Friday, May 10, 2013
HEMOPHELIA’S HOUSE OF HORRORS: 100% – SWEET SWEET The Visceral Company presents a frightfully fun excursion into laugh-out-loud funny horror; an eclectic collection of sketches that rang…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:55PMTIMON OF ATHENS (PORTERS OF HELLSGATE): 100% – SWEET SWEET I love Shakespeare. I love good Shakespeare. I love when a company of talented performers can make something very old and very fa…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:53PMJOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE (MARK TAPER): 93% – SWEET SWEET This powerfully acted production of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” which opened Wednesday at the Mark Taper Forum under th…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:48PMSet in the boxing world of the early 1900s, The Royale is loosely inspired by Jack Johnson, the first black pop culture icon and reigning world heavyweight champion from 1908 to 1915. The …
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:05PMWednesday, May 8, 2013
It’s August 1911. The Great Migration brings a revolving band of strangers to the door of Seth and Bertha’s Pittsburgh boarding house. Lost souls migrating to the industrial Nort…
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:31PMTuesday, May 7, 2013
Arthur Miller’s parable draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch trials of 1692 and subsequent generations of American mass hysteria – up to the present. Through this sa…
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:10PMFriday, May 3, 2013
PROOF (WHITMORE-ECLECTIC): 100% – SWEET SWEET Speaking of inheriting genes from our parents, James must have passed some of his talent off to his daughter Aliah, She is talented in both di…
SOURCE: Footlights at 07:44PMPETER PAN: THE BOY WHO HATED MOTHERS: 90% – SWEET SWEET So when the moment comes, and Tinkerbell’s light is about to die out, as it inevitably does, and you feel the heavy silence surrou…
SOURCE: Footlights at 07:39PMRAISE ME UP (SANTA MONICA PLAYHOUSE): 100% – SWEET SWEET Raise Me Up is directed by Chris DeCarlo. A cast of extremely fine actors bring so much life into the characters. Dialects are abso…
SOURCE: Footlights at 07:35PMHURACLOWN: 100% – SWEET SWEET A philosopher once observed that the sweetest laughter is that which is glistened by a tear, and that is the laughter bestowed on the audience by this show. A…
SOURCE: Footlights at 07:32PMBRECHT ON BRECHT (ATWATER PLAYHOUSE): 100% – SWEET SWEET On the small, basically barren stage, featuring five mismatched chairs and one door frame attendees must walk through to enter, the…
SOURCE: Footlights at 07:29PMWednesday, May 1, 2013
Charles Dickens opens, A Tale of Two Cities, with “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” the novel then goes on giving us a feel for living with purpose through the Fre…
SOURCE: Footlights at 07:13PMMatthew McCray by Graham Sibley Matthew McCray is from a small conservative mountain town in Colorado but you would never-ever-ever guess that. He sports stylish Oliver Peoples glasses, dr…
SOURCE: Footlights at 07:03PMFriday, April 26, 2013
Janet and her mother Margaret both live on Mapleview Lanes – the perfect neighborhood until Lewis Chance buys a house on their street to open a group home for troubled adolescents. Rai…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:23PMThursday, April 25, 2013
SCULPTRESS OF ANGEL X (ZJU): 100% – SWEET SWEET Gotta say the entire cast grabbed my attention and held it. This play explores extremes, the heights as well as the depths, leaving us certa…
SOURCE: Footlights at 07:45PMTHE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT (TU STUDIOS): 100% – SWEET SWEET Bill Manhoff’s The Owl and the Pussycat is directed by Gloria Gifford and features energetic and physical performances by the ac…
SOURCE: Footlights at 07:29PMGRIMM NIGHTS VOL. 1: HOLLYWOOD (ZJU): 100% – SWEET SWEET “Grimm Nights Vol1: Hollywood” is Zombie Joe’s newest production and I believe even Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm themselves would …
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:45PMANNAPURNA: 100% – SWEET SWEET Under the sturdy, austere direction of DeLorenzo and featuring two actors capable of suc…
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:19PMTuesday, April 23, 2013
Mac, an amazing Dan Shaked, lives with his mother (Jeanie Hackett) in an apartment in New York City. Stiff and clumsy, with a line of chatter that is a classic example of TMI (Too Much Infor…
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:01PMWednesday, April 17, 2013
Alone, numb, and friendless after the death of his father, high school senior Eli moves with his English professor mom from San Francisco for a fresh start in Iowa. A new relationship with a…
SOURCE: Footlights at 03:56PMMonday, April 8, 2013
MAD FOREST (OPEN FIST): 100% – SWEET SWEET Add to this Mazor’s traffic-control direction, the dusky lighting design by Wyatt Bartel/PRG-LA, and Tim Labor’s ominous sound design and ori…
SOURCE: Footlights at 03:57PMWednesday, April 3, 2013
Named “Critic’s Choice” by the Los Angeles Times, Smoke and Mirrors – a heartfelt comedy-drama with mind-bending magic – extends by popular demand at a new thea…
SOURCE: Footlights at 07:47PMTopanga, Calif. – April 3, 2013 – Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum celebrates its 40th Anniversary with a lively summer season of theater, music and performance under the stars and liv…
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:00PMFriday, March 29, 2013
Dreamgirls – DOMA Theatre Company extends its hit production through May 5. With over two-dozen cast members and a six-piece on-stage band, this story about a black girl group from Chicago…
SOURCE: Footlights at 06:30PMAndrew Carlberg, Andrew Carlberg, Andrew Carlberg. Remember this name. One more time — Andrew Carlberg. At 28 years old, Carlberg has produced more theatre, film, television and ch…
SOURCE: Footlights at 05:58PMThursday, March 28, 2013
In a heated situation, Lena is in a struggle between her feelings and family tradition. Being brought up in a Black Nationalist environment, Lena’s growing feelings for David (who is…
SOURCE: Footlights at 04:33PMEURYDICE (A NOISE WITHIN): 92% – SWEET SWEET If anything I’ve described sounds appealing, then grab a loved one and come to see Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice at A Noise Within. Steven Christia…
SOURCE: Footlights at 02:37PMHAVING IT ALL (LAGUNA PLAYHOUSE): 100% – SWEET SWEET Still, with eye-catching costuming by Ann Closs-Farley and an exquisite lighting motif by Luke Moyer, Having it All has nearly everythi…
SOURCE: Footlights at 02:11PMMELANCHOLIA (LATC): 100% – SWEET SWEET Valenzuela skillfully blends elements of music and choreography into this timely play, and his sizable ensemble performs efficiently in multiple role…
SOURCE: Footlights at 02:06PMWednesday, March 27, 2013
CHAPTER TWO (LITTLE FISH): 100% – SWEET SWEET Neil Simon’s Chapter Two is but the latest reason for Los Angeles theatergoers to head on down the 110 to San Pedro and check out this gem o…
SOURCE: Footlights at 07:07PMNUTTIN’ BUT HUTTON: 92% – SWEET SWEET Winningly directed by Larry Raben and featuring a versatile set by Jeff McLaug…
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