Bill RadenDark visionary Ron Sossi It's the kind of what-if that gives lighting designers the night sweats: What if the artistic director at one of L.A.'s premiere stages got it into his he…
Craig SchwartzJeff Stetson's "Fraternity" (Ebony Rep at the Nate Holden Center for the Performing Arts) is this week's Pick.Our critics were brushing up their Shakespeare over the weekend, w…
In Under Construction, a 2009 work by endlessly curious playwright Charles Mee, a character says, "If I understand something, I have no further use for it."
Michael LamontThe Celebration Theatre's new musical, "Justin Love." Casa 0101 and the Latino Equity Alliance present "Coming Out" Day (Thursday, October 11) in Boyle Heights, in associati…
John FlynnShelly Kurtz and K Callan in this week's Pick of the Week: Henry Murray's "Three Views of the Same Object" at Rogue MachineHosted by Rubén MartÃnez and Raquel Gutiérrez, Loyol…
Stefano PalteraThe Kennedy Center honoree notices all Choreographer, dancer, writer, director and winner of many awards and honors, Bill T. Jones turned 60 earlier this year. But he's still…
Craig SchwartzRachel Sorsa as Helen and Christopher Rivas as Teucer in Euripides' Helen at the GettyThis week our critics liked Euripides' Helen at the Getty Villa, adapted for today's celeb…
Joan MarcusThat Broadway might have found its salvation in a religious satire written by some of the raunchiest theater creators of the past 15 years is ironic. But for all the sly winks and…
David NottLaura Lee Bahr and Blake Anthony in No Love See also: *L.A. Weekly's review of No Love. *One of the Craziest Onstage Line Flubs of All Time In playwright Andrew Osborne's new play…
James EspositoTara Pitt as Natalie PortmanLots of movie adaptations this week in the theater reviews, as our critics enjoyed new local versions of the Broadway musicals The Full Monty and Xa…
Dan CarinoIn rehearsal for Underground: Mjo, King Charles, Miss Prissy It was a long, long line that snaked away from USC's Bovard Auditorium as the sun was setting Wednesday night, a diver…
Michael LamontDavis Gaines as Hannibal Lecter (left), Jeff Hiller as the guard Whatever else it might be -- "exuberantly gross" (New York Times), "not exactly the height of satirical sophist…
Heather WyntersFocus Group Play Enthusiastic reviews this week for Shakespeare: Deborah Klugman has some good things to say about Much Ado About Nothing at Knightsbridge Theatre, and Amy L…
Suzanne MapesMichael Hollinger's mystery-plus "Ghost-Writer," is his week's Pick of the Week Michael Hollinger's mystery "Ghost-Writer" at Long Beach's International City Theatre is this wee…
Ed KriegerThis scene from Elmina's Kitchen is supposed to result in a gun being fired. Only, on opening night, the gun didn't. Now playing at the Lost Studio on La Brea (and running throug…
Vitor MartinsSteinbeck in Venice: "Sweet Thursday" at Pacific Resident Theatre A bucket full of enthusiastic reviews this week, starting with the Pick of the Week, Sweet Thursday, Pacific Re…
photo by Mandi Moss Crimefighters in Hearts Like FistsWith two well-reviewed shows running in LA at the same time, theater director and writer Jaime Robledo is at a career high. Hot off the …
Wet Hot American Summer Our weekly list of special movie events to check out in L.A.: Thursday, Aug. 16 6. Last January at Sundance, a movie starring Frank Langella (who played Richard Nix…
Michael Lamont"Blame It on Beckett", John Morogiello's comedy about regional theater, now playing at the Colony Theatre, is this week's Pick of the Week Click here for all the latest New Th…
OSA Images Costumes: Zaldy Goco ©2011 Cirque-Jackson I.P., LLC It seems a shame to be talking to Travis Payne on the telephone, where he's a disembodied voice. Payne is a storied dancer,…
Mandi Moss"Hearts Like Fists," at Theatre of NOTE Adam Szymkowicz's comic book parody, Hearts Like Fists at Theatre of NOTE takes unrequited love to camp, and gets this week's Pick of the W…
Amy GaskinRight to left: Marvin Hamlisch bows with Michael Feinstein and Nick Ziobro at the end of the concert of the Pasadena Pops Orchestra at the Los Angeles County Arboretum, in Arcadia…
Joel Daavid"To Quiet the Quiet", this week's Pick of the Week Radar L.A., the festival of local and Pacific Rim performance troupes that performed last summer, has secured the funding to…
Photo Courtesy of Ehrin Marlow & Maia RosenfeldLeft to right: Bryan Bertone Allison Mattox and Shermel Carthan in Short EndsEarlier this month the L.A. Weekly broke a troubling story that st…
Ed KriegerNilo Cruz's "Lorca in a Green Dress" is this week's Pick of the Week REDCAT's annual New Original Works Festival opens this weekend with Poor Dog Group's The Murder Ballad; Opera …