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Wednesday, September 4, 2013

The Old Settler: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

The Los Angeles revival of the play by the late John Henry Redwood, centered on a May-December romance, showcases its continuing relevance and vitality.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:00PM
Friday, August 23, 2013

Rapture, Blister, Burn: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Classical period feminist thought is mined for comedy at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:35PM
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

A Parallelogram: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Pulitzer-winning playwright Bruce Norris ("Clybourne Park") presents an existential riddle about fate in downtown L.A.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:35PM
Saturday, July 20, 2013

Whore's Bath: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Father-son issues of literally Biblical proportions play out on stage in North Hollywood.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:27AM
Monday, July 8, 2013

Alcestis: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

A modern-minded interpretation of classic Greek material comes to Pasadena.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:03PM
Monday, June 17, 2013

Opheliamachine: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

City Garage offers a feminist rejoinder to Heiner Muller's "Hamletmachine" in Santa Monica.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:50PM

Macbeth: Opera Review by Myron Meisel

Long Beach Opera brings Shakespeare's drama to San Pedro Harbor.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:02PM
Friday, June 14, 2013

Yes, Prime Minister: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

A resurrection, for the stage, of the hit BBC satirical political series of the 1980s comes to the Geffen in Westwood.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:42PM
Thursday, June 13, 2013

Neva: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Chilean playwright Guillermo Calderon trains his sights on the widow of Anton Chekhov in this St. Petersburg-set drama.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:32PM
Friday, June 7, 2013

Starcrosser's Cut: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

A real-life tabloid case of astronaut love gone wrong becomes a cerebral pas de deux drama in Silverlake.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:20PM
Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Ionescapade: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

An anti-totalitarian absurdist comedy first staged in 1974 is revived at the Odyssey Theatre in West L.A.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:46PM
Monday, June 3, 2013

Sleepless in Seattle: The Musical: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

The 1993 romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan is transformed into a musical at the Pasadena Playhouse.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:44PM
Friday, May 31, 2013

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: The Musical: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

The 1994 movie turned Broadway play about a gender-bending Aussie road trip comes to the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:37PM
Thursday, May 30, 2013

The Scottsboro Boys: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

The final collaboration between the hit songwriting team behind "Cabaret" and "Chicago" comes to downtown L.A.'s Ahmanson Theatre.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:36PM
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Heart Song: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Stephen Sachs' new play in East Hollywood melds flamenco, Judaism and a daughter's grief.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:08PM
Friday, May 24, 2013

Dying City: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

The Pulitzer Prize finalist about an Iraq War widow finally gets a premiere at L.A.’s Rogue Machine Theater.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:42PM
Thursday, May 9, 2013

Joe Turner's Come and Gone: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Phylicia Rashad directs one of the most heralded works from August Wilson's "Century Cycle" at the Mark Taper Forum in downtown L.A.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:30PM
Wednesday, May 8, 2013

The Royale: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

A drama based on the career of the first black world heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson, turns the stage at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City into a ring.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:24PM
Monday, May 6, 2013

Miss Julie: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Neil LaBute takes on August Strindberg's most accessible work at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:02PM
Thursday, April 25, 2013

The Parisian Woman: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

"House of Card’s" Beau Willimon wrote this hypnotically engrossing Beltway comedy—world premiering in Costa Mesa--starring Dana Delaney.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:25PM

Annapurna: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally play an estranged couple for both laughs and depth in this comedy at West LA’s Odyssey theater. read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:04PM
Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Femmes: A Tragedy: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Clare Boothe Luce's classic comedy of manners, "The Women," is reimagined in Silverlake within a contemporary lesbian milieu.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:52PM

Slipping: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in Hollywood dramatizes gay high school love.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:02PM

Our Class: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

An Atwater Village staging revisits the infamous 1941 Jedwabne pogrom of Jewish citizens by its Polish population.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:28PM
Thursday, April 11, 2013

American Buffalo: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

David Mamet's career-making classic is revived at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 07:22PM
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

The Beaux' Stratagem: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Pasadena's A Noise Within premieres this reworking of a 1707 comedy of manners about a pair of English frauds.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:16PM
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Rank: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

The gritty tale of two Dublin taxi drivers premieres at Odyssey Theatre Ensemble.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:03PM
Monday, March 25, 2013

The Nether: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

A police procedural turns to the digital concerns of the future at Culver City's Kirk Douglas Theatre.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 06:42PM

Eurydice: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

Pasadena's A Noise Within takes on the Orpheus legend.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 05:59PM

Camelia La Tejana: Only the Truth: Opera Review by Myron Meisel

Long Beach Opera wrestles with Mexico's bloody drug war.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 02:45PM
Friday, March 22, 2013

On the Spectrum: Theater Review by Myron Meisel

In this edition of Ken LaZebnik's play, an autistic man and woman played by Dan Shaked and Virginia Newcomb discover each other and, in the process, themselves.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:16PM

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