LA Theater Review

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    Touch the Water

    Cornerstone Theater Company certainly knows who it is and what it's doing, particularly in its pieces developed out of community collaboration: Los Angeles–centric plays that are all about intention.

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    The Apple Tree

    Despite the creators' pedigrees, this tuner comes across as a mildly tasty array of hors d'oeuvres rather than a theatrical feast.

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    The Circus Theatricals 14th Annual Festival of New One-Act Plays, Evening C

    There are 15 plays in three evenings in this annual festival, a mere sample of what Circus Theatricals Studio Ensemble can accomplish in approximately 70 minutes

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    Hedwig and the Angry Inch

    John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's rock musical about an "internationally ignored" transgender German rock star slipped into our consciousnesses at the start of the 21st century.

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    Ring of Fire

    Stage biographies are often tripped up when the actor portraying the celebrity bears little resemblance to that person or, worse, attempts an impersonation that falls flat.

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    Bedroom Farce

    Among Alan Ayckbourn's earliest plays, this comedy zeroes in on four couples and takes an up-close look at one of the prolific British playwright's pet subjects: matrimony.

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    An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Bouef

    Imagine a world-class Parisian restaurant, complete with staff, owned by an eccentric millionaire who reserves it strictly for his own use.

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    Ecstasy: The Musical!

    Librettist-songwriter S. Claus' tuner is billed as "a groovy '70s musical."

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    Cymbeline

    'Cymbeline' is not known as one of Shakespeare's best, but this production makes the script fully comprehensible and even rather palatable.

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    Mercury Fur

    The word dystopia is too genteel. The characters say it more appropriately in this Philip Ridley play: They're living in a hellhole of a world, where brutality can be bought.