OPHELIA
Saturday, April 13th, 2024
Award-winning writer-director-actor-designer Stefan Marks is back, and wearing all four hats at once, with Ophelia, his latest blend of theatrical magic, whimsy, and profundity.
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FAT HAM
Sunday, April 7th, 2024
Risk-taking, rule-breaking, exuberant joie de playwriting won James Ijames the Pulitzer Prize for his contemporary comedic queer African-American take on Hamlet, Fat Ham, now blowing audiences’ minds at the Geffen Playhouse.
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ONE OF THE GOOD ONES
Tuesday, March 19th, 2024
Fireworks ignite when a well-to-do Hispanic-American couple’s 22-year-old daughter brings home the man of her dreams in Gloria Calderón Kellett’s One Of The Good Ones, a laugh-packed, conversation-starting 21st-century Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner now getting the classiest and crowd-pleasingest of World Premieres at the Pasadena Playhouse.
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A FROGGY BECOMES
Sunday, March 17th, 2024
If you’ve ever been twelve years old, you’ll get an extra special kick out of Becky Wahlstrom’s wild and wacky and way-out-there coming-of-age comedy A Froggy Becomes, now getting the most exhilarating of World Premiere stagings at Open Fist Theatre.
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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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POTUS Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
Saturday, January 27th, 2024
Comedic chaos runs wild at the Geffen Playhouse in Selina Fillinger’s farcical, filthy, fabulously entertaining POTUS Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive.
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MERCURY
Saturday, January 13th, 2024
No one does dark and twisted with quite the devilish glee of playwright Steve Yockey, proof positive of which can be seen in Mercury, a gloriously grizzly Road Theatre Company West Coast Premiere.
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