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Monday, May 25, 2015

Secrets of the set: bamboo skewers and recycled paper at Boston Court by Charlotte Stoudt

It was all done with bamboo skewers, recycling and free pizza. The ambitious set of "The Good Book of Pedantry and Wonder," a play about the struggle to compile the Oxford English Dictionary…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PM

Review: 'Neighbors' at the Matrix Theatre by Charlotte Stoudt

Messy, bold, desperately funny and deeply felt: "Neighbors" is worth getting to know.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PM

Jennifer Tipton lights up REDCAT, and many other stages by Charlotte Stoudt

Leading lighting designer Jennifer Tipton turns 73 on Saturday, and she'll probably spend her birthday working.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PM

Review: 'Into the Woods' at Big Art Labs by Charlotte Stoudt

Talk about a fairy tale: “General Hospital” supercouple Luke (Anthony Geary) and Laura (Genie Francis) were a Harlequin Romance on steroids. Now Geary finds equally fractured enc…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PM

The Spotlight: Dakin Matthews in 'True Grit' by Charlotte Stoudt

Hitchcock. King Lear. C.S. Lewis — Dakin Matthews has played his share of hefty dramatic roles on Los Angeles and Orange County stages as well as in television and film. Theatergoers f…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:58PM
Monday, February 4, 2013

Review: 'Fallen Angels' an irresistible romp at Pasadena Playhouse by Charlotte Stoudt

Shrug off that fur, have a cocktail and dish the dirt with “Fallen Angels,” Art Manke’s irresistible production of a rarely seen Noel Coward comedy, now at the Pasadena Pla…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:28PM
Monday, December 10, 2012

Review: 'Silent's' Pat Kinevane an expressive force at the Odyssey by Charlotte Stoudt

Does anyone in Ireland have a happy childhood? From Frank McCourt to Martin McDonagh, the Emerald Isle seems to eat its young with alarming frequency. And according to “Silent,” …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:59PM
Friday, November 30, 2012

Review: 'Nothing to Hide' a tricky gift from two aces by Charlotte Stoudt

This December, celebrate sleight of hand — and I don’t mean shopping online. “Nothing to Hide,” the new magic show at the Geffen Playhouse featuring Derek DelGaudio a…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:44PM
Monday, November 19, 2012

Theater review: 'Tea, With Music' a weak brew at East West Players by Charlotte Stoudt

Dorothy isn’t the only one who got lost in Kansas. After World War II, more than 100,000 Japanese women married American GIs and resettled across the United States. We meet five of tho…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:21PM
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Review: A dishy 'Conversation With Edith Head' at Pasadena Playhouse by Charlotte Stoudt

She dressed elephants and Audrey Hepburn, and apparently preferred the elephants. Hollywood’s most legendary costume designer dishes the dirt in a nostalgic one-woman show, “A Co…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:46PM
Thursday, November 8, 2012

Review: 'The Bald Soprano,' in a retro mood at City Garage by Charlotte Stoudt

It looks like “Mad Men,” but you’d never catch Don Draper at this shindig. The City Garage staging of Eugene Ionesco’s midcentury absurdist farce “The Bald Sopr…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:52PM
Thursday, September 27, 2012

Review: 'Orestes 3.0: Inferno' a visual feast of the Greeks by Charlotte Stoudt

The House of Atreus looks good on leather. Leather couches that is -- part of the seating at T1, the Bergamot Station Arts Center and new home of City Garage. The company’s inaugural p…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:40PM
Monday, September 17, 2012

Theater review: 'Absurd Person Singular' at South Coast Repertory by Charlotte Stoudt

Shame and the British. They go together like tea and crumpets, Sandhurst and Sid Vicious.  But South Coast Repertory’s broad staging of Alan Ayckbourn’s exercise in indignity, &…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:40PM
Monday, July 30, 2012

Theater review: 'The Inspector General' at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center by Charlotte Stoudt

One percenters, hide those offshore accounts: Occupy LA—or something a lot like it—has been spotted at the Boston Court Performing Arts Center.  The corruption of the privileged…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:27PM
Monday, July 16, 2012

Review: 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' 'Winter's Tale' at Griffith Park by Charlotte Stoudt

Come for the cupcakes, stay for the play. The Griffith Park Free Shakespeare Festival offers tasty concessions, but its onstage revels serve up plenty of eye candy.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:13PM
Thursday, July 5, 2012

Review: 'The Women of Lockerbie' a sentimental yet thoughtful study by Charlotte Stoudt

