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Jeremy Pivnick

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2013

    L.A. Weekly Theater Awards 2013: The Nominees

    See past recipients: *2012 *2011 (winners) *2011 (nominees) *2010 (winners) *2010 (nominees) *2009 (winners) *2009 (nominees) *2008 (winners) *2008 (nominees) Start looking for your postapocalyptic-chic attire. The 34th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards, celebrating the best work on our smaller sta ... More >>

  • Stage

    January 31, 2013

    Two Plays About Big Ideas

    Cassiopeia and Ganesh Versus the Third Reich Ruminate on Heaven and Earth

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2012

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    March 22, 2012

    The Illusion

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2012

    Short Eyes, King of the Desert, The Lonesome West, and more New Stage Reviews . . .

    ​Miguel Pinero's 1970s prison play Short Eyes nabs this week's Pick of the Week.​ Good notices also for Martin McDonagh's The Lonesome West at Santa Monica's Ruskin Theatre Group; Rene Rivera's King of the Desert at Casa 0101 in East L.A.; and Molly Smith Metzer's new play, Elemeno Pea at South ... More >>

  • Stage

    February 17, 2011

    The 32nd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Nominees

    Year of the inner child

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    Stage Raw: Voombodian Women from Outer Space!

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on Happy Ending and WaterVOOMBODIAN WOMEN FROM OUTER SPACE! Staged reading of Barry Schwam's new play at Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., in Sierra Madre. Sun., 7:30 p.m. $5 (626) 355-4318 AN EVENING WITH PAT BOONE, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    Stage Raw: Circle X and Bootleg Hook Up to Read Plays

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on John StepplingCIRCLE X AND BOOTLEG HOOK UP TO READ PLAYS Circle X Theatre Company and Bootleg are joining forces to present a series of Monday night readings of new works, starting September 13, at the Bootleg venue. Playwrights s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    Stage Raw: City Garage Bids Adieu to Fourth Street

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS Cover Story on LATE's The War Cycle2011 MARK TAPER FORUM SEASON ANNOUNCED ​John Lithgow Photo by Nigel Perry John Lithgow will ring in the New Year spinning yarns in Stories By Heart, previously produced at the Lincoln Center and at the National ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 26, 2010

    A Wither's Tale

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS Cover Story on LATE's The War Cycle2011 MARK TAPER FORUM SEASON ANNOUNCED ​John Lithgow Photo by Nigel Perry John Lithgow will ring in the New Year spinning yarns in Stories By Heart, previously produced at the Lincoln Center and at the National ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2010

    Stage Raw: Much Ado

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS STAGE FEATURE on My Penis, In and Out of TroubleNEW REVIEW GO GRIFFITH PARK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING​Photo by Ivy AugustaDon John (Sean Pritchett) is such a bastard. Really. He's the bastard son of Don Pedro (Luis Galindo), pri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Stage Raw: L.A. Theater Aesthetic?

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on The Event and Kharmful Charms of Daniil Kharms THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSGROUNDLINGS SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN ​is one of almost a dozen new productions being reviewed this weekend. For the complete slate, hit the More tab at the ... More >>

  • Stage

    March 6, 2010

    Theater Reviews: Cave Quest, Lobby Hero, Broads!, Wirehead

    Also, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Forgiveness, Oedipus El Rey and more

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2010

    Stage Raw: Kharmful Charms of Daniil Kharms

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSTHEATER FEATURE On The Subject Was Roses and The Ballad of Emmett Till THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSNEW REVIEW KHARMFUL CHARMS OF DANIIL KHARMS ​Photo by Taso PapadakisHere's a fascinating oddity:  A series of short works by a now almost ... More >>

  • Stage

    December 24, 2009

    Theater Reviews: A RUBICON FAMILY CHRISTMAS, THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG, A VEGAS HOLIDAY! SONGS FROM LIVE AT THE SAHARA

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSTHEATER FEATURE On The Subject Was Roses and The Ballad of Emmett Till THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSNEW REVIEW KHARMFUL CHARMS OF DANIIL KHARMS ​Photo by Taso PapadakisHere's a fascinating oddity:  A series of short works by a now almost ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2009

    Stage Raw: A Rubicon Family Christmas

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Palestine, New MexicoNEW REVIEW GO A RUBICON FAMILY CHRISTMAS ​Though Andy Williams and his fancy sweaters are nowhere to be seen, the Rubicon company misses little else this corny Christmas delight. Not a word of spoken ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    Stage Raw: ZAR

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on producer Sir Cameron MackintoshStage Raw: ZAR Theatre ZAR from Wroclaw, Poland has been in Southern California for over a week, conducting workshops of their choral-physical technique at UC Irvine and UCLA. Their Tryptich opens next w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2009

    Stage Raw: Impacted Wednesday

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Charles Duncombe's The Trojan Women and Julie Hebert's TreeIMPACTED WEDNESDAY​ Equivocation: Photo by Michael Lamont Three big openings on Wednesday: The  U.S. premiere of TR Warszawa's T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. (Polish director Grzego ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Stage Raw: Does Your Acting Career Have That Sinking Feeling?

