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10 Hollywood Fringe Festival Shows That Sound Awesome

See also: *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles *12 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013 *Our Latest Theater Reviews The 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival is upon us, which means drama, stand-up, improv, music, socializing and lots and lots of one-person shows are headed to the area around Santa Monic ... More >>

Silence of the Lambs Becomes a Musical, With the Most Gynecologically Explicit Love Ballad Ever

Whatever else it might be -- "exuberantly gross" (New York Times), "not exactly the height of satirical sophistication" (Hollywood Reporter), "a lot funnier than it has a right to be" (New York Post) -- Off Broadway's hit serial-killer musical satire, Silence! The Musical, is the kind of show critic ... More >>

Hollywood Fringe Festival Can Has LOLPERA

It's a warm Saturday afternoon a month before the start of the Hollywood Fringe Festival and LOLPERA is in its first day of rehearsal. Cast members have just finished a run-through of the work's dramatic opening number in the living room of Director Angela Lopez's Long Beach apartment. The word "mas ... More >>

Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera Arrives in L.A., Co-Written by Danny Franzese (aka the Gay Friend in Mean Girls)

You probably know him as Damian, the flamboyant scene stealer from the 2004 film Mean Girls, where various quips ("I want my pink shirt back") earned Danny Franzese a modest cult following consisting primarily of tweens and queens. While his film cohorts Tina Fey and Lindsay Lohan graduated to 30 Ro ... More >>

Diving Normal

THEATER REVIEWS: THE AUTUMN GARDEN, VON BACH, DIVING NORMAL

ALSO, HEAD: THE MUSICAL, THE AUTUMN GARDEN

Stage Raw: Head, The Musical

NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Cornerstone's Making ParadiseNEW REVIEW GO HEAD: THE MUSICAL ​Photo by Irene HoveyComposer-lyricist Kevin Fry's delightfully campy horror musical, based on Roger Corman's 1962 gore-fest The Brain That Wouldn't Die, is not only enjoyable on the level of Midnigh ... More >>

The Actors' Vice

Tom Jacobson's The Twentieth Century Way

Blowback: Shaheed and The Arsonists

Car bombs, arson and the history of empire

Stage Raw: Getting Our Fringe On

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's Theater Feature on Camelot and Baal. GETTING OUR FRINGE ON I've heard it said at numerous receptions and parties that the reason L.A. has so much bad theater is because it has so much bad theater - that less would be more. Fringe Fe ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Stage Raw: Getting Physical

DRACULADracula is this week's Pick. See review by pressing the Continue Reading tab at the bottom of this section. (All New Reviews are embedded within the Comprehensive Theater Listings.) Photo by Michael Lamont GETTING PHYSICAL Two bills of physical comedy are being performed at Sacred Fool ... More >>

Behind the Talents of Stormy Weather and Bridezilla Strikes Back!

Touched by Oprah: The divine ascents of Cynthia Silver and Linda Twine

Stage Raw: Bohemian Cowboy

BOHEMIAN COWBOY is this week's Pick of the Week Crossing the Center Line A father heads into the desert, never to return By Steven Leigh MorrisThe original title of Raymond King Shurtz's one-man show was The Gospel of Irony ― which would have been a particularly ironic title, had it stuck, s ... More >>

Stage Raw: Bridezilla Strikes Back

BRIDEZILLA STRIKES BACK! Ed Krieger NEW REVIEW In August of 2002, Cynthia Silver, a struggling actress, was informed by her wedding "event designer" that a British film company, September Films was creating a "documentary series" called "Manhattan Brides," that followed couples through the pre ... More >>

Local Theater News: The Taper, Galatea and Paul Brennan

Theater News: The Mark Taper Forum's $30 Million Face Lift; Galatea aims for Fringe NYC festival; Company of Angeles former president Paul Brennan dies. TAPER FACELIFT On Tuesday morning, Center Theatre Group rolled out its $30 million re-design of the Mark Taper Forum, that has been dark for t ... More >>

Getting Off-Broadway: A New York Guide

Roundup of shows in the shadow of 42nd Street

Swine Song

Greg Kotis, on his agri-eco farce, Pig Farm

Porcelain Gods

Urinetown’s creators on commodes, comedy and 9/11

Edging Your Bets

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

The Oldest Living Most-Promising Theater City in the World

Two festivals converge in L.A.