OPPENHEIMER & FINKS (Venice) Both
Tom Morton-Smith’s play OPPENHEIMER and Joe Gilford’s FINKS will be playing in repertory as both examine socialism and
communism movements in America in the 30s-50s. In OPPENHEIMER, directed by Artistic Director, John Perrin Flynn, we
see the personal cost of making history as he struggles to cast off his radical
past beliefs. While FINKS, directed by Michael Pressman, is a
searing view of the blacklisting that resulted from these movements. Rogue
Machine at Electric Lodge, 1416 Electric Ave, Venice. (855) 585-5185 or
www.roguemachinetheatre.com.
LOST IN TIME (Atwater) When an older man wakes up one morning as his twenty-three-year-old
self, he believes now is a chance to rectify the mess he’s made of his life.
But when he attempts to alter his story by romancing the woman he knows will be
his wife, it goes badly, and he finds himself in a desperate battle to save his
future. Says director Keith Szarabajka, “Who
hasn’t thought at one time or another, if only I could go back and do it all
over again…knowing then what I know now!” Atwater Village
Theatre, 3269 Casitas Ave. LA. (818) 839-1197 or https://dime.io/events/lost-in-time
In a remote cottage in Ireland, beautiful Maureen has been caring for her manipulative, aging mother Mag for twenty years. When Maureen has a chance at happiness with a local beau, suffocated dreams and simmering resentments surface. From writer Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) comes this darkly comic tale. Developed at Actor’s Studio and directed by Mark Kemble. At Studio/Stage, 520 N. Western Ave, Hollywood. (323) 960-7774 or www.plays411.com/leenane
THE RESCUED (North Hollywood)
What happens to a human being after being abused, forgotten, and living
in a cage for years? Do we find the same compassion for them, that we might
find for rescue animals? Follow six souls who spend the day singing, sleeping,
and comparing memories from their past with the reality of the present. Can
they learn how to trust, how to love and be loved, and how to finally feel free?
Written by Julie Marie Myatt, directed
by Marya Mazor. At Road Theatre on Magnolia, NoHo Senior Arts Colony, 10747
Magnolia Blvd. NoHo. (818) 761-8838 or www.RoadTheatre.org
From my column in the October issue of NOT BORN YESTERDAY
From my column in the October issue of NOT BORN YESTERDAY
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