Euripides

Three People Laughed for Six Hours Straight at LACMA on Saturday. And It Was Mesmerizing

I suppose your first thought on walking into a cyclone might be "what the ----?" Or it might be nothing at all. You might be so overwhelmed at trying to orient yourself that your brain snaps into some other mode of consciousness. Spanish artist La Ribot's six-hour performance Laughing Hole performed ... More >>

L.A. Theater 2013: A Preview

The Top 10 L.A. Albums of 2012

Los Angeles music was a big part of the national conversation this year, from Frank Ocean and Miguel's artisan R&B to Top Dawg Entertainment's hip-hop dominance to the electronic inspirations of Flying Lotus and Gaslamp Killer. Picking but ten albums from this crop as the West Coast Sound writers ha ... More >>

Playwright Charles Mee Wants You to Steal From Him, Because He Will Steal From You

See also: *Our Latest Theater Reviews In Under Construction, a 2009 work by endlessly curious playwright Charles Mee, a character says, "If I understand something, I have no further use for it." Considering the world premiere of his latest play, Orestes 3.0: Inferno -- now playing at City Garage ... More >>

The Ballad of Ricardo Flores Magon, Plus All the Latest New Theater Reviews

Hosted by Rubén Martínez and Raquel Gutiérrez, Loyola Marymount University, KCET Community Television and VARIEDADES present The Ballad of Ricardo Flores Magón at the Ford Amphitheatre September 28, 2012, 8 p.m., 2580 Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood. The show features Quetzal, augmented by members of ... More >>

Euripides' Helen Adapted for the Kardashian Era, and Other New Theater Reviews

This week our critics liked Euripides' Helen at the Getty Villa, adapted for today's celebrity age, plus the new Groundlings Sunday night show, the 24th Street Theatre's play Rome at the End of the Line, and a new political dance performance from the Indian company Navarasa Dance Theatre. In our th ... More >>

Sigur Ros - The Hollywood Forever Cemetery - 8/13/12

Sigur Ros Hollywood Forever Cemetery 8/13/12 Better than...a bowl full of hakari (rotten shark) As the sun was setting along a hot and sticky stretch of Santa Monica Blvd, a line of excited picnickers snaked through the lush lawn in front of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Tickets for Sigur Ros had ... More >>

The Children

Alcestis Project by Critical Mass at the Getty Villa

Top 10 L.A. Theater Experiences of 2011

SITI Company's Trojan Women (After Euripides) at the Getty Villa

Reviews of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; Jolson at the Winter Garden; Laurel and Hardy; and more . . .

Courtesy of the Getty VillaThe Helen and Hecuba Show, in "Trojan Women (After Euripides)"​​SITI Company's Trojan Women (After Euripides) at the Getty Villa is a regal and passionate affair about despair, oddly floating in its own world. See Theater feature on Wednesday.  Also check out this ... More >>

The Getty Villa: Dinner and a Show

Kathy A. McDonaldA is for splendid ambiance at the Getty Villa's cafe​To coincide with the fall outdoor theater performances of SITI Company's Trojan Women (After Euripides) -- the classic Greek tragedy, not an expose of USC sorority girls -- the Getty Villa's restaurant is serving dinner. Typ ... More >>

Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem, on Broadway

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 >>

Theater Reviews: The Cradle Will Rock, Alceste, 100 Days

Also Love Letters to Women, Dangerous Beauty, Camino Real and more

Alceste

Stage Raw: Alceste

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON THE BREAK OF NOON, AND CRACK WHORE GALORE -- LIVE!NEW REVIEW GO ALCESTE ​ Photo by Nicholas SayaanEuripides' version of a Greek myth serves as ground zero for playwright B. Walker Sampson's surreal comedy about the otherworldly ... More >>

Stage Raw: Furious Theatre Company and Pasadena Playhouse part ways

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON SPIDER-MAN, ON BROADWAYFURIOUS AND PASADENA PLAYHOUSE PART WAYSFor reasons having to do with Pasadena Playhouse's needs to lease its second space, The Carrie Hamilton Theater, and the need of Furious Theatre Company for a space with h ... More >>

Theater New Reviews: Ballroom With a Twist, Cologne, Cyclops: A Rock Opera

Also, Room Service, Traces and more

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 >>

Theater Reviews: Charles Dickens' Great Expectations, Looking for Paul, The Night of the Tribades

Also, The Sunset Limited, Uptown Downtown and more

Medea

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 >>

Theater Reviews: Hollywood Fringe Festival

Rotten Families

Theater Reviews: Nibbler, Polyester the Musical, The Ghost Building

Stage Raw: The Browning Version

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83NEW REVIEW THEATER PICK THE BROWNING VERSION​Photo by Victor MartinsThough not as widely known or acclaimed as his contemporary British playwrights, Terence Rattigan was a superb dramatist and chronicler of hum ... More >>

Annette Bening as Medea at UCLA

Me and my shadows

Elliott Hundley at Regen Projects II

Ajax and Philoctetes in San Diego

The U.S. Marine Corps Discovers the Greeks

Movie Reviews: Alvin and the Chipmunks, Look, The Perfect Holiday

Also Lagerfeld Confidential, Man in the Chair and The Protagonist

Docuweek

Reviews of Paradise Lost, Bob & Ed's Discount Enlightenment Warehouse

Also this week's pick, Limonade Tous les Jours

Theater Reviews: Zorro in Hell, The Idiot Box, Bad Seed and More

Also this week's pick, Alice in One-Hit Wonderland

Theater Reviews

Including Camelot, Tammy Faye Starlite's Born Again Again!, and this week's pick, A Lesson Before Dying

Theater Reviews

Including this week's picks, Elia Arce’s The Fifth Commandment, Samuel Beckett Centenary and Stephen Holman

Weekend Theater Reviews

Rage Against the Sex Machine

Why Greek tragedy is no toga party

Theater Reviews

INcluding this week's pick, Urinetown: The Musical

Theater Reviews

Including this week's picks The Car Plays, San Francisco Mime Troupe and the Second Annual Latino New Works Festival

Spinal Column

L.A. Theater 2006: The Thinning Gray Line

Past: Is theater facing an audience die-off?

La Vida Loca in Ancient Greek

Mourning becomes Electricidad, at the Taper

Excess of Evil

Bloody couples and their fatal visions

Grin and Bare It

Nudity on local stages re-examined

Grave New Worlds

When misogynists and robots take over

Dream Weaver

Director Ron Sossi on Kenneth Cavander's compendium of ancient Greek plays

The Fisher King of Camp

Medea: The Musical and the scholar-clown who created it

Nudity, Gunshots, Sex, Feathers