Lost in Yonkers @ The Costa Mesa Playhouse – Review

Neil Simon’s Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning coming-of-age memory play, set in Yonkers in 1942, is a tale of family dysfunction at its best. Arty and Jay, two teenage brothers are forced to live with their mentally-challenged aunt and stern, bitter grandmother while their ne’er-do-well father takes to the road as a traveling salesman to pay off his debts to a loan shark. Taken from the website. 

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8.7 Overall
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Set & Design8.5
Entertainment9
Acting8.5
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January 24th – February 16th, 2020

Ensemble Studio Theatre & VS. Theatre Company Present : The Water Tribe @ VS. Theatre Company – Review

(Photos by GLOVER BURK PHOTOGRAPHY)
Claudia is young, parentless, minimally employed, and almost without family or friends but she remains upbeat about her future and confident in her quest to form a personal tribe for herself and her boyfriend Johnny. But Johnny has problems of his own. He has launched into adulthood but still struggles to cut the cord from his concerned mother while searching for a connection to his long-absent father. As the few people Claudia has in her life begin to fall away and the problems in her relationship are laid bare, she teeters on the brink of catastrophe. Taken from the website.

January 17 – Feb 9, 2020

GOOD SHOW!
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8 Overall
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Set & Design7.5
Entertainment8.5
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Charley’s Aunt @ Glendale Centre Theatre – Review


This hysterical comedy follows Jack Chesney who loves Kitty Verdun and Charley who loves Miss Amy Spettigue. They invite the ladies to meet Charley’s wealthy aunt from Brazil, “where the nuts come from.” Canceling her visit at the last minute, the millionaire aunt sends the boys into cataclysmic confusion. What do they do now? The problem is solved by drafting their pal into impersonating “Charley’s Aunt”. This beautiful and hysterical production is set in the 1920s, adding a fun modern take to this timeless show! Taken from the website. 

December 31 – February 1,2020

Needs Work!
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6.8 Overall
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Set & Design7
Entertainment6
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Interview with Associate Artistic & Development Director Suzanne Dean of The Little Fish Theatre Company in San Pedro

Matthew Robinson interviews Associate Artistic & Development Director Suzanne Dean of the Little Fish Theatre Company about their upcoming 2020 show lineup. 

Rogue Machine Presents: World Premiere of Disposable Necessities @ The Electric Lodge – Review

(Photos by John Perrin Flynn)

In the future, aging and death have become annoyances of the past thanks to a process of the downloading of the digitized soul into another host body, or Module. This is something only the very wealthy can afford and if you are rich enough you can be anyone you desire. A comedic look at greed and the value of life – and death.  Taken from the website.

December 14 – February 3,2020 

Exceptional Show! 
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9 Overall
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Acting9.5
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Sixty-six Theater Company Presents : For the Loyal @ Marilyn Monroe Theatre in West Hollywood – Review


Toby and Mia are graduate students with a bright future ahead of them: a baby on the way and a college coaching job for Toby. But when Toby stumbles across a secret that threatens to derail their future, he and Mia must decide between honesty and loyalty, and whether doing something wrong is the only way to do what’s right. Will Mia be loyal to the institutions that support her, the family she’s part of, or herself? Taken from the website.

Nov 22 – December 14,2019

GREAT SHOW!
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8.5 Overall
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Shows Opening this Week! December 1 – 8,2019

An update on the newest theatre shows in Los Angeles on the week of December 1 -8,2019.

A Christmas Carol @ The Wallis Annenburg Center

THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER @ Group Rep/Lonny Chapman

Bob’s Holiday Office Party Runs @ Atwater Village Theatre 

Over Time @ Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre  

Sugar Plum Fairy @ David Hwang Theatre

The Magic of Christmas  @ LA Mirada Theatre For the Performing Arts 

Interview with Robot Teammate the creators of Pockets The Musical

Set in the olde British-ish kingdom of Crumpeton, POCKETS follows the heroine’s journey of young Bellamina Crumbledunk (Molly Dworsky), a noble-born preteen-turned-pickpocket hellbent on winning the attention of her distracted mother, the Duchess (Kat Primeau). Bellamina’s misadventures lead her to the underbelly of society, where she befriends criminals Veegan (Chris Bramante) and Jim Val Jim (Dave Reynolds) and becomes the inadvertent leader of a criminal uprising. Will the freshly-minted miscreant “Pockets” have the heart to sabotage her mum’s well-laid plans for Crumpet Day, the biggest holiday of the year?  Taken from the website. 

Information about the show below: 

https://www.robotteammate.com/

Eight Nights @ Antaeus Theatre Company – Review

(Photo by Jenny Graham)

Set in one apartment in New York over the span of several generations, this World Premiere follows the poignant journey of a German Jewish refugee and her family in this heartfelt, lyrical portrait of a woman haunted by the past but resiliently moving toward the future. Taken from the website. 

October 31 – December 16,2019

Above Average!
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7.9 Overall
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Set & Design8.5
Entertainment7
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Key Largo @ The Geffen Playhouse – Review

Note: To be clear there are quite a few changes in this version compared to the film. When I said this version is faithful. I mean the play is faithful to the genre of Noir. 

(Photo credit: Jeff Lorch)

Returning from World War II, disillusioned Frank McCloud travels to a hotel in Key Largo to pay his respects to the widow of a fallen friend. What McCloud doesn’t count on is an entirely different battle with mobsters who have overtaken the hotel, led by the ruthless Johnny Rocco (Academy Award nominee Andy Garcia). As a hurricane barrels toward the Keys, McCloud must face his demons in order to take down a monster.

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8.7 Overall
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Entertainment8.5
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