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SUSAN LOUISE O'CONNOR
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June 06, 2026
Godot fans will LOVE this one! But there's something for EVERYONE, with many laugh out loud moments. The audience was all in. ...
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DAVID BAX
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June 29, 2026
Incredibly funny. But not just the industry satire it seems at first. It's an insightful and righteously angry work about the near-hopelessness of making art in the present day....
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T D
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June 29, 2026
Sitting in the audience, laughing my a** off, I thought: This play should be on the Geffen stage-- it's that good. Timely, clever AF, hilarious and paints an incredibly accurate portrait of the Sisyphean experience of working (or banging at the door to get) in Hollywood. Rachael Hip-Flores is a standout, her gritty brilliance and seriously funny physical comedy chops in equal measure. ...
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JESSE NOWACK
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June 29, 2026
A brilliantly executed, extremely funny, much needed commentary on the purpose of art....
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MICK LAUER
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June 29, 2026
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Topical yet timeless. A hysterical, heart-tugging, groin-kicking, mirror not only to Hollywood but this incoming dystopian era of AI. Shifting between surreal and way-too-real, back and forth: The subject and the show itself is literally a standoff between man-made storytelling and the algorithmic promises of ticket sales and profit margins.
A black box gem, perfect for off-Broad, the show is clean and dense, moves a mile a minute, and has more twists and turns than an AI could be prompted to generate… writer/actor Jake Thomas has thrown down a gauntlet on the developing battlefield of ideas, and it’s covered in every secretion a trio of magical dwarves could expel....
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MORGAN JOECK
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June 28, 2026
Well, that was a fantastic adaptation. :-) They really nailed a bunch of critical components of the original wow injecting a whole lot of relatable humor for the Los Angeles/Hollywood/actor audience. Also, very topical. 😂...
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JONAH WEILAND
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June 28, 2026
I think it's really special to be able to say that after saying 36 shows at the Hollywood Fringe, I can still be surprised. This is one of the best shows I saw at the entire festival. Sharp in the street, writing, perfect performance performances and excellent direction. This isn't just a good show, it's a great show!...
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BONNIE HE
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June 28, 2026
Sorry to be biased but JACK KELLY was my favorite part of the show! ;)...
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LAUREL KATHLEEN
certified reviewer
June 27, 2026
This play was SMART and FUNNY and FUN. I loved all of the inside baseball jokes about the film industry and I related a little too hard to some of the absurdities. The characters were incredibly three dimensional and I was rooting for each one of them from jump. The physical comedy was fantastic and I am still laughing about some of the specific jokes. ...
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JON ALLEN
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June 26, 2026
A very topical and entertaining romp about the existential threat that is AI creeping into more and more facets of the arts. You could even draw parallels to the folk story of John Henry, although this goes in a much different direction. ...
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