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Stage Raw: Brewsie & Willie

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON LINDA PURL'S FESTIVALBREWSIE AND WILLIE ​Poor Dog Group's adaptation of Gertrude Stein's novella, is among the productions being reviewed this week. Photo by Scott Grolier Check back here on Monday night for reviews of THE BAKER'S ... More >>

Stage Raw: Unknown Future, Theater on Seward Closes Its Doors

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Lieutenant of Inishmore and A Tale Told by an IdiotAN UNKNOWN FUTURE: Theater on Seward Closes its Doors John Fleck performs tonight (Thursday), 8 p.m. with his sardonic one-man comedy about Trader Joe's (and points beyond), Side E ... More >>

Stage Raw: Pasadena Playhouse Emerges from Bankruptcy

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE on KING LEARCAPTURED AURAL PHANTASY THEATER ​CAPT presents a special event tonight (Friday) night, Hooray for Hollywood Extravaganza, celebrating the legends of Our Fair City, In a style mixing radio and vaudeville. The Galler ... More >>

Stage Raw: Wuthering "Heights"

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGEWUTHERING "HEIGHTS"​Lin-Manuel Miranda stars in his own Broadway hit, In The Heights, now at the Pantages. Photo by Joan Marcus "Wuthering" actually means windy not withering. Though the former is preval ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Leiris Picasso, A Memory of What Might Have Been, The Jesus Hickey

Also, The Importance of Being Earnest, Grace and Glorie and more

Leiris/Picasso

Also, The Importance of Being Earnest, Grace and Glorie and more

Stage Raw: A Memory of What Might Have Been

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCurrent STAGE FEATURE on Anton Chekhov's 150th Birthday BashNEW REVIEW GO  A MEMORY OF WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ​ Photo courtesy of Zombie Joe's Underground George Bernard Shaw wrote that "men and women are made by their own fancies in the image ... More >>

Rachel Rosenthal: 83 and Still Swearing

... rats and all

Gray Paris

Danièle Thompson’s valentine to the city of lights has a melancholy undertone

Avenue Montaigne's French Kiss

Danièle Thompson sends a warm valentine to the city of lights

the Fine Art of drawing Pricks

(or, Mr. Fish visits Paul Conrad and sort of interviews him)

Unchain Your Heart

Bookstores for the independent-minded book lover

Company Town

How a big city became America’s small-theater mecca

Fool's Paradise Lost

When misery finds company

L. A. Flaw

The case against the city becomes its lore — and much of its charm. The evidence? Writing Los Angeles: A literary Anthology

Occasionally Lovely, Always Amazing

Highlights of the 2002 Silver Lake Film Festival

Sharp Turns

L.A. theaters respond to a suddenly changed world

You Can’t Take It With You

A fable of heroic ambiguity

Peep Show

Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut

Antin on Antin(ova)

Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut

Talking Back to Mom

Re-reading the Feminine Mystique

Marry Me Before I Get Fat

Elizabeth Wurtzel wants to be bad, but not all by herself