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83DOES YOUR ACTING CAREER HAVE THAT SINKING FEELING?​Captain Smith looks out over oceans of opportunity There's still hope of a rescue! Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, seeks an actor to play the Titani ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2009

    Stage Raw: Getting Intimate With Michael Kearns

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83MICHAEL KEARNS GETS INTIMATE​L.A. Weekly's 2007 "Queen of the Angels" Michael Kearns performs his solo performance piece, Intimacies, at the drkrm Gallery and Performance Space in Eagle Rock, 2121 San Fernando ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2009

    Stage Raw: Rachel Rosenthal at 83

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Poland, where theater is hipRACHEL ROSENTHAL AT 83 ​The Rachel Rosenthal Company (founded in 1989) is throwing a fundraiser to help celebrate the performance artist's 83rd birthday, past achievements and the upcoming publication o ... More >>

  • Stage

    October 22, 2009

    Theater Reviews: Kooza, Chesapeake, Private Eyes

    Also, Stray, Wonder of the World, and more

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    Stage Raw: L.A. shows NYC-bound

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsL.A. SHOWS HEADING EAST ​SoulArt Productions presentation of Alex Lyras' The Common Air - a nominee in last year's L.A. Weekly Theatre Awards solo performance award for its 2008 run at the Asylu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    Stage Raw: Wonder of the World

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsNEW REVIEW GO WONDER OF THE WORLD ​Photo by Ed KriegerContemporary American farce has a hero in playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, who skews old-fashioned two-dimensional absurdity by surreptitiou ... More >>

  • Stage

    September 17, 2009

    Theater Reviews: Friends Like These, The Crossing, Peace, Somebody’s Somebody

    Also, F*ucking Men, The Kingdom Come, The Golden Gays and more

  • Calendar

    September 17, 2009

    F*cking Men

    Also, F*ucking Men, The Kingdom Come, The Golden Gays and more

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    Stage Raw: Baby It's You

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, see the current STAGE FEATURE on The Night Is a Child at the Pasadena Playhouse, and Not to Be, at ZJUTHE LATEST NEW REVIEWSBABY IT'S YOUThe jukebox musical that's been playing since the spring at the Coast Playhouse, will be the final entry in the Pasadena P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Stage Raw: As You Like It

    THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedNEW REVIEW GO AS YOU LIKE ITAs You Like It Photo courtesy of Aquila TheatreSummer is in full heat across the Southland, which brings out amphitheater producti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2009

    Stage Raw: Clowntown City Limits

    THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK CLOWNTOWN CITY LIMITSPhoto by Ed RachlesImagine a personable, grimy, makeup-smeared, cigar-chomping guy in a tank top, not unlike Tommy Lee Jones, playing cards outdoors on the porch of some tra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2009

    Stage Raw: Pigs' Life (St. Joan of the Slaughterhouses)

    THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THE COMING WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK ST JOAN OF THE SLAUGHTERHOUSESPhoto by Vitor MartinsFor a lucid analysis of the malfunctioning global financial markets, one could do worse than Bertolt Brecht. And it's hard to imagine doi ... More >>

  • Stage

    June 25, 2009

    Theater Reviews: 2 Pianos 4 Hands, Coming Home, Cirque Berzerk

    Also, Godspell, The Wasps and more

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2009

    Stage Raw: Coming Home

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSFor the latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS and an update from the Grotowski Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, press the Continue Reading tab at the bottom of this section. NEW REVIEW THEATER PICK COMING HOME Photo by Ed KriegerA sequel to his 1995 post apartheid play Valley Song, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2009

    Stage Raw: Getting Physical

    DRACULADracula is this week's Pick. See review by pressing the Continue Reading tab at the bottom of this section. (All New Reviews are embedded within the Comprehensive Theater Listings.) Photo by Michael Lamont GETTING PHYSICAL Two bills of physical comedy are being performed at Sacred Fool ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2009

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    February 12, 2009

    Violet Sharp

    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 >>

  • Stage

    February 12, 2009

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

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

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    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

    January 22, 2009

    The 30th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

    The Arts Crisis Edition

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2009

    Stage Raw: L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Nominees

    Light up the Sky is this week's Pick of the Week. Light up the Sky Photo by Maia Rosenfeld THEATER PICK Moss Hart's sharp, hard-boiled 1946 farce, Light up the Sky, is the quintessential backstage tale of the mid-20th century. His characters are often based on real people: fast-talking produ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    Stage Raw: A Conversation With Robert Lepage

    Light up the Sky is this week's Pick of the Week. Light up the Sky Photo by Maia Rosenfeld THEATER PICK Moss Hart's sharp, hard-boiled 1946 farce, Light up the Sky, is the quintessential backstage tale of the mid-20th century. His characters are often based on real people: fast-talking produ ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 6, 2008

    Mary's Wedding

    Light up the Sky is this week's Pick of the Week. Light up the Sky Photo by Maia Rosenfeld THEATER PICK Moss Hart's sharp, hard-boiled 1946 farce, Light up the Sky, is the quintessential backstage tale of the mid-20th century. His characters are often based on real people: fast-talking produ ... More >>

  • Stage

    November 6, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Lions, Spring Awakening, A Man's A Man

    Also, Gem of the Ocean, Mary's Wedding and more

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2008

    Stage Raw: Director-Teacher Milton Katselas dies at 75

    Also, Gem of the Ocean, Mary's Wedding and more

  • Stage

    October 30, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Lovelace: A Rock Opera, U.S. Drag, How Cissy Grew

    Also, Torn Between Two Bitches, Love's Old Sweet Song and more

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2008

    Stage Raw: CTG Receives $90,000 New Play Development Grant

    Also, Torn Between Two Bitches, Love's Old Sweet Song and more

  • Calendar

    March 6, 2008

    Crime and Punishment

    Also, Torn Between Two Bitches, Love's Old Sweet Song and more

  • Stage

    August 10, 2006

    Detours

    A lost highway and roads not taken

  • Stage

    March 24, 2005

    Tiny Malice

    John Patrick Shanley’s nuns’ story

  • Stage

    February 17, 2005

    The 26th Annual LA Weekly Theater Awards

    The nominees for the 26th annual LA Weekly Theater Awards

  • Stage

    September 16, 2004

    Spirited Away

    Tom Jacobson’s brilliant new play takes us to church

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