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LA Theatrix offers insightful reviews of live theatre in and around Los Angeles -- and beyond.

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Wondering about #Vaccines ? 🤔 Or do you just want to see a good production of a funny and smart play! 🎭😄 Check out EUREKA DAY @PasPlayhouse in #Pasadena, thru October 5 Review: latheatrix.com/post/review-t…

Review: Timely ‘Eureka Day’ at Pasadena Playhouse

At once pointed and funny, Jonathan Spector’s 2018 “Eureka Day”—winning a Tony Award in 2025 for best revival— reflects our nation’s fraught relationship with childhood vaccines through the lens of...

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Theater news: Legendary performer Sandra Bernhard on ‘mood swings, madness and mayhem’ lbpost.com/hi-lo/art/theater…

Theater news: Legendary performer Sandra Bernhard on ‘mood swings, madness and mayhem’

Bernhard, who’s recently appeared in “Severance,” “Percy Jackson and the Olympians,” and  “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” is coming to the Carpenter Center.

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Theater News: Carpenter Center season kicks off new season with soul singer Bilal lbpost.com/hi-lo/art/theater…

Theater News: Carpenter Center kicks off new season with soul singer Bilal

Here's this season's lineup for one of Long Beach's impressive and vibrant performance venues right here in our own backyard. 

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Theater review: Emotionally riveting ‘A Doll’s House’ at Long Beach Shakespeare Company lbpost.com/hi-lo/art/theater…

Theater review: Emotionally riveting ‘A Doll’s House’ at Long Beach Shakespeare Company

In Long Beach Shakespeare Company’s current production, top-notch acting and direction make the play feel like it could have been written today and also allow us to feel all the characters’ intense...

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Theater review: ‘Masala Dabba,’ a riveting, multicultural family drama, premieres at International City Theatre lbpost.com/hi-lo/art/theater…

Theater review: ‘Masala Dabba,’ a riveting, multicultural family drama, premieres at International...

Overall, “Masala Dabba” is a gorgeous story with likeable characters finely portrayed by these four actors.

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@thetroubies are back at @GettyMuseum Villa! "Oedipus the King, Mama!" continues thru Sept. 27. #ElvisPresley meets #oedipus_complex in true zany Troubies fashion 🤪🎶🕺 Review: latheatrix.com/post/review-t…

Review: The Troubadours’ ‘Oedipus the King, Mama!’ at Getty Villa

It’s always sublime to experience the Troubadour Theater Company’s mirthful take on classics, from a Shakespeare play told with ‘80s music in “Duran DurAntony & Cleopatra” at the Colony Theatre last...

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Through pure gumption, two local students secured a Santa Monica venue to perform their uproarious original comedy “The Legend of Mt. Hurr.” They say it’s “something that’s classic, that everyone from a 5-year-old to grandparents would want to come see.”  lbpost.com/hi-lo/art/staging…

Staging their own original play, 2 Poly High grads want to spark a ‘theater revolution’

Through pure gumption, two local students secured a Santa Monica venue to perform their uproarious comedy “The Legend of Mt. Hurr.” They say it’s “something that’s classic, that everyone from a...

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‘White Rabbit Red Rabbit,’ a provocative Iranian play that upends the theater process, arrives in Long Beach lbpost.com/hi-lo/art/white-r…

‘White Rabbit Red Rabbit,’ a provocative Iranian play that upends the theater process, arrives in...

A rotating cast of experienced actors, including Paul Williams, will perform with no rehearsals, no director and having never seen a script handed to them in a sealed envelope.

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Theater review: Musical Theatre West’s ‘Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story’ rocks the stage lbpost.com/hi-lo/art/theater…

Theater review: Musical Theatre West’s ‘Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story’ rocks the stage

The musical does justice to the 1950s musician’s legacy through the production’s supercharged talent.

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"Puppet Up! – Uncensored" continues @CTGLA's Kirk Douglas Theatre through July 27 🎭 Puppets + improve + audience participation = 🤯😂😍 Catch it this week in #CulverCity! @hensoncompany #muppet Review: latheatrix.com/post/review-h…

Review: Hilarious ‘Puppet Up! – Uncensored’ at Kirk Douglas Theatre

First, disabuse yourself of the notion that Brian Henson’s show “Puppet Up! – Uncensored” involves naked, freewheeling Muppet debauchery, which is how it’s sometimes billed. Sure, there are f-bombs...

