96 stories by "Jonas Schwartz"
If one can look past the cruel and unusual punishment that is what producer Andrew Lloyd Webber has done to the classic fantasy film The Wizard Of Oz, this specific mounting, at L.A.'s Panta…
One of the necessities of opera, for audiences to follow the story, requires every word to be heard and understood. This latest production of bare, in its first return to L.A. (at the Haywor…
The Geffen Playhouse brings Rapture, Blister, Burn intact from off-Broadway with its stellar original cast and the show is a treat " thought-provoking and funny. Recognizable TV stars Amy Br…
Center Theatre Group at the Mark Taper Forum welcomes Parallelogram, a sly scenario from Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Norris (Clybourne Park) that illustrates the futility and finality of hum…
Center Theatre Group at the Mark Taper Forum welcomes A Parallelogram, a sly scenario from Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Norris (Clybourne Park) that illustrates the futility and finality of h…
To celebrate the original London production's 20th anniversary, Musical Theater West has produced an impressively barebones version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Sunset Boulevard. Without…
The Falcon Theatre launches the new Troubadour mash-up, A Midsummer Saturday Night's Fever Dream, combining Shakespeare's classic comedy of magical love swapping with one of the highest-gros…
When was the last time you watched Sleepless In Seattle and said "Gosh, this would be better if Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks were singing original songs?" This new interpretation of a beloved hit …
The Scottsboro Boys is a beautiful show about an ugly time when the Establishment ridiculed, tortured, feared, and destroyed the African-American experience. This provocative musical by John…
Gifted playwright and filmmaker Neil LaBute has adapted August Strindberg's classic Miss Julie for the Geffen Playhouse, and while the play always has been filled with jagged edges, LaBute b…
Ron Eldard is a dangerous bull in a junk shop. His performance in American Buffalo, now playing at the Geffen Playhouse, is explosive even in his quiet moments so that when he finally blows,…
Jennifer Haley's provocative The Nether, premiering at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, is an unsettling thriller that gives the audience much to ponder. A cerebral work due to an emotionally dista…
For over a year, Los Angelinos have heard hosannas about Tracie Bennett's Drama Desk-winning/Tony-nominated performance as Judy Garland in Peter Quilter's End of the Rainbow. Now, she has br…
Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith has unleashed her latest polarizing comedy The Gift at the Geffen Playhouse, and despite a strong cast and high production values, the plot strings …
Noel Coward's Fallen Angels is the 1920s equivalent of a sitcom: a silly, entertaining, diversion that lifts spirits without straining brain muscles. The Pasadena Playhouse production, which…
Why would a playwright emphasize the romance of two auxiliary characters when there's a revolution known as The Beatles forming around them? The audience at Backbeat: The Birth Of The Beatl…
If Roz Russell and That Girl's Marlo Thomas had a kid, she'd be sassy drag queen Miss Coco Peru, a liberated woman who emerged in the early '90s as a beacon of empowerment during the ugliest…
When playwright Mark St. Germain's theoretical meeting between esteemed atheist Sigmund Freud and emerging Christian-mythologist C.S. Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia) premiered off-Broadway in 2…
Can you laugh heartily and still want more? That may be your reaction after watching Second City's A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens! at the Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre. …
It has been over a half century since Anything Goes set sail on Broadway, but Kathleen Marshall's Tony Award-winning revival for the Roundabout Theatre Company " now at Los Angeles' Ahmanson…
Michael Golamco's new drama
Build at the Geffen Playhouse deals with weighty subjects in the technological age: How we cannot engage with humanity but only with simulations; how we've strip…
David Mamet's political satire
Novemberat the Mark Taper Forum is a tough project to pull off, because the characters are so despicable, particularly the protagonist, President Charles Smi…
The two main characters of the body-swapping comedy
Under My Skin at the Pasadena Playhouse end up dressed up in each other's clothes. But no matter how director Marcia Milgrom Dodge tries…
The Book of Mormon has been a gargantuan hit since it opened on Broadway in early 2011. Now, the show has arrived at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles as part of its national tour, and i…
This biting satire about corporate politics will ultimately leave audiences laughing and astounded.
