Monday, January 15, 2024
John Colella (Photo by Austin Highsmith)
Reviewed by Taylor Kass
Ruskin Group Theatre
Through February 2
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As a kid, John Colella never understood why his father told him to be a…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 04:08PMSunday, January 14, 2024
Andrea Flowers, Meeghan Holaway (Photo by Lizzy Kimball)
Reviewed by Terry Morgan
The Road Theatre Company
Through February 18
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Playwright Steve Yockey has one of the most origina…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 09:56PMThursday, January 11, 2024
Artistic Director-Conductor Anne Marie Ketchum chalks up 40 years at the Verdi Chorus
By Steven Leigh Morris
“Theater on Steroids”
Anne Marie Ketchum, Founding Artistic Director-Conduct…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 02:02AMWednesday, January 3, 2024
Ring in the Old, Ring in the New
By Steven Leigh Morris
Michael Hayden, Sarah Uriarte Berry, in “A Little Night Music” (2023) at the Pasadena Playhouse (Photo by Jeff Lorch)
Danny Feld…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 10:27PMThursday, December 28, 2023
Land of Idiots
By Steven Leigh Morris
There’s almost nobody I’ve spoken with who doesn’t anticipate 2024 with dread. The most optimistic assessment is that we’ll be lucky if we ca…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 12:24PMWednesday, December 20, 2023
Gerald Sternbach, Jay Brian Winnick, Tonoccus McClain, Yamuna Meleth, Kelley Dorney (Photo by Margie Barron, courtesy of El Portal Theater)
Reviewed by Madison Mellon
El Portal Theatre
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SOURCE: stageraw.com at 12:16AMMonday, December 18, 2023
Scott Jackson, Terry Davis, Dalia Vosylius (Photo by Alex Moy)
Reviewed by Martίn Hernández
Pacific Resident Theatre
Through January 14
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It would not be Christmas without family…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 11:03PMTuesday, December 12, 2023
Glenn Stanton, LJ Benet, Kasper, Sammy Linkowski and Valerie Larsen (Photo by Zach Mendcez)
Reviewed by Philip BrandesNew Vic Theatre Through December 17
Given his rags-to-riches career, ou…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 06:08PMYvonne Cone (Photo by Zev Rose Woolley)
Reviewed by Steven Leigh MorrisCoeurage Ensemble and Los Angeles LGBT CenterThru Dec. 17
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Confession: As a cis-gender Boomer, I’ve believ…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 05:59PMMarcus Phillips and Brian Owen (Craig Schwartz Photography)
Reviewed by Julyza CommodoreKirk Douglas TheatreThru January 7th
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From the same author and cartoonist, Dav Pilkey, …
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 02:11AMMonday, December 11, 2023
Cloie Wyatt Taylor, Rick Batalla, Philip McNiven and Suzanne Jolie Narbonne (Photo by Colony Theatre)
Reviewed by Terry MorganTroubadour Theater CompanyThrough December 23
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For so…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 10:05PMMaribel Chavez and Angel G Molina (Photo by Darlene Sanchez)
Reviewed by Martίn HernándezLa Puente Community CenterThrough December 17
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Set among wealthy street gangs in moder…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 09:56PMBrandon Scott, Keri Safran and Rob Welsh (Photo by Elizabeth Schmidt)
Reviewed by G. Bruce Smith
The Ebell of Los Angeles
Through Dec. 14
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With productions of A Christmas Carol …
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 05:53PM(Photo courtesy of Cirque Factory)
Reviewed by Amanda L. Andrei
Cirque Factory at the Montalban Theatre
Through December 23
Beneath the season’s tinsel and icing, there’s something preca…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 03:25PMThe ensemble (Photo by Mandy Penn)
Reviewed by Socks Whitmore
Ahmanson Theatre
Through December 31
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It’s another snowless winter in sunny Los Angeles, and in spite of the rising…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 02:41PMDave Valentino, Cori Cable Kidder, Mike Flick (Photo by Berrie Tsang)
