Cristofer Gross is a free lance writer on theater and jazz
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Theater Review (LA): Some Kind of Love Story by Arthur Miller
The West Coast premiere of a play by Arthur Miller - an undiscovered gem? If it sounds too good to be true . . .
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Theater Review (Los Angeles): Cesar & Ruben at NoHo Art Center
Ed Begley Jr. revives his 2003 musical about Chavez and Salazar in a production that integrates numerous forms.
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Theater Review: The Deception at La Jolla Playhouse, California
Marivaux's intricate game of deceit gets a new rendering in a beautiful production directed by Dominque Serrand.
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Theater Review: Can-Can at the Pasadena Playhouse
Director David Lee and company make Cole Porter's story of a censorship-plagued dance hall a lively entertainment.
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Theater Review: A New Carmen Musical at the La Jolla Playhouse
Prosper Merimee's gypsy woman will survive to sin again after the dulling effects of an oddly uninspired vision from a Cirque d'Soleil founder.
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Theater Review: Jersey Boys at the Ahmanson Theatre (L.A.)
Driven by intimacy with their hits and interest in their history, audiences can't take their eyes off this ode to all Four Seasons.
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Theater Review: The Verdi Girls by Bernard Farrell, Laguna Playhouse
The Laguna Playhouse premieres a new work by the traveling Irish writer who has come to call the seaside company his California home.
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Theater Review: David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face at the Mark Taper Forum
The author of M. Butterfly puts himself onstage in a fictionalized documentary.
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Theater Review: W. Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife
The Pasadena Playhouse has a consistent winner in Art Manke's staging with Megan Gallagher in the lead.
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Theater Review: Neil LaBute's Fat Pig
Prejudging a book by its cover is bad for people - and this play, now getting its West Coast premiere at L.A.'s Geffen Playhouse.
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