Michael Kearns

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Oscar Wilde Outdoors

Chalk Repertory -- known for its site-specific works -- brings Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan from the drawing room to the out of doors in this week's Pick. Our critics also particularly enjoyed Eat the Runt at Hollywood's Theatre of NOTE, El Grande de Coca Cola at Santa Monica's Ruskin Theatr ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Solo Show About Polka. Yes, Polka

Lynnmarie Rink's one-woman (not counting her band) show about her life as a polka star is this week's pick of the week. It's called Wrap Your Heart Around It, and it's being performed at the Falcon Theatre in Burbank. Also, recommendations for Theatricum Botanicum's new work Merlin: The Untold Adven ... More >>

Wrap Your Heart Around It

Solo Show At the Flash Looks at a Single Gay Bar Through the Decades

The Spidey Project -- a low-rent musical parody of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, and more new reviews

​Celebration Theatre's intimate-theater rendition of the musical, The Color Purple, based on Alice Walker's novel, ​ is this week's Pick of the Week. Warm reactions also for a revival of Patrick Marber's Closer, presented by Ghost Players at the Avery Shreiber Theatre; for Malibu Stage's renditi ... More >>

Intimacies

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 >>

Stage Raw: Mr. Merkin Misses His Second Deadline

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED WITHIN THE COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSStage Raw is soon changing locations within the L.A. Weekly website. IT is currently working on ways to preserve the archives and the links. Stay tuned. BREAKING NEWS: Stage Raw regrets to announce that Mr. Merkin has still ... More >>

Marie Osmond Prop 8 Fantasy

Before you begin your Boxing Day labors, pour a Smirnoff and eggnog, sit down and YouTube this funny post-Prop 8 video written and directed by Los Angeles theater icon Michael Kearns. Hello? Marie! imagines a gay man (John W. McLaughlin) chatting on the phone with Mormon princess Marie Osmond. By tu ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Lady, A Chorus Line, I Gelosi

Also, The Legendary Times of Bulgakov, and more

Theater Listings

For the week of Oct. 19-26

Theater Listings

For the week of October 19-25

Theater Listings

For the Week of Sept. 21-27

Bad Seed: Burying the Dead

Can anything good come of the Bad Seed?

The Return of N*gger Wetb*ck Ch*nk

What'd you call me?

Michael Kearns

The Actorvist

Two Hander

Robert Chesley’s Jerker turns 20

Theater Reviews

Including Corpus Christi and Marat/Sade

Theater Reviews

Including this week's picks, Jerker and The Tina Dance.

Jerker, the Tina Dance

Theater Reviews

The Man Who Walked Into the Sea

Spalding Gray’s Leftover Stories to Tell

Theater Reviews

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Faith, hope and clarity on Skid Row

Winnie the Pooh, Annie . . . and Richard Hell

Playing Favorites

Queer and/or peculiar films that have mattered

Tilt, Roll Over, Play Dead

Stage Rage

When losing it isn’t in the script

Double Exposure

Rock & Roll Jinx

LETTERS

Letters

...I read Michael Kearns' piece on nudity in gay theater ["Getting Undressed for the Theater," September 4-10], and my first reaction was . . . Enough already! ...

Soap Box Derby

Must we cry in all the right places?