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@JakeBrasch1's new play "The Reservoir" is having its West Coast debut @GeffenPlayhouse through July 20! 🎭 #Alcoholism meets #Alzheimers as lost college boy takes jazzercise class with all four grandparents🕺💃👵👴 Who will save who from what?😉😀 Review: latheatrix.com/post/review-t…

Review: ‘The Reservoir’ at Geffen Playhouse explores alcoholism and Alzheimer’s

The best thing about Jake Brasch’s new play “The Reservoir” — currently enjoying its West Coast premiere at Geffen Playhouse and coproduced with Denver Center for the Performing Arts and Alliance...

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Jack Stehlin shines in "Lear Redux," a creative reimagining of #Shakespeare's "King Lear"👑✨ @OdysseyTheatre_ in West L.A. thru July 13🎭 Lear is an aged famous actor with two daughters plus Cordelia, a cute and faithful dog 🐕 Review: latheatrix.com/post/review-i…

Review: Imaginative ‘Lear Redux’ at Odyssey Theatre

Adding to previous “reduxes” of William Shakespeare plays like “Titus Andronicus” and “The Tempest,” adaptor and director John Farmanesh-Bocca has crafted a delightfully deep “Lear Redux,” retelling...

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Theater News: A bluegrass-infused musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell is coming to the Long Beach Landmark lbpost.com/hi-lo/art/theater…
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Powerful immigrant story in @chancetheater's "The Chinese Lady" 🎭 First woman to come from China to the US in 1834, Afong Moy, was 14 & displayed like a museum artifact 🖼️ Play also features a Chinese man Atung, the subversive translator 😎 Thru June 8 latheatrix.com/post/review-c…

Review: Chance Theater's ‘The Chinese Lady’

Written by Lloyd Suh based on a true story, and directed by Shinshin Tsai, “The Chinese Lady” offers an intricate portrait of an unusual person — Afong Moy (Michelle Krusiec), the first Chinese...

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"44" the Obama Musical is BACK! Thru June 22 @CTGLA's Kirk Douglas Theatre in #CulverCity If you missed it the first time, this is your chance to relive the not-so-distant past in a fabulously fun and groovy way 🎵🕺 @44ObamaMusical latheatrix.com/post/44-at-ki…

’44’ at Kirk Douglas Theatre: a musical tour (de force) of Obama’s presidency

For some, it’s the perfect panacea — an unofficial and unsanctioned musical homage to our 44th U.S. president, Barack Obama. Simply called “44: The Musical,” the show is also riotously funny,...

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Don't miss LIFE OF PI @CTGLA's Ahmanson Theatre thru June 1. Physically and visually wondrous 🤩🎭 Beautifully adapted for the stage by Lolita Chakrabarti w/ excellent staging, amazing lead and articulated puppetry 🐯🦓🐢🐠🦒🐐🦧 @MusicCenterLA Review: latheatrix.com/post/review-l…

Review: ‘Life of Pi’ shines brightly at the Ahmanson

The national touring production of “Life of Pi,” continuing at the Ahmanson Theatre through June 1, offers a stellar theatrical experience. Visually stunning with an excellent lead and satisfyingly...

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Theater News: ‘Steel Magnolias’ set to grace the Long Beach Playhouse stage lbpost.com/hi-lo/art/steel-m…

Theater News: ‘Steel Magnolias’ set to grace the Long Beach Playhouse stage

“I wanted a play that centers on women and highlights their strengths,” the theater’s artistic director, Sean Gray, said.

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Beautifully staged "A Man of No Importance" @anoisewithin theatre -- movement, acting (especially @KaseyMahaffy), singing, live band on stage. What more could one want from theatre? 🎭 Thru June 1 Review: latheatrix.com/post/review-a…

Review: ‘A Man of No Importance’ soars at A Noise Within

Seamlessly directed by A Noise Within’s co-artistic director Julia Rodriguez Elliott and excellently acted and sung, “A Man of No Importance” is the kind of mesmerizing musical that captures your...

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Theater News: A dozen original plays head to the stage in Long Beach Shakespeare Company’s New Works Festival lbpost.com/hi-lo/long-beach-…

Theater News: A dozen original plays head to the stage in Long Beach Shakespeare Company’s New...

The bonanza of unique works are a “dynamic mix” of stories that “need to be told at this moment in time," according to the company's artistic director.

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"Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley" @EbonyRep🎭brings history alive with 1965 debate. American writer & activist James Baldwin and critic William F. Buckley, Jr. trade speeches on "The American dream is at the expense of the American Negro" 😯🤨 Thru May 11 latheatrix.com/post/review-d…

Review: ‘Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley’ makes riveting history at Ebony Repertory Theatre

It seems that our current times are fraught with disagreement, one side against another, centering on issues of power, race and privilege. But these same tensions have simmered in America for...

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