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L.A. Theater 2013: A Preview

Steven Leigh Morris
Looking across the border crossing of the holiday season, there's cause for curiosity and a feeling of being encouraged by the possibilities of what 2013 offers for the local stage. On the scrappy side of things — i.e., the land of the unpredictable — the Hollywood Fringe festival returns for......
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed ReinDOORS

Steven Leigh Morris
This spoof of the Burl Ives-narrated, animated holiday classic is in clown troupe Troubadour Theater Company's solid, witty, raunchy and scatological hands. As Sam the Snowman (Paul C. Vogt) pointed out to a child before the show began, "You're gonna grow up real fast tonight." The Troubies now have a......
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Nothing to Hide

Steven Leigh Morris
A telling admission in Derek DelGaudio and Helder Guimarães' magic show Nothing to Hide is that shows such as this should be antiquated by now. One of them comes right out and says it: We already live in an era of technological magic, so how can card tricks possibly compete?......
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10 Most Memorable L.A. Theater Moments of 2012

Steven Leigh Morris
How convenient it would be in describing the year's best stage events to roll in with an agenda: that local productions were better than imports; or that the smaller theaters did better work on average than the larger ones; or the inverse, that because of their larger budgets, the midsize......