Friday, September 27, 2013
PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE (A NOISE WITHIN): 100% – SWEET SWEET However, A Noise Within’s first-rate production presents the story with excellent cohesion, remarkably strong pace, and a te…
SOURCE: Footlights at 03:32PMBREATH AND IMAGINATION: 100% – SWEET SWEET The Colony Theatre’s Breath and Imagination is one of the finest shows on offer in greater LA. It’s one of the finest shows Burbank has ever …
SOURCE: Footlights at 03:20PMR II (BOSTON COURT): 94% – SWEET Paige Lindsey White and John Sloan in the Theatre @ Boston Court’s production of “R II.” Pjoto: Ed Krieger. BITTERSWEET A bigger problem is that the …
SOURCE: Footlights at 03:07PMTHE POKEMUSICAL (THEATRE ASYLUM): 86% – SWEET SWEET By the end of Friday’s production, I was on my feet clapping, sides sore from laughing non-stop. In other words, The Pokémusical is s…
SOURCE: Footlights at 02:56PMTHE DREAM OF THE BURNING BOY (MALIBU PLAYHOUSE): 90% – SWEET BITTERSWEET There is a lot of smart dialogue in Read’s play, and the characters could be interesting enough if they were not …
SOURCE: Footlights at 02:52PMFUNNY GIRL (3D THEATRICALS): 94% – SWEET SWEET Well, Nicole Parker is living proof that a contemporary actress does indeed have the chops to play Fanny Brice. What a lovely treat this perf…
SOURCE: Footlights at 02:49PMCOYOTE ON A FENCE (THEATRE ARTS): 100% – SWEET SWEET Solid performances by Rob Nagle and Cody Kearsley as death-row inmates in side-by-side cells distinguish Theatre Arts’ production of …
SOURCE: Footlights at 02:46PMORDINARY DAYS (VICTORY THEATRE): 93% – SWEET SWEET It’s a pure joy to walk into a theater and not be familiar with a piece and expect very little, only to walk out and feel you have disc…
SOURCE: Footlights at 02:43PMWednesday, September 18, 2013
SON OF SEMELE ENSEMBLE ANNOUNCES THE WEST COAST PREMIERE OF “CIVILIZATION (ALL YOU CAN EAT)” Los Angeles, CA (9/15/13) – Award-winning theatre company, Son of Semele Ensemble (SOSE), w…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:13PMIAMA Theatre Company needs your support to produce our 2013-2014 season! Since 2007, IAMA has been producing unique new works, introducing Los Angeles to emerging contemporary American theat…
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:12PMMonday, September 16, 2013
The Theatre @ Boston Court announces its 2014 Season. The season begins January 26 with Se Llama Cristina, by Octavio Solis, a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. The sprin…
SOURCE: Footlights at 03:25PMA Noise Within presents Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare directed by Julia Rodriguez-Elliott NOW – Nov 24, 2013 This action-packed production is a tempest-tossed hero’…
SOURCE: Footlights at 01:53PMFriday, September 13, 2013
They’re back… The award winning show is back again due to popular demand. Tickets to “The Pokémusical” and more at: www.colorandlighttheatre.org Winner! Best Fringe …
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:17PMOpening Friday the 13th! adaptation by Edward Einhorn music by Henry Akona based on the novel by Philip K. Dick directed by Jaime Robledo (Watson, Stoneface) Promo Video produced by Ben Rock…
SOURCE: Footlights at 03:28PMWednesday, September 11, 2013
The second in a series of interviews with the ensemble of Impro Theatre’s Twilight Zone UnScripted! Edi Patterson, Brian Michael Jones, Lauren Rose Lewis, Paul Rogan, and Michele Spear…
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:05PMMonday, September 9, 2013
THE OLD SETTLER (PICO PLAYHOUSE): 100% – SWEET SWEET Director William Stanford Davis (an Emmy-winning actor currently appearing in the Showtime series Ray Donovan) may block rudimentally b…
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:21PMIN THE NEXT ROOM (OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY) (PRODUCTION COMPANY): 100% – SWEET SWEET Directed by August Viverito, the play successfully extends well beyond burlesque, sporting shades of Ibsen …
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:07PMTHE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER (SIERRA MADRE PLAYHOUSE): 100% – SWEET SWEET It is the deep and sincere understanding of this childish wonder that colors Leason’s adaptation with such a ref…
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:00PMRED (INTERNATIONAL CITY THEATRE): 100% – SWEET SWEET In a season that has already included memorable stagings of Around The World In 80 Days, Master Class, and Dead Man’s Cell Phone, thi…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:45PMI Am Not Mark Twain (Rogue Machine): 100% – Sweet SWEET Cragg tells his story in graphically sexual terms. He is not a heroic figure. He is a humorist, and his narrative includes humor…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:41PMCaptain Dan Dixon Vs. The Moth Sluts From The Fifth Dimension – 100% Sweet SWEET A nicely acted, crisply directed and neatly written piece of 1950s sci-fi comedy, featuring nearly nake…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:33PMJULES WILLCOX By Graham Sibley The Los Angeles actor is often branded with laziness, vanity and hunting for fast fame as their defining characteristics. Well, Jules Willcox has none of tho…
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:41PMArtist and Audiences There are two unique groups that are required to have a thriving theatre community: the artists, and the audience. These groups are not mutually exclusive, but eac…
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:34PMFriday, August 23, 2013
SPUMONI (COMPLEX): 100% – SWEET SWEET Lizzie Czerner is psychotic. And she has my respect for baring it all in to a room of strangers. With spot on timing, clever wit and infectious insani…
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:07PMTHE 39 STEPS (GLENDALE CENTRE THEATRE): 100% – SWEET SWEET Guest director Todd Nielsen and the fine cast at GCT make it work as good as it can get anywhere, anytime. Don Grigware – B…
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:03PMThursday, August 22, 2013
THE SOUND OF MOTOWN: 100% – SWEET SWEET The hits of the Motor City reign Supreme in beautiful downtown Claremont as a dozen Wonder-fully talented young performers bring The Sound Of Motown…
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:40PMBLISTERED HANDS AND BLOODY MOUTHS: 100% – SWEET SWEET Stage horror can be many things. In the hands of a master, it can tap the unspoken nightmares of an audience to power an allegory abou…
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:36PMEAT THE RUNT (THEATRE OF NOTE): 100% – SWEET SWEET I positively ate up Eat The Runt all three times I saw it in 2011, and it is every bit as tasty in 2013. Enjoy the meal. And trust me. Yo…
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:34PMTHE GHOSTS OF MARY LINCOLN: 92% – SWEET SWEET As a workshop production, this was an entertaining piece of theater, and though the fog machine may have upstaged too much during the first fe…
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:31PMROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (OLD GLOBE): 100% – SWEET SWEET Also, that Tom Stoppard’s 1965 play about the two Shakespearean flunkies is alive and well, thank you very much …
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:05PMLADY WINDERMERE’S FAN (CHALK REP): 100% – SWEET SWEET Such care was taken to ensure that each actor stood out, not only in performance, but in costume as well, and this was an integral p…
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