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    Anthony, Landis, Kress, Davis, Kent. Center Shearer. Photo by Doug Engalla.

    The Curious Savage: Another Warm and Funny Comedy at Group Rep

    Leigh Kennicott 16 February
    2 minutes

    As the ads say, “in the horse and buggy days,” the first play I ever saw in high school was The Curious Savage.  Now keep the image of a bunch of teenagers […]

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    Mullen, Sidell, Lock, Ball, Deford. Photo courtesy Theatre Forty.

    Glorious Two-fer: Graystone Mansion and Jane Austen Live!

    Leigh Kennicott 9 February
    2 minutes

    For a real treat, there is nothing like visiting the Doheny Family’s ancestral Greystone Mansion and being treated to a delicious send-up of all six of Jane Austen’s novels, all […]

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    O'Quinn, Norwood. Photo credit Theatre Forty

    An LA Story If Ever There Was One

    Leigh Kennicott 1 February
    3 minutes

    The fires may deter us, but we will always have real estate on our minds in Southern California, especially now.  So, it is indeed timely to consider the issues that playwright […]

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    Top: Mills, Sanders, DeLeon. Bottom: Clayton, Sulieman, Fernandez. Photo by Jason Needle/TETHOS.

    The Play That Goes Wrong

    Melinda Schupmann 30 January
    4 minutes

    In the grand tradition of farces that stretch back to plays like The Servant of Two Masters in the 1700s to the more recent Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, this production […]

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    Gilbert, Miller. Photo by Lizzie Kimball.

    Civil Twilight Looks for Answers Beyond the Horizon

    Leigh Kennicott 27 December
    2 minutes

    Shem Bitterman’s intriguing play Civil Twilight has been running for more than a month, but now it extends into the New Year, to everyone’s benefit.  This perfect two-hander pits celebrity against fandom […]

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    Michael Robb, Caroline Westheimer, Rebecca Del Sesto, Ian Riegler, Anica Petrovic. Photo by Peter Miller.

    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd-Masterful Mystery at Theatre 40

    Leigh Kennicott 8 December
    2 minutes

    If you love a mystery, and I do, you will absolutely LOVE this adaptation of a 1926 Agatha Christie novel, now onstage at Theatre Forty in Beverly Hills.  It’s difficult to […]

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