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Candida, and other New Theater Reviews . . .

Aaron Morgan"Candida," produced by Crysalis Stage at The Complex​Chrysalis Stage's revival of G.B. Shaw's Candida at The Complex nabbed this week's Pick of the Week. ​ Our critics also liked On Holy Ground with Salome Jens at the MET, in Hollywood. See here for all the latest New Theater Reviews ... More >>

9 Circles, blu, Pulp Shakespeare and more new theater reviews . . .

Fresh Frame FotoLOLPERA​LOLPERA at Long Beach's Garage Theater is this week's Pick of the Week, with recommendations for a number of Southland performances, including Pulp Shakespeare at the Asylum Theatre, ​ Henry Murray's Monkey Adored, presented by Rogue Machine, Virginia Grise's lyrical new ... More >>

Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour

Michael LamontThe Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity​Kristoffer Diaz's comedy about television wrestling, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, just opened at the Geffen Playhouse. Check back on Tuesday for the review, and for capsule reviews for all other shows seen over the weekend. Check back thi ... More >>

Orson Welles' Moby Dick, a Beatles Cabaret and Romeo and Juliet: Monsters in Love

Craig SchwartzThis​ The Playwrights Horizons production of Melissa James Gibson's domestic comedy, This, opened on Sunday at the Kirk Douglas Theatre (presented by Center Theatre Group). In an excellent production, it's an absorbing soap opera with a metaphysical reach it can't quite grasp. See ex ... More >>

Stage Raw: Aaron Sorkin's First Stage Play

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEWS Stage FEATURE on The Chinese Massacre and House of the Rising Son ​Maia MadisonAaron Sorkin's first stage play, Hidden in This Picture, is reviewed by Amy Nicholson; Neal Weaver was taken with the collection of theater-celeb-scribed gay-theme ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Crucible

New Theater ReviewsTheater Awards ReportTheater Awards Slide-Show by Timothy Norris​Photo by Byron Turk is from Theatre Banshee's production of The Crucible, which critic Amy Lyons argues is a powerful manifestation of our culture of fear; Bill Raden was less impressed with Lauren Gunderson's new ... More >>

Theater Reviews: In Mother Words, The Fix-Up Show, Love Sucks

Also The Adventures of Pinocchio, Cabaret Idol and more

Stage Raw: Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 & Over

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSPUZZLER​Padraic Duffy's noir drama of East German Spies opens this weekend at Sacred Fools Theater Company. Photo by C.M. GonzalezFAIRY TALE THEATRE: 18 & OVERJ. Michael Feldman's ... More >>

THEATER REVIEWS: A CHICAGO CHRISTMAS CAROL, EXIT 10, THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT, OUR BEDS ARE CROWDED

Also, The Stories of Cesar Chavez, Traveling Carnival Freakshow, West Side Story and more

Stage Raw: Loveland

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on La Razon Blindada and A Wolf Inside the Fence and NEW REVIEW GO LOVELAND ​Photo by Leland Auslender What a rare experience it is, when a character that's as maniacal, sexually overheated and as transparently off the rails as a ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Thurgood, As the Globe Warms, I'm Not Here Anymore

Also, Othello, Redhead Cuban Hausfrau Husband and more

Stage Raw: Lease Subsidy Program Gets Another Lease

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT FEATURE ON BORN TO BE ALIVE and THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACELEASE SUBSIDY PROGRAM GETS ANOTHER LEASE A recommendation by L.A.'s Chief Administrative Officer Miguel Santana to restructure (eliminate) the city's Lease Subsidy Program for non- ... More >>

Stage Raw: Tracers

COMPREHENSIVE THEATRE LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT FEATURE ON AUDIENCESNEW REVIEW GO TRACERS ​ Photo courtesy of the Loft Ensemble Thirty years after its Los Angeles debut, writer John DiFusco's anti-war drama retains its relevance and power. Written collaboratively in the 1970s by DiFu ... More >>

Theater New Reviews: Tooth and Nail, Sarah Sarah, Canned Ham

Also, Groundlings International Airport, Full Disclosure

Theater Reviews: Dirty Pooh, L.A. Noir Unscripted, Looking for Trouble

Also, My Sister in This House, Paved Paradise: The Art of Joni Mitchell and more

Stage Raw: Getting Our Fringe On

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's Theater Feature on Camelot and Baal. GETTING OUR FRINGE ON I've heard it said at numerous receptions and parties that the reason L.A. has so much bad theater is because it has so much bad theater - that less would be more. Fringe Fe ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Almost, Maine, Twenty-Two, Ordinary Days

