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“Puppet Up! – Uncensored,” Kirk Douglas Theatre, Culver City, July 16 – 27, 2025 July 20, 2025 | By Bruce R. Feldman In Brief: Puppet...

"Fake It Until You Make It," Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, Jan. 29 – Mar. 9, 2025 Feb. 8, 2025 | By Bruce R. Feldman In Brief: If you...

"Once Upon a Mattress," Ahmanson Theatre, Dec. 10, 2024 – Jan. 5, 2025 Dec. 20, 2024 | By Bruce R. Feldman In Brief: A bright and...

"Randy Newman's Faust: The Concert," The Soraya, Northridge, Calif., Sept. 28 – 29, 2024 Oct. 5, 2024 | By Bruce R. Feldman In Brief:...

"Whittier Boulevard," Los Angeles Theatre Center, Sept. 14 - Oct. 20, 2024 Sept. 27, 2024 | By Bruce R. Feldman In Brief: A hilarious yet telling journey into the soul, culture, history, and humor of Chicano Los Angeles. It's terrific! Zilah Mendoza and Evelina Fernandez in the Latino Theater Co.'s "Whittier Boulevard." (Photo: Grettel Cortes Photography) It’s 2042 and Los Angeles has become a Trumpian hellscape. The police are watching everyone. It’s a crime to live past 75.

“Dragon Lady,” Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles, Sept. 12 – Oct. 6, 2024 Sept. 13, 2024 | By Bruce R. Feldman In Brief: An emotional roller coaster of a story of three generations of a Filipino family. Sara Porkalob’s tour-de-force performance will make you laugh, tear up, and clap until your hands are sore. Sara Porkalob stars in "Dragon Lady" at Geffen Playhouse (Photo: Jeff Lorch) In Dragon Lady , Sara Porkalob vividly recounts the misfortunes, disappointments, occasiona

“Fat Ham,” Geffen Playhouse, April 4 – May 5, 2024 April 10, 2024 | By Bruce R. Feldman In Brief: A wild and crazy mashup of Hamlet and...

Alex Edelman’s “Just for Us,” Mark Taper Forum, Nov. 10 – 26, 2023 Nov. 14, 2023 | By Bruce R. Feldman In Brief: After the Mark Taper...

August 12, 2023 | By Bruce R. Feldman “Peter Pan Goes Wrong,” Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, Aug. 8 - Sept. 10, 2023 In Brief: An amateur...