Luis Alfaro

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including an All-Female Hamlet

No Pick this week, but a nod from Neal Weaver for the family comedy-drama The Bells of West 87th at Greenway Arts Alliance. See below for all the latest new theater reviews and stage listings. Plays informed by dreams and dream-states are the subject of this week's theater feature: Pericles, P ... More >>

Sex-Change Comedy (Missing Dick), in the Latest New Theater Reviews, Plus New Works Festivals Bustin' Out

REDCAT's annual New Original Works Festival opens this weekend with Poor Dog Group's The Murder Ballad; Opera Povera's To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation; and puppeteer Susan Simpson's, Exhibit A. For compete schedule visit redcat.orgNext week, the Ojai Playwri ... More >>

Top 10 Plays We Want to See in 2012

The venerable "best bets for the new year" critic's post always carries with it the uncertain odor of the racetrack tout. Even the seeming sure things -- the NYC-anointed, blue-chip transfers of Broadway hits -- are too often diminished by dispiriting changes in the cast or production design that ca ... More >>

The 32nd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

Stage Raw: L.A. Weekly Awards Report

THEATER NEW REVIEWS WILL BE POSTED BY 8 P.M.Stage FEATURE on L.A. theater's moment of truth this coming summerStage FEATURE on Norm Foster's The Motor Trade, and Thornton Wilder's Our TownTheater Awards Slide-Show by Timothy NorrisMONDAY NIGHT AT THE EL REY​Ash Panda rocks the house. Photo by Timo ... More >>

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

Year of the inner child

Theater Reviews: Backstreet: The Musical, The Good Woman of Setzuan, South Pacific and Hamlet

Also, Madacascar, I Made Out With Him Anyway and Three Truths

Stage Raw: The Other Festivals

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCurrent STAGE FEATURE on Anton Chekhov's 150th Birthday BashTHE OTHER FESTIVALS Running concurrently with the Hollywood Fringe (June 17-27) is Arts Olympus (June 17-20) on board the Queen Mary in Long Beach. AO includes a contemporary Russian exhib ... More >>

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 >>

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

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

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 Raw: Ivanov

IVANOV Ivanov Photo Credit: Thomas Aurin Berlin's Volksbühne presents its U.S. premiere of Chekhov's Ivanov at UCLA's Freud Playhouse tonight and Satruday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 7 p.m. Click here for more information. FOURPLAY @ BOSTON COURT The Pasadena theater hosts readings of four new ... More >>

Stage Raw: Cocks of the Walk

COCKS OF THE WALK The same people who brought us Naked Boys Singing are at it again -- this time showing considerable more restraint with a musical revue subtly named Hangin' Out -- described as "a celebration of the human body . . . exploring different aspects of nudity in song and dance." Now ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Little Dog Laughed

>NEW REVIEW THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED As Gertrude Stein once put it (but not about this play), "It's almost about something, and then it's just not." Douglas Carter Beane's comedy brings with it the New York cast that put the play on the map, and secured Julie White a Tony for her role as a Holly ... More >>

Luis Alfaro’s New War Story

Military theater

Theater Listings

For the week of Nov. 16-22

The 28th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

Gordon Davidson, the killer among us

Theater Reviews

Including Billy Connolly Live, The Return of Brother Theodore and this week's pick, Atonement

Theater Reviews

Including this week's pick, Static and Highways Birthday Bash

Who Says We're Not in Kansas Anymore?

Scribes in Ojai, and Kander and Ebb’s final musical, Curtains. plus a preview of Theatre Unlimited's Static

Theater Reviews

Including this week's pick, The 2006 Ojai Playwrights Conference

Weekend Theater

A preview of the 2006 Ojai Playwrights Conference, and reviews of Little Women and Water and Power

Greek Love

Charles L. Mee’s Agamemnon, and Sarah Ruhl’s Demeter in the City

Tilling the Ground for New Work

Living and Dying in L.A. - Part 2

In the shadow of Michael Ritchie’s new CTG, local artists look for sunlight

Officers’ Mess

Sophocles goes to Baghdad

Confrontations in a Con-Art World

CTG fallout, and threatening the president

The Great White Way

Minority labs booted from Center Theater

La Vida Loca in Ancient Greek

Mourning becomes Electricidad, at the Taper

Honoring a Legend

Gordon Davidson

An American Family: Living on the Verge

Chapter One: Starting all over — again

Experimental Jet Set & a Few Stars

Edited by Kateri Butler

Give Us Liberty or At Least Give Us Dinner

Edited by Kateri Butler

Tough Act to Follow

The rise and fall, and rise, of theater of color

Steamy, Steamy Night

The 23rd Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

Rattling the Cage

Local theater artists you’ll be hearing from

The Latino Metropolis

Mike Davis on the new, revitalized Los Angeles

To Be Young, Female and Living in East L.A.

Creating theater from poetry