In December 1988, the residents of a small Scottish town hosted unusual guests: dozens of corpses that lay for days in streets, fields and gardens until investigators could process them as f…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:54PM
Monday, July 2, 2012

Review: Eccentric sisters in 'Oy!' confront a shared dark history by Charlotte Stoudt

All the best stories are told in the kitchen — even the darkest ones. Think of Hélène Cixous’ “Oy!,” now at the Actors' Gang, as the rise and fall of the Third Reic…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:33PM
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Theater review: "Six Characters Looking for an Author" and "I Am Chrissie" by Charlotte Stoudt

They’re looking for a few good denouements. The Promenade Players Theater Company’s “Six Characters Looking for an Author” and Katselas Theatre Company’s solo s…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:20PM
Monday, June 25, 2012

Review: Motel-staged 'Tape' is worth checking into by Charlotte Stoudt

Join the actors in Room 28 at the Western Plaza for this up close and personal take on Stephen Belber's cult drama.Sex, drugs and a cheap motel for $15 an hour: Who says L.A. doesn't know an…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:00AM
Friday, June 22, 2012

Review: Check in at Western Plaza Motel for 'Tape' adventure by Charlotte Stoudt

Sex, drugs and a cheap motel for $15 an hour: Who says L.A. doesn’t know anything about culture? The Smith and Martin Company and needtheater have taken the stage directions of “…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:30PM
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Review: 'The Little Dog Laughed' comically faces tough truths by Charlotte Stoudt

Douglas Carter Beane’s “The Little Dog Laughed” follows four people who, as one of them puts it, couldn’t identify their feelings in a police lineup. Translation: the…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:40PM
Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Review: Cheery days at Theatricum Botanicum's 'Heartbreak House' by Charlotte Stoudt

It’s the end of the world as they know it, but the characters of George Bernard Shaw’s “Heartbreak House” feel positively giddy. In Ellen Geer’s fleet, bouncy s…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:09PM
Thursday, June 7, 2012

Review: For Melanie Griffith, Scott Caan, 'No Way Around but Through' by Charlotte Stoudt

Boy meets girl. Girl meets boy’s mom. Trouble ensues. This familiar love-hate triangle shapes “No Way Around but Through,” Scott Caan’s linguistically contorted dark …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:37PM
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Review: 'Charity: Part III of a Mexican Trilogy' cuts to the heart by Charlotte Stoudt

He’s holy, he’s handsome, he’s dead. The good works — and good looks — of Pope John Paul II form the touchstone of “Charity: Part III of a Mexican Trilogy…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:48PM
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Review: The oddly compelling 'Bewildered Herd' by Charlotte Stoudt

Like the man said, always be closing. In Cody Henderson's "The Bewildered Herd," now at Greenway Arts Alliance, everyone's after someone else's mental real estate. When he's not helping win …

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:55PM
Monday, April 9, 2012

Theater review: 'The Bungler' at A Noise Within by Charlotte Stoudt

Charlotte Stoudt reviews A Noise Within's effervescent staging of Molière's "The Bungler"

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:30PM
Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Theater review: 'Deathtrap' at the Davidson-Valentini Theatre by Charlotte Stoudt

Charlotte Stoudt reviews Ken Sawyer's revival of "Deathtrap" at L.A.'s Gay and Lesbian Center.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:39PM
Thursday, March 22, 2012

Theater review: The 'Many Mistresses of Martin Luther King' by Charlotte Stoudt

Charlotte Stoudt reviews "The Many Mistresses of Martin Luther King," Andrew Dolan's drama on race and marriage now at the Atwater Village Theatre.

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:31PM
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Theater review: 'The Color Purple' at Celebration Theatre by Charlotte Stoudt

Everybody say "amen": The joint is jumping over at Celebration Theatre with its raucous, exultant staging of "The Color Purple."Everybody say "amen": The joint is jumping over at Celebration…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:50PM

Theater review: 'The Color Purple' at Celebration Theatre by Charlotte Stoudt

Charlotte Stoudt reviews Celebration Theatre's revival of the musical adaptation of "The Color Purple"

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:22PM
Monday, March 12, 2012

Theater review: Culture Clash's 'American Night' at Kirk Douglas by Charlotte Stoudt

The gleeful "Night" uses sketch comedy, song and a dizzying number of wigs to survey the glories and pratfalls of the American Dream. The gleeful "Night" uses sketch comedy, song and a dizzy…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:08PM

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