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…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:00PMMonday, August 5, 2013
The Pasadena Playhouse is filling its summer with some unorthodox shows, including Cirque-a-Palooza's circus and variety evening, The Road to Palooza.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:46PMMonday, July 29, 2013
Why did the LA Times fail to cover LA's first 21st century appearance of the set-in-LA musical Sunset Boulevard? Plus looks at three smaller musicals.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:14PMMonday, July 22, 2013
Of the five plays in the 2013 Contemporary American Theater Festival in West Virginia, two are set in LA and a third has an LA scene.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:29PMMonday, July 15, 2013
Classics galore: A mighty Macbeth from Independent Shakespeare, an awesome Alcestis from Boston Court and Critical Mass, Shakespeare Center's Midsummer, Theatricum's Shrew, more.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:26PMMonday, July 8, 2013
Three current productions draw on interesting moments, places or people from Greater LA: Bronzeville at LATC, revolver at Celebration Theatre, and Sweet Karma at Grove Theater Center.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:29PMMonday, July 1, 2013
A look at some of the shows about women on LA stages -- The Judy Show, Heart Song, Opheliamachine, Hungry Woman and others.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:27PMMonday, June 24, 2013
The Hollywood Fringe Festival isn't just for fresh faces -- it's a place where some shows get second chances.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:06PMMonday, June 17, 2013
Comedy requires a sense of balance -- witness Yes Prime Minister, Neva, Dead Man's Cell Phone, Bob: A Life in Five acts. Plus the LA debut of A Man of No Importance.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:08PMMonday, June 10, 2013
Here they come. In LA theater, summer is now known primarily for two annual phenomena — lots of ...Continue Reading
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:24PMMonday, June 3, 2013
Presentational performances, aimed straight at the audience, are not only in the musicals The Scottsboro Boys, Sleepless in Seattle, Priscilla Queen of the Desert and Next tor Normal but als…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:48PMTuesday, May 28, 2013
Such plays as The Fantasticks, Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers and Timon of Athens revel in artifice. Cops and Friends of Cops and Long Way Go Down minimize it. And Trainspotting...
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:21PMMonday, May 20, 2013
LA STAGE Day's hottest topic, diversity, is the subject of LA STAGE Watch.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:22PMMonday, May 13, 2013
The first half of the 20th century was tough -- look at Our Class, Parade, Joe Turner's Come and Gone and The Royale.,
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:30PMMonday, May 6, 2013
Chance Theater presents The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project Ten Years Later in rep. Plus thoughts about a few other plays with gay characters.
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:45PMMonday, April 29, 2013
Falling For Make Believe is a masterful new musical about Lorenz Hart -- his homosexuality included -- by Mark Saltzman, at the Colony Theatre. Also glances at two shows about street turmoil…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:57PMMonday, April 15, 2013
"American" in a play title often signals "metaphor ahead." The new and compelling American Misfit at Boston Court is about the concept of American revolution and uses both a 1790s frontier s…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:56PMMonday, April 8, 2013
A landmark weekend for large-scale site-specific dance in LA included the premiere of Stephan Koplowitz's Red Line Time in the Red Line subway and a revival of Trisha Brown's Roof Piece at t…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:12PMMonday, April 1, 2013
Cornerstone Theater's Lunch Lady Courage is inspired by Mother Courage but looks a little too much like an adventurous high school play. Two cheers for Charles McNulty's withering analysis o…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:25PMMonday, March 25, 2013
Two companies introduce newly configured spaces within their buildings to present productions about suicidal young men -- Spring Awakening at La Mirada and Melancholia at LATC. The Nether at…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 09:01PMTuesday, March 19, 2013
Men sit alone, earning a living at their computers. Not dramatic enough for a play? Then you haven't seen Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale at South Coast Rep or Doris Baizley's Sexsting at the S…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:46PMMonday, March 11, 2013
A year after director David Cromer brought Our Town to LA, he returns with Nina Raine's Tribes, an eye-opening play about a family who tends to drown out its one deaf member, at the Taper. M…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:59PMMonday, March 4, 2013
Women dominate Valley stages these days. Check out these modern motherhood plays -- Chalk Rep's site-specific Mommune and Road Theatre's first musical, The Baby Project, at its new Magnolia…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:14PMMonday, February 25, 2013
Did Laurey and Curly from Oklahoma! grow up to be Ma and Pa Joad from The Grapes of Wrath? The question arises from current productions of the former at Musical Theatre West and the latter a…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:04PMTuesday, February 19, 2013
Von Bach at the Fremont Centre Theatre and Absolutely Filthy at Sacred Fools are full-length parodies that take us to unexpected places. Plus a few additional comments on somewhat related sh…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:00PMMonday, February 11, 2013
Some reviewers are ignoring the central theme of the Geffen's The Gift, so as not to give away a plot twist. In a play of ideas, isn't the theme more important than a plot twist? Two Canadia…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:11PMMonday, February 4, 2013
David Henry Hwang's Chinglish takes the massive subject of US-China relations and makes it specific, personal, human -- and very funny. It's at South Coast Rep. Car Plays ended a brief run n…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 06:04PMMonday, January 28, 2013
Is Black History Month dead in the bigger LA theaters? Why wasn't Tracey Scott Wilson's superb The Good Negro, now at the Hudson Mainstage, snapped up by a larger LA theater? Both 24th Stree…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 07:52PMTuesday, January 22, 2013
Meredith Monk's On Behalf of Nature is enchanting, but hardly a call to environmental action. Its premiere was part of CAP UCLA, the new UCLA Live, which offers very short runs and faces com…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:43PMMonday, January 14, 2013
The liveliest theatrical hot spot within Greater LA right now might well be the Segerstrom complex in Costa Mesa, where you can sympathize with the addicts in Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Mothe…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 10:10PMMonday, January 7, 2013
Would you believe two tourists from Florida traveled to more than140 LA theatrical productions this year? More tourists might discover LA theater if the discoverlosangeles website, LA touris…
SOURCE: LA STAGE Times at 08:26PM 
