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John Langs

  • 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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2013

    Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Jane Kaczmarek in The Snake Can

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2013

    Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground

    Nods this week for Laguna Playhouse's production of Neil Simon's Chapter Two and Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground at Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood. For the latest new reviews and comprehensive stage listings, see below. Tanna Frederick and Robert Standley star in N. Richard Nash's T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2013

    Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Solo Show About Pioneering Actress Hattie McDaniel

    Our critic Lovell Estell was entranced by Vickilyn Reynolds' performance in a show based on the life of Hattie McDaniel, Hattie -- What I Need You To Know. For all the latest New Theater Reviews, and comprehensive stage listings, see below.This week's Stage Feature takes a look a three shows th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2012

    Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Japanese War Brides Musical Tea, With Music

    A musical about World War II war brides, Tea, With Music, for which the author, Velina Hasu Houston, has added songs and music for this production, is our Pick of the Week. For all new theater reviews, see below. This week's stage fature looks a couple of plays aiming to be light fare: Micha ... More >>

  • Stage

    November 8, 2012

    Behaving Badly: Bad Apples, Empanada for a Dream and Slice, Reviewed

    A musical about World War II war brides, Tea, With Music, for which the author, Velina Hasu Houston, has added songs and music for this production, is our Pick of the Week. For all new theater reviews, see below. This week's stage fature looks a couple of plays aiming to be light fare: Micha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2012

    Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Jeff Goldblum as a Writing Teacher

    Starting this week, we will now include our listings of all ongoing shows, below the new reviews, to help make it easier for you to decide which shows to see this week.The writing of neurologist Oliver Sacks has inspired a new work at Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena -- Kathryn Walat's Creation. S ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 18, 2012

    Bad Apples

    Starting this week, we will now include our listings of all ongoing shows, below the new reviews, to help make it easier for you to decide which shows to see this week.The writing of neurologist Oliver Sacks has inspired a new work at Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena -- Kathryn Walat's Creation. S ... More >>

  • Stage

    August 5, 2010

    The Birth and Death of Words

    The Good Book of Pedantry and Wonder and Urban Death

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2009

    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 >>

  • Stage

    December 3, 2009

    Theater Reviews: A Lie of the Mind, Mercy Warren’s Tea, Molly, Extinction

    Also, Chatsworth, Grace Kim & the Spiders From Mars, Post, and more

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2009

    Stage Raw: New Golden Age of British Theater?

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Bill Cain's Equivocation and Burglars of Hamm's Land of the Tigers NEW GOLDEN AGE OF BRITISH THEATRE In today's The Guardian, Mark Lawson writes at some length on a new Golden Age of British theater. Among the more salient quotatio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2009

    Stage Raw: Violators Will Be Violated

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Bill Cain's Equivocation and Burglars of Hamm's Land of the TigersNEW REVIEW GO VIOLATORS WILL BE VIOLATED ​Photo courtesy of Circle X Theatre CompanyCasey Smith's solo mime-show (he does scream a lot, but there are almost no deciph ... 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 23, 2009

    Stage Raw: Bohemian Cowboy

    BOHEMIAN COWBOY is this week's Pick of the Week Crossing the Center Line A father heads into the desert, never to return By Steven Leigh MorrisThe original title of Raymond King Shurtz's one-man show was The Gospel of Irony ― which would have been a particularly ironic title, had it stuck, s ... 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 >>

  • 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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2009

    Stage Raw: Phil Newby

    PHIL NEWBY A memorial service was held at Sacred Fools Theatre on Sunday for that company's young and beloved actor who was found in his apartment last week. More on Phil to come in the print edition one week week from Thursday. At your fingertips: This week's Theater Feature on Jim Leonard' ... More >>

  • Stage

    January 29, 2009

    Jim Leonard's Battle Hymn

    Brave new world

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2009

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    January 22, 2009

    Battle Hymn

    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 >>

  • Stage

    January 22, 2009

    Theater Reviews: The Bird and Mr. Banks, Waiting for Godot, Boadicea, The Dining Room

    Also, Mammals, Battle Hymn, Resignation Day

  • Stage

    January 22, 2009

    The 30th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

    The Arts Crisis Edition

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2009

    Stage Raw: Unpronouncable

    THEATER AWARDS UPDATE Here is the complete list of NOMINEES for the 30th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards, being held Monday, March 30 at the El Rey. Admission for nominees is free; nominee RSVPs are now being accepted at (310) 574-7208. Tickets for guests and members of the public go on sale ... More >>

