Luis Reyes

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Desperate Characters

Long Stay Cut Short features gripping stagings of two little-known, heartbreaking Tennessee Williams one-acts. In “The Unsatisfactory Supper,” crass...
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Abigail's Party

What might have been provocative in 1979, when Mike Leigh’s play first appeared, now feels dated. Beverly (Nikki Glick) — a happily childless, unhap...
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Life as Circus

Cuban-born playwright Dennis Miles has composed an elegy to lost love and distant battles, set — as he mentions in the program — somewhere in the wo...
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Capsized Flotsam

Donaco Smyth's fun comedy is set in — and ostensibly modeled after — the witty literary England of Oscar Wilde and P.G. Wodehouse. But the work ...
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Stories From the Bible

This sharp 45-minute romp through the Old and New testaments delivers on style and craft, less so on substance. However, as nine strong performers in skintight ...
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A Thousand Words

is an impressive undertaking in which nine pieces of visual art by local artists inspire nine pieces of theatrical art by local playwrights. The evening’s...
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Less Is More?

For its eighth annual Common Ground Festival this weekend at UCLA, ASK Theater Projects is scaling back, though arguably probing deeper -- inviting six experimental theater groups (a 33 percent drop from the past average of nine), of which only four will actually present their work to the public. (A......

Rattling the Cage

CHAY YEW plants his hands on his front pockets, wrists twisted forward with subtle effeminacy. He is an artist and academic with a jovial attitude toward his openly gay sexuality and his Chinese-Singaporean ethnicity. That curious blend seeps into his brutal, lyrical plays (Porcelain, Wonderland and Red), which offer a......

At Home With the Stepplings

DOG MOUTH | Written and directed by JOHN STEPPLING | Presented by PADUA PLAYWRIGHTS PRODUCTIONS and EVIDENCE ROOM | At EVIDENCE ROOM, 2220 Beverly Blvd. (213) 381-7118 | Through February 17 anne fishbein John Steppling still directs his own work, still dons the black boots, jeans and large belt buckle......