689 stories from Footlights
TIMON OF ATHENS (PORTERS OF HELLSGATE): 100% " SWEET SWEET I love Shakespeare. I love good Shakespeare. I love when a company of talented performers can make something very old and very fami…
JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE (MARK TAPER): 93% " SWEET SWEET This powerfully acted production of "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," which opened Wednesday at the Mark Taper Forum under the directio…
Set in the boxing world of the early 1900s, The Royale is loosely inspired by Jack Johnson, the first black pop culture icon and reigning world heavyweight champion from 1908 to 1915. Th…
It’s August 1911. The Great Migration brings a revolving band of strangers to the door of Seth and Bertha’s Pittsburgh boarding house. Lost souls migrating to the industrial Nort…
Arthur Miller’s parable draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch trials of 1692 and subsequent generations of American mass hysteria – up to the present. Through this sa…
PROOF (WHITMORE-ECLECTIC): 100% " SWEET SWEET Speaking of inheriting genes from our parents, James must have passed some of his talent off to his daughter Aliah, She is talented in both dire…
PETER PAN: THE BOY WHO HATED MOTHERS: 90% " SWEET SWEET So when the moment comes, and Tinkerbell's light is about to die out, as it inevitably does, and you feel the heavy silence surround y…
RAISE ME UP (SANTA MONICA PLAYHOUSE): 100% " SWEET SWEET Raise Me Up is directed by Chris DeCarlo. A cast of extremely fine actors bring so much life into the characters. Dialects are absolu…
HURACLOWN: 100% " SWEET SWEET A philosopher once observed that the sweetest laughter is that which is glistened by a tear, and that is the laughter bestowed on the audience by this show. And…
BRECHT ON BRECHT (ATWATER PLAYHOUSE): 100% " SWEET SWEET On the small, basically barren stage, featuring five mismatched chairs and one door frame attendees must walk through to enter, the s…
Charles Dickens opens, A Tale of Two Cities, with "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…" the novel then goes on giving us a feel for living with purpose through the French …
Matthew McCray by Graham Sibley Matthew McCray is from a small conservative mountain town in Colorado but you would never-ever-ever guess that. He sports stylish Oliver Peoples glasses, …
Janet and her mother Margaret both live on Mapleview Lanes – the perfect neighborhood until Lewis Chance buys a house on their street to open a group home for troubled adolescents. Rai…
SCULPTRESS OF ANGEL X (ZJU): 100% " SWEET SWEET Gotta say the entire cast grabbed my attention and held it. This play explores extremes, the heights as well as the depths, leaving us certain…
THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT (TU STUDIOS): 100% " SWEET SWEET Bill Manhoff's The Owl and the Pussycat is directed by Gloria Gifford and features energetic and physical performances by the actors…
GRIMM NIGHTS VOL. 1: HOLLYWOOD (ZJU): 100% " SWEET SWEET "Grimm Nights Vol1: Hollywood" is Zombie Joe's newest production and I believe even Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm themselves would find thi…
ANNAPURNA: 100% " SWEET SWEET Under the sturdy, austere direction of DeLorenzo and featuring two actors capable of such …
Mac, an amazing Dan Shaked, lives with his mother (Jeanie Hackett) in an apartment in New York City. Stiff and clumsy, with a line of chatter that is a classic example of TMI (Too Much Infor…
Alone, numb, and friendless after the death of his father, high school senior Eli moves with his English professor mom from San Francisco for a fresh start in Iowa. A new relationship with a…
MAD FOREST (OPEN FIST): 100% " SWEET SWEET Add to this Mazor's traffic-control direction, the dusky lighting design by Wyatt Bartel/PRG-LA, and Tim Labor's ominous sound design and original …
Named “Critic’s Choice” by the Los Angeles Times, Smoke and Mirrors – a heartfelt comedy-drama with mind-bending magic – extends by popular demand at a new thea…
Topanga, Calif. " April 3, 2013 " Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum celebrates its 40th Anniversary with a lively summer season of theater, music and performance under the stars and live oaks…
Dreamgirls " DOMA Theatre Company extends its hit production through May 5. With over two-dozen cast members and a six-piece on-stage band, this story about a black girl group from Chicago t…
Andrew Carlberg, Andrew Carlberg, Andrew Carlberg. Remember this name. One more time — Andrew Carlberg. At 28 years old, Carlberg has produced more theatre, film, television an…
In a heated situation, Lena is in a struggle between her feelings and family tradition. Being brought up in a Black Nationalist environment, Lena’s growing feelings for David (who …
