Friday, March 15, 2019
“Lackawanna Blues,” Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s theatrical memoir about being raised by a big-hearted proprietor of a boardinghouse for castaways and strays in an industrial upstate New Yo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:25PMThursday, March 14, 2019
Kelli O'Hara stars in a Broadway revival at Studio 54 that's long on impressive theatrics but short on human connection.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMThe new Roundabout Theatre Company production of “Kiss Me, Kate” at Studio 54 has nearly everything that’s needed for a top-drawer revival of this Cole Porter classic. First and foremo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMMonday, March 11, 2019
NEW YORK • It wasn’t that long ago that a topic of concern was the graying of theater audiences. Today, we must address the high school takeover of Broadway stages.
SOURCE: St. Louis Today at 12:45PMSunday, March 10, 2019
A new Broadway musical by Jo Iconis and Joe Tracz delivers another tale of an awkward teen trying to navigate high school. The difference this time? Deafening volume and a kinetically convol…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMA new Broadway musical by Joe Iconis and Joe Tracz delivers another tale of an awkward teen trying to navigate high school. The difference this time? Deafening volume and a kinetically convo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMIt wasn’t that long ago that a topic of concern was the graying of theater audiences. Today, we must address the high school takeover of Broadway stages. The success of “Dear Evan Hansen…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMTuesday, March 5, 2019
La Jolla Playhouse premieres new work from Joe DiPietro and David Bryan, the duo behind Tony winner "Memphis," but the distinctly American sound is a disconnect to the tale of the "people's …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMThe story of Princess Diana’s life was bound to be turned into a big, boisterous, Broadway-style musical. But who would have guessed that the music would come from David Bryan, a founding …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMMonday, February 25, 2019
At the Old Globe in San Diego, Nia Vardalos' lovely adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s Dear Sugar columns, "Tiny Beautiful Things," finds resilience in broken places.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:21PMAdvice columns and theaters have more in common than you might think. Forums of instruction and delight, they appeal to anyone who could use some help negotiating the often trivial, ultimate…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:20PMFriday, February 22, 2019
The U.S. premiere of "What If They Went to Moscow?" at REDCAT merges live performance and filmmaking, reworking of Anton Chekhov's masterpiece, "Three Sisters," into an astonishing multimedi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:26PMMonday, February 11, 2019
With a gorgeous staging and glorious singing, the musical based on the E.L. Doctorow novel captures the momentous turn of the 20th century — the song of a nation stepping toward its future.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:08PM“Ragtime: The Musical,” based on E.L. Doctorow’s sweeping historical novel, swings for the narrative fences. The saga of three sets of characters at the turn of what would come to be k…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:05PMSaturday, February 9, 2019
Anna Moench's "Man of God," having its world premiere, centers on young Korean Americans on a religious mission to Bangkok, their pastor and a discovery that upends their world.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:59PMEvery good comedy has a human engine, and in Anna Moench’s funny, creepy and unflinchingly observed “Man of God,” that engine is Mimi, played with powder-keg force by Sandy Nguyen. Mim…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:55PMTuesday, February 5, 2019
As part of its politically incisive season, Tim Robbins' company takes on the Nobel Prize winner's wild play about corrupt authority, "Accidental Death oh an Anarchist."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:14AMOpportunities to see high-caliber productions of the work of Dario Fo — the Italian clown, political radical and Nobel laureate who died in 2016 — don’t come around all that often. My …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:10AMFriday, February 1, 2019
The celebrated company turns "Negro Folklore From Texas State Prisons" into a stereophonic seance linking generations of African American experience.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:22AMThe Wooster Group has developed such a signature multimedia aesthetic over the decades that it’s refreshing to see this veteran avant-garde troupe willing to take a break from its playfull…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:45AMTuesday, January 29, 2019
Two South Africans, desperate to escape the impoverished futility of their lives, break into the home of an aging academic who walks in on them as they're ransacking the place for money. A p…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:39AMConsider this a friendly public service announcement from a concerned theater critic: Please, unless there's a truly compelling reason, let's agree to a moratorium on revivals of "Hamlet," "…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:39AMAs I was leaving the theater the other night, an older gentleman with a lapel-grabbing voice and a friendly jack-in-the-box manner stopped me dead in my tracks.
"What was the point of that?…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:39AMIt might be heresy for a theater critic to admit, but Hollywood has done a better job of skewering the theater than the theater has done skewering Hollywood. Give me "All About Eve" over "On…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:33AMAn emphasis on storytelling rather than star performances or staging pyrotechnics drives a crisp production of the macabre musical "Sweeney Todd" at South Coast Repertory.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMFriday, January 25, 2019
Director Stephen Daldry made his name with the National Theatre whodunit "An Inspector Calls." Now the London revival comes to Beverly Hills, seeping with commentary about class divisions.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMSometimes a production can wrest a seemingly outdated play from certain retirement. Director Stephen Daldry did just that when he was a young gun storming the London theater scene in the ear…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMThursday, January 24, 2019
Time catches everyone by surprise. For Betty Buckley, the rude awakening happened when director Michael Wilson called to say he was planning a revival of the musical “Grey Gardens.”
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:52AMWednesday, January 23, 2019
Time catches everyone by surprise. For Betty Buckley, the rude awakening happened when director Michael Wilson called to say he was planning a revival of the musical “Grey Gardens.” She …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMThursday, January 17, 2019
The sensationally acted Steppenwolf Theatre production at the Mark Taper Forum delivers compelling characters and funny dialogue, but at times the pacing sluggishly shifts into cable TV terr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:07PMThe plays of Tracy Letts can be broadly divided into two types: Those with men behaving appallingly and those with women behaving abominably. In “August: Osage County,” his Pulitzer Priz…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:05PM 
