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Ed Krieger

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    Judy Holliday, a Gay Mormon Boy, and More New Theater Reviews

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Twilight L.A., 1992, Back in Town 20 Years After Swaths of the City Burned, and More New Reviews.

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    Figure 8, Boom, The Treatment, and more new reviews . . .

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2012

    Top 10 Plays We Want to See in 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    Alan Alda's Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, Christmas 4 Bukowski, and other new reviews. . .

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    9 Circles, blu, Pulp Shakespeare and more new theater reviews . . .

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2011

    Reviews of The Leopard and Don't Hug Me, I'm Pregnant, and 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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    Orson Welles' Moby Dick, a Beatles Cabaret and Romeo and Juliet: Monsters in Love

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    Stage Raw: Bash'd

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Stage Raw: Year Zero

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    Stage Raw: 100 Saints You Should Know

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2011

    Stage Raw: LAWEES on Monday

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2011

    Stage Raw: Groundlings Singles Cruise

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    Stage Raw: Comedy of Errors

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Stage Raw: Theatrification and Broadway 100

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    Stage Raw: The Sonneteer

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    Stage Raw: Room Service

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    Stage Raw: Much Ado

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    Stage Raw: Traveling Carnival Freakshow

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    Stage Raw: The Train Driver

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2010

    Stage Raw: Titus Redux

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCover Story on LATE's The War CycleNEW REVIEW GO TITUS REDUX ​Photo courtesy of Circus Theatricals Military hero Titus (Jack Stehlin) radiantly returns to Washington DC from the Middle East wars to a grand welcome by the public and his family, but ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    Stage Raw: Bones

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on [title of show] and Dani GirlNEW REVIEW GO BONES ​Photo by Craig Schwartz Childhood sexual abuse may no longer be the unmentionable topic it once was, but that hasn't lessened its horror or salved the terrible scars borne by its v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    Stage Raw: Supernova

    ALL THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS NEW REVIEW GO SUPERNOVA ​Photo by Joel Daavid Mabel (Bonnie Hunt), a naive Des Moines housewife, calls a graveyard shift salesman named Joe in Los Angeles (Timothy McNeil), to order an expensive watch for her son's 18th birthday. She can't yet go through with the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    Stage Raw: The Mystery Plays

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    Stage Raw: In a Garden

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on gay politics in Halam Iran and Salam Shalom THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSNEW REVIEW GO IN A GARDEN ​Photo by Henry DiRocco/SCR In 1989, a foreign bureaucrat (Mark Harelik), representing the Ministry of Culture in some (ficti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    Stage Raw: The Kid is Back

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2009

    Stage Raw: Bridezilla Strikes Back

    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 >>

  • Stage

    August 14, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Freedom of Speech, Just Like White People

    Also, Winter, the Groundlings' latest and more

  • Stage

    June 26, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Showgirls, As You Like It

    Also, Outbursts, The Last Seder, and more

  • Stage

    June 5, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Jen and Angie, I'm Just Wild About Harry

    Also, Money & Run, Boise U.S.A. and more

  • Stage

    May 15, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Hillary Agonistes, Of Mice and Men, Flora the Red Menace

    Also Indecent Acts, I'd Rather Be Right and more

  • Stage

    May 8, 2008

    Theater Reviews: He Asked for It, Office Sonata, Hedda Gabler

    Also, Safe, The Glass Menagerie, and more

  • Stage

    March 6, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Groundlings Swimsuit Edition, A Good Smoke

    Also, Varla Jean Merman Loves a Foreign Tongue!

  • Stage

    February 28, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Regretrosexual, 1776

    Also, The Boychick Affair, Othello

  • Stage

    February 14, 2008

    The 29th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards: The Rock Opera

    Backers' Audition Edition

  • Stage

    July 28, 2005

    Yellow Peril

    When hate is more than skin deep

  • Stage

    February 17, 2005

    The 26th Annual LA Weekly Theater Awards

    The nominees for the 26th annual LA Weekly Theater Awards

  • Stage

    January 13, 2005

    Cold Fusion

    A tale of art swingers and swindles

  • Stage

    June 17, 2004

    L’armoire, C’est Moi

    Charles L. Mee’s chaotic catechism

  • Stage

    April 1, 2004

    Going Native

    The outback and a runaway wife

  • Stage

    October 9, 2003

    Shakespeare in the Dark

    Two shadowy Bards pay off

  • Stage

    August 28, 2003

    The Streetcar Cometh

    Tennessee Williams’ barroom symposium

  • Stage

    March 20, 2003

    History in the Remaking

    Ed Begley Jr.'s harvest of fame

  • Stage

    August 29, 2002

    Life Studies

    Legends urbane and urban

  • Stage

    April 4, 2002

    Circle Jerks

    Erotic roundelays by David Hare and Arthur Miller

  • Stage

    December 10, 1998

    Duck Logic

    Plays that defy gravity

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