Anton Chekhov

Two Plays on Politics and Frivolity in Europe

Reviews of Neva, About Chekhov's Widow, and Yes, Prime Minister, a British Satire

Plays by Theatre Movement Bazaar and Opera del Espacio Show the Power of Ensemble-Created Theater

L.A. Theater 2013: A Preview

The Black Glass at the Hollywood Fringe and Heartbreak House at Theatricum Botanicum

Quiara Alegria Hudes wins 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Good People at the Geffen, and More New Reviews...

David Lindsay-Abaire's Tony-nominated play about class rifts in America, Good People, now playing at the Geffen, is this week's Pick of the Week, by Neal Weaver. Paul Birchall was also taken with Doug Knott's autobiographical solo show at the Asylum Lab Theatre, Last of the Knotts Find all the lates ... More >>

Theatre Movement Bazaar: I Wanna Dance WIth Somebody

We Don't Need No Playwright: How Ensemble-Created Work Is Changing L.A. Theater

The Seagull and El Nogalar Show Chekhov Still Inspires L.A. Theater

Top 10 L.A. Theater Experiences of 2011

Impro Theater's Chekhov Unscripted: How to Improvise an Homage to Uncle Vanya

Dan O'ConnorRyan Smith in Chekhov Unscripted​In 1999, after 11 years of wringing laughs from willing audiences through competitive comedy and newfangled styles of longform improvisation, Impro Theater devised a upstart project called Shakespeare Unscripted that would turn into an enormously su ... More >>

Dancing at Lughnasa

Cookbook Review: Plum Gorgeous (Apricots, Cherries And Pomegranates, Too)

​If you're having a stone fruit moment -- daylight Blenheim apricot cravings, sleepless cherry clafoutis nights -- Oakland-based writer Romney "Nani" Steele has two words for you: Plum Gorgeous. The soon-to-be-released cookbook follows Steele's My Nepenthe: Bohemian Tales of Food, Family, an ... More >>

Radar L.A. Festival

Tom Jacobson's The Chinese Massacre (Annotated) and House of the Rising Son

Movie Reviews: Anton Chekhov's The Duel, Toy Story 3, I Am Love

Also, Cyrus, The Mormon Proposition, The Lottery

Stage Raw: Blue in the Face

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCurrent STAGE FEATURE on Anton Chekhov's 150th Birthday BashNEW REVIEW TI RECORDI, AMORE MIO (D0 YOU REMEMBER, MY LOVE?) ​Blue in the Face ensemble; photo courtesy of Santa Monica Playhouse A small bit of the Roman spring came to the Santa Monica P ... More >>

Stage Raw: A Memory of What Might Have Been

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCurrent STAGE FEATURE on Anton Chekhov's 150th Birthday BashNEW REVIEW GO  A MEMORY OF WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ​ Photo courtesy of Zombie Joe's Underground George Bernard Shaw wrote that "men and women are made by their own fancies in the image ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Chekhov!

Anton's Uncles and the Cherry Orchard, 150 years on

Stage Raw: Tag-Team Press Coverage Planned for Hollywood Fringe

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT FEATURE ON BORN TO BE ALIVE and THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE​The Good Woman of Setzuan at Open Fist Theatre is among the productions slated to be reviewed this weekend. Check back late Monday for all reviews seen over the weekend. Press here ... More >>

Die 'Hipster' Die!: Top Ten Popular Suggestions to Replace Overused Signifier

Listen SkateboardsHipsterus Silverlakicus​The always interesting Hamilton Nolan over at Gawker decided to declare overused noun/adjective "Hipster" dead and challenged his commenters to come up with a new word to replace it. These were Hamilton's instructions: 1. It must succeed in evoking a ... 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: L.A. shows NYC-bound

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsL.A. SHOWS HEADING EAST ​SoulArt Productions presentation of Alex Lyras' The Common Air - a nominee in last year's L.A. Weekly Theatre Awards solo performance award for its 2008 run at the Asylu ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Sock & Shoe, Children of a Lesser God, Art, Savin’ Up for Saturday Night

Also, Three Sisters, Painting Churches and more

Theater Reviews: Liquid, In Arabia We’d All Be Kings, The New Testament/Helter Skelter

Also, This Is My F-Ing Wedding, Influences of the Spirit and more

Troubadour Theater Company’s Oedipus the King, Mama! and Chekhov’s The Seagull

Mama’s boys

Stage Raw: Anita Bryant Died for Your Sins

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, see the latest NEW REVIEWS and the current STAGE FEATURE on Adeline's Play at the Powerhouse Theater in Santa MonicaNEW REVIEW PICK ANITA BRYANT DIED FOR YOUR SINS ​Photo by Ty DonaldsonThe title of Brian Christopher Williams play suggests a slick, sassy gay com ... More >>

Cold Souls: Paul Giamatti’s Unbearable Weightness of Being

Actor brings the funny, but his new film lacks something deeper

Stage Raw: As You Like It

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedNEW REVIEW GO AS YOU LIKE ITAs You Like It Photo courtesy of Aquila TheatreSummer is in full heat across the Southland, which brings out amphitheater producti ... More >>

Stage Raw: Clowntown City Limits

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK CLOWNTOWN CITY LIMITSPhoto by Ed RachlesImagine a personable, grimy, makeup-smeared, cigar-chomping guy in a tank top, not unlike Tommy Lee Jones, playing cards outdoors on the porch of some tra ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Cinderella the Musical, Equus, Eternal Equinox, Monkey Madness

Also, True West, My Three Sisters, Death, Lies & Alibis and more

Stage Raw: Mr. Merkin Misses His First Deadline!

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSBREAKING NEWS: The entire staff of Stage Raw was disappointed that Mr. Merkin missed the filing deadline for his first column: a review of Spamalot at the Ahmanson. Mr. Merkin apologized profusely, but explained that it was impossible to file electronically from the pol ... More >>

The Friendly Hour

Chekhov and Gogol in Moscow, 2008

Classical gas

Wendy Graf’s Lessons, on Grief and Faith

The Kaddish Dilemma

Past Masters

Royal Shakespeare Company walks a familiar path with Lear and Seagull

Theater Reviews: Bug, Scab, Fowl and More

Also reviews of Food for Fish and The Merry Widow

Wishing Well

A furious Cherry Orchard closes Evidence Room

Theater Reviews

For the week of March 31 - April 6

Weekend Theater Reviews

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

Trucker Talk

Classical Gas

Why Chekhov is fading and Shakespeare isn’t

Beastly Men

The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? and Love Tapes

Site Pacific

Two Russian classics get L.A.’d

Cold War

Chay Yew’s A Winter People face December

Russian Around

A tale of two countries

Tree Hugger

The Cherry Orchard at A Noise Within

The Good Doctor Sang

Chekhov, Sondheim and their bittersweet melodies

Feeling Not So Great

Peter Shaffer and Amadeus pay homage to the mediocre

L.A.’s Playful pastimes

The Art of Artifice

Plays about the birds, the trees and men in drag