A Los Angeles Theatre Review: ‘Fairview’

There are many incredible ingredients at work with the Los Angeles premiere of Jackie Sibblies Drury‘s 2019 Pulitzer Prize winning drama Fairview, now playing at Rogue Machine Theatre: a crackling ensemble cast, an intriguing and twisty premise, and a thrilling direction by Oz Scott. But despite these elements present, the play fall short of its clever ambitions as it settles into an abstract moral message play written primarily for white people.

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‘A Good Guy’ is David Rambo’s Examination of Gun Violence and Morality

It was quiet enough to hear your own heartbeat as the room darkened to a pitch black inside the small room with its angled roof, inside Matrix Theater on Melrose.

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A Los Angeles Theatre Review: ‘Middle of the World’

We’re back at it reviewing global majority-focused Los Angeles theatre for 2024 and I can safely say it’s off to a terrific start! The Rogue Machine Theatre kicks off their new season with the West Coast premiere of Middle of the World, written by Juan José Alfonso and directed by Guillermo Cienfuegos, and it is a riveting and rather timely play that crackles with energy, soul, and fire.

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