Also, 11, September, Shakespeare Unscripted and more

Stage Raw: New Golden Age of British Theater?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Bill Cain's Equivocation and Burglars of Hamm's Land of the Tigers NEW GOLDEN AGE OF BRITISH THEATRE In today's The Guardian, Mark Lawson writes at some length on a new Golden Age of British theater. Among the more salient quotatio ... More >>

Stage Raw: Impacted Wednesday

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Charles Duncombe's The Trojan Women and Julie Hebert's TreeIMPACTED WEDNESDAY​ Equivocation: Photo by Michael Lamont Three big openings on Wednesday: The  U.S. premiere of TR Warszawa's T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. (Polish director Grzego ... More >>

Stage Raw: Rachel Rosenthal at 83

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Poland, where theater is hipRACHEL ROSENTHAL AT 83 ​The Rachel Rosenthal Company (founded in 1989) is throwing a fundraiser to help celebrate the performance artist's 83rd birthday, past achievements and the upcoming publication o ... More >>

Stage Raw: Pieter-Dirk Uys and Charlize Theron at UCLA

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Annette Bening in Medea at UCLAINTERVIEW with Medea's director, Lenka Udovicki, and UCLA's David SeftonPIETER-DIRK UYS AND CHARLIZE THERON AT UCLA​One of Uys' belles, giving a "blow job" to the ashes of her late Nazi husband. Photo b ... More >>

Stage Raw: Bright Ideas

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, see the current NEW REVIEWS and STAGE FEATURE on Troubadour Theater Company's Oedipus the King, Mama! and the Chekhov Studio's The SeagullNEW REVIEW GO BRIGHT IDEAS ​​Photo by Shashin Desai"All the world's a stage, and our children our players," advises a tuto ... More >>

Theater Reviews: All in the Timing, Hair, Life Could Be a Dream

Also, 7DS, Cannibal! The Musical, Fernando and more

Stage Raw: Pericles Redux

 THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK PERICLES REDUXPhoto courtesy of Not Man Apart ProductionsScholars have long discussed whether Shakespeare wrote  the entirety of Pericles, Prince of Tyre or collaborated with another writer. (Given the play's convoluted elements, most commentators ... More >>

Theater Reviews: 2 Pianos 4 Hands, Coming Home, Cirque Berzerk

Also, Godspell, The Wasps and more

Theater Reviews: Our Town, The Crucible, Big

Also, The Fantasticks, Courting Vampires, A Number and more

Theater Reviews: Bruising for Besos, Dracula, Burn This

The Threepenny Opera, Laws of Sympathy, and more

Theater Reviews: Echo One-Act Festival, Pope Joan, Taking Over

Also, Vibrating Sun, Pippin, Macbeth and more

Theater Reviews: 9 to 5: The Musical, 43 Plays for 43 Presidents

Also, Asleep on a Bicycle, Speech & Debate, Pugilist Specialist and more

Lack of Talent Showcase

Beverly Winwood Presents

Theater Reviews: Gulls, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Howlin' Blues and Dirty Dogs

Also Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer and more

Theater Reviews: DIETRICH AND CHEVALIER: THE MUSICAL

Also, Great Expectations, Snake in the Grass and more

Theater Reviews: Alice Sit-By-The-Fire, Groundlings

Also A Tuna Christmas

Theater Reviews: A Charlie James Brown Christmas, The Gay Mafia: Nu-Queer Winter

Also Two Gentlmen from Verona and The Kid From Brooklyn: The Danny Kaye Story

Theater Reviews: Waiting For Godot, 'Nami, Virgin Love

Also Strip, The Leaning Tree, Boys’ Life and more

Weekend Theater Reviews

Including this week's pick, Galatea

Theater Reviews

Including The Heiress, The Berlin Blues, and this week's pick, 1 to 10?

Theater Reviews

Including the Aboriginal Treatment Center, Hogan's Goat, Feed and more.

Theater Reviews

Includng Varla Jean Merman Is Anatomically Incorrect!, In Arabia We'd All Be Kings and Small Tragedy

Theater Reviews

Including Strangers on a Train, 13 and this week's pick, Inside Private Lives

Theater Reviews

This week's pick, Beautiful City. Also The Chase Lounge, Jackson Frost and more

Mabou Mines Dollhouse and Weekend Theater Reviews

Including Sandra Tsing Loh's Sugar Plum Fairy, Sister Act and Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants

Theater Reviews

Including Flirting with Morty and this week's pick, Souvenir

Theater Reviews

Reviews of Die! Mommy! Die! Fully Loaded, Dirty White Tuxedo Pants and a Brown Plastic Bag and more

Theater Reviews

Weekend Theater Reviews

Reviews of Chekhov and Maria, Joe turner's Come and Gone and Talk Radio

Theater Reviews

For the week of March 17 - 23

New Theater Reviews

For February 3 - 9, 2006

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