647 stories by "Colin Mitchell"
This is a big deal. I’m basically a hibernating member of EST/’LA, been associated with them since back in the early 90′s in NYC and here in LA since the late 90′s, a…
Exhibit A: The theater production entitled A or B? currently playing at the Falcon Theatre. Exhibit B: The current LemonMeter Rating for said production which stands at 90% Sweet. Now I want…
That’s the news from AEA (thanks for the tip, Rob!) naming Gail E. Gabler as the new Western Regional Director AND Assistant Executive Director, replacing the now-you-see-hiim-now-y…
Say it ain’t so! Just got word of this through a couple of my birdies. Myron won LA Weekly’s Excellence in Criticism award this year and his writings at The Hollywood Reporter…
I’m a big A-Burn fan. He’s great at mining metaphors from the theater he sees and clearly he’s a very savvy and experienced critic when it comes to LA Theater. His conversa…
The first comes from a well-seasoned, well respected, award-winning critic who currently writes for a major publication here in Los Angeles. I will leave his name out of the mix to protect t…
Nice to see these guys getting some love from ATM (see below). Well deserved. Here’s their latest, touching on awards and such. And if all goes well I’ll be on one of these damn …
Just take out your notepads, LA Theater Critics, and go to school on this one from Ern the Mick. Besides being smart and inquisitive, it’s also an entertaining read. Some ask that the …
Sometimes blunt is all you need to be a COW. FOREVER Brian Sonia-Wallace – ArtsBeatLA Forever was, to quote an elderly gentleman leaving the theatre, "not my cup of tea." The latest cr…
Hey, you don’t see a review written in the form of an “ironic free verse shaped as a totem” very often. You just don’t. So…here ya go… PREMEDITATION Andre…
Saw this on Jason the Roar’s Facebook page (it’s not a private forum people!) and then of course on the Vagrancy Facebook page (still not a private forum!). The overall review is…
“I began this review by discussing the advantage to theaters of producing one-person shows, and the short-cut writing a personal memoir offers. Orlandersmith often consulted a notebook…
It’s such a great thing to have the writing and thinking of a Sylvie Drake back in the mix of LA Theater. She was a longtime LA Times critic and now writes for Cultural Weekly and we&#…
Hard to tell so far, because no one will go on the record to explain why the production of Othello that was set to open at the Odyssey on October 25th has been shuttered. Which makes sense. …
As many of you know, I’m not a huge fan of “movement pieces”. But after seeing Invertigo Dance Company’s wildly entertaining After It Happened, I now know why. And I …
Gatz. Redcat. The Great Gatsby. In its entirety. Performed by the magicians of Elevator Repair Service from the NYC. Saw it. Loved it. They are coming back. It’s called Arguendo. Th…
Joel Beers is just too fucking good to be stuck down there in the OC. Not that there’s anything wrong with the OC, but Joel, baby, get your ass up here so you can shine some of your pa…
Some incredibly rich theater criticism from one of LA’s best. THE GOAT OR, WHO IS SYLVIA? Ernest Kearney – Working Author It is a question of passion in Edward Albee's "The Goat,…
“This production, which had a successful run earlier this year at the small NoHo Arts Center in the San Fernando Valley, would be newsworthy alone for its move to an institutional thea…
The Imbibable Boys by the Bay are at it again. Entertaining and enlightening theater talk…and drinking on air. You can have it all! They have been threatening to get me on the show. We…
I don’t know Casey as well as I know Janet, but I thoroughly recommend voting for both of them. Let’s get some local blood – informed smart experienced local blood – …
Did you know that theater artists were not added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame until 1984, twenty four years after the inaugural launch of the Walk of Fame in 1960? Adam Leipzig does and he …
It’s a strange thing to be an artistic community’s sometimes therapist and seemingly full-time confidante. But in many ways, I’ve brought it on myself. Whereas many folk fi…
#LAThtr. Launched on Bitter Lemons, June 6th, 2010. Don’t mess, or you’ll get the hashtag. I’m telling you this is still a good idea. Any takers? Shit, this sucker right he…
If you still think that the “death of print” can somehow be reversed – or isn’t happening – here’s Exhibit A to the contrary: "San Francisco " and the wor…
