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    Bigley, Thomas. Photo courtesy Porters of Hellsgate.

    Porters of Hellsgate Tackle Shakespeare’s Last Play

    Leigh Kennicott 11 December
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    Sadly, the short run is over for this well-conceived rendition of a very messy play written (with John Fletcher) at the end of Shakespeare’s life, and produced, originally, at London’s […]

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    Kozika, Feliciana. Photo by Jeff Lorch.

    Smile Shows Its Effort From Inside Out

    Leigh Kennicott 5 December
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    Smile, the play, turns out to be anything but smiley, as it portrays the complex relationships a young girl must maneuver through cultural layers far beyond what is asked of white girls […]

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    Kerr, Lemire in A Clean Brush. Photo by Eric Keitel.

    Theatre 40 Runs Two Shows in Rep

    Leigh Kennicott 2 December
    4 minutes

    Always ambitious, Theatre 40 launched two plays in repertory, not only to provide more entertainment, but to accommodate its talented writers and performers.  First up, A Clean Brush marks a world premiere by […]

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    Gray, Del Sherman. Photo by Cooper Bates.

    The Odyssey Strikes Again…with Ibsen’s Ghosts

    Leigh Kennicott 25 September
    3 minutes

    After more than 100 years, few remember that Henrik Ibsen’s play Ghosts received its first production, not in his native Scandinavia, but in the United States. In the 1880s, the […]

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    Wagner, Pettit, Walker. Photo by Shelby Janes.

    Popular Playwright Strikes Again with A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Divorce

    Leigh Kennicott 7 August
    2 minutes

    Playwright Jeff Gould hits a funny nerve again with his latest, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Divorce. Sky Pilot Theatre Company delivers this confection with an even-handed production, helmed […]

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    Fason, Combs. Photo by Michele Young.

    Metromaniacs: Warning! You’ll Walk Out Speaking in Rhyming Couplets

    Leigh Kennicott 3 August
    2 minutes

    Theatre 40 continues to surprise with yet another engaging evening of theatre, presenting the English language adaptation of a French comedy that out-Moliere’s Moliere by his would-be successor, Alexis Piron.  Never […]

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    Cast. Photo by Ian Flanders.

    Theatricum Botanicum Takes on Sprawling Trouble the Water

    Leigh Kennicott 1 August
    3 minutes

    With Trouble the Water, Artistic Director and force behind the Theatricum, Ellen Geer, brings us an important story of a civil war hero, Robert Smalls. Born into slavery, he survived to […]

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    Agunmola and Players:Hootman, Allen, Akai, Batiste, Morales, Mekertichyan, Azurdie

    A Rough and Tumble 17th Century Pastiche

    Leigh Kennicott 25 July
    3 minutes

    Director Melissa Chalsma celebrates the diversity of Elizabethan playwrights by unearthing Francis Beaumont’s The Knight of the Burning Pestle.  Beaumont, along with his co-writer John Fletcher, took the reins of Shakespeare’s company […]

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    Williams, Zabilka and Company.

    Energetic Newsies Lights UP

    Leigh Kennicott 21 July
    3 minutes

    I can’t stop raving about the latest production of Newsies, now lighting up the BofA Performing Arts Center in Thousand Oaks.  There are only five more performances, ending on Sunday, July 24, […]

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    Aleisha Force and Kate Middleton. Photo by Jenny Graham.

    ROE is a Must-See Event, No Matter What Side You Are On

    Leigh Kennicott 3 July
    3 minutes

    Dismay. Anger. Depression. Confusion.  These were some of the emotions we all had when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 50-year-old precedent cementing the right to abortion in the […]

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