Gorgeous playfully wordly young actress so captures the gnarly worlds of swinging, biker bars and other urban LA subcultures to tell a phantasmagorphic story of a hungry Central Valley virgin....
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Provocative parallel between 1930s Nazi Germany and today's MAGA thought. While the conductor was lively and super-engaging, the in your face ghost train was dead serious....
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Being a couple of decades older than the play's protagonists, I note a vulnerability and emotional intelligence the men of my generation do not access. Without Robert Bly drumming them into "truth telling" they engage heartache with an uncommon authenticity....
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Creepy...so creepy and yet hilarious. Loved how the whole story comes together. Just hope in real life I never ever meet such a sociopathic dingbat!...
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Ruth Brandt infuses a panoply of cultural heritages (her German parents, her New York Jewish and her husbands Hispanic) into a multi-layered story. A skilled stand-up comedian she relates the story of a generating a mainstream family life of husband, children, business and home which dissipates into a cheating mess, followed by delicious independent living....
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To me this was a deep dive into the psycho-emotional pleasures of bondage frosted with Jackie's Asian-American family stories, a discomforting sexual assault and stabbing at labels mental health labels like borderline personality disorder and bi-polar. Ultimately Jackie is a boundary-pushing performer with much to say!...
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A truly gorgeous show that unabashedly celebrates living large in body and spirit! Ariella owns her largish body and her polyamorous lifestyle in full-on celebration....
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The woman sitting next to me was laughing so loud and so constantly, it took me a while to inch myself into my own enjoyment of this crazy-ass show. It's in part a political statement on the diminishing of the dairy industry as it's supplanted by all matter of vegan milk. And then it's a multi-media extravaganza craftily staged with black and white film, colorful and wacked out comedy sketches and a fun group of performers....
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I was initially suspicious that Abel would "solve antisemitism in 45 minutes," considering the current world situations of the October 7 kibbutz massacre, the Palestinian rights protests, the war in Ukraine with it's Jewish President Zelensky. I just allowed myself to immerse in Abel's story telling. All I can say is that he nails much of why Jewish culture is so thick, beloved and mistrusted. ...
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