shakespeare’s still-fresh-at-401 The Winter’s Tale.
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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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MARILYN, MOM, AND ME
Sunday, February 25th, 2024
A renowned character actress and the world’s most celebrated sex symbol form the most unexpected of friendships as a grown son celebrates his mother’s memory in Luke Yankee’s fascinating, informative, deeply moving Marilyn, Mom, and Me, now getting its long-awaited World Premiere at Long Beach’s International City Theatre.
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SEX WITH STRANGERS
Saturday, February 24th, 2024
Sexual sparks fly when a one-flop-wonder of a novelist and a best-selling chronicler of a year’s worth of one-night stands find themselves the only guests in a rural bed-and-breakfast in Sex With Strangers, Laura Eason’s provocative, conversation-provoking two-hander, now playing at the McCadden Place Theatre.
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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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SWEENEY TODD
Sunday, February 18th, 2024
Julia Rodriguez-Elliot’s brilliantly innovative direction and Cassandra Marie Murphy’s spectacular star turn as Mrs. Lovett top the reasons not to miss Stephen Sondheim & Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street at A Noise Within.
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BETRAYAL
Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
The aftermath of Harold Pinter’s seven-year love affair with the wife of a close friend serves as point of departure for his 1978 three-hander Betrayal, the fascinating latest from City Garage.
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