Sunday, December 16, 2018
Imagine a Christmas tree ornament made by Picasso on an absinthe bender and you’ll have some idea of Taylor Mac’s initial costume for “Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce,” the festive fand…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:20PMFriday, December 14, 2018
How much Cher is too much Cher? I mean how much pasteurized celebrity information do you really, really want? A related question posed by the new Broadway musical “The Cher Show,” now at…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:09PMDoes anyone really expect genuine drama from this kind of commercial jukebox musical? Get past the lackluster writing, and this production directed by Jason Moore and choreographed by Christ…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:30PMAaron Sorkin's production of 'To Kill A Mockingbird,' which opened Thursday on Broadway, is a top-flight interpretation of the Harper Lee novel under the rustically elegant direction of Bart…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:40PMHow much campiness can a theater audience take? This new musical tests the limits with its tale of Broadway actors who set out to champion an Indiana high school student banned from bringing…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:19PMDuring the deliriously zany setup for “The Prom,” a new musical comedy now at the Longacre Theatre, I thought I might have died and gone to campy heaven. The feeling doesn’t last, but …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:15PMThursday, December 13, 2018
The marquee at the Sam S. Shubert Theatre blasts in big block letters “Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird.” But all it takes is some slingshot dialogue to reveal that the new blockbust…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:50PMAll it takes is a few minutes of slingshot dialogue to reveal that this blockbuster Broadway adaptation belongs to Sorkin, who with director Bartlett Sher and star Jeff Daniels has created a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00PMTuesday, December 11, 2018
The Times' theater critic names his top productions of 2018, including Jefferson Mays' take on "A Christmas Carol," a daring "Streetcar," Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' ingenious "Gloria" and the s…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMThe year started strong with two revivals that invited us to listen anew to modern classics we thought we knew inside out. Richard Nelson’s production of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya�…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AMThursday, November 29, 2018
The surprise Broadway hit about a tiny Canadian town's embrace of air passengers diverted on 9/11 arrives at L.A.'s Ahmanson Theatre a little less polished but ultimately still satisfying.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:12PMThe surprise Broadway hit about a tiny Canadian town's embrace of air passengers diverted on 9/11 arrives at L.A.'s Ahmanson Theatre a little less polished but ultimately still satisfying.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:20PMTuesday, November 20, 2018
When it comes to playwriting, Broadway has a supply problem. Although the new generation of American dramatists is blazingly talented, the great majority of these writers prefer the creative…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:39AMFriday, November 16, 2018
Tony-winner Brian Dennehy stars in a double-bill of short works by Eugene O'Neill and Samuel Beckett
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:47PMBrian Dennehy needs no coddling from critics. A two-time Tony-winning heavyweight, he has nothing left to prove, having triumphed (through the blunt force of his acting) in Eugene O’Neill�…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:30PMMonday, November 12, 2018
Review: 'Cost of Living': Martyna Majok's 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama brings an unflinching realism about the disabled and their caregivers to the Fountain Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:37PMTwo of the best productions this fall have happened at intimate theaters that are keeping up with the exciting developments in American playwriting. Earlier this season, Branden Jacobs-Jenki…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:35PMSaturday, November 10, 2018
Tony-winner Jefferson Mays single-handedly populates "Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol" at the Geffen Playhouse
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMCharles Dickens has become so yawningly familiar through adaptations that it can be jolting to experience his storytelling genius directly from the fictional works themselves. No literary pr…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMFriday, November 9, 2018
Luis Valdez's new play explores immigration and the reality of the American dream in a story set during World War II about two families, one of Japanese heritage, the other of Mexican.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMThursday, November 8, 2018
“King Kong,” the stage animal first seen wreaking havoc in Australia, has arrived on Broadway with a seismic thud and a thundering roar. Just how horrifying is the new show? It has turne…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:48PM"King Kong,” the stage animal first seen wreaking havoc in Australia, has arrived on Broadway with a seismic thud and a thundering roar.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00PMSunday, November 4, 2018
NEW YORK — The setting is uncertain in the opening moments of “American Son,” an acutely topical new Broadway drama by Christopher Demos-Brown. But it is clear from the intense perform…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:48PMIn 'American Son,' a raw Kerry Washington returns to Broadway as an anguished mother seeking answers from the police about her missing son . It's a painfully topical, if imperfect, drama
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PMThursday, November 1, 2018
obituary/appreciation of playwright Maria Irene Fornes
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:32AMWednesday, October 31, 2018
María Irene Fornés, a pivotal figure in the off-off Broadway movement, wrote diverse and profoundly humane plays that should be part of the American canon.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:15PMTuesday, October 30, 2018
'Quack,' Eliza Clark's comedy having its world premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, takes the temperature of the feverish wellness industry.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:43PM“Quack,” the lively, irritating and ultimately chilling new comedy by Eliza Clark about a TV medical guru in the mode of Dr. Oz, skips the introductory pleasantries and plunges straight …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:40PMSaturday, October 27, 2018
Qui Nguyen's touted drama about refugees who fall in love in 1970s America after fleeing the Vietnam war, arrives in Los Angeles in an East West Players production
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMReencountering Qui Nguyen’s “Vietgone” in the new East West Players production, I am struck once again by the originality of the playwriting. A quick synopsis of the play might yield t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:00AMFriday, October 26, 2018
Political pundits have long been giving drama critics a bad name. Inevitably, in the run-up to an election, some op-ed columnist will make a crack comparing recent political coverage to thea…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:59AM 
