Odalys Nanin's speculative drama Garbo's Cuban Lover concerns a certain coziness between Greta Garbo and 1930s poet, playwright and novelist Mercedes de
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You'd think it would be a given in a movie town such as ours that, even on our local stages, pictures and moving pictures would be the prevailing language that c
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Chalk Repertory -- known for its site-specific works -- brings Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan from the drawing room to the out of doors in this week'
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Los Feliz's Skylight Theatre has become the home for L.A. scribe Shem Bitterman, who's had his plays staged in this city for decades. His latest, a real esta
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We had two cars in which to stow three dogs and a lifetime's worth of possessions. The emergency broadcast service at 1610 AM, or WINKI, kept repeating the mantr
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Lynnmarie Rink's one-woman (not counting her band) show about her life as a polka star is this week's pick of the week. It's called Wrap Your Heart Aroun
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In Bruce Norris' stark comedy A Parallelogram, 30-ish Bee (Marin Ireland) ? a regional manager for Rite Aid, a job that's very fulfilling, she quips ? is in
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Not since late December and its annual swath of A Christmas Carols invading the region have there been so many productions of a single play presented in single seaso
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Michael Kass' one-man show, Ceremony, about his journey to spiritual enlightenment via Peru, is this week's pick of the week. For all the latest new theater
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By sheer coincidence, it seems, a pair of new plays being performed in different corners of the city takes a mocking yet poignant look at the ability of people to br
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Henry Ong's new play Sweet Karma, based on the life of a Khmer Rouge survivor and his tragic death on the streets of L.A., is being performed at Burbank's Gr
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The publicist for the Kirk Douglas Theatre finds me in the theater's cinder-block cubicle otherwise known as the Green Room ? only one wall is actually green. We
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