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April 4, 2012
The Troubies Strike Gold Again in Two Gentlemen of Chicago, plus Theatre Banshee's Pick-Worthy Merchant, and Other New Reviews
Just about recovered from Monday night's Lawees, described in a stream of personal emails as "the best ever," thanks to hosts Lost Moon Radio. . Winners here. Check out our more expansive commentary in this week's stage feature. Here are all the latest New Reviews, or you can find them after t ... More >>
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February 29, 2012
Figure 8, Boom, The Treatment, and more new reviews . . .
Phinneas Kiyomura's discerning family drama, Figure 8 at Theatre of NOTE, is this week's Pick of the Week. Our critics were in good spirits this week, with good notices for Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's relationship drama, Boom, presented by Alive Theatre, in residence at the Long Beach Playhouse; Ka ... More >>
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February 22, 2012
Candida, and other New Theater Reviews . . .
Aaron Morgan"Candida," produced by Crysalis Stage at The ComplexChrysalis Stage's revival of G.B. Shaw's Candida at The Complex nabbed this week's Pick of the Week. Our critics also liked On Holy Ground with Salome Jens at the MET, in Hollywood. See here for all the latest New Theater Reviews ... More >>
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November 16, 2011
Alan Alda's Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, Christmas 4 Bukowski, and other new reviews. . .
Michael LamontAlan Alda's "Radiance. . . " at the Geffen Playhouse Alan Adla's play, Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie is this week's Pick of the Week, running alongside a recommended review of Christmas 4 Bukowski presented by Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood.For all the l ... More >>
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September 15, 2011
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity at the Geffen Playhouse: Eight Necessary Parts of an Elaborate Wrestling Entrance
Photo by Michael Lamont from the Geffen PlayhouseJustin Leeper in the West Coast premiere of Kristoffer Diaz's The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity at the Geffen Playhouse No religion. No politics. No wrestling. Apparently, there are only a few conversational topics more polarizing than prof ... More >>
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September 13, 2011
Reviews of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; Jolson at the Winter Garden; Laurel and Hardy; and more . . .
Courtesy of the Getty VillaThe Helen and Hecuba Show, in "Trojan Women (After Euripides)"SITI Company's Trojan Women (After Euripides) at the Getty Villa is a regal and passionate affair about despair, oddly floating in its own world. See Theater feature on Wednesday. Also check out this ... More >>
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September 8, 2011
Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour
Michael LamontThe Elaborate Entrance of Chad DeityKristoffer Diaz's comedy about television wrestling, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, just opened at the Geffen Playhouse. Check back on Tuesday for the review, and for capsule reviews for all other shows seen over the weekend. Check back thi ... More >>
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June 6, 2011
Stage Raw: Year Zero
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Jez Butterworth's Jersusalem, on BroadwayMichael LamontYear ZeroProductions that garnered high praise this week are David Wiener's Extraordinary Chambers at the Geffen, about Americans in Cambodia, which Mayank Keshaviah describes ... More >>
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March 22, 2011
Stage Raw: Eccentricites of a Nightingale
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Free $$$ and TrioL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE Photo by Craig Schwartz It's New Year's Eve in Tennessee Williams' drama, and Alma Winemiller is enchanted by the crisp snaps ... More >>
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March 15, 2011
Stage Raw: Groundlings Singles Cruise
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Re-Animator the Musical and AlcesteL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO GROUNDLINGS SINGLES CRUISE Photo by Shawn Bishop Sketches by the Groundlings' "A" cast of master improv artists reliably fall into three catego ... More >>
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February 24, 2011
Stage Raw: Theatrification and Broadway 100
COMPREHENSVIE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Tim Crouch's The Author, and the Belarus Free Theatre L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESTHEATRIFICATION AND BROADWAY 100 Broadway and the Vaudeville circuit began in Los Angeles 100 years ago, in the downtown Historical Theater Di ... More >>
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February 22, 2011
Stage Raw: The Sonneteer
NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ANNOUNCING THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO THE SONNETEER Photo by Katie Pomerantz Nick Salamone's play examines the ways in which homophobia, guilt, self-delusion and hypocrisy cause the gradual disintegration of the Cardamones, a first-generation Italian-A ... More >>
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February 14, 2011
Stage Raw: Alceste
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON THE BREAK OF NOON, AND CRACK WHORE GALORE -- LIVE!NEW REVIEW GO ALCESTE Photo by Nicholas SayaanEuripides' version of a Greek myth serves as ground zero for playwright B. Walker Sampson's surreal comedy about the otherworldly ... More >>
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December 14, 2010
Stage Raw: Caught
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS and OPENINGS THIS WEEKSTAGE FEATURE on Vieux Carre at REDCATNEW REVIEW GO CAUGHT Photo by Michael LamontIn the aftermath of Proposition 8 passing in November 2008, one of the regrets of those who fought valiantly for gay marriage and against the p ... More >>
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November 15, 2010
Stage Raw: Roccopella
NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Watson (Sacred Fools) and Futura (Boston Court)COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW GO ROCCOPELLA Embellished with funky MTV-inspired videos, writer/solo performer George Spielvogel's goofy good-natured comedy sports an array of ditzy characters who sha ... More >>
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August 20, 2010
Stage Raw: How Do Actors Do It?
