John Zalewski

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 >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Family Strife and Sexual Taboos in Machu Picchu, Texas

Family trauma drama Machu Picchu, Texas (pictured above) grabs our Pick of the Week this week. Good reviews also for Noel Coward's Fallen Angels at the Pasadena Playhouse and David Henry Hwang's Chinglish at South Coast Rep. For all New Theater Reviews, and this weekend's comprehensive listing ... More >>

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 >>

Children's Plays Are Naive and Sappy. 24th Street Theatre Is Bringing Them to the Dark Side

See also: *Debbie Devine and Jay McAdams profiled in our People Issue Take a look at what passes for children's theater in this country and one might well conclude that childhood constitutes a warm and fuzzy eighth dimension of tooth-aching sentimentality and genteel innocence. Never mind that tw ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Sherlock's Last Case

No new reviews this week, but these will return at the same time next week, as the new theater season gets underway. See below for complete listings of shows to see this week.In this week's stage feature, we asked our stable of critics what they most dread and anticipate when being assigned a s ... More >>

Ovation Awards 2012: Center Theatre Group Leads L.A. Theater Prizes Announced Last Night

Center Theatre Group, which runs the Mark Taper Forum, the Ahmanson Theatre downtown and the Kirk Dougas Theatre in Culver City, got lots of love at the 2012 Ovation Awards Monday night at downtown's Los Angeles Theatre. The company was awarded Best Season, while the Michael Arabian's staging of Wai ... More >>

Death of a Salesgirl

Theatre in the Dark

Theatre in the Dark Is Exactly That. Dark. Blackness. No Lights. Got It?

It's the kind of what-if that gives lighting designers the night sweats: What if the artistic director at one of L.A.'s premiere stages got it into his head to produce theater without any lights at all? What would that experience be like? Would audiences respond? Would they even notice? Such questi ... More >>

Martin Crimp's The City and How Obama Got His Groove Back Show the Art of Escaping Reality

The Black Glass at the Hollywood Fringe and Heartbreak House at Theatricum Botanicum

The Children

The Fool & the Red Queen

Margo Veil

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

Year of the inner child

What You Don't Know Might Kill You

Jaime Robledo's Watson and Jordan Harrison's Futura

King Lear: Free-Speech Blowback

A version for our times

Stage Raw: Lease Subsidy Program Gets Another Lease

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT FEATURE ON BORN TO BE ALIVE and THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACELEASE SUBSIDY PROGRAM GETS ANOTHER LEASE A recommendation by L.A.'s Chief Administrative Officer Miguel Santana to restructure (eliminate) the city's Lease Subsidy Program for non- ... More >>

1951-2006

Theater Reviews: The Confusion of My Illusion, The Psychic, Sweet Sue

Also, No-No Boy, The Wake, Lascivious Something and more

Lascivious Something

Blood Drops Keep Falling on My Head: Debbie McMahon's Grand Guignolers

HOLLYWOOD NOIR AND CELTIC VISIONS

The interactive Accomplice: Hollywood and Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney

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 >>

La Ronde

Theater Reviews: You, Nero, Hangin' Out, La Ronde

Also, Around the World in 80 Days, Far From an Angel's Gaze, and more

Stage Raw: The Biggest Thank You Ever Given

The Biggest Thank You Ever Given I'm thunderstruck and deeply moved by the outpouring and quality of your appreciations to me in your emails and in the comments to Friday's posting on the elimination of the L.A. Weekly's Theater Editor position. What a privilege: to read all that, to have served ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Dogs of Baghdad, Famine Plays and More

Also Five Course Love, Lansky, Out Late

Theater Reviews

Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, Joe Orton's Loot, Neil LaBute's Fat Pig and more

Theater Reviews

Including Dvorak in America, Grace, The Grey Zone and more

Detours

A lost highway and roads not taken

Pissed Off and Pissed On

Plays about rage and melancholy

Glittering Prizes

The 26th annual L.A. Weekly Theater awards

The 26th Annual LA Weekly Theater Awards

The nominees for the 26th annual LA Weekly Theater Awards

L’armoire, C’est Moi

Charles L. Mee’s chaotic catechism

Criminals of the Heart

Road kills and clerical errors

Gotta Ham It to Ya

Edited by Kateri Butler

Monumental Theater

How you say — “horns of dilemma”?

L.A. Weekly’s 23rd Annual Theater Award Nominations

Birth Trap

New work from Gen-Y playwright Jessica Goldberg

Fire and Fire Marshals

The 22nd Annual LA Weekly Theater Awards

Field of Wet Dreams

Build it and they will cum

High Fidelity

. . . the second time, as camp

The 21st Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Nominees

The 20th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

Schreis and Whispers

A new musical about a turn-of-the-century killing

Our 20th Annual Theater Awards Nominees

Of Lice and Men

Naomi Wallace's play about London's Great Plague