45 stories by "Sharon Perlmutter"
It's hard to know exactly what to make of The Blue Iris, Athol Fugard's latest play to have its U.S. premiere at the Fountain.
When you enter the theatre for the world premiere adaptation of The Exorcist, you'll notice that the set looks church-like, with a massive wooden cross suspended over the stage. There is not…
Reviews of four productions in the Hollywood Fringe Festival: "The Secret of Sherlock Holmes," "The God Particle Complex,"
"Speed Merchant (of Venice)" and "Tape."
The world premiere musical Los Otros is perfectly named. It's an exploration of the relationships we have with the "others"—those people who come from different social, economic, racial or…
The plot of The Fix is at its best when it is in unapologetic farce mode.
Cyrano is deaf, and finds himself running up against jerks who see him as someone who can't hear, can't speak, and flails his arms around in a wasteful and senseless attempt to make his pres…
The single plotline that drives all the action in Chuck Rose's political play Bedfellows, now in a world premiere production by The New American Theatre, is the sort of thing that would cons…
Matthew Leavitt's The Boomerang Effect isn't so much a play as five short plays, joined together by a common set, and a cute little quirk of storytelling.
t has been said that it's a terrible thing to be judged for the rest of your life based on the worst thing you've ever done. Matt Pelfrey's world premiere play NOgoodDEED considers the possi…
To use a (likely inappropriate) baseball metaphor, Leslie Jordan's new one-man show, "Fruit Fly," is a swing and a miss.
Yes, the play is about Marie Curie; yes, radium plays a part; yes, there are a few mentions of her Nobel prizes and the scientific community's reluctance to even acknowledge that a woman cou…
In terms of a show with a phenomenal score, a thought-provoking book, or a slick, well-produced laugh-fest, "Bring It On" is a dramatic failure.
John Walch's "The Dinosaur Within" has a few interesting ideas going for it. It talks of fossils, history, and evolution—but not necessarily in the way you might think. Walch draws paralle…
It should work, and I bet it reads great. The play itself is both smart and clever. It deals with themes of love, lust, instinct, worth, revolution and sacrifice; and it does so in an allego…
John Leguizamo does not lie. At the top of "Ghetto Klown" he tells you that the auto-biographical one-man show is an act of "spilling [his] guts" for us and "therapy" for him. But by the end…
In Reprise's production of Cabaret, director/choreographer Marcia Milgrom Dodge has chosen to emphasize the time period of the show by giving the Kit Kat Klub dancers Charleston-style choreo…
As a rule, if you have an opportunity to see Lisa Wolpe in a Shakespeare play, you should take it.
The reason you should see "Blackbird" is for the amazing performance Sam Anderson gives as Ray—reacting to accusations of the unthinkable acts of which Ray is guilty ... Also at Rogue Mach…
Twist—An American Musical is the sort of show that can sell a hell of a lot of tickets, but very few cast recordings. It is engaging and entertaining while you're in the theatre, but the s…
It's hard to watch Musical Theatre Guild's "concert-staged reading" of Little Me without getting the feeling that Jason Graae has been auditioning for the leading male role(s) for the past d…
