What should be a depressing play about lower-middle-class life in an economically deprived small town turns out to be one of the liveliest entries in the small-theater scene.
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People naturally talk, just for the act of it, repeats elder sister Breda throughout Enda Walsh's West Coast premiere of his intensely poetic language play
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Donavon Thomas' new play attempts to take a hard-hitting look at post-traumatic stress disorder. The story's backdrop is the Iraq War.
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Promotional material calls this Phil Olson–Wayland Pickard world premiere a combination of "Mamma Mia!" and "This Is Spinal Tap," but it lacks the catchy music of the former and wacky comedy of the latter.
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Making Paradise: The West Hollywood Musical
Cornerstone Theater Company and the city of West Hollywood have joined forces to produce this new musical celebrating the struggle of determined WeHo residents in the early 1980s to gain official cityhood for the gay-dominated mecca.
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"Via Dolorosa" is a provocative and highly personal account of British playwright David Hare's attempt to grasp the realities, complexities, and conflicts that have kept the Middle East in constant turmoil.
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Miles Brandman's long one-act might be described as "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" for the younger set.
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"Murderers" is not a whodunit; it's more a how-they-dunit, with wonderfully silly pop references to the 1970s and descriptions of character types all will find familiar.
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Composer-lyricist Adam Guettel and playwright Craig Lucas weave a pleasantly diverting and lyrical musical based on the novella by Elizabeth Spencer about the visit of a mother and daughter to Italy in 1953
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Besides "celebrating our Savior's slow and gruesome death," the goal of the Boyz—aptly named Matthew, Luke, Mark, Abraham, and Juan—is to reduce the number on their machine to zero in 90 minutes of fervent song and dance teetering between beat-box rhythms and traditional hallelujahs.
