ON HENRYÂ AND HISTORY Henry IV Part 1 opens with a lengthy speech delivered by King Henry IV himself: "So shaken are we, so wan with care…" begins James Sutorius, one of the double-cast …
String Theory, the performance ensemble that scored as the house band at the Ovation awards ceremony, makes music and dance and "sonic sculptures."
Elena Hartwell's "A Strange Disappearance of Bees" compares a Vietnam vet's son and his new acquaintances with disappearing honeybees, for Collaborative Artists Ensemble.
This Thursday (9/27) the Arpa International Film Festival returns to Los Angeles for the 16th year. Fittingly, a festival that celebrates one of the oldest cultures in the world will be host…
Erica Schmidt, the director of "Humor Abuse" at the Mark Taper Forum, discusses her longstanding collaboration with the solo show's performer, Lorenzo Pisoni.
For the better part of Maury Yeston's musical Nine, now playing in a six-week run at The Met Theatre, central character Guido Contini is surrounded by women; his wife, his lover, his colleag…
Last Wednesday evening, with an opening night reception that included 100 attendees and live music from local rockabilly band The Rhythm Shakers, Los Feliz welcomed its newest boutique to th…
Here are the latest Fringe reviews by Jesse & Pauline: The Devil and Billy Markham Zenith Ensemble"winner of last year's Fringe Festival's "Best World Premiere" and "Best of the Fest" (R…
The 4th Annual Hollywood Fringe Festival continues. Here are our latest reviews: Luna Noctiluca, making its World Premiere at The Other Space Theater, is a story of two Salomes told in two p…
Good Vibes and Great Expectations for the 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival. The space at 6314 Santa Monica Blvd assumed a larger duty than normal Wednesday night (June 12) as it hosted the Ope…
In his 1988 autobiography (Elia Kazan: A Life), Elia Kazan wrote of his 1963 Academy Award winning film America America, "During my experience… I felt totally myself in a way I never have …
Most consider Greece the home of western thought and tradition. Indeed, some of the earliest stories originated from that part of the world. Thursday night at the Writers Guild Theater in Be…
OVER THE (ABSURD) MOON The show begins in darkness with a musical overture blazing through the air. Slowly the glow of a yellow moon appears in the background, a man's face superimposed on i…
AÂ PLAY WHICHÂ FALLS ON ITS FAITH Faith is one of the most prevalent themes in David Rambo's God's Man in Texas, and very likely where you place your faith or where you spend your Sunday m…
One of the great challenges for adults waiting to see a children's show like Huraclown, currently running in a four-show limited engagement at the 24th STreet Theatre, is trying to strip awa…
Last Friday night Athol Fugard's Blood Knot opened at the Malibu Stage Company. The play debuted in 1961 in Johannesburg but only lasted one performance there. Three years later it was resta…
Intimacy plays a great part of Craig Wright's Orange Flower Water currently playing at the SFS Theatre. The play focuses on two pairs of married couples, neither of which seem very happy. Te…
WE'RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER ROCK Since the first ship landed, since the first boot heel dug into the earth, since the first wagon ventured west, the American frontier has stirred the word's im…
Now starring as the lead in Trainspotting, the stage version of Irvine Welsh's grungy novel about heroin addicts, Justin Zachary says he views the narrative as something akin to the d…