THE VIRTUE OF SMALL ENGINES In the mood for a heavy dose of machismo? The kind where three old chums get together and talk about pussy and big tits and reminisce about the old days? Who say …
GETTING OVER RACISM 101 For a show with a title as dangerous as Nigger Wetback Chink " an evening of confronting racism with comedy, playing this month at the Barnsdall Gallery Theater " it …
COCTEAU CALLING A disheveled bed, letters strewn across the floor, a woman quaking by the phone awaiting her lover's last call: Jean Cocteau's 1930 play about the need for human communicatio…
GLORY DAYS GETS ITS GLORY BACK Glory Days is legendary among contemporary musical theater fans. With book by James Gardiner and music and lyrics by Nick Blaemire, this youthful musical recei…
THE BOYS IN THE BOND Regarding his play bonded, black playwright Donald Jolly has said that he is trying to lay claim to his own place in this world by using tales of his enslaved ancestors …
SON OF A HORROR FLICK How lucky we Angelenos are that Re-Animatorâ„¢ The Musical a funny, campy, thoroughly entertaining gore-fest, opened here before splattering itself on legions of cu…
A MACBETH WITH VERY MUCH TO RECOMMEND The interesting thing about seeing multiple productions by the same theater company and the same director is that a pattern begins to emerge. Theatre fo…
COWARD ON THE BEACH Noël Coward's oft-produced classic Private Lives is indeed, as one of his characters states, jagged with sophistication. The story is of a divorced, fiercely contentio…
YOUNG IN L.A. For self-proclaimed losers Sarah and Meaghan, a post-college move to Los Angeles promises a total break from the past, if not fame and fortune as well. In Sofia Alvarez's provo…
SOME MIGHTY IMPRESSIVE VOICES The Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles (GMCLA) are presenting A Mighty Voice, and there is only one performance left to attend. A dazzlingly well-written…
THE DAY AFTER THE WORLD CHANGED Red and blue emergency vehicle lights cut across the New York City skyline outside Abby's comfortable high rise apartment. It is September 12, 2001, and lover…
I’M A CY-CLOOOOOOPS One of Stage and Cinema’s favorite Los Angeles Theatre Companies, Psittacus Productions, has announced that Cyclops: A Rock Opera will be moving to the Carrie…
BEYOND NEAT TRICKS When Neil deGrasse Tyson, the host of the video magazine NOVA scienceNOW, was a guest on The Daily Show recently, Jon Stewart complimented him for finally “making sc…
AND THEN THERE WAS NUN 'Til Death Do Us Part: Late Night Catechism 3 is actually the fourth installment of Maripat Donovan's phenomenally successful series of one-woman shows (a fifth is due…
THE SAD LEGACY OF AN HISTORICAL MOMENT Making the Boys, the vigorous and absorbing new documentary, ostensibly about Mart Crowley and his ground-breaking The Boys in the Band, is, in truth, …
THE STURDIEST DILAPIDATED HOUSE IN TOWN When she enters her house, so badly in need of repair that it might as well be razed as restored, she walks with a strange somnambulistic slowness, on…