Friday, March 2, 2018
"Mozart in the Jungle" star Saffron Burrows tries to channel Jacqueline Kennedy in this one-woman production at the Wallis, but a big wig can't make up for a thin script.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:45AMThursday, March 1, 2018
I felt sure two of this year's Oscar contenders would satisfy my seasonal yearning for intelligent screen storytelling, but in both cases, I found myself quarreling with the writing and the …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMLike many Americans, I find it increasingly easy to talk myself out of going to the movies. There’s plenty to watch at home and so little to lure me back onto the roads and into those unfa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:00PMTuesday, February 27, 2018
Boston Court in Pasadena presents a new production of Tennessee Williams' classic, set in contemporary times and propelled by Michael Michetti's pitch-perfect direction.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:05PMMichael Michetti’s revitalizing production of Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire” at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center shakes out the cobwebs of an American classic …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:05PMMonday, February 26, 2018
The last play in Quiara Alegria Hudes' trilogy about an Iraq War veteran trying to forge a life back in the States proves more difficult to stage effectively in this Latino Theater Company p…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMWhen we last checked in on Elliot at the end of “Water by the Spoonful,” the middle work in Quiara Alegría Hudes’ three-play Elliot cycle, he was in Puerto Rico with his cousin Yaz sc…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AMTuesday, February 20, 2018
A new translation of Chekhov's play manages to modernize a classic without updating it. The result is a strong, smartly acted production under the direction of playwright Richard Nelson.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:51PMSometimes you don’t know how much you need Anton Chekhov until you re-encounter him. “Uncle Vanya,” one of the Russian writer’s four dramatic masterpieces, is on view here at the Old…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:50PMMonday, February 19, 2018
Tim Robbins' theater company looks to its own members' family stories to create a new work about America's immigrants. The result is a little monotonous but ultimately powerful — and deepl…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:52PM“The New Colossus,” a performance work created by the Actors’ Gang in collaboration with company artistic director Tim Robbins, is inspired by the stories of ensemble members’ ancest…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:50PMMonday, February 12, 2018
Quiara Alegria Hudes' powerful, Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about a family grappling with ghosts of the past opens at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles — but not without some problems.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:33PMFriday, February 9, 2018
At a time when the issue of immigration is used like a political football, it’s easy for some to distance themselves emotionally from the debate. Martyna Majok's drama pulls us back into r…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:01PMDarja, an immigrant from Poland who calls the industrial wastelands of New Jersey home, can regularly be found waiting for a bus near the factory where, until it was shut down, she was emplo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:25PMMonday, February 5, 2018
Quiara Alegria Hudes' Pulitzer-nominated play centers on an Iraq-bound Marine whose story is interwoven with his father's Vietnam past and his grandfather's Korean War history. The result is…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:20PMSunday, February 4, 2018
Artist and choreographer Ann Carlson calls upon a cast of two women, two men, one boy, three herding dogs and a flock of sheep to explore "instinct, sentience, attachment and loss."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:25PMTo bah or not to bah — that is not the question of “Doggie Hamlet,” a site-specific performance work by choreographer and director Ann Carlson that involves a flock of sheep, three her…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:20PMMonday, January 29, 2018
Critic Charles McNulty takes in the scene as Bradley Whitford, Joshua Malina and a starry cast lead a one-night-only reading organized by the Fountain Theatre at L.A. City Hall. The message:…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:44PMAt the electric reading of William Goldman’s screenplay for “All the President’s Men” at Los Angeles City Hall on Saturday night, Watergate once again had the freshness of current ev…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:40PMFriday, January 26, 2018
The irreverent Chicago theater company the Hypocrites brings its adaptation of the Gilbert and Sullivan musical to Pasadena.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:20PMMonday, January 22, 2018
"Shakespeare in Love" at South Coast Rep captures the rom-com spirit of Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard's Oscar-winning screenplay, while Philip Whitchurch's “Shakespeare his wife and the dog…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:12PMWelcome to the Shakespeare Emporium, your one-stop shopping choice for all your Shakespeare accessories. Tote bags and sweatshirts will advertise your love of the Bard. A Stratford-upon-Avon…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:10PMTuesday, January 16, 2018
One of the last performances I saw in 2017 was one of the sliest: Billy Crudup in David Cale’s “Harry Clarke” at New York’s Vineyard Theatre. I caught this off-Broadway solo work at …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:00PMSunday, January 14, 2018
Playwright Bess Wohl, who trained as an actor at the Yale School of Drama, has written a play that asks actors to do more than speak the speech trippingly on the tongue, as Hamlet advised th…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:00PMFriday, January 12, 2018
A few years ago, Poor Dog Group, founded in 2008 by a group of young theater artists who met while studying at the California Institute of the Arts, brought in a licensed therapist to hold g…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:40PMFriday, December 15, 2017
The power of individual performers redeemed 2017, a theatrical year overrun with flotsam and jetsam but one that at least gave us Bette Midler and Bruce Springsteen in unforgettable form on …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AMWednesday, December 6, 2017
Where do new musicals come from? For a while, the answer regularly seemed to be pop-music catalogs and movies guaranteed to put baby boomers in a nostalgic mood. Broadway became the great cu…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:20PMFriday, December 1, 2017
At the start of Duncan Macmillan’s “People, Places & Things,” which concludes its triumphant run at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn on Sunday, Emma, an actress with a serious substan…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:55PMWednesday, November 29, 2017
A fascinating experiment is underway on Broadway. A substandard comedy that received, let’s just say, mixed reviews out of town has been recast with fashionably hip actors in a new product…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00PMMonday, November 20, 2017
Every season theater producers drop a wad of coins in the jukebox like gamblers pouring quarters into slot machines. Broadway jackpots might be rarer than Las Vegas windfalls, but the behemo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:15PMFriday, November 17, 2017
Is there a play-doctor in the house? A concerned onlooker would have reason to make this plea during “Chasing Mem’ries: A Different Kind of Musical.” Unfortunately, there’s not much …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:05PM 