  • 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 19, 2008

    Stage Raw: Broadway Cares

    BROADWAY CARES This Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 10 p.m., the cast of Spring Awakening (currently at the Ahmanson ) will perform a special show at L.A.'s Upright Cabaret with proceeds to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and other local charities here in the southland. Mark’s Restau ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2008

    Stage Raw: Ovation Awards Tonight (Monday)

    THE OVATION AWARDS ARE TONIGHTMonday at Luckman Auditorium, on the Cal State, Los Angeles campus. For more information, contact http://www.lastagealliance.com LATEST NEW THEATER REVIEWS BEAUTY OF ASHES Writer and star Peres Owino's furious semi-biographical poetry and dance piece about female ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2008

    Stage Raw: Fake Radio Sing Along

    Check back here Monday after noon for NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Peter Shelan's speculative drama about challenging authority and Christopher Marlowe's death, The School of Night, at the Taper; Susan Kim's stage adaptation of Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, at East West Players; Peter Wing Heale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    Stage Raw: A Conversation With Robert Lepage

    Check back here Monday after noon for NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Peter Shelan's speculative drama about challenging authority and Christopher Marlowe's death, The School of Night, at the Taper; Susan Kim's stage adaptation of Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, at East West Players; Peter Wing Heale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2008

    Stage Raw: By the Waters of Babylon

    Check back here Monday after noon for NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Peter Shelan's speculative drama about challenging authority and Christopher Marlowe's death, The School of Night, at the Taper; Susan Kim's stage adaptation of Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, at East West Players; Peter Wing Heale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2008

    Stage Raw: Surviving the Surviving Critics

    Check back here Monday after noon for NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Peter Shelan's speculative drama about challenging authority and Christopher Marlowe's death, The School of Night, at the Taper; Susan Kim's stage adaptation of Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, at East West Players; Peter Wing Heale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2008

    Stage Raw: Director-Teacher Milton Katselas dies at 75

    Check back here Monday after noon for NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Peter Shelan's speculative drama about challenging authority and Christopher Marlowe's death, The School of Night, at the Taper; Susan Kim's stage adaptation of Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, at East West Players; Peter Wing Heale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2008

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

    Check back here Monday after noon for NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Peter Shelan's speculative drama about challenging authority and Christopher Marlowe's death, The School of Night, at the Taper; Susan Kim's stage adaptation of Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, at East West Players; Peter Wing Heale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2008

    Stage Raw: Spring Awakening

    Check back here Monday after noon for NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Peter Shelan's speculative drama about challenging authority and Christopher Marlowe's death, The School of Night, at the Taper; Susan Kim's stage adaptation of Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, at East West Players; Peter Wing Heale ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2008

    Stage Raw: To Ser With Love

    Check back here Monday after noon for NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Peter Shelan's speculative drama about challenging authority and Christopher Marlowe's death, The School of Night, at the Taper; Susan Kim's stage adaptation of Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, at East West Players; Peter Wing Heale ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 16, 2008

    The Sequence

    Check back here Monday after noon for NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Peter Shelan's speculative drama about challenging authority and Christopher Marlowe's death, The School of Night, at the Taper; Susan Kim's stage adaptation of Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, at East West Players; Peter Wing Heale ... More >>

  • Stage

    October 16, 2008

    Theater Reviews: The Sequence, Faithful, Two Trains Running

    Also, Asses & Elephants, Nihil Obstat, The Women

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2008

    Stage Raw: Playboy of the Western World

    Also, Asses & Elephants, Nihil Obstat, The Women

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2008

    Stage Raw: The Sequence

    Also, Asses & Elephants, Nihil Obstat, The Women

  • Stage

    December 7, 2006

    A Theater Lover's Lament

    Confessions of a critic trying to keep the bottle at bay

  • Stage

    November 30, 2006

    Theater Reviews

    Including this week's pick, Eurydice

  • Stage

    November 30, 2006

    Eurydice and Weekend Theater Reviews

    Including this week's pick, Eurydice

  • Stage

    December 29, 2005

    Feodor Dostoyevsky’s Christmas Carol

    Circle X visits The Brothers Karamazov

  • Stage

    November 27, 2003

    Outsider In

    The Shaggs’ unworldly philosophy

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