Noel Coward

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Mesmerizing Child's-Eye View of Grief, Walking the Tightrope

Child-like views delighted our critics this week, with Mike Kenney's Walking the Tightrope at the 24th Street Theatre taking Pick of the Week, and a nod to Albie Selznick's magic show Smoke and Mirrors at the Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood. There's also a recommendation for an adult comed ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Family Strife and Sexual Taboos in Machu Picchu, Texas

Family trauma drama Machu Picchu, Texas (pictured above) grabs our Pick of the Week this week. Good reviews also for Noel Coward's Fallen Angels at the Pasadena Playhouse and David Henry Hwang's Chinglish at South Coast Rep. For all New Theater Reviews, and this weekend's comprehensive listing ... More >>

Fallen Angels

Peppermint Lounge

Antaeus Company double dips The Seagull, and more New Theater Reviews . . .

​Antaeus Company's double-cast production of Chekhov's The Seagull scored this week's Pick of the Week.​ Click here for all of this week's New Theater Reviews, or after the jump. Also, check this week's Stage feature on a mixed reaction to Hollywood's A-List (Clooney, Pitt, Bacon, Sheen) taking ... More >>

Moon Over Buffalo

Peace in Our Time

Gil Cates dies at 77

Craig SchwartzA Noise Within cuts open a new path in Pasadena​GIL CATES DIES: The Geffen Playhouse's artistic director, and Academy Awards producer, was found in a UCLA parking lot Monday night, having died of natural causes. More on this story to come. A Noise Within opened it's new Pasadena digs ... More >>

Reviews of The Leopard and Don't Hug Me, I'm Pregnant, and more . . .

​John Leguizamo opened his one-man show, "Ghetto Klown" on Sunday. See review later this week, along with the extended feature on Bayside High School Musical, at Victory Theatre Center -- one of two new local productions now playing based on popular TV series.(I Love Lucy, Live on Stage opened at ... More >>

For the Record: The Coen Bros.: a Cabaret Show About Big Lebowski Filmmakers, and Other Reviews

​Anti-Semitic graffiti found on a market wall in central Houston last month is just one symptom of why The Merchant of Venice belongs on our shores. The Porters of Hellgate have their version running at the Whitmore Theatre in North Hollywood. See Theater feature on Wednesday​Capsule reviews of ... More >>

Gigi

Stage Raw: Betty Garrett Dies at 91

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON THE BREAK OF NOON, AND CRACK WHORE GALORE -- LIVE!BETTY GARRETT (1919-2011) ​L.A. Weekly's 2005 Queen of the Angels, Betty Garrett, died Saturday morning of natural causes at UCLA Medical Center following a brief i ... More >>

Notes From a Bunker in New York City

A Free Man of Color, Notes From Underground and two Pinter one-acts

Blithe Spirit

Theater Reviews: Loveland, Blithe Spirit, The Butcher of Baraboo

Also, Hamlet, Prince of Puddles and more

Cumbia de Mi Corazon, Dementia, An Evening With Sutton Foster

Also, Jawbone of an Ass, Starmites: An Intergalactic Musical and more

Stage Raw: The Subject Was Roses and Emmett Till

 COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSTHEATER FEATURES ON NORTH ATLANTIC AND ED HARRIS THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSUnderstating the ObviousThe Subject Was Roses and The Ballad of Emmett TillBY STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS​No bed of roses: Sheen and Conroy on a sterile promontory: ... More >>

Queer Town: Orson Bean, Prop. 8 Supporter, Stars as Closeted, Gay Writer

Actor Orson Bean, who supported Proposition 8 and contributed money to the "Yes on 8" campaign, is now starring in a Noel Coward play about a closeted, gay writer.Actor Orson Bean​It seems a little weird to us, but perhaps what's even stranger is that Edge LA, a gay web site that runs a flattering ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Proof, A Song at Twilight, West

Also, The Pee-wee Herman Show, The Kings of the Kilburn High Road and more

A Song at Twilight

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: West

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's Theater Feature on Camelot and Baal. NEW REVIEW GO WEST ​Photo by SpeedgraflexSteven Berkoff's 1983 tale of adrenaline, lust, rage, and violence amongst a group of young thugs in 1960s London is written in modified metrical verse, ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The Receptionist, Legally Blonde the Musical

Also, Outside of the Box, Block Nine and more

Today in Photographs: August 8, 1940

Noel Coward, flanked by Marlene Dietrich and Cary Grant, enjoys a moment during a theater event benefiting the Red Cross at Hollywood's El Capitan Theater. LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL  

Movie Reviews: Death In Love, 500 Days of Summer, Severed Ways

Also, The Poker House, The Queen and I, and more

Movie Reviews: Dance Flick, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Easy Virtue

Also, The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story, Fados and more

Leave Him to Heaven: R.I.P. Steven Bach, 1940-2009

Today in Photographs: March 9, 1958

British playwright-actor Noel Coward and co-star Eva Gabor arrive in Los Angeles from San Francisco for the Huntington Hartford run of Coward's Present Laughter. The Hartford later became the James A. Doolittle Theater before its present incarnation as the Ricardo Montalban Theater.Photo: Herald-Exa ... More >>

Bittersweet Valentine

Theater Reviews: Tragedy: A Tragedy, Waiting in the Wings, Good Bobby

Also, Money Shot, Halo and more

David Lean at 100: The Talent Behind the Legend

Reconsidering the highs and lows of a filmmaking icon

Richard Greenberg's The Injured Party and SCR's New Play Fest

It's a small world after all

Theater Listings

For the Week of Dec. 7-14 Opening This Week Larger Theaters Smaller TheatersHollywood, West Hollywood, Downtown The Valleys Westside, Beaches Special Events

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For the week of Nov. 23-29

Vivacious Coward

Tonight at 8:30

Theater Listings

For the Week of Nov. 23-29

Theater Reviews: The Bald Soprano, Dear Brutus, Fool For Love

Also this week's pick, Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30

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For the week of Sept. 7-13

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For the week of August 31-September 6

Surf Report

Pass the Salty

New York Playbill

A winter sampler

All That Glitters

Opera’s Crude Cousin Grown Up

Stephen Sondheim, and the winding road of the American musical

Ashland or Bust

On the road to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Paradise Lost and Lost and Lost . . .

The bombing in Bali and sniper mania

Or Watch It on TV

Echo Chambers

Sounds from the young 20th century

Getting Physical

The Fifth Annual Common Ground Festival

Lingua Britannica

Of toffs, twits and yobs