Wednesday, November 20, 2013
With the poor, suffering Philippines so prominently in the headlines, Boni B. Alvarez's world premiere play, “Dallas Non-Stop,” offers a glimpse into the vibrant Filipino culture…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:33PMTuesday, November 5, 2013
Much like a nettle, Samuel Beckett’s absurdist plays must be firmly grasped or else they can sting the unwary interpreter.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:16PMWednesday, October 16, 2013
David Greig, adapter-translator of August Strindberg’s “Creditors,” has commented that Strindberg’s acerbic classic is really “less of a play and more an almost…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:25PMWednesday, September 25, 2013
It has been proven time and again that the schoolroom is a ripe milieu for drama. There's plenty of dramaturgical gold to be mined from memorable characters from the ideologically grandiose …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:47PMWednesday, September 4, 2013
Just what hasn't Tony Abatemarco done in his several decades as a performer? Certainly he has est ablished himself as a performer of the first rank over the years in an incredibly vari…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:29AMWednesday, August 7, 2013
“The Diary of Anne Frank,” the journal of a Jewish girl who died in the Holocaust during the final days of World War II, has been a worldwide phenomenon since it was first publis…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:45PMTuesday, June 4, 2013
When you find tears streaming down your cheeks in the opening number of a musical, you suspect you're in for a ravaging evening.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:40PMWednesday, May 29, 2013
Playwright Stephen Sachs delves into the fascinating world of flamenco in “Heart Song,” at the Fountain Theatre.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 07:00PMTuesday, May 21, 2013
Shakespearean in dimension and craft, “The Crucible,” Arthur Miller’s 1953 play about the Salem witch trials, is inarguably a masterwork.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:24PMThursday, May 9, 2013
Co-founders of Theatre Movement Bazaar, Tina Kronis and Richard Alger have been staging their cheekily experimental shows for more than a decade now. The duo typically commences with a class…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:30PMWednesday, May 1, 2013
If you attend “The Anatomy of Gazellas,” presented by Playwrights' Arena at Atwater Village Theatre, you might want to hunker down in your seat and pay close attention. That way,…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00PMWednesday, April 24, 2013
What if you had experienced the defining moment of your life — but couldn't remember it?
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:04PMTuesday, March 19, 2013
If you really ponder the fate of Eurydice, swept back into death by her husband Orpheus' eager glance, you'll be struck by the sheer passivity of her situation. At least Lot's wife looked …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:31PMWednesday, March 6, 2013
Sometimes, a project comes along that is so cynically lowbrow, it boggles the tortured mind.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:54PMThursday, January 10, 2013
Director Thomas Bigley has fulfilled an essential task in his modern-day mounting of “King Lear,” presented by the Porters of Hellsgate at the Studio Stage. Every “Lear&r…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:40PMTuesday, December 11, 2012
There’s no disputing the fact that the Troubadour Theater Company, under the direction of the group’s longtime artistic director, Matt Walker, is one hot ticket -- that is, if yo…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 09:02PMThursday, November 29, 2012
Rob Mersola’s “Dirty Filthy Love Story” is a world premiere from Rogue Machine that follows hard on the heels of the company’s 2011 hit, “Small Engine Repair,&r…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:32PMWednesday, November 7, 2012
Bless the actors in “Theatre in the Dark,” the cheerfully experimental new show at the Odyssey.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:25PMTuesday, October 23, 2012
At a time when talk of “death panels” commands headlines, George Bernard Shaw’s “The Doctor’s Dilemma,” recently revived in London to critical acclaim, is…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:40PMWednesday, October 17, 2012
“Surviving Mama,” now in its world premiere at Edgemar Center for the Arts, is a frustratingly disjointed play that feels like a protracted examination of a stranger’s phot…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:41PMWednesday, October 10, 2012
Written in the late 1980s and set in 1987, Jeff Stetson’s “Fraternity,” now in its Los Angeles premiere at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center, is a frustrating but fasc…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:21PMThursday, September 27, 2012
Many scholars have argued over whether the central character in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” is Caesar, the doomed dictator around whom the plot revolves, or Brutus, the c…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:45PMTuesday, September 11, 2012
Joan Didion’s stage adaptation of her 2005 memoir, "The Year of Magical Thinking," is a wrenchingly meditative one-hander that delves into the mechanics of loss – namely, the sud…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 11:00PMThursday, August 16, 2012
The backstage comedy has long been a favorite milieu for playwrights expressing their abiding love and keen irritation for all things theatrical.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 03:25PMTuesday, July 3, 2012
Sam Shepard’s “The Late Henry Moss” was first produced in 2000. It’s taken more than a decade for the play to receive its Los Angeles premiere.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:30PMWednesday, June 20, 2012
Playwright Evan Smith confronts the scourge of religious extremism head-on in “The Savannah Disputation,” now at the Colony.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 04:26PMTuesday, June 5, 2012
From Shakespeare to Tracy Letts, dysfunctional family plays have long been a theatrical staple, sometimes to the point of triteness. The trick is to give the genre a swift kick and get it …
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 06:00PMIllegal detention and state-sanctioned torture would hardly seem a likely basis for comedy. Yet playwright Yussef El Guindi exploits those subjects to surprisingly hilarious effect in &ldq…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:02PMSunday, May 27, 2012
“ The Closeness of the Horizon,” a guest production at the Odyssey, transpires primarily in the years 1969 and 1995. The play was supposedly inspired by playwright Richard Marti…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 01:40PMThursday, May 24, 2012
“The Fool and the Red Queen,” a world premiere at the Lounge Theatre, is actually two distinct plays – the sixth and seventh offerings in Murray Mednick’s “Gary…
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 02:00PMTuesday, May 22, 2012
In analyzing any of August Wilson's works, one should get down to basics -- those commonalities that recur in play after play.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 05:53PM 
