Caryl Churchill

Rapture, Blister, Burn Is an Exuberant Take on the State of Feminism in 2013

Play captures the cultural tension between ambition and family

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Riveting Drama About Holocaust-Era Poland

Our critic Deborah Klugman found Tadeusz Slobodzianek's drama, about Polish complicity in the German Nazis' persecution of Polish Jews in the 1940s, and presented by Son of Semele Ensemble at Atwater Village Theatre, to be a model of stagecraft and emotional to watch. For all the lastest new theater ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week

Adapter-performer Brian T. Finney has adapted Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in what Paul Birchall describes as "hypnotic." It's this week's pick of the week. Neal Weaver found charm and passion in Actors' Co-op's revival of The Miracle Worker. See below for all the latest new theater reviews. ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Garry Marshall Directing a Play About the Making of Double Indemnity

Lost Moon Radio did another bang-up job hosting the 34th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Monday night. (See the full list of L.A. Weekly Theater Award winners here.) Thanks to Lauren Ludwig, Trish Hadley and the LMR troupe for their talent, and thanks for all the kind missives from people who had ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Triumphant Return of a Latter-Day Judy Garland

Tracie Bennett knocked the socks off our critic Tom Provenzano with her impersonation of Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow at the Ahmanson, which he made this week's Pick of the Week. Also Bill Raden had good things to say about S.O.E. -- Jami Brandli's clever, three-character riff on the venerable ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Pycho-Sexual Boxing Match

Pycho-sexual spectacles got nods from our critics this week, including Illyrian Players' Lord Blackberry's Apocalypse and our Pick of the Week, Tender Napalm. Nice reviews also for Doma Theatre Company's Dreamgirls at the MET, Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice at A Noise Within, Latino Theatre Company's Melacho ... More >>

Cloud 9

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 >>

Dustin Lance Black's Play 8, Starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt

Clooney, Pitt, Kevin Bacon and Martin Sheen power a fundraiser reading

L.A. Theater in 2010

Thanks for the memories

Stage Raw: Rock With You

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEW (see below)STAGE FEATURE on Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset LimitedNEW REVIEW GO  ROCK WITH YOU: THE KING OF POP, LATIN STYLE For those of us brought up to giggle at Michael Jackson's foibles, from his holding his son over a balcony by his arms t ... More >>

The Birth and Death of Words

The Good Book of Pedantry and Wonder and Urban Death

What About the Audience?

L.A. Stage Alliance looks into what, exactly, is going on

Stage Raw: L.A. Theater Aesthetic?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on The Event and Kharmful Charms of Daniil Kharms THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSGROUNDLINGS SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN ​is one of almost a dozen new productions being reviewed this weekend. For the complete slate, hit the More tab at the ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The Unexpected Man, Influence, Old Glory, Dreamgirls

Also, Control Me/Parents Who Love Too Much, Don Juan Dispenso and more

Stage Raw: Introducing Mr. Merkin

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THE COMING WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSBreaking News: Actor Karl Malden has died at the age of 97. INTRODUCING MR. MERKINMr. Merkin, writing his theater review of a production in Chicago, from the vantage of Wroclaw, PolandStage Raw is happy to welcome ... More >>

Stage Raw: Ten to Life

Last week's NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded in the current COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; also, see this week's THEATER FEATURE on Kevin King's The Idea ManTEN TO LIFE"Hacienda Heights" (from Ten to Life) Photo by Nic Cha KimNEW REVIEW GO TEN TO LIFE Leave logic at the door  and you'll get ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Our Town, The Crucible, Big

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 >>

Stage Raw: The Rehearsal

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, THIS COMING WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, this week's INTERVIEW with playwright Richard GreenbergTHE REHEARSAL is this week's Theater PickThe Rehearsal Photo by Craig SchwartzNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK In French dramatist Jean Anouilh's scintillating 1958 play, The Re ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Seafarer

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS  NEW REVIEW: THE SEAFARER at the Geffen PlayhouseJohn Mahoney and Andrew Connolly in The Seafarer Photo by Michael LamontNEW REVIEW GO THE SEAFARER If you're seeking innovation in the theater, look elsewhere. Conor McPherson's I ... More >>

Stage Raw: Stick Fly

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS: THE WEEKEND'S NEW THEATER REVIEWS EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS COMING WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSand this week's THEATER FEATURE: an Off-Broadway roundupReviewed this week: the world premiere of Richard Greenberg's Our Mother's Brief Affair at South Coast Rep; the west coast ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Mauritius, Tennessee Williams Unscripted, Home Siege Home

Plus, Misalliance, Desperate Writers: The Final Draft and more

Stage Raw: Seven Jewish Children

THIS COMING WEEK'S COMPREHESIVE THEATER LISTINGS ARE EMBEDDED WITH THE LATEST NEW THEATER REVIEWS KHARMFUL CHARMS OF DANI KHARMS Olya Petrakova and her ARTEL (American Russian Theatre Ensemble Laboratory) Theatre has devised an ensemble performance, based on the writings of Daniil Kharms. It perfo ... More >>

Stage Raw: "Song of Extinction" Wins Steinberg/ATCA Prize

THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSFor the weekend's New Reviews, press the "Continue Reading" tab at the bottom of this section.SONG OF EXTINCTION WINS STEINBERG/ATCA PRIZE A scene from the world premiere of Song of Extinction; Photo courtesy of Moving Arts. The largest national award for ... More >>

Song and Angst: The Rise (and Fall?) of the New, Dark L.A. Musical

“Dark times engender dark works — not just in musical theater but in all art”

Broadway Crowd Pleasers: August: Osage County, Gypsy, November, Top Girls

Great White Way getaways

1001: Jason Grote and his Arabian Nights

Ancient Persia collides with modern NYC at Pasadena's Theater @ Boston Court

Theater Listings

For the week of March 14-20

Fear of the Dark

Melanie’s Marnich’s Blur

Homo Repair

Jon Robin Baitz’s new play about a gay man, cured and pickled

Company Town

How a big city became America’s small-theater mecca

View From the Edge of a Cliff

The pertinence of theater and identity politics in perilous times

Don’t Look Back

Hedda and the Pussycats

Martha Demson, Feeling Game

Curtain Calls, Stage Frights

The year in theater

London Calling

A sampling from the city’s stages

Goblins at Every Turn

Playwright Caryl Churchill takes us deeper into the mad forest

Boys 'R' Us

Circumstantial Evidence

Larry Atlas' new play about moral eclipse