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Michael Matthews

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2013

    Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Triumphant Return of a Latter-Day Judy Garland

    Tracie Bennett knocked the socks off our critic Tom Provenzano with her impersonation of Judy Garland in End of the Rainbow at the Ahmanson, which he made this week's Pick of the Week. Also Bill Raden had good things to say about S.O.E. -- Jami Brandli's clever, three-character riff on the venerable ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2013

    L.A.'s Premiere LGBT Stage Celebrates 30th Anniversary, As Its New Artistic Directors Discuss the Future of Queer Theater

    Only in Los Angeles could you expect to find a star-studded gala in a shopping center parking structure. But that's because only Burbank would think of squeezing its premiere legitimate stage in amid Macy's' and Ikea's otherwise disinterested parking-space trollers at Burbank Town Center mall. Yet ... More >>

  • 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 >>

  • Stage

    January 3, 2013

    What Critics -- and Theater Artists -- Are Feeling When Critics Come See a Show

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    October 4, 2012

    Justin Love

    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

    July 25, 2012

    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 >>

  • Stage

    July 12, 2012

    The New Electric Ballroom, House and Very Still and Hard to See

    Three plays that favor genuine emotion, at Rogue Machine and the Production Company at the Lex

  • Calendar

    June 14, 2012

    Very Still and Hard to See

    Three plays that favor genuine emotion, at Rogue Machine and the Production Company at the Lex

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2012

    An Astral Dick, Some Hair and a Compleat Female Stage Beauty in This Week's New Theater Reviews.

    A three-person series of sketches about Laotians in America, Regugee Nation is this week's Pick. Click here for all New Stage Reviews, or go to the jump. Also, check out this week's stage feature Wednesday eve on Hands on a Hardbody, a new musical developed at and presented by La Jolla Playhouse, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 15, 2012

    The Color Purple

    A three-person series of sketches about Laotians in America, Regugee Nation is this week's Pick. Click here for all New Stage Reviews, or go to the jump. Also, check out this week's stage feature Wednesday eve on Hands on a Hardbody, a new musical developed at and presented by La Jolla Playhouse, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour

    Michael LamontThe Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity​Kristoffer 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 >>

  • Calendar

    September 8, 2011

    What's Wrong With Angry?

    Michael LamontThe Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity​Kristoffer 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 >>

  • Calendar

    April 21, 2011

    The Temperamentals

    Michael LamontThe Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity​Kristoffer 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 >>

  • Stage

    April 21, 2011

    Theater Reviews: I Never Sang for My Father, The Temperamentals

    Also, The All Night Strut!, Veronika Decides to Die, Wait Until Dark and more

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    Stage Raw: I Never Sang for My Father

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS (are back!)NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on The Escort and Fetish​"If the aim of naturalism in theater is the pitch perfect rendering of reality, then Cameron Watson's urbane staging of Robert Anderson's 1968 drama scores, " writes Deborah Klugman in this week's r ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 16, 2010

    The Santaland Diaries

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS (are back!)NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on The Escort and Fetish​"If the aim of naturalism in theater is the pitch perfect rendering of reality, then Cameron Watson's urbane staging of Robert Anderson's 1968 drama scores, " writes Deborah Klugman in this week's r ... More >>

  • Stage

    December 16, 2010

    Theater Reviews: Caught, The Santaland Diaries, Julia

    Also, Remembering the Ladies, Cyrano de Bergerac and more

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Stage Raw: Loveland

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on La Razon Blindada and A Wolf Inside the Fence and NEW REVIEW GO LOVELAND ​Photo by Leland Auslender What a rare experience it is, when a character that's as maniacal, sexually overheated and as transparently off the rails as a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 30, 2010

    Take Me Out

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on La Razon Blindada and A Wolf Inside the Fence and NEW REVIEW GO LOVELAND ​Photo by Leland Auslender What a rare experience it is, when a character that's as maniacal, sexually overheated and as transparently off the rails as a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2010

    Stage Raw: Take Me Out

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on Tim Robbins' Break the WhipNEW REVIEW GO TAKE ME OUT ​Photo by Michael Calas Baseball star Darren Leming (Ary Katz), the central figure in Richard Greenberg's provocative 2002 comedy-drama, is a paragon of talent, skill and vi ... More >>

