Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Theatre and religion, two topics not to be discussed in polite company. No, wait, that’s politics and religion, but then that’s pretty much being redundant. Ok, here’s what we’re rea…
Linked From Footlights at 09:01PMTHE FANTASTICKS (SOUTH COAST REP): 94% – SWEET SWEET It’s easy to see why The Fantasticks is the longest running production in the history of American theatre. It’s equally easy to see…
Linked From Footlights at 09:01PMKatie Lowes By Graham Sibley After spending just a moment or two with Katie Lowes it’s easy to understand why she is so busy. You don’t have to look too hard and you’ll see her eithe…
Linked From Footlights at 09:01PMAT THE FLASH: 100% – SWEET SWEET His timing bouncing in-and-out of different characters is perfection and his work allows you to see each character clearly and distinctly. Mike Pingel – …
Linked From Footlights at 09:01PMAttack Of The Rotting Corpses (Zombie Joe): 100% – Sweet SWEET Written by Zombie Joe himself and performed at Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre in North Hollywood, “Attack of the Ro…
Linked From Footlights at 09:01PMTuesday, June 4, 2013
The award winning Rogue Machine Theatre presents World Premiere of ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI by Kemp Powers. Opening June 8th, 2013 in Los Angeles. Tickets and info at www.RogueMachineTheatre.com
Linked From Footlights at 08:31PMTuesday, May 28, 2013
East West Players with generous support from the S. Mark Taper Endowment for East West Players presents: CHESS Book by Richard Nelson Lyrics by Tim Rice Music by Benny Andersson & Bjorn …
Linked From Footlights at 08:07PMFriday, 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…
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