For anyone who didn't quite connect with the 2008 Ahmanson Theatre production of "Spring Awakening" on an emotional level, the current production by Deaf West Theatre will redress that defic…
It's appropriate that Pearl Cleage's "What I Learned in Paris" should have had its 2012 world premiere at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta.
The Los Angeles premiere of 2007 Pulitzer finalist "Bulrusher," presented by Skylight Theatre Company and Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble, is a sometimes undisciplined outpouring that can frust…
"The Cherry Orchard" could more appropriately be titled "Aristos in Amber."Â
The years have not been kind to "Broadway Bound."Â First produced on Broadway in the mid-1980s, Neil Simon's Tony-nominated, Pulitzer-finalist play shows serious flaws in its current revi…
An evening under the stars at the Theatricum Botanicum rarely disappoints. No exception to that general rule, "Much Ado About Nothing," playing in repertory in the theater's sylvan Topanga s…
For those who have not yet seen Jon Robin Baitz's Pulitzer-nominated "Other Desert Cities," the first of that prolific playwright's works to reach Broadway, the play's current production at …
A juggernaut entertainment since its 1985 premiere, "Les Misérables" has undergone many incarnations, including the controversial 25th anniversary production that pitted original director T…
There's a breath of fresh air blowing across the proscenium of venerable Theatre West, an occasionally creaky production entity that has been in existence 50 years and counting, and has been…
Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance," which won the 1967 Pulitzer, was written at a time of unparalleled American preeminence and prosperity. That's reflected in its characters, well-to-do na…
Playwright William Inge was part and parcel of the 1950s, a time of scenery-chomping melodrama in the American theater zeitgeist. If not delicately interpreted, his plays can seem positively…
First produced in 2000, Hugh Whitemore’s “God Only Knows,” is receiving its belated American premiere at Theatre 40.Â
First produced in 2007, Keith Huff’s “A Steady Rain,” made it all the way to Broadway by 2009. That record-breaking sellout starred Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig.
Poor Colin. An editor at an “existential publishing house,” he's flown under the emotional radar most of his adult life, refusing to actually connect with anyone and denying the …
In “The Eight: Reindeer Monologues,” playwright Jeff Goode reimagined Santa's reindeer as a group of sodden malcontents who rant on about the perversity and abuses of their slave…
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…
Much like a nettle, Samuel Beckett’s absurdist plays must be firmly grasped or else they can sting the unwary interpreter.
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…
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 …
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 va…
“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…
When you find tears streaming down your cheeks in the opening number of a musical, you suspect you're in for a ravaging evening.
Playwright Stephen Sachs delves into the fascinating world of flamenco in “Heart Song,” at the Fountain Theatre.
Shakespearean in dimension and craft, “The Crucible,” Arthur Miller’s 1953 play about the Salem witch trials, is inarguably a masterwork.Â
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…