Brenda Wong

Soft Animal

brenda wong · June 15, 2025 certified reviewer
Watch George evolve before your eyes, from a single-celled organism, to a tree, to an ape, to an anxiety-riddled human. George is a delight to watch as he takes the audience through a journey that is both humorous and thoughtful.... full review

Husky Whispers and Goof Present: The Last Swing

brenda wong · June 15, 2025 certified reviewer
The best bad band you’ll ever see! Riley and Cole as Joel Husky and Bill Whispers sing parody songs, often food themed, that would make Weird Al Yankovic himself proud.... full review

Fish in the Tank

brenda wong · June 15, 2025 certified reviewer
A haunting and mysterious story of two young women, Ray and Echo, meeting for the first time since they last saw each other as students in a boarding school. As the plot unfolds, we learn more about their relationship and a fateful night they have not talked about until now.... full review

Scheele's Green: A Comedic Exhibition

brenda wong · June 12, 2025 certified reviewer
From Laurel & Hardy to Abbott & Costello, I’ve always enjoyed a good comedy duo. Adam and Conor do justice to the form as they as act out a series of absurd scenarios, each alternating between playing the straight man and the loose cannon—wildly imagined characters which include a hole-digging lighthouse keeper, a trauma-dumping sommelier, and a creepy vasectomy doctor.... full review

Face Divided

brenda wong · June 07, 2025 certified reviewer
A truly gripping story that showcases the actors’ abilities to convey a wide emotional range. Set in a hospital where their young daughter is being treated for injuries, a husband and wife address each other with resentment and blame as the truth gradually unfolds.... full review

Trans Mom vs. Family Court: Justice Sees No Gender

brenda wong · June 07, 2025 certified reviewer
This true tale of triumph three decades ago is as timely as ever. Rejyna, through her words and beautiful singing powerfully tells her story of her fierce fight for custodial rights of her child, as she went through a messy divorce while transitioning. This was at a time when gender dysphoria was not widely recognized. It reminds us of how far we have come since then, and how we must never go back.... full review

Buen Camino

brenda wong · June 06, 2025 certified reviewer
The Camino provides. Susan takes you on this transformative journey of 540 miles, so you don’t have to walk it yourself. She does so in her solo show so expertly that you can imagine everything from the weather conditions to the deep emotions, acted out as different characters.... full review

Morgan the Musical: A Sex Toy Western

brenda wong · July 13, 2024 certified reviewer
A humorous musical surrounding the central character Riley, who moves to the small town of Morgan, MT to open a sex toy shop. Riley brings their sex toys and sex positive culture to the small town, which is inhabited by religious people and gun enthusiasts.... full review

Queen Bee

brenda wong · June 29, 2024 certified reviewer
Inspired by Lord of the Flies, but now with a group of girls brought together in a classroom by a lockdown drill, this humorous play explores power dynamics and friendships.... full review

EXPATRIATED

brenda wong · June 28, 2024 certified reviewer
“Expatriated” portrays the differences in experiences of two attorneys who accept jobs away from their homes: a white woman who leaves L.A. for Hong Kong, and a Chinese woman who leaves Hong Kong to get a job in L.A. Their stories, presented side by side, highlight concepts of privilege, assumptions about race and culture, and the difficulties of immigration in America and relative ease of being an American ex-pat. Yet the main thing both characters experience is homesickness from living so far a... full review

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