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  • Blogs

    February 20, 2013

    L.A. Weekly Theater Awards 2013: The Nominees

    See past recipients: *2012 *2011 (winners) *2011 (nominees) *2010 (winners) *2010 (nominees) *2009 (winners) *2009 (nominees) *2008 (winners) *2008 (nominees) Start looking for your postapocalyptic-chic attire. The 34th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards, celebrating the best work on our smaller sta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2013

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2013

    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 >>

  • Stage

    January 24, 2013

    Plays by Theatre Movement Bazaar and Opera del Espacio Show the Power of Ensemble-Created Theater

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2013

    Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Jane Kaczmarek in The Snake Can

    Kathryn Graf's new comedy about women slipping into middle-age, The Snake Can, is this week's pick of the week. Also a nod for Cathy Rigby reprising her decades-long performance in Peter Pan. See below for all the latest New Theater Reviews, and this week's comprehensive stage listings. Also, two s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2012

    Fluffy Bunnies, Santa Ynez Wine Country in Sideways: The Play and More New Theater Reviews

    Rex Pickett's stage adaptation, Sideways: the Play (over at Ruskin Theatre Group) of his own novel about life in the Santa Inez Valley wine country, gets this week's Pick. Also admired is Matt Chafee's comedy, Fluffy Bunnies in a Field of Daisies, over at Hollywood's Arena Stage.Click here for this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    Reviews of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; Jolson at the Winter Garden; Laurel and Hardy; and more . . .

    Courtesy of the Getty VillaThe Helen and Hecuba Show, in "Trojan Women (After Euripides)"​​SITI Company's Trojan Women (After Euripides) at the Getty Villa is a regal and passionate affair about despair, oddly floating in its own world. See Theater feature on Wednesday.  Also check out this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour

    Michael LamontThe Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity​Kristoffer Diaz's comedy about television wrestling, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, just opened at the Geffen Playhouse. Check back on Tuesday for the review, and for capsule reviews for all other shows seen over the weekend. Check back thi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    We'll Do Our Own Damn Theater Panel: 'Uninvited' 99-Seat Theaters Rebel Against Radar L.A. and TCG

    Stephen BirchPadua Playwrights' Guy Zimmerman makes a point​ The first jolt of Los Angeles' big summer of theater came to its convulsive close yesterday with the final curtain of the Radar L.A. festival and the wrap of downtown's TCG National Theater Conference. And even as the last of the vis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 5, 2011

    Stage Raw: Sex and Education

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Jez Butterworth's Jersusalem, on BroadwayNancy SavanSex and Education​Maria Gobetti portrays a retiring high school teacher in Lissa Levin's comedy about a showdown between the teacher and a jock, contemptuous of her, and of the ki ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    Stage Raw: The Chairs and the Hamptons

    THEATER NEW REVIEWS (and this week's openings)Theater Awards ReportTheater Awards Slide-Show by Timothy NorrisTHE CHAIRS​Eugene Ionesco's tragic farce about an elderly couple preparing for a visit by invisible guests opens this weekend at A Noise Within. 234 S. Brand Blvd., Glendale, (818) 240-0 ... More >>

  • Stage

    April 7, 2011

    The 32nd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

    THEATER NEW REVIEWS (and this week's openings)Theater Awards ReportTheater Awards Slide-Show by Timothy NorrisTHE CHAIRS​Eugene Ionesco's tragic farce about an elderly couple preparing for a visit by invisible guests opens this weekend at A Noise Within. 234 S. Brand Blvd., Glendale, (818) 240-0 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Stage Raw: L.A. Weekly Awards Report

    THEATER NEW REVIEWS WILL BE POSTED BY 8 P.M.Stage FEATURE on L.A. theater's moment of truth this coming summerStage FEATURE on Norm Foster's The Motor Trade, and Thornton Wilder's Our TownTheater Awards Slide-Show by Timothy NorrisMONDAY NIGHT AT THE EL REY​Ash Panda rocks the house. Photo by Timo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2011

    Stage Raw: Theatrification and Broadway 100

    COMPREHENSVIE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Tim Crouch's The Author, and the Belarus Free Theatre L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESTHEATRIFICATION AND BROADWAY 100 ​Broadway and the Vaudeville circuit began in Los Angeles 100 years ago, in the downtown Historical Theater Di ... More >>

