Monday, May 25, 2015
Of two new musicals with similar roots, Adding Machine adds up to more than Loving Repeating. In the group therapy genre, Circle Mirror Transformation requires less suspension of disbelief …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]The new Atwater Village Theatre and Ensemble Studio Theatre-LA offer two views of sex-besotted characters in Mlle. God and Crack Whore Galore--Live. Why can't Sister's audiences ask tougher …
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]Which theater company attracts the most young adults? Why can't Clybourne Park coincide with A Raisin in the Sun? Would 33 Variations fit the Taper better than the Ahmanson?
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]Madonna or whore? Three big musicals examine this stereotype of young women: Dangerous Beauty, Gigi and Rock of Ages, with mixed results.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]The Author at the Kirk Douglas raised big questions about how theater artists and audience deal with inflammatory subject matter such as porn and suicide. Meanwhile, Wrinkles offers a very d…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]A Noise Within's Comedy of Errors is a perfect fit in the burlesque hall dreamed up by director Michael Michetti, but why is Actors Co-op's King Lear set in 1850s California? Plus comments o…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]A Noise Within's Comedy of Errors is a perfect fit in the burlesque hall dreamed up by director Michael Michetti, but why is Actors Co-op's King Lear set in 1850s California? Plus comments o…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:58PM[SHARE]Monday, January 27, 2014
The number of Equity contract productions in LA grows. Small shows at big theater and vice-versa. Misbehaving in Long Beach and La Mirada.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:00PM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2014
Mayor Garcetti talks arts. "Twilight of Schlomo" in Garcetti's former district. Afterlife plays, including "Prudencia Hart." The pared-down Greeks.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 10:14PM[SHARE]Monday, January 13, 2014
Lincoln Heights wasn't big enough for the BFA's late Carmen Zapata -- let's revive her Olvera Street dreams. A cougher competes with Beckett. Hershey Felder's Lincoln, the sequel.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:49PM[SHARE]Monday, January 6, 2014
Distractions inside theaters -- rustling of paper, coughing, snoring, light from phones -- require coping strategies. Two four-actor musical revues continue on Santa Monica Pier and in NoHo.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:38PM[SHARE]Friday, December 20, 2013
Don Shirley saw 263 productions (so far) in LA theaters in 2013. Here he remembers and highlights the top 10 percent.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:30PM[SHARE]Monday, December 16, 2013
Four productions use "A Christmas Story" for their own ends. Also, commentary on the musical "Christmas Memory," an Aladdin panto and "Miracle on South Division Street".
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:00PM[SHARE]Monday, December 9, 2013
Where are the locals in the Wallis' post-"Parfumerie" season? Bette Midler evokes Sue Mengers. "The Steward of Christendom" and "Peter and the Starcatcher" occupy CTG's downtown venues.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:26PM[SHARE]Monday, December 2, 2013
The LA Weekly cuts back on its theater coverage. Two Scandinavian plays, Strindberg's "Creditors" and "Save Me," an adaptation of Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler," bounce off each other.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:06PM[SHARE]Monday, November 25, 2013
"Play Dead," "We're Gonna Die," Endgame," "Exit the King" -- these plays may inspire thanksgiving that we're still alive. "The Normal Heart" and "The Homosexuals" depict changes in gay cultu…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:57PM[SHARE]Monday, November 18, 2013
Mighty moms are on stage in the Colony's "Miracle on South Division Street," Theatre Banshee's "By the Bog of Cats," Production Company's "Look Homeward, Angel" and "The Nisei Widows Club."
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:37PM[SHARE]Monday, November 11, 2013
Pasadena Playhouse specializes in anger and fury. "Gidion's Knot" and "Rabbit Hole" explore the aftermath of sons' deaths. Theaters serve the communities of Skid Row -- and Rancho Cucamonga.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:47PM[SHARE]Monday, November 4, 2013
Companies to the southeast of Los Angeles dominate the musicals categories at the Ovation Awards. But where are the brand-new made-in-LA musicals?
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:44PM[SHARE]Monday, October 28, 2013
LATC goes to the Great Plans for "the road weeps, the well runs dry" and the better "Wild in Wichita." Plus "4000 Miles" at South Coast Rep and musicals about Walt Disney and Eva Peron.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:03PM[SHARE]Monday, October 21, 2013
It's beginning to look a lot like Halloween -- witness "Wait Until Dark," "Urban Death Tour of terror," "The Afflicted," "Wicked Lit." But "Invisible Cities" is a different story.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:49PM[SHARE]Monday, October 14, 2013
Deception isn't so shameful in some comedies -- witness "Fast Company," "Don't Dress for Dinner," "The Guardsman" and "The Liar."
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:31PM[SHARE]Monday, October 7, 2013
LA's Neil Simon moment features big productions of "The Sunshine Boys" and the far better "Broadway Bound." Actors Co-op stages an intimate "Ah, Wilderness!"
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:01PM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2013
LA was rife with site-specific theater last week, with three Radar L.A. productions and Chalk Rep's "Gallery Secrets." Plus other thoughts on Radar L.A.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:58PM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2013
Lorenzo Pisoni's "Humor Abuse" at the Taper is a better solo take on sons and fathers than Luis Alfaro's or Trieu Tran's solos at the Douglas. Plus the latest Shakespeares in Pasadena.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Center Theatre Group lost one "Funny Girl" but should check out the 3-D Theatricals version with phenomenal Nicole Parker, in Fullerton. Also, the Colony's "Breath and Imagination."
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 02:12PM[SHARE]Monday, September 9, 2013
A mostly-black "Death of a Salesman" at South Coast Repertory and an all-women's and cross-racial "Hamlet" at Odyssey Theatre demonstrate differences in non-traditional casting.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Gertrude Stein, writing about the transformation of the site of her previously pastoral childhood home, coined the phrase ...Continue Reading
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 05:38PM[SHARE]Monday, August 26, 2013
The LA Times proclaims a vogue for Macbeth but ignores LA's Macbeths. In the Next Room and Rapture Blister Burn examine characters named Catherine from more than a century apart.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:01PM[SHARE]Monday, August 19, 2013
Another look at Southern California-set plays includes three productions in San Diego -- Sideways, Double Indemnity and Second City's take on the city, plus Open House in LA.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:06PM[SHARE]Monday, August 12, 2013
Shakespeare's original As You Like It is in Griffith Park and a countrified musical version, Tanglin' Hearts, is at Theatre 40. Chalk Rep's Lady alfresco Lady Windermere's Fan is at Clark Li…
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