Wrapping up its third season on Sunday, the 2012 Hollywood Fringe ? a three-week binge of affordable comedy, theater, music and film, with 200 noncurated events with
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There was a melody, or a fragment of one, bouncing in my head after watching the world-premiere musical Los Otros, which opened June 10 at the Mark Taper Forum and r
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Rex Pickett's stage adaptation Sideways: The Play (over at Ruskin Theatre Group), from his own novel about life in the Santa Inez Valley wine country, gets this
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Check out our growing docket of 2012 Hollywood Fringe theater reviews after the jump, which are scheduled for publication June 21. Also, check out this wee
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In Texas, they say, the truck is the center of life. Not only a vehicle to haul lumber and supplies and take your date to the Dairy Queen, it's a source of ident
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A three-person series of sketches about Laotians in America, Refugee Nation is this week's Pick. Click here for all New Stage Reviews, or go to the jump. Also,
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There's clearly something irresistible to playwrights about the image of clowns falling to pieces. On local stages, one embodiment of that is Two Headed Dog'
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Tony Abatemarco's family drama Beautified, at Hollywood's Skylight Theatre, is our Pick of the Week. Recommendations include Jeffrey Hatcher's adaptat
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It's a protest. It's a love story. So begins the explanation by experimental filmmakers Chauncey and Rondell (Jack Kehler and Gray Palmer) to a world-weary L.A. acto
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In preshow publicity, director Christopher Alden has said that his staging of Mozart's Don Giovanni is focused on the score. This is like theater companies sayin
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Moliere's The Learned Ladies is this week's Pick. Nods also for Patrick Kennelly's musical mash up of Patty Hearst and Patty Duke: Patty, The Revival,
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How would L.A. stages change if the theater gods were able to wave their magic wands and transform the local scene into a utopia? We asked a number of artistic direc
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