Oscar Wilde

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Oscar Wilde Outdoors

Chalk Repertory -- known for its site-specific works -- brings Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan from the drawing room to the out of doors in this week's Pick. Our critics also particularly enjoyed Eat the Runt at Hollywood's Theatre of NOTE, El Grande de Coca Cola at Santa Monica's Ruskin Theatr ... More >>

Lady Windermere's Fan

What Is Art Good For? Two Plays Answer the Question

Ghost Road Company adapts Nathaniel Hawthorne as Zombie Joe's does Oscar Wilde

Ashley Huizenga on Sex, Starvation, and Art

Our music feature this week focuses on Ashley Huizenga, an L.A. musician and performance artist known for her academic-minded -- and also quite flithy -- shows under the guise of her alter ego Actually Huizenga. Trained as a classical pianist, she creates epic '80s inspired dance scores that featur ... More >>

Short Eyes, King of the Desert, The Lonesome West, and more New Stage Reviews . . .

​Miguel Pinero's 1970s prison play Short Eyes nabs this week's Pick of the Week.​ Good notices also for Martin McDonagh's The Lonesome West at Santa Monica's Ruskin Theatre Group; Rene Rivera's King of the Desert at Casa 0101 in East L.A.; and Molly Smith Metzer's new play, Elemeno Pea at South ... More >>

Oscar Wilde's Salome and a Pair of Plays by J.M. Barrie

Stage Raw: Krunk-Fu Battle Battle

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS   Stage FEATURE on William Leavitt's Spectral Analysis Courtesy of East West PlayersKrunk-Fu Battle Battle​Though Mayank Keshaviah found thin patches in the new musical Krunk-Fu Battle Battle (book by Qui Nguyen, lyrics by Beau Sia and vocal ... More >>

AH, THE GLORY DAYS OF PREPPY ANGST

The Importance of Being Earnest

Stage Raw: Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 & Over

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSPUZZLER​Padraic Duffy's noir drama of East German Spies opens this weekend at Sacred Fools Theater Company. Photo by C.M. GonzalezFAIRY TALE THEATRE: 18 & OVERJ. Michael Feldman's ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Salome

Top 10 Foodie Words We Hate: Starting With Foodie, Part 2

Flickr/WordRidden​ A few months ago we went off on the Top 10 Foodie Words We Hate, a post that generated a lot of feedback, for which we are grateful. It also, as you might expect, generated a lot of other words that are happily vilified by many of us who spend far more time, sadly, writing ... More >>

Stage Raw: Bedroom Farce

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON LINDA PURL'S FESTIVALNEW REVIEW GO  BEDROOM FARCE ​Photo by Ron Sossi The title is apt, since the action occurs in three radically different bedrooms in a 1975 English suburb. Kate (blond and taffy-voiced Kate Hollinshead) an ... More >>

Francesca Gabbiani at Patrick Painter

THEATER REVIEWS: HEYDRICH/HITLER/HOLOCAUST, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

Also, GROSS INDECENCY: THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE and more

Theater Reviews: The Receptionist, Legally Blonde the Musical

Also, Outside of the Box, Block Nine and more

The New Book "The Psychology of Wine" is Long on Rhetoric and (Thankfully) Short on Wine Criticism

Consult Your Psychologist Before Drinking Chardonnay​​The Psychology of Wine: Truth and Beauty by the Glass by Evan and Brian Mitchell sounds like another book from wine experts telling us which wines to love--and which to scoff at. Sounds like exactly what we don't need, right? Taste bu ... More >>

Stage Raw: Pee Wee Forever?

The LATEST NEW REVIEWS are embedded in this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, this week's STAGE FEATURE on Hair, at the Chance TheatrePEE WEE FOREVER?​Photo by Greg GormanNot quite "forever," but Stage Raw just learned that The Pee Wee Herman Show, originally slated for Nov. 8 - 29 at the ... More >>

THEATER REVIEWS: CARVED IN STONE, THE HOSTAGE, KILL ME DEADLY

Also, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mutiny at Port Chicago, Nevermore, Wife Swappers and more.

Carved in Stone

Hearts of Darkness: The 2009 Pacific Playwrights Festival

The Little Dog Laughed

Theater Reviews: The Little Dog Laughed, Killing Game

Also, The Love Talker, The Night Before Christmas and more

Capsized Flotsam

The Importance of Being Earnest

Queen Christina Goes Roman

Theater Reviews

Including David Mamet's Squirrels and Why Marry?

Recovered Voices

Resurrecting the music of composers affected by the Holocaust

Boy Snubs Girl, Girl Beheads Boy

Al Pacino goes Wilde

Theater Reviews

For March 3 - 9

Gibson Girls Gone Wild

David Mamet’s tales of the unfair sex

New Film Reviews

For the week of February 3 -10, 2006

New Theater Reviews

For February 3 - 9, 2006

The Importance of Being Earnest

New Theater Reviews

Terminatable

Beaten by unions and beset by Angelides, Arnold looks shaky for 2006

Happy Ever-Aftering

Flipping off the classics

A Poisonous Book

Oscar Wilde’s debut novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray

A Poisonous Book

Oscar Wilde's debut novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Sole Possessions

10 Good Shows

Gentle Giant

A Letter From Oscar Wilde

Masters of Deceit

Oscar Wilde at the Hammer; J. Edgar Hoover at the ?

Taming Wilde

Oliver Parker's snoozy Ideal Husband

My Vincent

R.B. Kitaj on van Gogh

Ziggy Stardust Memories

Todd Haynes' heady new film

Wilde and Wilder

How our theater gave up the Big Time

The Importance of Being Iconoclastic

The Little Girl With a Big Head

David Schweizer directs a new translation of Salome