Don Shirley

Stage Raw: Somewhere, Over the Radar

COMPLETE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE : A Case for Small Theater​The Groundings' Crazy Uncle Joe Show has a one-night only tenth anniversary performance (Wed., June 22, 8 p.m.) featuring (pending cast availability) Kristen Wiig, Kevin Nealon, Maya Rudolph, Michael Sheen, Will ... More >>

Stage Raw: McNulty/SLM Colloquy Reaction

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Opus, at the Fountain TheatreMcNULTY/SLM COLLOQUY REACTION The L.A. Times devoted print space in last Sunday's paper to an email discussion of small theater in Los Angeles that transpired between the Times' Theater Critic, Charles McNulty, and me. The reactions ... More >>

Stage Raw: Fringe Citations From the Department of Gossip and Hearay

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGESTATE OF L.A. THEATER PANEL Tomorrow (Sunday) at  p.m. at Fringe Central, I join Harvey Perr (Stage and Cinema), Don Shirley (LA Stage Blog), Geoff Hoff (LA Theatre Review), Colin Mitchell (LA Bitter L ... More >>

I Blog Dead People

The tyranny of the uninformed in the Internet age

Flying Under the Radar: The Best of L.A. Theater in the '00s

Stage Raw: The Masochism of L.A. Theater

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on plays without words: Hamlet Shut Up! and Violators Will Be ViolatedTHE MASOCHISM OF L.A. THEATERFirst, to throw some pre-emptive perfume in the direction of the stink-bomb I'm about to toss: I think the quality and vivacity on our loc ... More >>

Stage Raw: Don Shirley and City Beat

CLICK HERE FOR COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSThe news that L.A.'s City Beat is folding leaves the prospect of the former L.A. Times arts reporter and City Beat theater columnist/critic Don Shirley without gainful employment -- temporarily I hope. It also mutes the opinions of one of L.A. theater's m ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Biggest Thank You Ever Given

The Biggest Thank You Ever Given I'm thunderstruck and deeply moved by the outpouring and quality of your appreciations to me in your emails and in the comments to Friday's posting on the elimination of the L.A. Weekly's Theater Editor position. What a privilege: to read all that, to have served ... More >>

Theater 2005

The year of indignant irony and bloody machinations

Theater 2005

The year of indignant irony and bloody machinations

The L.A. Times’ Drama-Critic Drama

Living and Dying in L.A. - Part 2

In the shadow of Michael Ritchie’s new CTG, local artists look for sunlight