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    Month: May 2025

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    Robbins, Combs. Photo by Gabe Tejeda.

    Drive Away with Becky’s New Car at Theatre 40

    Leigh Kennicott 29 May
    3 minutes

    Becky’s New Car, from the pen of prolific playwright, Steven Dietz, has as many twists and turns as a lonely mountain highway. And the main character, winsome Becky (Jenn Robbins), would […]

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    Kasey Mahaffy and ensemble. Photo by Craig Schwartz.

    Attention Must Be Paid to a Man of No Importance

    Leigh Kennicott 20 May
    3 minutes

    It’s wonderful to find such an expert iteration of an exuberant musical right in our midst.  The joy of being an Angeleno, after all, is the ability to sample a wide […]

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    Photo by Craig Schwartz.

    A Man of No Importance: Another View

    Michael Van Duzer 20 May
    4 minutes

    After their monumental work on distilling E.L. Doctorow’s RAGTIME into a cohesive stage musical, playwright/librettist Terrence McNally approached Composer Stephen Flaherty and Lyricist Lynn Ahrens about a more intimate story from another […]

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    Pregoni, Nagle, Mammana. Photo by Philip Pirolo

    Sicily in 1936: Between the Gilded Age and Mussolini

    Leigh Kennicott 18 May
    2 minutes

    I’m a big fan of Tom Jacobson’s playwriting because he always seems to find a way to illuminate current agonies with past events in a reassuring way, letting audiences know […]

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    Martinez, Skinner. Photo by Julieta Cervantes.

    The Set Alone is Worth a Trip to Boston. Maybe a Red-Eye.

    Abigail Padgett 16 May
    4 minutes

    If Boston Huntington’s opening of The Light in the Piazza is predictive, this latest incarnation of the almost-classic American musical sung and spoken largely in Italian is a hit! The audience, noticeably […]

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    A Little Known Tennessee Williams Play Gets a New Assessment

    Leigh Kennicott 14 May
    3 minutes

    Tennessee Williams just couldn’t leave Blanche alone!  In his 1968 rendering In The Bar of a Tokyo Hotel Miriam (Susan Priver), the unhappy wife of an alcoholic painter, dawdles her life away […]

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