Michael Michetti

Theater to See This Week, Including a Riveting Police Story

L.A. Weekly critic Lovell Estell III found a police melodrama Cops and Friends of Cops to be a refreshingly unpredictable new play, and made it this week's Pick. Good reviews also for Peter Pan, presented by the Blank Theatre at Second Stage, and Falling for Make Believe, a play about the theater at ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Riveting Drama About Holocaust-Era Poland

Our critic Deborah Klugman found Tadeusz Slobodzianek's drama, about Polish complicity in the German Nazis' persecution of Polish Jews in the 1940s, and presented by Son of Semele Ensemble at Atwater Village Theatre, to be a model of stagecraft and emotional to watch. For all the lastest new theater ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week

Adapter-performer Brian T. Finney has adapted Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in what Paul Birchall describes as "hypnotic." It's this week's pick of the week. Neal Weaver found charm and passion in Actors' Co-op's revival of The Miracle Worker. See below for all the latest new theater reviews. ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Garry Marshall Directing a Play About the Making of Double Indemnity

Lost Moon Radio did another bang-up job hosting the 34th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Monday night. (See the full list of L.A. Weekly Theater Award winners here.) Thanks to Lauren Ludwig, Trish Hadley and the LMR troupe for their talent, and thanks for all the kind missives from people who had ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Pycho-Sexual Boxing Match

Pycho-sexual spectacles got nods from our critics this week, including Illyrian Players' Lord Blackberry's Apocalypse and our Pick of the Week, Tender Napalm. Nice reviews also for Doma Theatre Company's Dreamgirls at the MET, Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice at A Noise Within, Latino Theatre Company's Melacho ... More >>

O'Neill and Steinbeck Onstage

Reviews of A Noise Within's Grapes of Wrath and Early Plays at REDCAT

The Grapes of Wrath

L.A. Theater 2013: A Preview

Seminar at the Ahmanson and Creation at Boston Court, Reviewed

Stage Raw: It's Official, Rada to replace Dillingham at CTG

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS   Stage FEATURE on Rajiv Joseph's The Monster at the Door Craig SchwartzEdward L. Rada to replace Charles Dillingham at CTG​An unconfirmed tip reported to the Weekly a couple of weeks ago that Edward L. Rada would be taking over the reti ... More >>

Tom Jacobson's The Chinese Massacre (Annotated) and House of the Rising Son

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 Comedy of Errors

Theater Reviews; The Comedy of Errors, The Birthday Boys, The Woodpecker

Also A Night at the Oscars, Women in Shorts and more

Stage Raw: Comedy of Errors

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Oedipus the Tyrant and King LearL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO COMEDY OF ERRORS ​Photo by Craig Schwartz A strongman, a ventriloquist, three showgirls and a mimic with 1,000 voices make up just half of the Bu ... More >>

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

Year of the inner child

The Actors' Vice

Tom Jacobson's The Twentieth Century Way

At the Tip of the Spear

Players on the fringe, making the future

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: Rachel Rosenthal at 83

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Poland, where theater is hipRACHEL ROSENTHAL AT 83 ​The Rachel Rosenthal Company (founded in 1989) is throwing a fundraiser to help celebrate the performance artist's 83rd birthday, past achievements and the upcoming publication o ... More >>

Stage Raw: L.A. shows NYC-bound

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsL.A. SHOWS HEADING EAST ​SoulArt Productions presentation of Alex Lyras' The Common Air - a nominee in last year's L.A. Weekly Theatre Awards solo performance award for its 2008 run at the Asylu ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Festen, Just Imagine, Never Land, Save Gertrude

Also, High Ceilings, The Philadelphia Story, The Blunders and more

Hamlet

Theater Reviews: Hamlet, Razorback, The Most Mediocre Story Never Told

Also, Earth Sucks, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Politico!

1001: Jason Grote and his Arabian Nights

Ancient Persia collides with modern NYC at Pasadena's Theater @ Boston Court

Theater Reviews: Jesus Christ Superstar, Don Juan

Also, Daughters of Heaven, The Smartest Man in the World

New Theater Reviews: Cartoon, Li'l Abner, and The Brig

Also, Stay Forever: The Life and Music of Dusty Springfield

Theater Listings

For the week of Nov. 16-22

Theater Listings

For the week of Oct. 26-Nov. 1

Theater Reviews: Lost Angeles, Point Break, This Lime Tree Bower

Also this week's pick, The Wreck of the Unfathomable

Theater Listings

For the week of August 31-September 6

No, You Shut Up!

Eric Whitacre’s children of paradise lost

Reviews of Paradise Lost, Bob & Ed's Discount Enlightenment Warehouse

Also this week's pick, Limonade Tous les Jours

Theater Reviews

Including Cuts, Each Day Dies with Sleep, Miss Julie and more

Theater 2005

The year of indignant irony and bloody machinations

Theater Reviews

For March 3 - 9

Theater 2005

The year of indignant irony and bloody machinations

Servicing Their Country

Women on the rack, from Sacramento to Istanbul

Spirited Away

Tom Jacobson’s brilliant new play takes us to church

L’armoire, C’est Moi

Charles L. Mee’s chaotic catechism

Russian Around

A tale of two countries

Lewd Mechanics: Stage Highlights

Edging Your Bets

Edgefest holds the answers to those handicapping the future of theater in L.A.

Shakespeare in the Dark

Two shadowy Bards pay off

The Buck Starts Here

Why two private investors are gambling on the theater

Destiny Manifesto

L.A. theater lurches into the future

Signifying Nothing

The sound and fury of David Mamet