Monday, October 22, 2012
'You Can't Take It With You,' by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, gets a labored staging by Antaeus Company.The bohemian Sycamore family of George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's Pulitzer Prize-w…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:20PM[SHARE]As President Obama and Mitt Romney debate Monday, theatrical presentation will be scrutinized. But personalities should lead to ideas.The final presidential debate between President Obama an…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 18, 2012
Theresa Rebeck's 'Seminar,' starring Jeff Goldblum at the Ahmanson Theatre, is entertaining in its details and dynamics, but the story and sitcom humor falter.Masochism is the chief prerequi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 17, 2012
The Actors' Gang's staging captures the silliness of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy. The problem remains the dizzying plot.Let's congratulate the Actors' Gang for at least bringing some …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 12, 2012
John Hurt eloquently stars in Samuel Beckett's 'Krapp's Last Tape' at Kirk Douglas Theatre in a production directed by Michael Colgan.With his shock of silver-gray hair, his face etched by t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 4, 2012
Visually, this telling of Sarah Ruhl's rethought Orpheus tale is a stunner. The whimsy, though, is overplayed."Eurydice," Sarah Ruhl's playful retelling of the Orpheus myth from a female per…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 27, 2012
Lynn Nottage takes a fictional look at a real actress, providing a view into the sisterhood of African American women as they face a world skewed against them.Theresa Harris was an African A…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 26, 2012
The latest revival of David Mamet's 'Glengarry Glen Ross,' at the La Jolla Playhouse, is a tense and well-paced production thanks to the strong cast.As long as America is America, land of op…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 23, 2012
Eugene Ionesco's absurdist tale always feels drawn out, but in a visiting Theatre de la Ville-Paris production, its horror shakes the foundations.Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota's smart, sleek product…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:30PM[SHARE]Friday, September 21, 2012
A Gob Squad show inspired by Warhol films brings the audience into a very surreal 'Kitchen.'Andy Warhol is sometimes blamed for ushering in the age of reality television. Nonsense. All those…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 20, 2012
The body-switch comedy from Robert Sternin and Prudence Fraser plays on the Pasadena Playhouse stage like a bad sitcom.Connoisseurs of really bad television — you know you're out there…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 13, 2012
This national tour production matches the verve, if not the sharpness, of the original Broadway production. The musical about two mismatched Mormon missionaries assigned to Uganda is a profa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:18PM[SHARE]Monday, September 10, 2012
A singing parody of the Oscar winner, 'Silence! The Musical' may overstretch at times, but a madcap cast and shameless daring make it outrageously fun.Any day now the announcement that "Jaws…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PM[SHARE]Friday, September 7, 2012
The Playwrights' Arena production makes Helen a fugitive from Hollywood who has been sullied by the tabloids but still seeking refuge at the tomb of Proteus.Just a few years after writing hi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Sketch comedy and magic make for a fun night in the hands of madcap performers Trey Lyford, Geoff Sobelle and Steve Cuiffo.Don't let the retro styling fool you. Although they look like comic…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 26, 2012
The play receiving its U.S. premiere at the Fountain Theatre provides tantalizing insight into the South African writer. At 80, South African playwright Athol Fugard is still turning out pla…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 22, 2012
War, brutality, despair and cryptic storytelling fill the U.S. premiere. Matthew McCray directs.Enigmatic anecdote is the currency of Martin Crimp's "The City," having its U.S. premiere at S…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 19, 2012
The character, now in the musical at the Ahmanson Theatre, is beloved — and radical.No, that's not a UFO hovering over the Music Center. It happens to be Mary Poppins, who has glided b…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 18, 2012
William Friedkin's film of Tracy Letts' play leaves little to the imagination, and that can really mess up your mind.William Friedkin's film of Tracy Letts' play"Killer Joe" is nasty, brutis…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 14, 2012
In a sensational production of John Logan's play at the Mark Taper Forum, an artist of highbrow ambition has accepted a lucrative commission, and guilt results. As imagined by John Logan in …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 12, 2012
Neither voice nor body is what it was. Still, she lives the emotions of her songs, and that goes a long way, even on a night held up by delays.The crowd was growing restless at the Hollywood…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:35PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 4, 2012
Soho Rep's 'Uncle Vanya' takes its time while Sydney Theatre's version moves at a quick pace. Each staging is effective, and each shows how timeless Chekhov can be.NEW YORK — Anton Che…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 29, 2012
With a short rehearsal time it's no wonder the musical stops short of perfection, but the comic level of the Mel Brooks work remains high."The Producers" returned to Los Angeles for three pe…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:35PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 28, 2012
The director delivered opening ceremonies for the Olympics that celebrated both the eccentricity and enlightenment that are fascinatingly entwined in Britain's cultural DNA. Olympic openin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Are we really living in a post-racial world? It seems like we’re back in the 1990s, when all hell broke loose on Broadway after the British star Jonathan Pryce was cast as the Eurasian…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 14, 2012
The star juggles family with an actor's life. These days, that includes co-running a Sydney theater troupe with her husband. Their latest — Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya.'On the surface, Cate…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:00PM[SHARE]Friday, July 13, 2012
A diabolically stilted dialogue and some patchy performances trip up the new Geffen Playhouse work, although its striking design and effective music are standouts.Two questions immediately p…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The company's staging of 'Richard III' and 'As You Like It' may emphasize plot over psychology, but the classics are still a lovely way to spend a summer night.There are as many ways to rean…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM[SHARE]Monday, July 2, 2012
The Tony Award-winning play communicates the staggering waste of war but provides an opportunity to reconnect with the childhood enchantments of bedtime fables, folk tales and storybook adve…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 30, 2012
In his graceful assuming of various characters, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine lobs a searing riposte at Uganda's anti-gay bill in a new solo show.He roams the night in menacing military police garb…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Full of the gritty textures of the '70s, August Wilson's play does something today's artists should emulate — reveal how rooted we are in our uniquely styled moment of history.The noti…
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