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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Theater Review: REEL TO REEL (Rogue Machine & HorseChart) by Sarah A. Spitz

LIFE ON REWIND In a co-production with HorseChart Theatre, Rogue Machine Theatre continues its astounding season with John Kolvenbach's gem of a play, Reel to Reel, a heart-warming, but defi…

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Friday, June 27, 2025

Theater Review: THE RESERVOIR (Geffen Playhouse) by Sarah A. Spitz

SOBER TRUTHS AND SLIPPERY MEMORIES IN A COMIC, CHAOTIC QUEST FOR CLARITY Alcoholism and Alzheimer's. What a combo. Sounds serious, right? They both are, of course. But in the hands of playwr…

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Monday, June 9, 2025

Theater Review: NICE GIRL (Rogue Machine at The Matrix) by Sarah A. Spitz

SMALL LIVES, BIG TRUTHS  What's a nice girl to do? Upstairs at The Matrix, Rogue Machine Theatre is putting on another winner of a show, Nice Girl by Melissa Ross. It's a small dram…

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Monday, May 19, 2025

Theater Review: WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT (Fountain) by Sarah A. Spitz

THE GOOD AND EVIL IN BOTH WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT AND AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION The concept sounded so intriguing that I begged to review this experimental theatre piece, White Rabbit, Red Rabb…

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Monday, April 28, 2025

Theater Review: FOSTERED (Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice) by Sarah A. Spitz

PILLOW FIGHTS, PLOT TWISTS AND PARENTAL PANIC If you like your family comedies with a hearty dose of mayhem, secrets, slapstick humor, and the occasional gymnastic leap off a sofa, Foster…

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Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Theater Review: SUBURBIA (Mojo Ensemble at Odyssey Theatre) by Sarah A. Spitz

Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do. " American essayist Sloane Crosley First, I want to acknowled…

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Monday, March 31, 2025

Theater Interview: TOM MORAN (Starring in National Tour of "Tom Moran is a Big Fat Filthy Disgusting Liar") by Sarah A. Spitz

AN HONEST INTERVIEW ABOUT LYING Tom Moran is many things: a stage and film actor, a writer, a voice-over artist, a budding author, and a podcast host of Personality Bingo. Under the auspi…

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Sunday, November 17, 2024

Theater Interview: SANDRA TSING LOH ("I'll Burn That Bridge When I Come to It" Work-in-Progress at The Odyssey Theatre) by Sarah A. Spitz

BURNING BRIDGES It takes a brave soul to speak out about getting back at those who got you cancelled, especially when the names that are blamed can theoretically destroy any chance of contin…

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Saturday, November 16, 2024

Theater Review: WAITING FOR GODOT (Geffen Playhouse) by Sarah A. Spitz

70 YEARS ON, AND WE'RE STILL WAITING You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. " Alber…

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Friday, October 25, 2024

Theater Review: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Antaeus Theatre Company in Glendale) by Sarah A. Spitz

WICKEDLY WITTY WILDE Sometimes you just need to take refuge from the contemporary world with a classic play. And when it's delivered as delightfully and professionally as Antaeus Theatre Com…

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Monday, September 23, 2024

Theater Interview: MICHAEL ROTH (Music Director for Randy Newman's "Faust" at The Soraya, September 28 & 29, 2024) by Sarah A. Spitz

LIFE IN THE FAUST LANE There's Gounod's Faust (the opera), Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (the novel), Christopher Marlowe's Faust (the play), then there's the classic Faust " Johann Wol…

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Saturday, September 14, 2024

Theater Review: DUEL REALITY (Ahmanson Theatre) by Sarah A. Spitz

STAR-CROSSED … AND TOSSED Think of The 7 Fingers (Les 7 doigts de la main) as a mini Cirque du Soleil performing onstage instead of in a ring under a Big Tent. This Montreal-based circus t…

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Theater Review: DRAGON LADY (Geffen Playhouse) by Sarah A. Spitz

GRANDMA'S A BADASS It's Grandma Maria Porkalob Sr.'s 60th birthday party, she's living in her son's mother-in-law basement and he's just given her a karaoke machine as her birthday present. …

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Monday, August 26, 2024

Theater Review: THE BROTHERS SIZE (Geffen Playhouse) by Sarah A. Spitz

THIS SIZE FITS ALL Opening the 2024/25 season of Geffen Playhouse is The Brothers Size, written by the Geffen's Artistic Director Tarell Alvin McCraney, performed in the smaller of the Playh…

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Saturday, August 3, 2024

Theater Review: CLUE LIVE ON STAGE! (National Tour at the Ahmanson Theatre in L.A.) by Sarah A. Spitz

CLUELESS NO MORE As a kid, I never played the Hasbro board game Clue, nor did I ever see the Paramount Pictures movie based on that board game. But at opening night on July 31, I was absolut…

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Saturday, July 27, 2024

Theater Review: THE SPY WHO WENT INTO REHAB (Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice) by Sarah A. Spitz

ESPIONAGE COMES TO GROUP THERAPY There's a pretty good reason why the world premiere of Greg Ostrin's The Spy Who Went Into Rehab, onstage at Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, has been ext…

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Thursday, July 25, 2024

Theater Interview: ROB MORROW (Now Appearing in "The Substance of Fire" at Ruskin Group Theatre in Santa Monica) by Sarah A. Spitz

THE SUBSTANCE OF ROB MORROW Actor Rob Morrow has come full circle. The Emmy-nominated Northern Exposure star, recognized for other notable TV shows (Billions, Numb3rs, The People vs. OJ Simp…

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Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off