In the immersive theater piece The Day Shall Declare It, three actors play out various scenarios that start to look like a story but ultimately aren't. That'
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Allen Barton's absorbing new drama, Disconnection, spun from his experiences with Scientology, looks at the fallout from a regime change at a self-improvement church
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Shakespeare's adage from Hamlet, When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions, seems to course through Stephen Karam's Pulitzer Prize finalist pl
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Actors' Equity Association, the New Yorkbased union representing stage actors and stage managers, never liked L.A.'s 99-Seat Theater Plan, which allows unio
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When Zayd Dohrn's Reborning at the Fountain Theatre gets something right, it gets it so right that you may be left in a state of disorientation. That something
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Funerals emerge as a metaphoric backdrop in the West Coast premiere of Mac Rogers' Viral, as well as in Billy Elliot ? The Musical, the London and Broadway sensa
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You're one of six college friends in, say, New York or even Nepal, and you want to visit Hollywood for a weekend. You can book a hotel for $75 to $350 a night, o
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In one of many striking images in Brian Kite's staging of Billy Elliot The Musical, an army of northeast England miners, having had their strike busted by Maggie Th
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Theater makers in L.A. and beyond have become a denigrated, migrant population, behaving in some ways like undocumented laborers. True, they're mostly native-bor
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Andrew Hinderaker's play is a bit like Death of a Salesman but with snappier dialogue and a titillating backdrop. Matt (Max Lesser) quits his job to take an ethical
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This year was a noisy and divisive one in local theater, punctuated with threats, real and imagined ? from sources allegedly ranging from the IRS to the state's
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Rebecca Gilman's new play, Luna Gale, is about a social worker in Iowa, Caroline (Mary Beth Fisher), who finds herself arbitrating the possession of an infant betwee
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