Grand Old Dinner Party
Two sides of the GOP battle it out in a new satire at Altarena Playhouse.
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Sad Sad Funny Sad
Broken people are sadly hilarious in a Melissa James Gibson play.
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Assassin Nation
That Stephen Sondheim has picked some perverse subjects for his musicals shouldn’t be much of a surprise to anyone, given that one of his most beloved classics concerns a certain serial-killing barber who provides the secret ingredient for his neighbor’s meat pie shop. But a musical about the various people who have killed or attempted to kill the President of the United States from John Wilkes Booth down to John Hinckley Jr.? Now that’s really pushing the boundaries of good taste.
