1816 1/2 N. Vermont Ave.
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514 S. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Category: Theaters
Region: Downtown
130 S. La Brea Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Category: Theaters
Region: Melrose/ Beverly/ Fairfax
660 N. Heliotrope Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90004
Category: Theaters
Region: Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park
7936 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
Category: Theaters
Region: West Hollywood
2106 Hyperion Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Category: Restaurant > Coffeehouse
Region: Silver Lake
THE INSOMNIA PLAY When you have insomnia, what keeps you up at night? Worries, or a stalker ordering you to put on a prettier nightgown? For Georgina (Liz Vital), it's both. On her first sleepover with new guy George (Nick Mills), she's kept up by the Sandman (Jeff Irwin) needling her that she's too crazy to keep a man. In Jessica Brickman's short play, the Sandman's obviously standing in for Georgina's insecurities: He knows she's flighty, fluttery and prone to emotional meltdowns. But he's also his own man with a complicated relationship with his sexy sheep assistant (the kind you count at night, played by Jessica Culaciati, hugely pregnant and an energetic comedian). His own insecurities include a jealous streak that's got him trying to sabotage Georgina's fledgling relationship, even sending the sheep into the bed to seduce George. (Set designer Robert Tintoc has made a bed big enough to swallow a circus act.) There's a haziness about the play, as if we, too, are strapped for sleep and a little confused about what's happening. But if director Gioia Marchese can't shape much of a message out of the play, she's got a good handle on its standout scene, where the Sandman shifts forward and backward seven months in George and Georgina's relationship, forcing the actors to make hairpin turns between infatuation and ennui. Lyric-Hyperion Theater Cafe, 2106 Hyperion Ave., Silver Lake; Fri., Sun., 8 p.m., thru April 10. (847) 800-1762, lyrichyperion.com. (Amy Nicholson)
THE MERCY SEAT Neil LaBute, a writer renowned for his lacerating portraits of narcissistic cads and the arrested adolescent within, doesn't exactly spring to mind when one speaks of a "9/11 play." So it comes as something of a relief that this 2002 drama set in lower Manhattan on the day after the terrorist attacks is less concerned with collapsing office towers than it is with the imploding illusions of its feuding pair of illicit lovers. In fact, the only disaster in sight turns out to be of the emotional kind. The curtain opens on Ben (Johnny Clark), a husband and father so paralyzed by callow self-pity and passive-aggressive guilt that he is unable to answer his incessantly ringing cell phone or move from his armchair for nearly the entire play. Turns out that he was only spared from dying in the conflagration because he skipped a meeting at Ground Zero for an early-morning assignation with his boss and mistress, Abby (Michelle Clunie), at her luxury loft. When Ben compounds his callous indifference to the loss of life outside by cynically seizing on his own presumed death in a scheme to abandon his family and run off with her, Abby is finally jolted into a belated reappraisal of their three-year affair. Clunie all but steals the show with an artfully nuanced performance that galvanizes Abby's tough exterior with affecting currents of wounded vulnerability and frustrated yearning. Unfortunately, with the exception of exhilarating flourishes provided by Derrick McDaniel's poetic lights, director Ron Klier's staging is so weighted down by Danny Cistone's distractingly overelaborate and hyperrealistic set that the production rarely achieves LaBute's intended metaphoric lift. A Vs. Theatre Company production. [Inside] the Ford, 2580 Cahuenga Blvd. East, Hlywd.; Wed.-Sat., 8 p.m., Sun., 2 p.m., thru April 24. (323) 461-3673, fordtheatres.org. (Bill Raden)
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FINALLY a review takes notice of the critical importance of set design to a theatrical work. And well worhty is the notice taken, given the contribution is from Kis Knekt. The Los Angeles theater and opera world would be wise to take note of this notice (I'm a bit of a Johnny-one-note here!). She has much to offer. I've had the privilege to see other productions in which she has participated, as well as beautiful renderings and ideas for productions yet to be done. So get her while you can, before a European company or NYC takes her away.
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