  • Stage

    June 3, 2010

    They Done Me Wrong

    Victim-heroines in The Women of Brewster Place and Born to Be Alive

  • Stage

    April 1, 2010

    31st Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

    When Jackie was a Kennedy

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    Stage Raw: Springtime for Lawees

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS AND NEW REVIEW FUNCTIONS WILL RETURN SHORTLY. 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSYeah, we know, there was apparently no glue in the frames, so recipients who held their coveted Lawee prizes on the stage of the El Rey Monday night frequently suffered the indignity of ... More >>

  • Stage

    March 18, 2010

    Crossing Forbidden Boundaries

    Gay love in Israel and Iran

  • 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 10, 2009

    ABSINTHE, OPIUM, AND MAGIC; GAY APPAREL: A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE HOUSE OF BESARAB

    Also, Pandora, Wacademia, the Santaland Diaries, Stated Income and more

  • Calendar

    April 2, 2009

    The Prodigal Father

    Also, Pandora, Wacademia, the Santaland Diaries, Stated Income and more

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2009

    Stage Raw: Land of the Tigers

    CLICK HERE FOR COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLAND OF THE TIGERS IS THIS WEEK'S PICKLand of the Tigers Photo by Jon Beauregard Noises OnCool Cats and Hot ActorsAct 1 of the Burglars of Hamm's hilarious and thought provoking comedy, Land of the Tigers, outlandishly crosses Cats with Planet of the Ape ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2009

    Stage Raw: Grease

    L.A.DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS TONIGHT AT EL PORTALL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS TWO WEEKS FROM TONIGHT AT THE EL REYPURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES GREASE at the PantagesGrease Photo by Joan MarcusNEW REVIEW GREASE Born of NBC's re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    Stage Raw: Before Kirk Douglas Forgets

    PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH AT THE EL REY; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES. BEFORE I FORGETKirk Douglas in Before I Forget. Photo by Craig Schwartz The gift in Kirk Douglas' one-man show, Before I Forget,  that opened over the weekend in the theater name ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 19, 2009

    The Jazz Age

    PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH AT THE EL REY; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES. BEFORE I FORGETKirk Douglas in Before I Forget. Photo by Craig Schwartz The gift in Kirk Douglas' one-man show, Before I Forget,  that opened over the weekend in the theater name ... More >>

  • Stage

    February 19, 2009

    Theater Reviews: Divorce! The Musical, Grand Motel, The Jazz Age

    Also, Call Me Mister Fry, Blues for Central Avenue and more

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2008

    Stage Raw: Who Needs Plays?

    Also, Call Me Mister Fry, Blues for Central Avenue and more

  • Stage

    August 28, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Bury the Dead, Coriolanus, Inherit the Wind

    Also, Abigail's Party, The Bones of Lesser Men, and more

  • Calendar

    August 28, 2008

    Sissystrata

    Also, Abigail's Party, The Bones of Lesser Men, and more

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2008

    Stage Raw: It Helps to Be Bi

    Also, Abigail's Party, The Bones of Lesser Men, and more

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2008

    Stage Raw: Cooperation and Dissent

    Also, Abigail's Party, The Bones of Lesser Men, and more

  • Stage

    March 27, 2008

    Theater Listings

    For the week of March 28-April 3

  • Stage

    March 13, 2008

    Theater Listings

    For the week of March 14-20

  • Stage

    March 6, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Groundlings Swimsuit Edition, A Good Smoke

    Also, Varla Jean Merman Loves a Foreign Tongue!

  • Calendar

    February 28, 2008

    America's Next Top Bottom

    Also, Varla Jean Merman Loves a Foreign Tongue!

  • Stage

    February 21, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Sexy Laundry, Stupid Kids

    Also, Frozen, Robots vs. Fake Robots

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    Stupid KIds

    Also, Frozen, Robots vs. Fake Robots

  • Stage

    January 18, 2007

    Theater Reviews

    Including Camelot, Tammy Faye Starlite's Born Again Again!, and this week's pick, A Lesson Before Dying

  • News

    April 6, 2006

    L.A. Theater 2006: The Thinning Gray Line

    Past: Is theater facing an audience die-off?

  • Stage

    November 24, 2005

    A Beige Green Room

    Michael Matthews’ giddy new Celebration

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