Samuel Beckett

Krapp's Last Tape and Blue/Orange, Reviewed

The New Electric Ballroom

Years of a Clown: Stoneface: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton at Sacred Fools

Billy Elliot, In Paris and Waiting for Godot

Dancing off the blues

Waiting for Godot

Nowhere Man

Brett Neveu's 4 Murders

Absurdism is back

Jane Anderson's The Escort and Dolores Ribakoff's Fetish

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Don't wait for Uncle Boonmee

Time Travelers

John Steppling's Phantom Luck

God's Sabbatical

John Sinner's Happy Ending and Marios Stilianakis' Water

Stage Raw: Voombodian Women from Outer Space!

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on Happy Ending and WaterVOOMBODIAN WOMEN FROM OUTER SPACE! Staged reading of Barry Schwam's new play at Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., in Sierra Madre. Sun., 7:30 p.m. $5 (626) 355-4318 AN EVENING WITH PAT BOONE, ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Something to Crow About, Waiting fr Lefty and more

Stage Raw: Waiting for Lefty

NEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on Neighbors, at the MatrixNEW REVIEW GO WAITING FOR LEFTY ​Photo by Thomas MikuszThis dynamic 1935 one-act launched the career of playwright Clifford Odets, became an important social document, and solidified the reputation of the Group Theatre. Seeing it now, ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The True Story of Jack and the Beanstalk, They Call Me Mister Fry, Bones

Also Streep Tease: An Evening of Meryl Streep Monologues and more

Stage Raw: Bones

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on [title of show] and Dani GirlNEW REVIEW GO BONES ​Photo by Craig Schwartz Childhood sexual abuse may no longer be the unmentionable topic it once was, but that hasn't lessened its horror or salved the terrible scars borne by its v ... More >>

Recession Be Damned: Best Theater of 2009

A thriving year for stage in L.A.

Treefall and The Chairs: Beyond World’s End

Postapocalyptic plays by Henry Murray and Eugene Ionesco

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 >>

Film

Theater Reviews: Divorce! The Musical, Grand Motel, The Jazz Age

Also, Call Me Mister Fry, Blues for Central Avenue and more

Stage Raw: Film

FILM is this week's Pick of the Week. Photo by Darrett Sanders Failing Better The Absurdists' convention Local playwright Patrick McGowan's new play, Film, has no right to be as good as it is. The central character is the late theater director Alan Schneider (Bill Robens) -- known for stagi ... More >>

Stage Raw: Time Stands Still

TIME STANDS STILL Time Stand Still (photo by Michael Lamont) is Donald Margulies' newest work, being given its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse. It would be nice to see our institutional theaters dip a bit deeper into the lake of American playwrights (perhaps lesser-known ones) ... More >>

Waiting for Godot

Theater Reviews: The Bird and Mr. Banks, Waiting for Godot, Boadicea, The Dining Room

Also, Mammals, Battle Hymn, Resignation Day

Theater Review: A Christmas Carol

Plus, Harold Pinter, R.I.P.

Stage Raw: Harold Pinter Dies on Christmas Eve

HAROLD PINTER DIES ON CHRISTMAS EVE  The most fitting obituary for the second greatest dramatist of the 20th century (behind Samuel Beckett, whom Pinter emulated) would be to say almost nothing, or perhaps something cryptic, or trivial, that's mere ice on a lake of dread. Because the man f ... More >>

Getting Off-Broadway: A New York Guide

Roundup of shows in the shadow of 42nd Street

Lucia Mad

Theater Reviews: Sanctuary, Alexandros

Also, Lucia Mad, In Heat, A Thousand Words, and more

John Doyle's Sweeney Todd

Who's your barber?

Sweeney Todd

Not With a Whimper

Another memorable Monday

Theater of the Absurd in New Orleans and on the Campaign Trail

Waiting for Godot

Lydia Davis’ Short, Weird Fiction

Curious and curiouser

Mr. Moonlight

Harold Pinter’s ambiguous endgame

Up in Smoke

A musical comedy sums up our grave new world

Mean Snacks and Monkey Shit

Talking bananas with George Saunders

Alley Girl

Cruising our streets with no names

Happy Days

Synthaxis Theater’s Estelle Busch turns 90

How to Survive a Depression Without Really Crying

Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth

Aching Ids

Love wounds in Spider and Open Hearts

Articles of Faith

Murray Mednick’s Catskills Cabala

What Were Those Unforgettable Lines?

The Waverly Gallery’s ode to a demented grandmother

Echo Chambers

Sounds from the young 20th century

Howard Rodman’s Secret

A moral history of the world in our times

Flower Power Games

The delirious rise and acrimonious dissolution of the Eastside Ladies Garden Auxiliary

Show and Tell

L.A.'s museum curators on their favorite works of art

Living in Solitary

Samuel Beckett and the San Quentin Drama Workshop