  • Stage

    February 17, 2011

    The 32nd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Nominees

    Year of the inner child

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2011

    Stage Raw: Camino Real

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON THE BREAK OF NOON, AND CRACK WHORE GALORE -- LIVE!NEW PARTNERS ​CalArts teams up with the Theater @ Boston Court to present CAMINO REAL  (reviewed here on Tuesday) at the Pasadena theater. Photo by Ed Krieger. Another new pa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Stage Raw: Furious Theatre Company and Pasadena Playhouse part ways

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON SPIDER-MAN, ON BROADWAYFURIOUS AND PASADENA PLAYHOUSE PART WAYSFor reasons having to do with Pasadena Playhouse's needs to lease its second space, The Carrie Hamilton Theater, and the need of Furious Theatre Company for a space with h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Stage Raw: Shadow Anthropology

    NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON PUZZLER AND ADDING MACHINE: A MUSICALCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW GO SHADOW ANTHROPOLOGY ​Photo by Nigel DookhooTen years after 9/11, the plight of rural Afghanis caught in the crossfire between American forces and the T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2011

    Stage Raw: Back Yard Discoveries

    NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON PUZZLER AND ADDING MACHINE: A MUSICALCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNote: Due to glitches in a new computer system, no capsule new theater reviews appeared in the print edition this week or last. This is not a change in policy. All capsule ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2011

    Stage Raw: LAWEES on the horizon

    NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLAWEES ON THE HORIZON ​The 32nd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards are coming to the El Rey on April 4. Nominees will be announced mid-February. The LAWEES, focusing on work presented ... More >>

  • Stage

    December 30, 2010

    L.A. Theater in 2010

    Thanks for the memories

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2010

    Stage Raw: Rock With You

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEW (see below)STAGE FEATURE on Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset LimitedNEW REVIEW GO  ROCK WITH YOU: THE KING OF POP, LATIN STYLE For those of us brought up to giggle at Michael Jackson's foibles, from his holding his son over a balcony by his arms t ... More >>

  • Stage

    September 9, 2010

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

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEW (see below)STAGE FEATURE on Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset LimitedNEW REVIEW GO  ROCK WITH YOU: THE KING OF POP, LATIN STYLE For those of us brought up to giggle at Michael Jackson's foibles, from his holding his son over a balcony by his arms t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    Stage Raw: City Garage Bids Adieu to Fourth Street

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS Cover Story on LATE's The War Cycle2011 MARK TAPER FORUM SEASON ANNOUNCED ​John Lithgow Photo by Nigel Perry John Lithgow will ring in the New Year spinning yarns in Stories By Heart, previously produced at the Lincoln Center and at the National ... More >>

  • Stage

    July 15, 2010

    Bloodbaths and Shadows

    The Lieutenant of Inishmore and A Tale Told by an Idiot

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2010

    Stage Raw: Two Plays by Yukio Mishima

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE on KING LEAR​NEW REVIEW GO TWO PLAYS BY YUKIO MISHIMA ​Photo by Yukata Takeuchi Perhaps most notorious in the West for his sensational, 1970 suicide by seppuku, controversial poet-novelist Yukio Mishima was also a pl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 10, 2010

    Stage Raw: This Weekend's Review Assignments

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE on KING LEAR​ ​Check back on Monday for a review of Thurgood, starring Lawrence Fishburne as the legendary attorney and Supreme Court justice. Photo by Carol RoseggFor a complete list of all shows being reviewed over the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Stage Raw: L.A. Theater Aesthetic?

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on The Event and Kharmful Charms of Daniil Kharms THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSGROUNDLINGS SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN ​is one of almost a dozen new productions being reviewed this weekend. For the complete slate, hit the More tab at the ... More >>

  • Stage

    February 26, 2010

    Theater Reviews: The Ballad of Emmett Till, Dual Citizens, The Subject Was Roses

    Also, Wit, Calliope Rose, Barbra’s Wedding and more

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2010

    Stage Raw: "Wit," and other New Reviews

     COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSTHEATER FEATURES ON NORTH ATLANTIC AND ED HARRIS THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSNEW REVIEW GO WIT ​Photo courtesy of Actors' Co-opPlaywright Margaret Edson won the Pulitzer Prize for this intense drama  about an English poetry pro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2009

