Monday, October 7, 2013
AWAKE AND SING (GROUP REP): 100% – SWEET SWEET Larry Eisenberg directs a remarkable cast who do justice to Odet’s characters. Michelle Bernath is a stand-out as the shrewish Bessie, and …
SOURCE: Footlights at 02:17PMHUMOR ABUSE: 97% – SWEET SWEET Pisoni’s movements are fluid and effortlessly precise and his prodigious skills are a joy to watch, even as his buffoonery is tinged with sadness. Co-creat…
SOURCE: Footlights at 02:07PMWednesday, October 2, 2013
The Normal Heart chronicles one man’s slow response to the AIDS epidemic as he struggles to create support for himself — and his illness.
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:45PMFriday, September 27, 2013
Show Dates: 9/25/2013 – 10/9/2013 The famous tragedy written early in playwright William Shakespeare’s career, about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their…
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:22PMSimon Levy By Graham Sibley The mid-afternoon September sun is scorching as a portable air conditioner blows cool(ish) air into a tight room above The Fountain Theatre. Simon Levy, one of …
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:49PMWhat’s it all about? I’ve got to get this out, I’ve been holding onto it for years, and the situation seems to be getting worse. What am I talking about? Audiences! For years, I have w…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:47PMSteel Magnolias By Robert Harling Directed by Laurie Woolery Now Playing through Sunday, October 6, 2013 Actor/East West Players Founder James Hong, Actor/Director Amy Hill, and Actor Jeanne…
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:14PMTHE LARAMIE PROJECT: TEN YEARS LATER (LA GAY AND LESBIAN CENTER): 100% – SWEET SWEET “The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later” receives a stunning Los Angeles premiere at the LA Gay &…
SOURCE: Footlights at 03:37PMAH, WILDERNESS! (ACTORS CO-OP): 100% – SWEET SWEET Director Thom Babbes has done a masterful job of harmonizing that requisite appeal with those moments when O’Neill’s tale takes a few…
SOURCE: Footlights at 03:35PMPERICLES, 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…
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