Reviewed by F. Kathleen Foley
Sierra Madre Playhouse
Through December 23
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As a recent interview in The Atlant…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 02:33PMTuesday, December 5, 2023
Laura M. Hathaway, Elizabeth Last, Sarah Pierce (Photo courtesy of Chance Theater)
Reviewed by Madison Mellon Chance Theater Thru Dec. 23
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Chance Theater’s production of…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 08:23PMThe Ensemble (Photo by Craig Schwartz)
Reviewed by Julyza CommodoreA Noise WithinThru December 24th
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Unless you’ve been orbiting Jupiter, you’ll know that Charles Dickens’s …
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 08:17PML-R: Front Chloe Taylor, Rob Elk, Andrea Hutchman; Rear: Pat Towne, Johanna McKay, Judy Heneghan, Mark Fite, Joe Keyes, and Peter Breitmayer at door. (Photo by Louisa Gauerke)
Reviewed b…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 02:57AML-R: Front Chloe Taylor, Rob Elk, Andrea Hutchman; Rear: Pat Towne, Johanna McKay, Judy Heneghan, Mark Fite, Joe Keyes, and Peter Breitmayer at door. (Photo by Louisa Gauerke)
A Display …
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 02:31AMBy G. Bruce Smith
Photo by Theresa Kennedy
There’s something rather touching about what is revealed when interviewing Michael Kearns, the pioneering gay HIV-positive actor/playwright/act…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 01:42AMOmar Heywood and Tara Jean O’Brien (Photo by Brandon Loeser)
Reviewed by Martίn Hernández
Whitefire Theatre
Through December 23
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Producers, co-directors, writers, and brother…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 01:25AMKathleen Silverman and Jen Ridgway (Jon Neftali Photography)
Reviewed by G. Bruce Smith
Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center
Through Dec. 23
The set-up for It’s a Wonderful Life – On Air is …
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 01:11AMLauryn Muraida, Charles Keppler and Ashlee Elizabeth
Reviewed by F. Kathleen Foley
Westchester Playhouse
Through December 9
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The phrase “community theater” evokes a certain a…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 12:45AMTuesday, November 28, 2023
Jenny Buchanan and Kelly Franett (Photo courtesy of Ophelia’s Jump)
Reviewed by Steven Leigh Morris
Ophelia’s Jump
Through Dec. 10
Jean Collinsworth’s fantastical and fastidiously r…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 01:51PMFritz Coleman (Photo by Christopher Knell)
Reviewed by Deborah Klugman
El Portal Theatre
Through March 24
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“For 40 years, I was nothing more than Vanna White with maps,” c…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 01:44PMGabriela Bañuelos and Leslie Montoya (Photo by Rudy Torres)
Reviewed by F. Kathleen Foley
Casa 0101
Through December 17
Confessional autobiographical plays presuppose that the protagonis…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 01:36PMTiago Santos, Time Winters, Sean Faye (Photo by Jesse Saler)
Reviewed by Martίn Hernández
The Broadwater Black Box
Through December 3
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Many of William Shakespeare’s works…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 11:40AMTuesday, November 21, 2023
If we turn the arts over to AI, what is it that makes us human?
By Julia Stier
This essay is provided in partnership with The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company, which commissioned Stage R…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 08:49PMStephanie Erb, Ivy Khan, Abigail Stewart and Grinnell Morris (Photo by Eric Keitel)
Reviewed by Iris Mann
Theatre 40
Through December 17
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In The Half-Light, playwright Monica W…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 03:22PMScott Harris, Kaili Hollister, Jolene Hjerleid (Photo courtesy of The Actors’ Gang)
Reviewed by Madison Mellon
The Actors’ Gang
Thru Dec. 14
We live in a chaotic socioeconomic climate…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 09:48AM 
