Edward Albee

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

Play captures the cultural tension between ambition and family

A Parallelogram Shows Pulitzer Prize Winner Bruce Norris' Very Bleak View of Humanity

The Nether, Jennifer Haley's New Play at Kirk Douglas Theatre, Takes Place in a Virtual Reality of Sexual Fantasies

Tender Napalm

Icons & Legends: The Photography of Michael Childers,

Seascape

Good-bye, Dolly!

Blemishes are forbidden in Boys in the Band and Survival Exercise

Stage Raw: The Female of the Species

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Palestine, New MexicoFEMALE OF THE SPECIES The Geffen Playhouse just announced that Anette Bening will star in Joanna Murray-Smith's comedy, The Female of the Species along with David Arquette, Mirielle Enos, Merritt Weve ... More >>

ABSINTHE, OPIUM, AND MAGIC; GAY APPAREL: A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE HOUSE OF BESARAB

Also, Pandora, Wacademia, the Santaland Diaries, Stated Income and more

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: The New Electric Ballroom

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on plays without words: Hamlet Shut Up! and Violators Will Be ViolatedNEW REVIEW GO THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM ​The yin and yang tug and pull between expressing our condition through the absence of words versus their abundance gets ... More >>

Treefall and The Chairs: Beyond World’s End

Postapocalyptic plays by Henry Murray and Eugene Ionesco

Stage Raw: Grease

L.A.DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS TONIGHT AT EL PORTALL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS TWO WEEKS FROM TONIGHT AT THE EL REYPURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES GREASE at the PantagesGrease Photo by Joan MarcusNEW REVIEW GREASE Born of NBC's re ... More >>

Stage Raw: Before Kirk Douglas Forgets

PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH AT THE EL REY; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES. BEFORE I FORGETKirk Douglas in Before I Forget. Photo by Craig Schwartz The gift in Kirk Douglas' one-man show, Before I Forget,  that opened over the weekend in the theater name ... More >>

Film

Stage Raw: Film

FILM is this week's Pick of the Week. Photo by Darrett Sanders Failing Better The Absurdists' convention Local playwright Patrick McGowan's new play, Film, has no right to be as good as it is. The central character is the late theater director Alan Schneider (Bill Robens) -- known for stagi ... More >>

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Theater Reviews: Candida, Poor, Poor Lear, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Also, Surviving Sex, The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh, and more

Stage Raw: Candida

CANDIDA Candida at the Colony Theatre is this week's Pick. Photo by Michael Lamont. At your fingertips: The 30th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards NOMINEES.Tickets for nominee's guests and for the general public can now be purchased via  http://tinyurl.com/theaterawardsReviewed this we ... More >>

Stage Raw: Edward Albee at UCLA

Photo courtesy of UCLA Live AN EVENING WITH EDWARD ALBEE The playwright will speak at UCLA, Royce Hall on Saturday night at 8 p.m. He will doubtless have something to say. (310) 825-2101, or click here

Stage Raw: Monsters and Prodigies

Reviewed this week: Pippin at the Mark Taper Forum; Jack Chandlers' new comedy-mystery, Murder on the Bounding Main, at Sierra Madre Playhouse; a dance-rock fusion, Vibrating Sun, at Unknown Theatre; Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble's staging fof Macbeth; Echo One-Act Festival at Stage 52; Furious Th ... More >>

eLove, A Musical.Com/edy

New Theater Reviews: The School of Night, The Joy Luck Club

Thystes' Feast, and more

eLove, a Musical.com/edy

The Most Mediocre Story Never Told

Theater Reviews: Hamlet, Razorback, The Most Mediocre Story Never Told

Also, Earth Sucks, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Politico!

Invasion of the Minnesota Normals

My Thing of Love

American Theater's Failure of Nerve

The Pacific Playwrights Festival showcases what’s going wrong

Don’t Look Down

And the opinions of others

Feb. 23. 2007

The Town the Law Forgot by JEFFREY ANDERSON. No Peace in the Valley by STEVEN MIKULAN. Li'l Dickens Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Make Love to the Vice President by JERRY STAHL

Theater

Is Edward Albee Softening with Success?

As Who's Afraid of Virigina Woolf? opens in L.A., the playwright is at the top of his game.

Weekend Theater Reviews

Including All About Walken, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and more

Theater Listings

For the week of February 9 - 15

Weekend Theater Reviews

Reviews of Into the Woods, Darwin's Pâté and Everything in the Garden

Theater Reviews

For the week of March 10 - 16.

Welcome to the Jugular

David Gieselmann’s chaos theory

Squinting Into the Sun

How our theater will change over the next decade

Beastly Men

The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? and Love Tapes

View From the Edge of a Cliff

The pertinence of theater and identity politics in perilous times

Edging Your Bets

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

Doug Harvey's Favorite Non-Human Artwork

Before the Fall

Showtime in Gotham

Jessica Kubzansky and Her Love Affair

Sleepless in New York

Bill Pullman on Broadway

Laughing in the Dark

The education of Edward Albee

Sets Appeal and Pulpit Fiction

Into the Woods and God’s Man in Texas

And You Don’t Ask a Neurosurgeon To Show You How To Cut Up Brains . . .

Uta Hagen would rather act than talk about her craft

Visitation Rites

Keeping down with the Joneses