Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Spiritual Ecstasy Reviewed by Vanessa Cate The Lounge Theatre (Hollywood Fringe Festival) Through June 16 While I am loath to rigidly define what is or is not “theatre”, it is admi…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 09:26PMOthello & Otis Reviewed by Lovell Estell III Three Clubs (Hollywood Fringe) Through June 21 Inside this show’s program is a detailed timeline of important dates in African-American…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 09:14PMLong Day’s Journey into Night Reviewed by Neal Weaver Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts with Fiery Angel & Padraig Cusack Through July 1 RECOMMENDED In Long Day’s …
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 09:08PMMexican Day Reviewed by Iris Mann Rogue Machine Theatre Through July 1 Playwright Tom Jacobson has written a trilogy documenting the social unrest in Los Angeles during the early to mi…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 02:39PMGhosts: A Whole New Immersive Theatre Reviewed by Dana Martin Dream Walker at Thymele Arts Through June 16th Keeping up appearances proves damn near impossible in Ghosts: A Whole New…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 02:32PMThe Color Collective Reviewed by Dana Martin The Complex Hollywood (Hollywood Fringe Festival) Through June 23rd The world seems a little bit brighter at The Complex Hollywood. The Col…
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Snow Fridge Reviewed by Bill Raden Pig N’ Whistle (Hollywood Fringe Festival)Through June 23 RECOMMENDED Creator/directors Keight Leighn and Karlie Blair’s delightfully childlike con…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 08:52PMOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Reviewed by Vanessa Cate After Hours Theatre Company Through July 11th RECOMMENDED There is an institution inside a converted warehouse in Burbank fo…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 08:39PMWhen Skies Are Gray Reviewed by Bill Raden Thymele Arts (Hollywood Fringe Festival)Through June 23 RECOMMENDED “Do not touch the patient,” the Head Nurse (a disquieting Christina Bry…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 08:27PMThe Midnight Menagerie Reviewed by Paul Birchall Bardic Bastards (Hollywood Fringe Festival) Through June 21 In playwright Brandon Nicholas Pfeltz’s extremely unpleasant (and one sus…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 08:20PMThe Universe (101) Reviewed by Paul Birchall Cavort Theatre (Hollywood Fringe Festival)Through June 23 RECOMMENDED Sporting a red nose and a bowler hat, clown Norbut Yetso (Matthew Go…
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Resa Fantastiskt Mystisk Reviewed by Terry Morgan Burglars of Hamm (Hollywood Fringe Festival) Through June 22 RECOMMENDED One of the pleasures of the Hollywood Fringe Festival is disco…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 02:28PMHer Portmanteau Reviewed by Neal Weaver Boston Court Pasadena Through June 30 RECOMMENDED This play by Nigerian-American playwright Mfoniso Udofia is part of a projected cycle of nine p…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 02:21PMBlack When I Was A Boy Reviewed by Mayank Keshaviah Studio C (Hollywood Fringe Festival) Through June 24 RECOMMENDED Many erroneously associate the infamous forehead-drip method of …
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 02:15PMRayn: An Electronic Burlesque Experience Reviewed by Mayank Keshaviah Thymele Arts (Hollywood Fringe Festival) Through June 21 RECOMMENDED One of the more recent staples of both the H…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 02:07PMCabaret Reviewed by Katie Buenneke Celebration Theatre Through July 15 RECOMMENDED By now, Kander and Ebb’s 1966 musical Cabaret is as much a part of the American musical theater …
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Aleichem Sholom! The Wit and Wisdom of Sholom Aleichem Reviewed by Paul Birchall Santa Monica Playhouse Through June 25 Chris DeCarlo and Evelyn Rudie, playwrights, performers, and …
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Cult of Love Reviewed by Dana Martin IAMA Theatre Company at Atwater Village Theatre Through June 24th RECOMMENDED It’s Christmas at the Dahl’s house and proud hearts will not go…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 08:25PMPlunge Reviewed by Terry Morgan Son of Semele Ensemble Through June 17 James Joyce in his A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man famously wrote, “History is a nightmare from which I…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 03:50PMHostage Reviewed by Iris Mann Skylight Theatre Through June 24 RECOMMENDED The fierceness and self-sacrifice of motherly love is at the core of Hostage, a heartfelt and thought-provok…
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Wood Boy Dog Fish Reviewed by Gray Palmer Rogue Artists Ensemble Through June 24 RECOMMENDED To quote an adage from earliest criticism, “Painting is silent poetry. Poetry is painting …
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Mr. Pim Passes By Reviewed by Julia Stier Theatre 40 Through June 17 Under the direction of Jules Aaron, Theatre 40 brings to life Mr. Pim Passes By, a charming comedy written by A. A. …
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 03:57PMThe Tempest Review by Neal Weaver The Porters of Hellsgate Through June 3 It tends to raise a red flag when the management of a production thinks it’s necessary to include a synopsis o…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 01:29PMSeminar Reviewed by Dana Martin Pop Up Theater, Inc. Through June 2nd RECOMMENDED Writing is a lonely, fraught and often too precious endeavor. Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar, presented …
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 01:11PMThe Giant Void in My Soul Reviewed by Julio Martinez The Pico Through June 3 RECOMMENDED Playwright Bernardo Cubría explores the human experience of moving from the self-involvement …
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Antigone, or We Are the Rebels Asking for the Storm Reviewed by Gray Palmer Fugitive Kind Productions Through June 2 RECOMMENDED At Bootleg Theater, Fugitive Kind Productions presents t…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 11:36PMViolet Reviewed by Dana Martin Actors Co-op at Crossley Theater Through June 17th It’s all heart and occasional soul at the Crossley Theater. Violet, the 2014 Tony nominated musical…
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Forever Bound Reviewed by Terry Morgan Atwater Village Theatre Through June 16 RECOMMENDED Steve Apostolina’s Forever Bound is an uncommon play that begins in one genre and ends i…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 02:43PMRed Speedo Reviewed by Lovell Estell III The Road Theatre Company Through July 1 RECOMMENDED The legendary Vince Lombardi once declared that, “Winning isn’t everything; it’s the o…
SOURCE: stageraw.com at 02:37PMSex Reviewed by Neal Weaver Buzzworks Theater Company Through June 17 We don’t think of Mae West as a literary figure, but she wrote three plays — Sex, The Drag, and Pleasure Man. …
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The Columbine Project Reviewed by Paul Birchall Loft Ensemble Through May 20 RECOMMENDED There have been so many terrible shootings since the Columbine massacre in 2005 that I actuall…
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