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Theater Preview: TWELVE HOURS WITH TRACY LETTS (Circle in the Square)
A DAY WITH TRACY LETTS Animus Theatre Company presents a marathon reading festival with an all-star cast to support Circle in the Square Theatre School For theater lovers, the chance to experience even one play by Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy Letts is worth clearing an evening. Animus Theatre Company is asking audiences to clear an…
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Off-Broadway Theater Review: ROCOCO ROUGE (Company XIV)
A CABARET SHOW THAT GOES FOR BAROQUE Mae West, the sage and sybarite from Brooklyn, used to say, “Let joy be unrefined,” a point of view that also suits Austin McCormick, artistic director and choreographer of Company XIV. His latest extravaganza Rococo Rouge retools the roisterous risk-taking revelry he’s known for: bare skin, sultry ballet,…
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San Francisco Theater Review: STOREFRONT CHURCH (SF Playhouse)
DIME STORE PROPAGANDA One of the problems with watching a play that has an agenda, political or otherwise, is the difficulty of enjoying with a good conscience even those parts that work; knowing the playwright’s intentions to be dishonest (in that he’s serving up propaganda as art), one feels foolish being affected emotionally, as though…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: TRIBES (Center Theatre Group at Mark Taper Forum)
FINDING YOUR TRIBE Theatre of Identity, aka Social Issues Theatre, is a fascinating phenomenon: this genre promotes a particular people’s cultural identity and invites members of that culture and other cultures to experience that culture’s joys, problems, history, traditions, and point of view. Plays like Torch Song Trilogy, The Boys Next Door, and Yellow Face…
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Los Angeles Theater “Reviews”: PLAYS IN THE PARK (Santa Monica Playhouse) and GRACE NOTES & ANVILS (Odyssey Theatre)
TWO CRITICS; TWO STAGED READINGS; BASICALLY ONE OPINION From Jason Rohrer: Plays in the Park, Brian Conners’ collection of one-acts (only one of which is set in a park), intends to showcase its writer (who also directs) in the glow of its rotating cast of Actors’ Studio headliners. Mark Rydell, Ed Asner and Esai Morales…
Theater Review: MARISOL (Open Fist Theatre Company / Los Angeles)
by Lawrence Lucero | September 18, 2026
in Los Angeles, TheaterTheater Review: THE VISIT (Pasadena Playhouse)
by Michael Landman-Karney | September 17, 2026
in Los Angeles, TheaterTheater Review: THE BIRTH OF THE PILL (TimeLine Theatre / Chicago)
by Croydon Fernandes | September 17, 2026
in Chicago, TheaterCabaret Review: JEFF HARNAR – THE 1959 BROADWAY SONGBOOK (Birdland / New York)
by Rob Lester | September 17, 2026
in Cabaret, New YorkTheater Review: A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD (Rogue Machine / Los Angeles)
by Michael Landman-Karney | September 17, 2026
in Los Angeles, TheaterTheater Review: DEAR EVAN HANSEN (Cygnet / San Diego)
by Milo Shapiro | September 17, 2026
in San Diego, TheaterTheater Review: WILD CHILD (Laguna Playhouse)
by Michael Landman-Karney | September 17, 2026
in Los Angeles, TheaterTheater Review: THE MAN WHO FELL WITH THE RAIN (Trap Door / Chicago)
by Croydon Fernandes | September 16, 2026
in Chicago, Los AngelesTheater Review: WITCH (Idle Muse / Chicago)
by Croydon Fernandes | September 15, 2026
in Chicago, TheaterTheater Review: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (National Tour / Los Angeles)
by Christopher Lloyd Bratten | September 15, 2026
in Los Angeles, Theater, Tours
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