Arthur Miller

Jon Robin Baitz's Play Other Desert Cities at the Mark Taper Forum, Reviewed

Radar L.A. Returns Next Year, Plus the Latest New Theater Reviews

Radar L.A., the festival of local and Pacific Rim performance troupes that performed last summer, has secured the funding to return to Los Angeles in September, 2013. This was confirmed by Olga Garay, Executive Director of L.A. city's Department of Cultural Affairs, and Diane Rodriguez, Director of ... More >>

The Crucible

Radar L.A., the festival of local and Pacific Rim performance troupes that performed last summer, has secured the funding to return to Los Angeles in September, 2013. This was confirmed by Olga Garay, Executive Director of L.A. city's Department of Cultural Affairs, and Diane Rodriguez, Director of ... More >>

After the Fall

Radar L.A., the festival of local and Pacific Rim performance troupes that performed last summer, has secured the funding to return to Los Angeles in September, 2013. This was confirmed by Olga Garay, Executive Director of L.A. city's Department of Cultural Affairs, and Diane Rodriguez, Director of ... More >>

The Spidey Project -- a low-rent musical parody of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, and more new reviews

​Celebration Theatre's intimate-theater rendition of the musical, The Color Purple, based on Alice Walker's novel, ​ is this week's Pick of the Week. Warm reactions also for a revival of Patrick Marber's Closer, presented by Ghost Players at the Avery Shreiber Theatre; for Malibu Stage's renditi ... More >>

My Week With Marilyn Review

My Week With Marilyn takes the sex out of sex symbol.

Gil Cates dies at 77

Craig SchwartzA Noise Within cuts open a new path in Pasadena​GIL CATES DIES: The Geffen Playhouse's artistic director, and Academy Awards producer, was found in a UCLA parking lot Monday night, having died of natural causes. More on this story to come. A Noise Within opened it's new Pasadena digs ... More >>

Stage Raw: D is for Dog

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Gregg Ostrin's KowalskiKris BicknellD is for Dog​This week, Deborah Klugman was smitten with Kate Polebaum's new play about 1950 suburbia gone awry, D is for Dog. Also, weekly critics filed strong reviews this week for As You Like ... More >>

The Crucible

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Gregg Ostrin's KowalskiKris BicknellD is for Dog​This week, Deborah Klugman was smitten with Kate Polebaum's new play about 1950 suburbia gone awry, D is for Dog. Also, weekly critics filed strong reviews this week for As You Like ... 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 >>

Broken Glass

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 >>

(Photos) Rarely Seen Marilyn Monroe Photographs, Documents To Be Auctioned In Hollywood

This shot's not part of the auction; we just like it (and so, apparently, does Madonna).​L.A.'s most-iconic actress is about to get the spotlight again, 48 years after her death. Auction house Bonhams & Butterfields is teasing the world with rarely seen photos of the star that will go up for s ... More >>

Stage Raw: Voombodian Women from Outer Space!

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on Happy Ending and WaterVOOMBODIAN WOMEN FROM OUTER SPACE! Staged reading of Barry Schwam's new play at Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., in Sierra Madre. Sun., 7:30 p.m. $5 (626) 355-4318 AN EVENING WITH PAT BOONE, ... More >>

Theater Reviews: A Wither's Tale, All My Sons,Karma the Musical

Also, Chess in Concert, On the Verge (Or the Geography of Yearning) and more

All My Sons

Also, Chess in Concert, On the Verge (Or the Geography of Yearning) and more

Stage Raw: Much Ado

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS STAGE FEATURE on My Penis, In and Out of TroubleNEW REVIEW GO GRIFFITH PARK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING​Photo by Ivy AugustaDon John (Sean Pritchett) is such a bastard. Really. He's the bastard son of Don Pedro (Luis Galindo), pri ... More >>

Stage Raw: How Do Actors Do It?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on My Penis, In and Out of TroubleHOW DO ACTORS DO IT? As told by Alan Mandell, who was among a dozen or so actors auditioning for the movie This Must Be the Place, starring Sean Penn. The role was for a man 94-years old. Mandell, being ... More >>

