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'Bollywood Kitchen' Excites the Senses

“BOLLYWOOD KITCHEN the virtual show introduces audiences to four of Rao’s passions—Bollywood films, Indian food, family, and music. Viewers are enlightened as Rao takes them on a personal journey about his parents immigrating to America and his own experiences growing up in Pennsylvania as a brown colored boy.”

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Review: "Think Inside the Box"

“When renowned puzzle master, magician, and New York Times crossword constructor David Kwong discovered his show The Enigmatist, was postponed due to the coronavirus last Spring, Kwong and the Geffen Staycation team got creative to keep stay-at-home audiences entertained.”

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Review: “Hannah and the Dread Gazebo” at Fountain Theatre with East West Players

Every family has a unique story to tell, and in “Hannah and the Dread Gazebo” it opens with Hannah’s grandmother (Jully Lee) jumping off the roof of the Sunrise Dewdrop Apartment City for Senior Living. Located on the border of North and South Korea, it’s close enough for the DMZ to shoot anyone within range. How’s that for an opening!

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Review: "Miss Saigon" - National Tour (Los Angeles)

Cameron Mackintosh’s Broadway revival of “Miss Saigon” opened on Thursday, July 19 at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre. This version is especially poignant as Americans daily read and watch the political refugee crisis, as desperate people flee violence in Central America and other countries under our current administration.

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Review: "The Play That Goes Wrong" at the Ahmanson Theatre

What I enjoyed about “The Play That Goes Wrong” by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields of Mischief Theatre Company is that it’s a play within a play. We are sitting in the audience watching “The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society" perform their newest murder mystery “The Murder at Haversham Manor.”

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Review: "Invisible Tango" at the Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater

Go see the one man show “Invisible Tango” starring Portuguese storyteller and master card illusionist Helder Guimarães­ premiers at the Geffen Playhouse. Under the direction of Frank Marshall, the performer shares his personal perspective of experiencing serendipity through telling a story about the occurrence and development of events.

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