Friday, May 24, 2013
The Los Angeles Theatre scene is vast and at times disparate, there has been one voice which tried to bind the scene over the last four decades. That voice was Lee Melville. A writer, critic…
Linked From Footlights at 07:52PMOPENING NIGHT (THEATRE 40): 92% – SWEET SWEET The show beamed with brilliance… from the direction, acting, and writing. Even the set decorators were deserving of applause, proving yet ag…
Linked From Footlights at 07:52PMTHE CRUCIBLE (ANTAEUS): 94% – SWEET SWEET Arthur Miller’s dramatization of the Salem witch trials has rarely if ever seemed as timeless or proven as powerful as it does in The Antaeus Co…
Linked From Footlights at 07:52PMTuesday, May 21, 2013
International City Theatre invites high school students to see shows for FREE International City Theatre is offering high school students free tickets to preview performances for the reminde…
Linked From Footlights at 07:37PMMonday, May 20, 2013
PARADE (3-D THEATRICALS): 100% – SWEET SWEET Unlike Uhry’s dull-as-dishwater “Driving Miss Daisy,” I found “Parade” consistently compelling, but a little too entertaining in an u…
Linked From Footlights at 07:32PMMY MOTHER’S KEEPER: 100% – SWEET SWEET The dialogue is engaging, amusing and at times quite touching. The acting is superb across the board with Zimmerman and Giosa stealing the best mom…
Linked From Footlights at 07:32PMTHE WOMEN (THEATRE WEST): 100% – SWEET SWEET These divas under Lewis’ fine pace are fun and most definitely entertaining. Luce’s perspectives are intelligent; The Women is a marvel for…
Linked From Footlights at 07:32PMTHE MATCHMAKER (ACTORS CO-OP): 100% – SWEET SWEET In a season that has included a brilliantly reconceived The World Goes Round and superbly acted revivals of Agatha Christie’s And Then T…
Linked From Footlights at 07:32PMTHE SIZE OF PIKE (MOVING ARTS): 100% – SWEET SWEET Boys will be boys and men will be men, though the distinction between the two is more likely one of personal income rather than emotional…
Linked From Footlights at 07:32PMWednesday, May 15, 2013
William Shakespeare’s Timon Athens performed by the Los Angeles Drama Club / Shakespeare in the City. Artistic Director Blair Baron Larsen, Executive Director Julia Walker Wyson, Co-Di…
Linked From Footlights at 06:06PMTuesday, May 14, 2013
CRUMBLE (LAY ME DOWN JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE) (THEATRE 68): 90% – SWEET SWEET Strip the play of all its craziness and universal struggles emerges that everyone deals with: death and discovering …
Linked From Footlights at 06:02PMSTEEL MAGNOLIAS (LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE): 100% – SWEET SWEET At the Laguna Playhouse, a solid cast distinguished by a couple of talented veterans delivers a well-crafted version of Robert Harlin…
Linked From Footlights at 06:02PMREAL MEN SING SHOW TUNES…AND PLAY WITH PUPPETS: 100% – SWEET SWEET If you need a good laugh right about now run, don’t walk, to catch this kick of a show, which does for men what Menop…
Linked From Footlights at 06:02PMONE WHITE CROW: 100% – SWEET SWEET Playwright Dale Griffiths Stamos’ drama boasts a charged debate about faith versus science that’s engagingly even-handed and surprisingly evocative. …
Linked From Footlights at 06:02PMMonday, May 13, 2013
A bold and thrilling new musical from the creators of “Chicago” and “Cabaret.” “The Scottsboro Boys” will have you tapping your toes and screaming for j…
Linked From Footlights at 06:00PMFriday, May 10, 2013
TIMON OF ATHENS (PORTERS OF HELLSGATE): 100% – SWEET SWEET I love Shakespeare. I love good Shakespeare. I love when a company of talented performers can make something very old and very fa…
Linked From Footlights at 11:49PMHEMOPHELIA’S HOUSE OF HORRORS: 100% – SWEET SWEET The Visceral Company presents a frightfully fun excursion into laugh-out-loud funny horror; an eclectic collection of sketches that rang…
Linked From Footlights at 11:49PMJOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE (MARK TAPER): 93% – SWEET SWEET This powerfully acted production of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” which opened Wednesday at the Mark Taper Forum under th…
Linked From Footlights at 05:50PMSet in the boxing world of the early 1900s, The Royale is loosely inspired by Jack Johnson, the first black pop culture icon and reigning world heavyweight champion from 1908 to 1915. The …
Linked From Footlights at 05:50PMWednesday, May 8, 2013
It’s August 1911. The Great Migration brings a revolving band of strangers to the door of Seth and Bertha’s Pittsburgh boarding house. Lost souls migrating to the industrial Nort…
Linked From Footlights at 11:44PMTuesday, May 7, 2013
Arthur Miller’s parable draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch trials of 1692 and subsequent generations of American mass hysteria – up to the present. Through this sa…
Linked From Footlights at 11:41PMFriday, May 3, 2013
BRECHT ON BRECHT (ATWATER PLAYHOUSE): 100% – SWEET SWEET On the small, basically barren stage, featuring five mismatched chairs and one door frame attendees must walk through to enter, the…
Linked From Footlights at 11:26PMHURACLOWN: 100% – SWEET SWEET A philosopher once observed that the sweetest laughter is that which is glistened by a tear, and that is the laughter bestowed on the audience by this show. A…
Linked From Footlights at 11:26PMPETER PAN: THE BOY WHO HATED MOTHERS: 90% – SWEET SWEET So when the moment comes, and Tinkerbell’s light is about to die out, as it inevitably does, and you feel the heavy silence surrou…
Linked From Footlights at 11:26PMRAISE ME UP (SANTA MONICA PLAYHOUSE): 100% – SWEET SWEET Raise Me Up is directed by Chris DeCarlo. A cast of extremely fine actors bring so much life into the characters. Dialects are abso…
Linked From Footlights at 11:26PMPROOF (WHITMORE-ECLECTIC): 100% – SWEET SWEET Speaking of inheriting genes from our parents, James must have passed some of his talent off to his daughter Aliah, She is talented in both di…
Linked From Footlights at 11:26PMWednesday, May 1, 2013
Matthew McCray by Graham Sibley Matthew McCray is from a small conservative mountain town in Colorado but you would never-ever-ever guess that. He sports stylish Oliver Peoples glasses, dr…
Linked From Footlights at 11:20PMCharles Dickens opens, A Tale of Two Cities, with “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” the novel then goes on giving us a feel for living with purpose through the Fre…
Linked From Footlights at 11:20PMFriday, April 26, 2013
Janet and her mother Margaret both live on Mapleview Lanes – the perfect neighborhood until Lewis Chance buys a house on their street to open a group home for troubled adolescents. Rai…
Linked From Footlights at 11:04PMThursday, April 25, 2013
ANNAPURNA: 100% – SWEET SWEET Under the sturdy, austere direction of DeLorenzo and featuring two actors capable of suc…
Linked From Footlights at 11:00PMTHE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT (TU STUDIOS): 100% – SWEET SWEET Bill Manhoff’s The Owl and the Pussycat is directed by Gloria Gifford and features energetic and physical performances by the ac…
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