Theater Reviews: All My Sons, Opus, King Lear: The Madmen

Also, Praying Small, The Fantasticks, Amadeus and more

Stage Raw: King Lear

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGENEW REVIEW GO KING LEAR: THE MADMEN ​ Photo by Ed Krieger The old loon hasn't looked so good in some time. Bart DeLorenzo's staging for Antaeus Company's Classicsfest 2010 comes with two casts  -- ... More >>

Going to the Parade and Then Going Home

Bigotry lite and the real deal

HOLLYWOOD CELEBRITY AUCTIONS

Let the bidding begin

False Witnesses in Oleanna and The Crucible

Bitch hunts of the American theater

Stage Raw: Dogs and Critics

The latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded in this coming week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; Also, see this week's  THEATER FEATURE on Oleanna at the TaperCONTRA-TIEMPOThe L.A.-based women's activist dance troupe, Contra-Tiempo, founded by Ana Maria Alvarez, fuses Salsa, Afro-Cuban, West ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Our Town, The Crucible, Big

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

The Crucible

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

Stage Raw: Hanks a Lot

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS Also, this the latest NEW REVIEWS and this week's THEATER FEATURE on the 2009 Pacific Playwrights' Festival HANKS A LOTTom Hanks and Rita Wilson piggy backing with The Comedy Photo courtesy of Shakespeare Festival/L.A.On Monday, May 1 ... More >>

About Faces

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS Also, this the latest NEW REVIEWS and this week's THEATER FEATURE on the 2009 Pacific Playwrights' Festival HANKS A LOTTom Hanks and Rita Wilson piggy backing with The Comedy Photo courtesy of Shakespeare Festival/L.A.On Monday, May 1 ... More >>

Cherchez la Femme

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS Also, this the latest NEW REVIEWS and this week's THEATER FEATURE on the 2009 Pacific Playwrights' Festival HANKS A LOTTom Hanks and Rita Wilson piggy backing with The Comedy Photo courtesy of Shakespeare Festival/L.A.On Monday, May 1 ... More >>

Indecent Acts

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS Also, this the latest NEW REVIEWS and this week's THEATER FEATURE on the 2009 Pacific Playwrights' Festival HANKS A LOTTom Hanks and Rita Wilson piggy backing with The Comedy Photo courtesy of Shakespeare Festival/L.A.On Monday, May 1 ... More >>

Meat Loaf

Do you love me?

Great World of Sound: The Music Men

For these record producers, exploiting the American dream is all in a day’s work

Nonstop Flight

Ptero Dance Theater grows into its wings

Theater Reviews

Including this week's picks, Elia Arce’s The Fifth Commandment, Samuel Beckett Centenary and Stephen Holman

Weekend Theater Reviews

Including this week's picks, Elia Arce’s The Fifth Commandment, Samuel Beckett Centenary and Stephen Holman

Theater Reviews

August Wilson's Fences, Buddy and this week's pick, Because They Have No Words

The Big Stink

Exposing América Tropical and the painful truths of a whitewashed city

No cartooning today

All three of these bear the date 11/25/84.  I remember some details of the day.  I was a freshman art student at Rutgers University and had just gotten the thick black frame glasses, modeled more on Arthur Miller and Jean Paul Sartre than Woody Allen, that I still wear today.  It was ... More >>

Daddy Warbucks and the Temple of Doom

Arthur Miller’s All My Sons

Get Lit

L.A.'s literary salons: club-hopping for bookworms

The Mortal Storm

The Deaths of the 20th Century

The End of Outrage

The Deaths of the 20th Century

The Soccer Experiment

The Deaths of the 20th Century

Circle Jerks

Erotic roundelays by David Hare and Arthur Miller

Style and Substance

Erotic roundelays by David Hare and Arthur Miller

Happy’s Times Are Here Again

Death of a Salesman, and a gothic lampoon

B-Pictures

Bull, Bash, Blonde Bombshells and a Sandy Bottom

Beeves Takes Charge

When nice guys can never finish last

Canter’s

When nice guys can never finish last

Schreis and Whispers

A new musical about a turn-of-the-century killing

Sympathy for the Devil

The Crucible reinterpreted