    Stage Raw: The Female of the Species

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Palestine, New MexicoFEMALE OF THE SPECIES The Geffen Playhouse just announced that Anette Bening will star in Joanna Murray-Smith's comedy, The Female of the Species along with David Arquette, Mirielle Enos, Merritt Weve ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    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

    November 26, 2009

    Theater Reviews: Arias With a Twist, La Ronde de Lunch, Love in Bloom

    Also, Molly Sweeney, Equivocation, Love’s Labour’s Lost and more

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    Stage Raw: ZAR

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on producer Sir Cameron MackintoshStage Raw: ZAR Theatre ZAR from Wroclaw, Poland has been in Southern California for over a week, conducting workshops of their choral-physical technique at UC Irvine and UCLA. Their Tryptich opens next w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    Stage Raw: Love's Labour's Lost

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on producer Sir Cameron MackintoshNEW REVIEW GO LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST ​Photo by Amy Graves/Getty ImagesLondon's distinguished Globe Theatre lives up to its reputation with this traditional but resolutely un-stodgy production. Director D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2009

    Stage Raw: Impacted Wednesday

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Charles Duncombe's The Trojan Women and Julie Hebert's TreeIMPACTED WEDNESDAY​ Equivocation: Photo by Michael Lamont Three big openings on Wednesday: The  U.S. premiere of TR Warszawa's T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. (Polish director Grzego ... More >>

  • Stage

    May 7, 2009

    Theater Reviews: Ain't Misbehavin', The Columbine Project, The Rehearsal

    Also, The Designated Mourner, Fubar, The Caterer and more

  • Calendar

    May 7, 2009

    The Designated Mourner

    Also, The Designated Mourner, Fubar, The Caterer and more

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2008

    Stage Raw: Ovation Awards Tonight (Monday)

    THE OVATION AWARDS ARE TONIGHTMonday at Luckman Auditorium, on the Cal State, Los Angeles campus. For more information, contact http://www.lastagealliance.com LATEST NEW THEATER REVIEWS BEAUTY OF ASHES Writer and star Peres Owino's furious semi-biographical poetry and dance piece about female ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    Stage Raw: A Conversation With Robert Lepage

    THE OVATION AWARDS ARE TONIGHTMonday at Luckman Auditorium, on the Cal State, Los Angeles campus. For more information, contact http://www.lastagealliance.com LATEST NEW THEATER REVIEWS BEAUTY OF ASHES Writer and star Peres Owino's furious semi-biographical poetry and dance piece about female ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2008

    Stage Raw: Director-Teacher Milton Katselas dies at 75

    THE OVATION AWARDS ARE TONIGHTMonday at Luckman Auditorium, on the Cal State, Los Angeles campus. For more information, contact http://www.lastagealliance.com LATEST NEW THEATER REVIEWS BEAUTY OF ASHES Writer and star Peres Owino's furious semi-biographical poetry and dance piece about female ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2008

    Stage Raw: Apollo bound for Oregon

    THE OVATION AWARDS ARE TONIGHTMonday at Luckman Auditorium, on the Cal State, Los Angeles campus. For more information, contact http://www.lastagealliance.com LATEST NEW THEATER REVIEWS BEAUTY OF ASHES Writer and star Peres Owino's furious semi-biographical poetry and dance piece about female ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2008

    Stage Raw: CTG Receives $90,000 New Play Development Grant

    THE OVATION AWARDS ARE TONIGHTMonday at Luckman Auditorium, on the Cal State, Los Angeles campus. For more information, contact http://www.lastagealliance.com LATEST NEW THEATER REVIEWS BEAUTY OF ASHES Writer and star Peres Owino's furious semi-biographical poetry and dance piece about female ... More >>

  • Stage

    October 23, 2008

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

    Also, Money Shot, Halo and more

  • Stage

    April 10, 2008

    Theater Reviews: DIETRICH AND CHEVALIER: THE MUSICAL

    Also, Great Expectations, Snake in the Grass and more

  • Stage

    April 12, 2007

    The 28th Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

    Gordon Davidson, the killer among us

  • Stage

    December 15, 2005

    Top Dogs/ Underdogs

    Tales of Pennsylvania Avenue and Poverty Row

  • Stage

    June 23, 2005

    At Long Beach, Unusual Biz As Usual

    Tales of Pennsylvania Avenue and Poverty Row

  • Stage

    December 20, 2001

    Waiting for the Cable Guy

    Is HBO really why everybody’s doing theater here?

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