Wednesday, September 26, 2012
The latest revival of David Mamet's 'Glengarry Glen Ross,' at the La Jolla Playhouse, is a tense and well-paced production thanks to the strong cast.As long as America is America, land of op…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:15PMSunday, September 23, 2012
Eugene Ionesco's absurdist tale always feels drawn out, but in a visiting Theatre de la Ville-Paris production, its horror shakes the foundations.Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota's smart, sleek product…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30PMFriday, September 21, 2012
A Gob Squad show inspired by Warhol films brings the audience into a very surreal 'Kitchen.'Andy Warhol is sometimes blamed for ushering in the age of reality television. Nonsense. All those…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:40PMThursday, September 20, 2012
The body-switch comedy from Robert Sternin and Prudence Fraser plays on the Pasadena Playhouse stage like a bad sitcom.Connoisseurs of really bad television — you know you're out there…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:20PMThursday, September 13, 2012
This national tour production matches the verve, if not the sharpness, of the original Broadway production. The musical about two mismatched Mormon missionaries assigned to Uganda is a profa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:18PMMonday, September 10, 2012
A singing parody of the Oscar winner, 'Silence! The Musical' may overstretch at times, but a madcap cast and shameless daring make it outrageously fun.Any day now the announcement that "Jaws…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMFriday, September 7, 2012
The Playwrights' Arena production makes Helen a fugitive from Hollywood who has been sullied by the tabloids but still seeking refuge at the tomb of Proteus.Just a few years after writing hi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:14PMTuesday, August 28, 2012
Sketch comedy and magic make for a fun night in the hands of madcap performers Trey Lyford, Geoff Sobelle and Steve Cuiffo.Don't let the retro styling fool you. Although they look like comic…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMSunday, August 26, 2012
The play receiving its U.S. premiere at the Fountain Theatre provides tantalizing insight into the South African writer. At 80, South African playwright Athol Fugard is still turning out pla…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:15PMWednesday, August 22, 2012
War, brutality, despair and cryptic storytelling fill the U.S. premiere. Matthew McCray directs.Enigmatic anecdote is the currency of Martin Crimp's "The City," having its U.S. premiere at S…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMSunday, August 19, 2012
The character, now in the musical at the Ahmanson Theatre, is beloved — and radical.No, that's not a UFO hovering over the Music Center. It happens to be Mary Poppins, who has glided b…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:25PMSaturday, August 18, 2012
William Friedkin's film of Tracy Letts' play leaves little to the imagination, and that can really mess up your mind.William Friedkin's film of Tracy Letts' play"Killer Joe" is nasty, brutis…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMTuesday, August 14, 2012
In a sensational production of John Logan's play at the Mark Taper Forum, an artist of highbrow ambition has accepted a lucrative commission, and guilt results. As imagined by John Logan in …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMSunday, August 12, 2012
Neither voice nor body is what it was. Still, she lives the emotions of her songs, and that goes a long way, even on a night held up by delays.The crowd was growing restless at the Hollywood…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:35PMSaturday, August 4, 2012
Soho Rep's 'Uncle Vanya' takes its time while Sydney Theatre's version moves at a quick pace. Each staging is effective, and each shows how timeless Chekhov can be.NEW YORK — Anton Che…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:00PMSunday, July 29, 2012
With a short rehearsal time it's no wonder the musical stops short of perfection, but the comic level of the Mel Brooks work remains high."The Producers" returned to Los Angeles for three pe…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:35PMSaturday, July 28, 2012
The director delivered opening ceremonies for the Olympics that celebrated both the eccentricity and enlightenment that are fascinatingly entwined in Britain's cultural DNA. Olympic openin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:42PMTuesday, July 24, 2012
Are we really living in a post-racial world? It seems like we’re back in the 1990s, when all hell broke loose on Broadway after the British star Jonathan Pryce was cast as the Eurasian…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMSaturday, July 14, 2012
The star juggles family with an actor's life. These days, that includes co-running a Sydney theater troupe with her husband. Their latest — Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya.'On the surface, Cate…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:00PMFriday, July 13, 2012
A diabolically stilted dialogue and some patchy performances trip up the new Geffen Playhouse work, although its striking design and effective music are standouts.Two questions immediately p…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMWednesday, July 11, 2012
The company's staging of 'Richard III' and 'As You Like It' may emphasize plot over psychology, but the classics are still a lovely way to spend a summer night.There are as many ways to rean…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMMonday, July 2, 2012
The Tony Award-winning play communicates the staggering waste of war but provides an opportunity to reconnect with the childhood enchantments of bedtime fables, folk tales and storybook adve…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00AMSaturday, June 30, 2012
In his graceful assuming of various characters, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine lobs a searing riposte at Uganda's anti-gay bill in a new solo show.He roams the night in menacing military police garb…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMWednesday, June 27, 2012
Full of the gritty textures of the '70s, August Wilson's play does something today's artists should emulate — reveal how rooted we are in our uniquely styled moment of history.The noti…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMWednesday, June 20, 2012
A study of American involvement in the Soviet-Afghan war, J.T. Rogers' 'Blood and Gifts' artfully lays out the shortsightedness of foreign players in a rocky region.Dramatic works about Afgh…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMThe Rogue Machine production of Enda Walsh's 'The New Electric Ballroom' at Theatre/Theater captures the haunting spectacle of three sisters who often revisit the past.Enda Walsh's "The New …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMMonday, June 11, 2012
At the Tony Awards, artistic quality and risk-taking win out over commerce as the little musical 'Once' and 'Clybourne Park' triumph.Will wonders never cease: David slayed Goliath in a rare …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMSunday, June 10, 2012
“Follies” bid farewell to the Ahmanson Theatre on Saturday night, and the emotion in the house was as charged as the emotion coursing through the Weismann Theatre, where the ex-F…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:20PMFriday, June 8, 2012
Should Audra McDonald make room on a mantel? Is the movie world's new Spider-Man golden? And what about all those 'Follies' nominations?The Academy Awards telecast has been such a snooze in …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMWednesday, June 6, 2012
In a Monkey Wrench Collective production, Mark Ravenhill's play has a darker view of the artistic underground.Mark Ravenhill, the English playwright best known for his play with the unprinta…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AMTuesday, June 5, 2012
The new 90-minute musical by Michael John LaChiusa and Ellen Fitzhugh benefits from its SoCal setting and its study of identity. But it's too diffuse.Commercial success has eluded Michael Jo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM 
