Friday, April 20, 2018
Social justice is a topic in L.A. smaller-theater productions of "Key Change" by Collective Studio: Los Angeles, "Native Son" by Antaeus, "The Immigrant" by Sierra Madre Playhouse and "Enriq…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Most any week the theater provides a college seminar's worth of social-justice studies, but the conversations are particularly prevalent now in L.A.'s smaller theaters. This week they look a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 8, 2018
You would think that Christine Daaé might have learned by now to avoid rooms with full-length mirrors in them, because a certain masked face is bound to materialize in the looking glass, he…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:15PM[SHARE]Friday, March 30, 2018
Evil can look benign. It can appear official. It can masquerade as kind. It can show up at the door in the form of a boy you watched grow up, now wearing a crisply pressed military uniform a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:30PM[SHARE]Friday, March 23, 2018
Applaud strong, resourceful, vital women as depicted in "Of Government" by Son of Semele, a festival of plays by Latinas at Casa 0101, "Through the Eye of a Needle" by the Road Theatre Compa…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 22, 2018
Amy Freed sensed the guy could use some help. He'd written a knockabout comedy but got sloppy with details and seemed to have run short of ideas, especially in segments involving the rough w…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 1, 2018
"Allegiance" is a musical about the incarceration of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor. In mass-market, story-and-song form, it encourages audiences to think deeply about a time when Ame…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:35PM[SHARE]Friday, February 23, 2018
Somewhere in Los Angeles, a Jo-Ann fabrics and a 99 Cents Only store must be seriously depleted. Their stock seemingly can be found onstage at the Lex Theatre, where the Celebration company'…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Spotlight on Los Angeles theater: Justin Tanner's "El Nino," the new drama "An Illegal Start" at the Santa Monica Pier carousel, the new comedy "Wicked Pagan Gays" at the Zephyr and Olivia D…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 16, 2018
It seems appropriate that a musical about miracles is itself a bit of a wonder. Introduced off-Broadway in 1997 and produced on Broadway in 2014, "Violet" has secured a cadre of fans but no …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]New York artist Louise Nevelson is best remembered for sculptures constructed of cast-aside wood, the pieces aligned vertically as if reaching for the sky. "Occupant," a play about her life,…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 9, 2018
If you've read Chaim Potok's "The Chosen," you know this story, but it bears repeating. Two teen boys live not quite five blocks apart in 1940s Brooklyn, but they've never met because they m…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, February 2, 2018
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes learned storytelling among a sprawl of aunts, uncles and cousins. When her mother's talkative Puerto Rican American family got toget…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, January 26, 2018
What's happening on L.A.'s smaller stages? "Alright Then" by Orson Bean at Pacific Resident Theatre; "The Hothouse" by Antaeus; "The Chinese Wall" at Group Rep; "The Enchanted Nightingale" a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 26, 2017
The Green One meets the Purple One, resulting in a swap of fur colors, in "How the Princh Stole Christmas!" This Grinch/Prince mash-up is the latest holiday show from the Troubadour Theater …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Technology flexes its muscles in the latest Cirque du Soleil show to visit Southern California. We know Cirque as a showcase for the limits to which humankind can push itself, but this time,…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:00PM[SHARE]Friday, December 8, 2017
Los Angeles-area theater recommendations for Dec. 8, 2017: "Beauty and the Beast" at Casa 0101, "Santasia" at the Whitefire, "Wake" at City Garage and "The Man Who Came to Dinner" at Actors …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, November 10, 2017
A spotlight on Los Angeles theater productions of "Rotterdam," "This Land," "deLEARious" and "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 7, 2017
You've read the New Yorker article. You've heard all of your artist friends talk about him. Now you can hear Chinese dissident artist Lin Bo speak at a downtown L.A. art gallery about the wo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:40PM[SHARE]Friday, October 20, 2017
Henrik Ibsen: Ahead of his time. Father of modern drama. Often considered an early male feminist for confronting the constraints on women in the 19th century. The title character of one of h…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 13, 2017
The week's offerings in L.A.'s small theaters include "Kaidan Project" by Rogue Artists, "A Love Affair" at Santa Monica Playhouse, "Resolving Hedda" at Victory Theatre and "The House on Man…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Churchgoer. Gymgoer. Fundraising executive. Devoted spouse, son and colleague. This is the trickster of Los Angeles theater? My, but Tom Jacobson's still waters run deep. He is, after all, t…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 19, 2017
When Thomas "Fats" Waller played piano and sang, life was a party. A large man with a big personality, he was known as much for making people laugh as for his extraordinary skill at a jumpin…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:20PM[SHARE]Friday, September 15, 2017
Los Angeles theater picks this week are "In a Word," "Walking to Buchenwald," "Daytona" and a bilingual "Aladdin."
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Music is a gathering place that can be big enough to accommodate a crowd or small enough to nestle two yearning hearts. Rarely has this been as poignantly conveyed as in the 2007 movie "Once…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 12, 2017
A martial cadence is heard throughout the soul-rattling musical "Parade." You could think of it as the drumbeat of history " a history from which we repeatedly fail to learn. Time and the da…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:45PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 10, 2016
Amélie Poulain sees the world as no one else does. Her imagination is a fun-house mirror that magnifies the oddities, intensifies the colors and warps every random detail of her environs in…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 1, 2016
In this age of instant communication, he can't manage to say anything. The title high-schooler in "Dear Evan Hansen" is an endearing misfit so afraid of social interaction that he can't face…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 10, 2016
Leslie Odom Jr. sings through innumerable earbuds these days as the magisterial, supremely self-assured Aaron Burr, the Founding Father who butts heads with the excitable, even more supremel…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 15, 2016
History is more complicated than the simple version we're told in school or around the dinner table, says South Coast Repertory's artistic director, Marc Masterson. He is talking about L…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 23, 2016
The time is always right for a production of "Cabaret." Its slinky songs will seduce an audience in nothing flat, and its story, about the world slipping into brutality while people aren'…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:08AM[SHARE] 
