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 <b>'August: Osage County,' Ahmanson Theatre</b><b>'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo,' Kirk Douglas Theatre </b><b>'Brief Encounter,' San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater </b><b>'The Browning Version,' Pacific Resident Theatre </b><b>'Farragut North,' Geffen Playhouse </b><b>'In the Next Room (or the vibrator play),' Berkeley Repertory Theatre </b><b>'Parade,' Mark Taper Forum</b><b>'The Receptionist,' Odyssey Theatre </b><b>'Shining City,' Fountain Theatre </b><b>'The Walworth Farce,' Freud Playhouse </b>

Stephen Sachs' staging of Irish playwright Conor McPherson's haunting <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/09/theater-review-shining-city-at-fountain-theatre.html">drama</a>, a supernatural play performed with exquisite naturalism, helped me appreciate this psychological ghost story in a way that eluded me when the work premiered on Broadway in 2006.

'Shining City,' Fountain Theatre

( Ed Krieger )

Stephen Sachs' staging of Irish playwright Conor McPherson's haunting drama, a supernatural play performed with exquisite naturalism, helped me appreciate this psychological ghost story in a way that eluded me when the work premiered on Broadway in 2006.

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