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LA Theater Review
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Actor-playwright Victoria Thompson is brave—and not just because she performs the lead in her own play.
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In this harrowing yet sometimes surprisingly humorous new play by Danai Gurira, the theme of emotional survival during the bleakest of circumstances is driven home with startling immediacy.
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As a black-tie party in a Manhattan skyscraper progresses and everyone drinks a little too much, intimate secrets emerge as the characters confront their lives and ambitions.
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Irish writer Conor McPherson has received critical kudos for his earlier plays "The Weir," and "Shining City" but, in this production at least, it's hard to understand why
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In 1956, librettist-lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe unveiled one of the most literate and tuneful musicals in Broadway history.
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This bittersweet comedy centers on four San Fernando Valley guys who, back in the 1960s, were members of a rock group called the Weeds.
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Once you get past the fact that this "new" 1898 play by Mark Twain is receiving its West Coast premiere 111 years after it was written, its tale of the European art scene circa the mid-19th century is quite strikingly contemporary.
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Arthur Miller's classic, a response to the communism uproar of the early 1950s, remains as relevant today as when it premiered 56 years ago. The townspeople and authorities of Salem, Mass., careen headfirst down a path of tragic inevitability.
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Donald Margulies' two-hander applies the dynamic seen in 'All About Eve' to the literary world—in this case legendary short-story author Ruth Steiner (Kandis Chappell) and young up-and-comer Lisa Morrison (Melanie Lora).
