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William Wilson and Tabitha Trosen (Photo by Kie Sample) Reviewed by Asa FrisArt Crush LA at Atwater Village TheaterThru May 4RECOMMENDEDThe world premiere of To Each Their Own by Travis Williams at Art Crush LA is an excellent first staging of Williams’ Midwestern thriller. Though unfocused at moments, director Brooklyn Sample and ensemble have fully realized and explored the events of the play.
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Dee Freman (Credit: Amandla Baraka)Reviewed by Lovell Estell IIIHudson Guild TheaterThrough April 27RECOMMENDEDGrowing up in the 60’s in rural Louisiana, Dee Freeman had the love of two parents and shared chores and fun with her siblings in a home that was located not far from one that her grandparents had lived in for many years.. “It was a wonderful environment for a child to grow up in”, she says with a smile — until a family tragedy intruded.
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Reviewed by Martίn HernándezLos Angeles Theatre CenterThrough May 18. RECOMMENDEDBased on Helen Thorpe’s 2009 book, Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America, Karen Zacarίas’ s non-fiction play is an amusing, sober, and ultimately enraging look at the racist immigration policies of the United States.
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Vance Valencia and Gilbert Reynoso in “Tuesdays With Morrie” at CASA 0101. (Photo by Francis Gacad)Tuesdays With Morrie at CASA 0101Over the Easter weekend, I was in Boyle Heights to see CASA 0101’s production of Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom’s autobiographical Tuesdays With Morrie. There are still the architectural frames of synagogues across Boyle Heights, the East Los Angeles district where the CASA 0101 theater is located.
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Rafael Goldstein and Joel de la Fuente (Photo by Robert Huskey)Reviewed by Martίn HernándezSouth Coast RepertoryThrough May 3RECOMMENDEDYes, the Earth is dying but it may take a few billion more years for its eventual demise. Greg Murphy (Joel de la Fuente), though, is not so lucky.
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Reviewed by Madison MellonThe BroadwaterThrough May 11Clocking in at five hours and 45 minutes, Hellas is nothing if not ambitious. Written and directed by Christopher William Johnson, the play draws from the writings of Herodotus, Aeschylus’s The Persians, and other classical sources. It endeavors to tell the sweeping story of the Greco-Persian Wars—from the rise of the Hellenic city-states and the development of Athenian democracy to the eventual defeat of the Persian Empire.
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Reviewed by Odalys NaninRobey Theatre Company at the LATCThrough May 11RECOMMENDEDGrant Gerrard’s realistic set wonderfully recreates Harlem’s legendary jazz club, Mikell’s (founded in 1969), and is enhanced by Vanessa Fernandez’s projections of musicians and singers who performed there (including Lena Horn, Earther Kitt, Whitney Houston, Miles David, and Ella Fitzgerald). This sets the production’s tone, but it also turns the bar into a character in and of itself.
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Reviewed by F. Kathleen FoleyRogue MachineThru May 25RECOMMENDEDJohn Fazakerley’s fact-based Corktown ’39 — a sequel to his earlier play Corktown ’57, staged at the Odyssey a few years back — is part family drama, part political thriller, and a wholly engrossing, well-researched window into a little-known event in recent Irish history: the Irish Republican Army’s 1939 plot to assassinate England’s king, George VI, during a visit to America.
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Reviewed by Lovell Estell IIISkyPilot Theatre CompanyThrough May 4. So what does a seemingly normal, heterosexual man do when he discovers that he has not a single male friend? In his self-described “Bromantic comedy,” playwright Ben Abbott presents a humorous tale that might provide food for thought for some lonely guys out there. David (Sean Dube) is a devoted husband and father who suddenly realizes that his only friend is his wife Julia (Alyssa Klein).
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stageraw.com | Steven Morris
Lance Bagley, Scott Di Lorenzo and Courtney South (Photo by Tamira Pico)Reviewed by Martίn Hernández The Brickhouse TheatreThrough April 27RECOMMENDEDWho among us has not felt overwhelmed by a digital age that enslaves so many of us to our sundry electronic devices? Fear of being without a mobile phone has been dubbed “nomophobia,” short for “no mobile phone phobia,” in the UK since 2009 while studies and news stories abound on how our devices are specifically designed to be addictive.
