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The band and the actors are already warming up as the audience trickles into the Ahmanson Theatre for Fela!, Jim Lewis and Bill T.... More >>
Kris Lythgoe's A Cinderella Christmas at North Hollywood's El Portal Theatre is this week's Pick.rFor all New Theater Reviews, go to the jump. Also, check out this coming week's stage feature on three... More >>
This past June witnessed the week that was, with the nationwide theater organization Theatre Communications Group celebrating its 50th... More >>
Boom Kat Dance Theatre's production of Stations at Santa Monica's Miles Memorial Playhouse landed this week's stage Pick; ralso recommended are the Whitefire Theatre's Santasia in Sherman Oaks, and th... More >>
If you visit New York this winter, you'll find on Broadway a playwright oft-produced in L.A. (Theresa Rebeck) and a pair of Hollywood stars... More >>
There's an imposing bed at the center of the stage. Colin (Troy Blendell) has such a typically English, genial disposition, you have to wonder... More >>
Troubadour Theatre Company snags this week's Pick of the Week, .r with their yuletide mashup, A Christmas Westside Story at Burbank's Falcon Theatre. Nods also for Atomic Holiday Freefall at the Acto... More >>
One of the eeriest events in recent local theater history occurred in 2010, when the Fountain Theatre’s beloved director-producer, Ben... More >>
So a British high school student, afraid to go home after school, afraid of her stepdad — that's as much as she says — asks a... More >>
Yep, it's time for all the holiday play reviews.r Check 'em all the capsule New Theater Reviews after the jump; also, this week's stage features on reactions from the Fountain Theatre family to the c... More >>
In the preface to the second volume of his anthology of lyrics, Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981-2011) With Attendant Comments,... More >>
Perhaps the best word to describe Charlayne Woodard as a performer is silken. When she crosses the stage, it's as though her body is... More >>
High praise this week for "Robert Reimer's nutcase of a play," Hosea Nova: A Jealous and Violent Man (this week's Pick of the Week) at Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood, and for writer-perfo... More >>
I'm man's best friend. It's a thankless job," says pooch Brown Spot (Justin Okin) near the opening of Henry Murray's smart and sobering fantasia,... More >>
Lovell Estell III found Tony Gatto's performance to be a highlight of this week's, Pick of the Week, Tennessee Williams Baby Doll at the Lillian. r Recommendations also for Pat Kinevane's solo perfor... More >>
I felt some mixed feelings watching Twelfth Night in A Noise Within's new, 283-seat Pasadena digs. The first reaction is the now... More >>
In his solo performance Forgotten, Pat Kinevane enters a stark stage, dressed in a kimono. During the hypertheatrical arrival, the... More >>
Director Jordan Monsell argues that the quality of the wit combined with the lurking and then explosive violence in Quentin Tarantino's 1994... More >>
Actors, colleagues and critics have weighed in on the Oct. 31 death of Gil Cates, the Geffen Playhouse's producing director, from an apparent... More >>
Alan Alda's play, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie is this week's Pick of the Week, running alongside a recommended review rof Christmas 4 Bukowski presented by Zombie Joe's Undergroun... More >>
An embittered and aging tranny named Kemp (Marco Barricelli) comes to visit an old aunt (Olympia Dukakis) on the basis of a letter she sent him... More >>
God is dead. He died in the 1950s during the Theater of the Absurd movement, when European playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco,... More >>
Michelle Hilyard and Darrett Sanders in Have You Seen Alice: Photo by Jonathan Klein rJacqueline Wright's play, Have You Seen Alicer at Theatre of NOTE is this week's Pick of the Week. Our critics al... More >>
"I'll take any trophy. I don't care what it says on it." —Mary-Louise Parker After the announcement of this year's... More >>
GIL CATES DIES: The Geffen Playhouse's founder and producing director, and Academy Awards producer, was found in a UCLA parking lot Monday night, having died of natural causes. A Noise Within opened i... More >>
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