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Mary Poppins, Moliere, 12 Angry Men and a Japanese Swordfight Play in This Week's New Theater Reviews

A bucket full of enthusiastic reviews this week, starting with the Pick of the Week, Sweet Thursday, Pacific Resident Theatre's stage adaptation of the novel by John Steinbeck. Also garnering good notices: Neo Ensemble Theatre's Epic Proportions, Moliere's The Fools at Santa Monica Playhouse, also i ... More >>

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 >>

Proof

Flying Under the Radar: The Best of L.A. Theater in the '00s

Stage Raw: The Masochism of L.A. Theater

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on plays without words: Hamlet Shut Up! and Violators Will Be ViolatedTHE MASOCHISM OF L.A. THEATERFirst, to throw some pre-emptive perfume in the direction of the stink-bomb I'm about to toss: I think the quality and vivacity on our loc ... More >>

Stage Raw: The New Electric Ballroom

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on plays without words: Hamlet Shut Up! and Violators Will Be ViolatedNEW REVIEW GO THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM ​The yin and yang tug and pull between expressing our condition through the absence of words versus their abundance gets ... More >>

Stage Raw: Does Your Acting Career Have That Sinking Feeling?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83DOES YOUR ACTING CAREER HAVE THAT SINKING FEELING?​Captain Smith looks out over oceans of opportunity There's still hope of a rescue! Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, seeks an actor to play the Titani ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Laramie Project Ten Years Later

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Parade at the TaperINTERVIEW with Pieter-Dirk Uys and Charlize TheronTHE DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF​Photo courtesy of Ipenema Theater Troupe and the Electric Lodge TheatreCheck back here Monday afternoon for reviews of Moliere's The ... More >>

Stage Raw: Leonard Nimoy Treks into Local Theater History

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSThe latest NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Annette Bening in Medea at UCLAINTERVIEW with Medea's director, Lenka Udovicki, and UCLA's David SeftonLEONARD NIMOY TREKS INTO LOCAL THEATER HISTORY​Leonard Nimoy (right) in a 1953 production of Sholom Aleichem's It's Hard to Be ... More >>

Stage Raw: Clowntown City Limits

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK CLOWNTOWN CITY LIMITSPhoto by Ed RachlesImagine a personable, grimy, makeup-smeared, cigar-chomping guy in a tank top, not unlike Tommy Lee Jones, playing cards outdoors on the porch of some tra ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Facing East, Insanity, Farragut North

Also, St. Joan of the Slaughterhouses, The Voysey Inheritance and more

Stage Raw: Pigs' Life (St. Joan of the Slaughterhouses)

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THE COMING WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK ST JOAN OF THE SLAUGHTERHOUSESPhoto by Vitor MartinsFor a lucid analysis of the malfunctioning global financial markets, one could do worse than Bertolt Brecht. And it's hard to imagine doi ... More >>

East of Berlin

Stage Raw: Bingo and Natives

The latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded in this coming week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; Also, see this week's  THEATER FEATURE on Oleanna at the TaperBINGO WITH THE INDIANS, a late night entry by Adam Rapp at Rogue Machine, is among the new productions being reviewed this coming wee ... More >>

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 >>

Dracula

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Stage Raw: Candida

CANDIDA Candida at the Colony Theatre is this week's Pick. Photo by Michael Lamont. At your fingertips: The 30th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards NOMINEES.Tickets for nominee's guests and for the general public can now be purchased via  http://tinyurl.com/theaterawardsReviewed this we ... More >>

Stage Raw: Phil Newby

PHIL NEWBY A memorial service was held at Sacred Fools Theatre on Sunday for that company's young and beloved actor who was found in his apartment last week. More on Phil to come in the print edition one week week from Thursday. At your fingertips: This week's Theater Feature on Jim Leonard' ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Yo Ho Ho! A Pirate's Christmas, It's a Stevie Wonderful Life!

Also, Inspecting Carol and Groundlings Holiday Show

Yo Ho Ho! A Pirate's Christmas

Stage Raw: Arts Freeze

ARTS FREEZE FOR THE HOLIDAYS In a cost-cutting measure, the Los Angeles Unified School District has frozen district funds until the state legislature returns to Sacramento in January to sort out the State budget gridlock. Arts for L.A. has been quick to point out that the freeze includes existin ... More >>

Stage Raw: Lodestone Says Goodnight and Good Luck

Check back here Monday after noon for the upcoming weekend's NEW THEATER REVIEWS of The Little Dog Laughed, Douglas Carter Beane's comedy about being oneself in Hollywood and elsewhere, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre; Deborah Pryor's mystical Appalachian one-act The Love Talker at Son of Semele Ens ... More >>

Stage Raw: Critic-O-Meter

CRITIC-O-METER In case you're wondering what Rob Kendt has been up to in New York City, since leaving his post as editor of Back Stage West, first look no further than his byline - now Rob Weinert-Kendt. That's what a wedding can do. He's also been having bowls of matzoh ball soup at the Polish ... More >>

eLove, A Musical.Com/edy

New Theater Reviews: The School of Night, The Joy Luck Club

Thystes' Feast, and more

Stage Raw: Broadway Cares

BROADWAY CARES This Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 10 p.m., the cast of Spring Awakening (currently at the Ahmanson ) will perform a special show at L.A.'s Upright Cabaret with proceeds to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and other local charities here in the southland. Mark’s Restau ... More >>

Zastrozzi

The 29th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

Rock & rollin' at Hollywood's Avalon

The 29th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards: The Rock Opera

Backers' Audition Edition

Theater 2007: Listing Toward the Valley

Here’s to the memories

Theater Reviews: The Color Purple, High School Musical, Bob's Holiday Office Party

Also A Doll House, Paging Dr. Chutzpah, Seven Santas and more

Theater Reviews: The Drawer Boy, Hollywood Hellhouse, Max Maven

Also Jim Morrison's Swimming to the Moon and this week's pick, Innocent When You Dream.

Theater Reviews: Wicked, Trying, Monsieur Chopin

Palace of the End

Theater Reviews

The Boomerang Kid, It's Just Sex, and this week's pick, Palace of the End

When Johnny Comes Marching Homeless

What happens when soldiers return? Reviews of The Red and White Store, The Boarding House and The Cover of Life

Theater Reviews

Including this week's pick, Bush is Bad

Theater

Theater Reviews

This week's pick, Beautiful City. Also The Chase Lounge, Jackson Frost and more

Theater Reviews

Including this week's picks, Elia Arce’s The Fifth Commandment, Samuel Beckett Centenary and Stephen Holman

Theater Reviews

Including this week's pick, Antony and Cleopatra

Theater Reviews

Including this week's pick, The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer-Trash Housewife

Theater Reviews

A Preview of Weekend Reviews

Reviews of Barnum, Stone Heart and A Woman of No Importance

New Theater Reviews

For the week of February 24 - March 2

Theater and Comedy Listings

For February 10 - 16 cvc

Theater Listings

For February 10 -16, 2006

The Lawees Are Coming; The Lawees Are Coming!

Our nominees for the 27th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards