This was a week marked by enthusiasm by our various critics: Bill Raden praised Sacred Fools' production of Edward Einhorn's 2010 adaptation of Philip K. Dick sci-fi book Do Androids Dream o…
No Pick this week, but a nod from Neal Weaver for the family comedy-drama The Bells of West 87th at Greenway Arts Alliance. See below for all the latest new theater reviews and stage li…
John Henry Redwood's throwback comedy-drama about a family in 1943 Harlem, The Old Settler at Pico Playhouse, is this week's Pick. Writes Lovell Estell III, "The story of a May-D…
Faeries and shadows and mortals being fools grab this week's Pick -- yes, another Midsummer Night's Dream, but the Actors Gang version is unusually fine, says critic Deborah Klugman. Also go…
Tom Sawyer coming of age, and all that represents about America, is depicted in an entertaining stage adaptation at Sierra Madre Playhouse -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer -- that's this week…
Odalys Nanin's speculative drama Garbo's Cuban Lover concerns a certain coziness between Greta Garbo and 1930s poet, playwright and novelist Mercedes de Acosta, who was also cozy with M…
Chalk Repertory -- known for its site-specific works -- brings Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan from the drawing room to the out of doors in this week's Pick. Our critics also particularl…
Lynnmarie Rink's one-woman (not counting her band) show about her life as a polka star is this week's pick of the week. It's called Wrap Your Heart Around It, and it's being performed at the…
Henry Ong's new play Sweet Karma, based on the life of a Khmer Rouge survivor and his tragic death on the streets of L.A., is being performed at Burbank's Grove Theatre Center, and is this w…
A play within a rehearsal by Jackie Siblies Drury, about self-indulgent actors and atrocities in Africa, is our pick of the week. For all the latest new theater reviews, including more Holly…
It's Fringe, Fringe and more Fringe festival coverage this week in new theater reviews (see below) and this week's theater feature. There will be a bit more Fringe coverage next week, but w.…
Kander & Ebb's musical The Scottsboro Boys, a Broadway-import minstrel show about Jim Crow, rolled into the Ahmanson and grabbed this week's pick. Good notices also for Zayd Dohrn's immi…
Zombie Joe's Underground and director Denise Devin turn Shakespeare's Richard III into an enthralling one-hour redux, says critic Jenny Lower. The production is this week's pick of the week.…
Lee Melville, a true gentleman and decades-long friend of our theater, died last night. Melville was a critic and editor at Drama-Logue and, most recently, L.A. Stage. More details as they …
The scandal surrounding a love affair between a brother and his sister forms the centerpiece of John Ford's 17th century play, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. Archway Theatre's downtown production …
L.A. Weekly critic Lovell Estell III found a police melodrama Cops and Friends of Cops to be a refreshingly unpredictable new play, and made it this week's Pick. Good reviews also for Peter …
Lovell Estell III found Chromolume Theatre's production of Do Lord Remember Me stirring, and made it this week's Pick. Neal Weaver also found a multimedia Brecht on Brecht at Atwater Village…
Our critic Deborah Klugman found Tadeusz Slobodzianek's drama, about Polish complicity in the German Nazis' persecution of Polish Jews in the 1940s, and presented by Son of Semele Ensemble a…
Adapter-performer Brian T. Finney has adapted Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in what Paul Birchall describes as "hypnotic." It's this week's pick of the week. Neal Weaver found charm and…
Lost Moon Radio did another bang-up job hosting the 34th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Monday night. (See the full list of L.A. Weekly Theater Award winners here.) Thanks to Lauren Ludwi…
Marilyn Monroe liked the ladies -- so proposes this week's Pick of the Week, Marilyn -- My Secret, Odalys Nanin and Will Manus' new play in MACHA/Globe Theatre in West Hollywood. See below f…
Tracie Bennett knocked the socks off our critic Tom Provenzano with her impersonation of Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow at the Ahmanson, which he made this week's Pick of the Week. Also …
Pycho-sexual spectacles got nods from our critics this week, including Illyrian Players' Lord Blackberry's Apocalypse and our Pick of the Week, Tender Napalm. Nice reviews also for Doma Thea…
This week, our critics enjoyed composer and musical director Gregory Nabours' 90-minute musical The Trouble With Words (Coeurage Theatre Company at the Unknown Theatre) as well as a quartet …
The Canadian troupe Cavalia wowed critic Lovell Estell III this week with its equestrian spectacle Cavalia's Odysseo. Good notices also for Diane Glancy's The Bird House at the Autry Na…