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on My Penis, In and Out of TroubleHOW DO ACTORS DO IT? As told by Alan Mandell, who was among a dozen or so actors auditioning for the movie This Must Be the Place, starring Sean Penn. The role was for a man 94-years old. Mandell, being ... More >>
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August 16, 2010
Stage Raw: Free Man of Color
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS STAGE FEATURE on Opus, at the Fountain TheatreNEW REVIEW GO FREE MAN OF COLOR Photo by Michael LamontA young, well-spoken and highly educated black man is tapped to become the leader of a nation. But it's not who you think. The year is 1828, the ... More >>
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August 13, 2010
Stage Raw: James Gammon Memorial
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Opus, at the Fountain Theatre MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR JAMES GAMMON: Sunday, August 22, 2 p.m. at the MET Theatre, 1089 N. Oxford Avenue in Hollywood. RSVP here Check back Monday night for reviews of: BOY'S LIFE, Howard Korder's 1988 ba ... More >>
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August 10, 2010
Stage Raw: A Wolf Inside the Fence
NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on [title of show] and Dani GirlNEW REVIEW GO A WOLF INSIDE THE FENCE Photo courtesy of Open Fist Theatre Company "You can't lose your way in a history class. You can only go backwards," says Linus McBride (Arthur Hanket), a history teacher who seems to be losin ... More >>
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February 15, 2010
Stage Raw: The Wooster Group's "North Atlantic"
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWS THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSECHO CHAMBERS Resonances from The Wooster Group's North AtlanticGround Control to Major Tom Photo by Paula Court If you drive through the San Gabriel Mountains, where radio reception is already dodgy, set ... More >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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March 25, 2009
Stage Raw: Luke Perry and Haaz Sleiman Confirmed for LAWEES
CLICK HERE FOR COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY AWARDS, HOSTED BY JAKE BRODER AND VANESSA CLAIRE SMITH (OF LOUIS & KEELY: LIVE AT THE SAHARA) IS HAPPENING AT THE EL REY ON MONDAY NIGHT MARCH 30. DOORS OPEN AT 6:30 P.M., AND NO IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO RSVP OR BUY ... More >>
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February 13, 2009
Stage Raw: Time Stands Still
TIME STANDS STILL Time Stand Still (photo by Michael Lamont) is Donald Margulies' newest work, being given its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse. It would be nice to see our institutional theaters dip a bit deeper into the lake of American playwrights (perhaps lesser-known ones) ... More >>
Stage
July 10, 2008
Theater Reviews: Rose, Spring's Awakening
TIME STANDS STILL Time Stand Still (photo by Michael Lamont) is Donald Margulies' newest work, being given its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse. It would be nice to see our institutional theaters dip a bit deeper into the lake of American playwrights (perhaps lesser-known ones) ... More >>
Stage
June 12, 2008
Theater Reviews: Shel Silverstein Uncensored, Songs From an Unmade Bed
Also, Shame, A Very Brady Musical, and more
Stage
May 22, 2008
Theater Reviews: Hot and Ready, Tooth and Nail
Also: The Nothing Boys, Keep Your Pantheon, and more
Stage
May 15, 2008
Theater Reviews: Hillary Agonistes, Of Mice and Men, Flora the Red Menace
Also Indecent Acts, I'd Rather Be Right and more
Stage
May 1, 2008
Theater Reviews: References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, Yes Is a Long Time
Also, The Importance of Being Earnest, Emergency and more
Stage
April 10, 2008
Theater Reviews: DIETRICH AND CHEVALIER: THE MUSICAL
Also, Great Expectations, Snake in the Grass and more
Stage
April 3, 2008
Theater Reviews: Jesus Christ Superstar, Don Juan
Also, Daughters of Heaven, The Smartest Man in the World
Stage
January 31, 2008
Theater Reviews: Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story, Bachelorette
Also: Departures, The Time Machine and more
Stage
November 25, 2004
The Karma Bums
Shishir Kurup looks at India�s gods and monsters
Stage
July 8, 2004
Verne-al Equinox
Jules around the world, on stage and screen
Stage
June 26, 2003
Fool's Paradise Lost
When misery finds company
Stage
February 14, 2002
Exile�s End
Like Chekhov without the action
Stage
September 13, 2001
Love! Valour! Crucifixion!
The Gospel according to Terrence McNally

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