Bart DeLorenzo

A Pair of Two-Person Shows, One Starring Comedy Couple Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally

Annapurna and Years to the Day, Reviewed

Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally Celebrate 10 Years Together By Returning to Where They Met: the Stage

See also: *Our Latest Theater Reviews *12 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013 Ask someone to define "Hollywood marriage" -- as in the working-actor-to-working-actor kind -- and chances are the answer you get won't contain words like "stable" or "secure" or "long-term" or "a good bet." The longstanding tr ... More >>

Theater Issue 2013: Why Be a Playwright in L.A.?

Cymbeline

Begley/Huffman in November, Roger Robinson in Fraternity, Brushing up Our Shakespeare, Plus All the Latest New Theater Reviews

Our critics were brushing up their Shakespeare over the weekend, with reviews of CymbelineJulius Caeser and Henry VI, Part I Jeff Stetson's 1987 retrospective drama on the effects of church Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama is this week's Pick of the Week. For all the Latest New Theater Reviews, go to ... More >>

Antaeus Company Casts Two Actors in Each Role. Is That a Good Thing?

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 >>

L.A. Weekly Theater Awards 2012: The Winners

​​L.A. Weekly 's 33rd annual theater awards took place tonight at the Avalon in Hollywood, honoring the best work on our small stages from 2011, as judged by our theater critics. Small Engine Repair presented by Rogue Machine at Theatre/Theater won production of the year, while Re-Animator The ... More >>

Is It OK to Tweet During a Show? CTG's Twitter Experiment Raises the Question

The cellular device is a wonderful technology. But that wonder is tempered every time a John Philip Sousa-like ringtone fanfare blares out, say, during the bloody dagger scene from a live performance of Macbeth. Which, of course, is why mobile phones have been unconditionally banished from the sacre ... More >>

Top 10 L.A. Theater Experiences of 2011

Justin Tanner's Day Drinkers and Cody Henderson's Wonderlust

Rules of attraction

Margo Veil

Stage Raw: James Gammon Memorial

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Opus, at the Fountain Theatre MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR JAMES GAMMON: Sunday, August 22, 2 p.m. at the MET Theatre, 1089 N. Oxford Avenue in Hollywood. RSVP here Check back Monday night for reviews of: BOY'S LIFE, Howard Korder's 1988 ba ... More >>

Stage Raw: Summer Festivities

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on [title of show] and Dani GirlSUMMER FESTIVITIES Open Fist Theater Company launches its annual Fist Look Festival this weekend, with The Existents, a rock musical by Douglas Crawford and Jason Wooten, music and lyrics by Ty Taylor. T ... More >>

Stage Raw: Brewsie & Willie

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON LINDA PURL'S FESTIVALBREWSIE AND WILLIE ​Poor Dog Group's adaptation of Gertrude Stein's novella, is among the productions being reviewed this week. Photo by Scott Grolier Check back here on Monday night for reviews of THE BAKER'S ... More >>

Stage Raw: Unknown Future, Theater on Seward Closes Its Doors

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Lieutenant of Inishmore and A Tale Told by an IdiotAN UNKNOWN FUTURE: Theater on Seward Closes its Doors John Fleck performs tonight (Thursday), 8 p.m. with his sardonic one-man comedy about Trader Joe's (and points beyond), Side E ... More >>

Stage Raw: Pasadena Playhouse Emerges from Bankruptcy

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE on KING LEARCAPTURED AURAL PHANTASY THEATER ​CAPT presents a special event tonight (Friday) night, Hooray for Hollywood Extravaganza, celebrating the legends of Our Fair City, In a style mixing radio and vaudeville. The Galler ... More >>

King Lear: Free-Speech Blowback

A version for our times

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

Also, Praying Small, The Fantasticks, Amadeus and more

King Lear

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 >>

Artists in America? Huh?

Bobrauschenbergamerica and Orpheus Descending

Theater Reviews: Proof, A Song at Twilight, West

Also, The Pee-wee Herman Show, The Kings of the Kilburn High Road and more

bobrauschenbergamerica

Theater Reviews: Our Town, The Crucible, Big

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

Hearts of Darkness: The 2009 Pacific Playwrights Festival

Theater Reviews: Stick Fly, Voice Lessons, Lydia

Also, Our Mother's Brief Affair, >3 and more

Voice Lessons

The Projectionist

Dead Man's Cell Phone

Theater Reviews: Joe's Garage, Sea Change, Fatboy

Also, Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and more

Shipwrecked! An Entertainment

Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress

Theater Reviews: Attempts on Her Life, The Last Schwartz, The Piano Lesson

Also: The History Boys, Love Loves a Pornographer, Bury the Dead

American Theater's Failure of Nerve

The Pacific Playwrights Festival showcases what’s going wrong

Mabou Mines Dollhouse and Weekend Theater Reviews

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

Wishing Well

A furious Cherry Orchard closes Evidence Room

Trucker Talk

The Third L.A. Weekly-Hosted Roundtable on New Play Development

Living Treasures

Why L.A. theater matters

Tilling the Ground for New Work

Edging Your Bets

Edgefest holds the answers to those handicapping the future of theater in L.A.

Meet John and Jane Doe

The year of living famously

Monumental Theater

How you say — “horns of dilemma”?

Bart DeLorenzo, the Evidence Is In

Good Grief

Edward Bond’s Saved

Bloody Mama

A hard-boiled classic resurfaces

Our 20th Annual Theater Awards Nominees

Of Lice and Men

Naomi Wallace's play about London's Great Plague