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 >>
Kathryn Graf's new comedy about women slipping into middle-age, The Snake Can, is this week's pick of the week. Also a nod for Cathy Rigby reprising her decades-long performance in Peter Pan. See below for all the latest New Theater Reviews, and this week's comprehensive stage listings. Also, two s ... More >>
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 >>
REDCAT's annual New Original Works Festival opens this weekend with Poor Dog Group's The Murder Ballad; Opera Povera's To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation; and puppeteer Susan Simpson's, Exhibit A. For compete schedule visit redcat.orgNext week, the Ojai Playwri ... More >>
Tony Abatemarco's family drama Beautified, at Hollywood's Skylight Theatre, is our Pick of the Week. Recommendations include Jeffrey Hatcher's adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw at Hollywood's Underground Theatre; and Catherine Butterfield's The Sleeper at North Hollywood's Theatre T ... More >>
Jessica Abrams comedy about Hollywood, The Laughing Cow traffics in stereotypes but is nonetheless so delightful, says reviewer Rebecca Haithcoat, it grabs this week's Pick of the Week. Here are all the latest New Theater Reviews, or you can find them after the jump. Also, check out this week's st ... More >>
Alan Aymie's autobiographical saga of his travails within LAUSD, A Child Left Behind, is this week's Pick. Other New Reviews also include Bill Raden's "GO" review of Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight Los Angeles, 1992, honoring the 20th anniversary of our most recent riots. Smith is not performing in th ... More >>
​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 >>
​Phinneas Kiyomura's discerning family drama, Figure 8 at Theatre of NOTE, is this week's Pick of the Week. ​Our critics were in good spirits this week, with good notices for Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's relationship drama, Boom, presented by Alive Theatre, in residence at the Long Beach Playhouse; Ka ... More >>
The venerable "best bets for the new year" critic's post always carries with it the uncertain odor of the racetrack tout. Even the seeming sure things -- the NYC-anointed, blue-chip transfers of Broadway hits -- are too often diminished by dispiriting changes in the cast or production design that ca ... More >>
Michael LamontAlan Alda's "Radiance. . . " at the Geffen Playhouse​ Alan Adla's play, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie is this week's Pick of the Week, running alongside a recommended review ​ of Christmas 4 Bukowski presented by Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood.For all the l ... More >>
Fresh Frame FotoLOLPERA​LOLPERA at Long Beach's Garage Theater is this week's Pick of the Week, with recommendations for a number of Southland performances, including Pulp Shakespeare at the Asylum Theatre, ​ Henry Murray's Monkey Adored, presented by Rogue Machine, Virginia Grise's lyrical new ... More >>
​John Leguizamo opened his one-man show, "Ghetto Klown" on Sunday. See review later this week, along with the extended feature on Bayside High School Musical, at Victory Theatre Center -- one of two new local productions now playing based on popular TV series.(I Love Lucy, Live on Stage opened at ... More >>
Craig SchwartzThis​ The Playwrights Horizons production of Melissa James Gibson's domestic comedy, This, opened on Sunday at the Kirk Douglas Theatre (presented by Center Theatre Group). In an excellent production, it's an absorbing soap opera with a metaphysical reach it can't quite grasp. See ex ... More >>
NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Radar L.A.Sean LambertBash'd, A Gay Rap Opera​A string of recommends comes with this week's theater reviews: Bash'd, A Gay Rap Opera at Celebration Theatre, Blackbird at Rogue Machine, Blood Wedding at the Odyssey, Broadsword at the Back Dahlia, Closet Land at ... More >>
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Jez Butterworth's Jersusalem, on BroadwayMichael LamontYear Zero​Productions that garnered high praise this week are David Wiener's Extraordinary Chambers at the Geffen, about Americans in Cambodia, which Mayank Keshaviah describes ... More >>
NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Juan and JohnSven Ellirand100 Saints You Should Know​Robert Reimer's Sotto Voce (Zombie Joe's Underground), Elizabeth Meriwether's The Mistakes Madeline Made (Lounge Theatre) and Kate Fodor's 100 Saints You Should Know (Elephant Stages) landed on this wee ... More >>
NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on L.A. theater's moment of truth this coming summerStage FEATURE on Norm Foster's The Motor Trade, and Thornton Wilder's Our TownL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESLAWEES ON MONDAY The 32nd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards take place on Monday night. Doors open at ... More >>
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Re-Animator the Musical and AlcesteL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO GROUNDLINGS SINGLES CRUISE ​Photo by Shawn Bishop Sketches by the Groundlings' "A" cast of master improv artists reliably fall into three catego ... More >>
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Oedipus the Tyrant and King LearL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO COMEDY OF ERRORS ​Photo by Craig Schwartz A strongman, a ventriloquist, three showgirls and a mimic with 1,000 voices make up just half of the Bu ... More >>
COMPREHENSVIE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Tim Crouch's The Author, and the Belarus Free Theatre L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESTHEATRIFICATION AND BROADWAY 100 ​Broadway and the Vaudeville circuit began in Los Angeles 100 years ago, in the downtown Historical Theater Di ... More >>
NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ANNOUNCING THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO THE SONNETEER ​Photo by Katie Pomerantz Nick Salamone's play examines the ways in which homophobia, guilt, self-delusion and hypocrisy cause the gradual disintegration of the Cardamones, a first-generation Italian-A ... More >>
NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW GO ROOM SERVICE ​ Photo by Maia RosenfeldTwenty-two jackals -- I mean, actors -- have run up a $1200 bill at a posh hotel in 1930s Manhattan, and their producer Gor ... More >>
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Vieux Carre at REDCATMUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING ​Helen Hunt and Tom Irwin are featured in Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles' production of Much Ado About Nothing, which opens Sunday at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. Check back late Monday/ ... More >>
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on three plays in NYC NEW REVIEW GO TRAVELING CARNIVAL FREAKSHOW ​Photo by Chelsea SuttonIf Tod Browning and the Brothers Quay had collaborated on a stage version of The Island of Dr. Moreau, the results might have resembled this whim ... More >>
NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leap of Faith and God's FavoriteNEW REVIEW GO THE TRAIN DRIVER ​ Photo by Ed Krieger South African playwright Athol Fugard's plays have dealt with the havoc wrought in his country by Apartheid, but his more recent works also often possess the feel of a ghos ... More >>
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COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE ON THE L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSNEW REVIEW GO THE MYSTERY PLAYS ​Photo by Dlugolecki Photography Though its title alludes to the Biblical pageants of Medieval Europe, playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's 2002 pair of sup ... More >>
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's Theater Feature on Camelot and Baal. NEW REVIEW THE PEE-WEE HERMAN SHOW ​Photo by Ed Krieger In his much anticipated, first major stage appearance since 1991, obnoxious-sweet man-child Pee-wee Herman (Paul Ruebens) appears at Clu ... More >>
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 >>
BRIDEZILLA STRIKES BACK! Ed Krieger NEW REVIEW In August of 2002, Cynthia Silver, a struggling actress, was informed by her wedding "event designer" that a British film company, September Films was creating a "documentary series" called "Manhattan Brides," that followed couples through the pre ... More >>
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