OUTRAGE - Beverly Hills Playhouse

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Reviewed by Amalisha HuEck What an amazing production with an outstanding cast, greatly written and directed play where the different sides and views are explored to a maximum perfection. The sad thing is - just a very few people in the audience. ...

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LEWIS AND TOLKIEN - World Premiere at Actors Co-op

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Reviewed by Amanda Callas Lewis and Tolkien is a fascinating, introspective new world premiere play at the award-winning Actors Co-op in Hollywood, written and directed by Dean Batali. The play is a rich, pensive conversation between famed fantasy ...

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BABY FOOT - Rogue Theatre Company at The Matrix

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Reviewed by Michael Edwards Baby Foot at the Matrix Theatre, produced by the award-winning Rogue Machine Theatre Co is a beautiful deep dive character study into the world of the recovering addict. An excellent production: Small (30 seats) and in the ...

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WILD PARTY - The Jaxx Theatre (formerly The Met)

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Reviewed by Chris Cassone There's probably not enough time to get the word out about the intoxicating Jaxx Theatre production of Wild Party. But I'll try. LA, please don't miss this one. It's a Fitzgerald-esque story set in the 1920's where lovers ...

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STORY SMASH - Lyric Hyperion Theatre

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Reviewed by Amanda Callas The recurring live comedy game show Story Smash at the historic Lyric Hyperion Theater in Silverlake is an absolute joy. The juicy blend of timed storytelling, standup comedy, celebrity guests, and old-fashioned game show ...

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THE HUMAN COMEDY - Actors Co-op Theatre Company

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Reviewed by Amanda Callas The hit world premiere play The Human Comedy is back, by popular demand, at the award-winning Actors Co-op in Hollywood. This is the poignant story of an adolescent boy growing up without a father in wartime, small town ...

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QUEEN OF THE RHUMBA - Casa 0101 (Boyle Heights)

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Reviewed by Michael Edwards (To honor Hispanic Heritage Month, Discover Hollywood ventured eastward out of Hollywood to Boyle Heights. It was well worth the trip.) Josefina Lopez's ("Real Women Have Curves") brand new world premiere work, " Queen of ...

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HOW IT'S GON' BE - Echo Theatre Company

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Reviewed by Amalisha HuEck The power of love is a driving force here, where great mom loves with rules, helping her son get into adulthood. On one beautiful summer day dad shows up unexpectedly with the promise to stay longer this time, and the day ...

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BLOOD AT THE ROOT - Open Fist Theatre Company at Atwater Village Theatre

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Reviewed by Amalisha HuEck The first thing, after entering the theatre, one stares at the magnificent, giant, precisely created tree (designed by Joel David) with roots, branches, and leaves, bathed in a perfect spectrum of colors and wonders, 'How ...

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AN INFINITE ACHE - Crimson Square Theatre Company

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Reviewed by Amalisha HuEck Life authors interesting stories and when two people are destined to explore life's blessings and challenges - a lot can happen in a short or a long period of time. An Infinite Ache is a romantic tale of two people, Hope ...

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WALKING IN SPACE - World Premiere at Theatre West

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Reviewed by Amalisha HuEck Theatre West presents an intriguing truth of addiction and its effects in the World Premiere of Walking in Space by Garry Michael Kluger. Through resourceful true story of a single-family home where the mother Francine ...

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FABULATION OR RE-EDUCATION OF UNDINE - Hudson Backstage Theatre

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Reviewed by Michael Edwards Fabulation or Re-education of Undine, at the Hudson Theatre Backstage is a strong staging of the consistently insightful human work of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Lynne Nottage. Directed by and starring the very ...

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Disney's ALADDIN - Pantages Theatre

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Reviewed by Amanda Callas Disney's hit Broadway musical Aladdin returns to the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood for two weeks of glorious fun. This is a work of bedazzling, astonishing showmanship through and through, and you couldn't imagine a more ...

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HUNGRY GHOST - Skylight Theatre

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Reviewed by Amanda Callas The world premiere play Hungry Ghost by Lisa Sanaye Dring at Skylight Theatre in Los Feliz is a live wire act of fearless humor, grief, and existential dread. By turns, it is intoxicatingly bold, laugh-out-loud funny, ...

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HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING - Rogue Machine (at the Matrix Theatre)

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Reviewed by Michael Edwards The Pulitzer Prize nominated Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery, now running at the Matrix Theater is more than what the critics have been raving about for years now (i.e., "Astonishing and Riveting -NEW YORK ...

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