Wednesday, July 27, 2016
"You are all amazing. You all have vast untapped potential. You all have a future." With that mantra, so begins "Space" at Hollywood's Stella Adler Theatre. Stefan Marks' promising look a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Ensemble Studio Theatre/Los Angeles has launched its first one-act play festival, and the 14 works divided into three programs run the gamut from traditional to experimental. I saw Program A…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2016
With "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale," Tennessee Williams' 1951 revision of his earlier play "Summer and Smoke," Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice ends its 30th anniversary season on a…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2016
The idiomatic voice of Sam Shepard provides the electrical currents that ignite "Fool for Love," staged at the Los Angeles LGBT Center as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Shepard's cla…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 16, 2016
Radioactive laughter courses through Good People Theater Company's "The Toxic Avenger," wreaking sublimely silly havoc at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. In its Los Angeles premiere, Joe DiPi…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Celebration Theatre has landed a coup with the West Coast premiere of  "The Boy From Oz," and what a festive party it's throwing. A 2004 hit on Broadway, where it won Hugh Jackman a Tony …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:03PM[SHARE]Monday, May 16, 2016
It was a once-a-year day at the Alex Theatre on Sunday, when Musical Theatre Guild closed its 20th anniversary season with a triumphant staged concert edition of "The Pajama Game." Richard A…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:43PM[SHARE]Those resolute renegades at City Garage have been tweaking the Bard all season in a triptych project they're calling "The Winter of Our Discontent: Shakespeare in the Digital Age," which con…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:43PM[SHARE]Friday, April 8, 2016
In its West Coast premiere at Atwater Playhouse, "Red Velvet," Lolita Chakrabarti's 2012 study of legendary actor Ira Aldridge, conveys the power of the stage and its lingering impact. In 18…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 29, 2016
"Blood" writer-director Robert Allan Ackerman applies a dazzling array of theatrical techniques to his ambitious account of the Japanese tainted-blood scandal of the 1980s. Designated "a pol…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:59PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 13, 2016
"Just because something is imaginary doesn't mean it's not real." So goes "Past Time," Sacred Fools Theater Company's inaugural production in its new home at the Lillian Theatre, a felicitou…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:34PM[SHARE]The singular theatrical voice of Tennessee Williams pulsates through "Vieux Carré" at the Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood. Although this resourceful Coeurage Theatre Company produ…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:34PM[SHARE]Friday, January 15, 2016
"I am a professional salesman. I am a professional salesman." So runs, with drolly insecure variations, the mantra of the woebegone hero of "Timeshare," which has been extended at the Eclect…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 7, 2016
Vintage nightclub artistry ignites palpable frissons around the Geffen Playhouse, where "Louis & Keely: 'Live' at the Sahara" has sailed back in triumph. From its hugely acclaimed premiere i…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:26PM[SHARE]"Rio Hondo," which returns to Theatre of Note this week for a limited engagement, suggests what might happen if your VHS collection of Sergio Leone films were spliced with several seasons of…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 12, 2015
"A Christmas Carol" is upon us, and its winning A Noise Within production is a keeper. Amid worthy area stagings of Charles Dickens' immortal classic about miserly Ebenezer Scrooge's Christm…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:35PM[SHARE]Friday, October 30, 2015
Anyone who has ever wondered about being stuck in an elevator might be intrigued by "Caged" at Theatre Banshee, a guest offering by Mean Machine Productions and Georganne Aldrich Heller. Der…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2015
Two weeks remain to catch "The Best of Enemies" in its West Coast premiere at the Colony Theatre in Burbank. The production is mandatory viewing for anyone who values the stage's ability to …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 12:08PM[SHARE]In "ICU," playwright Fielding Edlow diagnoses dark humor in the most dysfunctional family this side of Eugene O'Neill's Tyrone clan. Here, they're upper-middle-class New York Jews, snarling …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:13AM[SHARE]What a difference a second look makes. When "Carrie: The Musical" hit La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts in the spring, I found its immersive execution spectacular, its performances i…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:13AM[SHARE]Friday, August 14, 2015
A skirmish of wit attends "Much Ado About Nothing" in Griffith Park, and it proves a notable argument. Independent Shakespeare Company concludes its summer season with an agreeably quirky, r…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:27AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 30, 2015
The intimacy of small-town life and its stifling limitations permeate "Picnic," which the thoughtfully representative staging at Antaeus Theater Company underscores without telegraphing.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:31PM[SHARE]Friday, June 26, 2015
It's fairly unusual for a 30-plus-year-old experimental theater piece to remain trenchant, affecting and exhilarating at the same time, but that's the incisive case with "The Gospel at Colon…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 21, 2015
Family dysfunction, that age-old staple of the dramatic canon, permeates the walking wounded that populate "The House of Yes" in a respectable, albeit still-gelling 25th anniversary revival …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00PM[SHARE]That deaf, dumb and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball in "The Who's Tommy" at the David Henry Hwang Theater. Although Des McAnuff and Pete Townshend's Tony Award-winning 1993 stage adaptat…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 14, 2015
Rampant theatricality and audience regard traverses "Around the World in 80 Days" at the Actors Co-op.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 30, 2015
"Words not meant to misdirect are wasted," says one of the combatants in "The Anarchist," and at certain levels that might describe the whole thing.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 9, 2015
"Occupation," now receiving its West Coast premiere at Sacred Fools Theater, explores the ramifications of globalization and imperialism with considerable ambition and erratic dramaturgy,…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PM[SHARE]Friday, March 20, 2015
Revised 'Carrie: The Musical' gets spectacular show at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2015
Never underestimate the power of stagecraft. Case in point: "Carrie: The Musical," now receiving a mind-blowing immersive production at La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:00PM[SHARE]Monday, March 16, 2015
Eighteenth century subversion meets Larry David lunacy in "Figaro" at A Noise Within. Ingenuity permeates this buoyant adaptation of Beaumarchais' classic account of one crazy day at the Alm…
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