Tuesday, September 27, 2016
The Road Theatre Company presents a sterling production of a puzzling yet mesmerizing piece of theatre.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 07:53PMSunday, September 25, 2016
A lyrical and uplifting production made memorable by the genius and heart of director Glenn Casale and the performance of deaf actor John McGinty in the role of Quasimodo.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 03:15PMSunday, September 18, 2016
Although Robert Schenkkan's play premiered in 2012, it feels and sounds like it was written expressly for the current presidential campaign.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 04:35PMSaturday, September 17, 2016
Robert O'Hara has written a very funny one-act about race and class in Middle America. Unfortunately it's a two-act play.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 11:09AMDirector Ivo Van Hove leaches all the ethnicity and color out of Arthur Miller's play.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 11:08AMMonday, May 16, 2016
A new musical revue about the storied history of Los Angeles is receiving its premiere at L.A. City College.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 10:36AMSunday, May 1, 2016
Do I have anything negative to say about this energetic production produced in a 55 seat theatre on a tiny budget? Yes--it ended!
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 10:26AMMonday, March 28, 2016
Caryl Churchill's gender-bending 1979 play seems as relevant today as it was originally.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 06:49PMWho's bumping off the D'Ysquith heirs in this musical mayhem with an old English Music Hall flavor.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 05:39PMRobert Longbottom choreographed and directed the new revival of the faux Motown musical that is filling the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts with eye popping color.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 05:39PMThursday, February 11, 2016
Bruce Vilanch and Sharon McNight hosted an entertainment filled awards show on February 8 honoring Distinguished Achievement in Los Angeles Theatre for 2015.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 11:28AMThursday, January 28, 2016
The new musical about the building of the Empire State Building needs some reconstruction work.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 04:58PMSunday, January 10, 2016
The play is short in time and of content but the audience gets to see two pros--Rita Rudner and Charles Shaughnessy--doing what they do best.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 08:24PMLoh's newest work reads and plays like a solo performance piece but two talented actresses--Caroline Aaron and Shannon Holt--flesh out a variety of characters in this tale of a woman of a ce…
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 08:24PMSunday, December 13, 2015
Jason Robert Brown's lush, romantic score and the chemistry between leading players Elizabeth Stanley and Andrew Samonsky steam up the Ahmanson Theatre.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 11:24AMThursday, November 5, 2015
There are some great voices in the cast but the material they are given to sing and the characters they are given to inhabit fail them terribly in this World Premiere musical at the Pasadena…
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 07:01PMTuesday, October 27, 2015
Deborah Strang gives a performance worthy of the Greek Tragedy playwright Miller and director Geoff Elliott have wrought upon the stage.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 08:07PMMonday, October 19, 2015
It proved to be a very personal story as producer/composer/performer Bruce Kimmel took us down his memory lane and described the Broadway musicals that shaped his life and career.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 07:13AMSaturday, October 17, 2015
The Master's lyrics and music are burnished gold in the ICT production.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 06:55PMWednesday, October 14, 2015
CARRIE is back bigger and better in an even more immersive and up close production.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 05:48PMMonday, October 12, 2015
Ken Sawyer's direction makes the riot come to life even when the script deadens the momentum.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 09:04PMThe Laguna Playhouse is presenting the premiere of I'M STILL GETTING MY ACT TOGETHER...AND TAKING IT ON THE ROAD.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 09:01PMTuesday, September 22, 2015
The book of this 40 year old "problem show" with a memorable score keeps getting to be more and more of a problem with each revision.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 04:09PMAn entertaining and briskly paced musical with a varied score adds humor to the pain of a first date.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 02:59PMDan Donohue is a clown extraordinaire in this modern re-telling of the commedia dell'arte classic.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 02:58PMFriday, September 18, 2015
Shakespeare's Much Ado About nothing meets up with Carnaby Street and near Beatles.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 02:24PMSunday, September 13, 2015
Bruce Kimmel's latest is a one teenage girl musical.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 02:09PMSaturday, September 12, 2015
Director Steven Glaudini and his talented cast and tech staff deliver a stellar production of this undervalued musical.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 07:50PMFriday, September 11, 2015
Cynthia Ferrer struts her stuff as Dolly Gallagher Levi in Jerry Herman's blockbuster musical.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 08:22PMMonday, September 7, 2015
A talented cast of performers sang tunes familiar and un in a jam packed musical evening.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 07:26AMMonday, August 31, 2015
Director Dan Fishbach and his talented cast nail the characters created by librettist John Weidman and composer Stephen Sondheim in this very dark yet comic and moving musical.
SOURCE: Haines His Way at 06:51AM 
