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Begley/Huffman in November, Roger Robinson in Fraternity, Brushing up Our Shakespeare, Plus All the Latest New Theater Reviews

Our critics were brushing up their Shakespeare over the weekend, with reviews of CymbelineJulius Caeser and Henry VI, Part I Jeff Stetson's 1987 retrospective drama on the effects of church Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama is this week's Pick of the Week. For all the Latest New Theater Reviews, go to ... More >>

What Would a Gay Jesus Do? 'Corpus Christi' Offers Answers at MCC-LA Church

We always love a good play that gets our brains thinking and hearts pumping. Corpus Christi, the passion play by Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally that depicts Jesus as a gay man living in modern-day Texas, is exactly that. Highly controversial when it was first produced in 1998, Corp ... More >>

Memphis: The Musical

We always love a good play that gets our brains thinking and hearts pumping. Corpus Christi, the passion play by Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally that depicts Jesus as a gay man living in modern-day Texas, is exactly that. Highly controversial when it was first produced in 1998, Corp ... More >>

Mel Brooks Meets Al Fresco

We always love a good play that gets our brains thinking and hearts pumping. Corpus Christi, the passion play by Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally that depicts Jesus as a gay man living in modern-day Texas, is exactly that. Highly controversial when it was first produced in 1998, Corp ... More >>

Top Ten Musicals for People Who Don't Know Shit About Showtunes

See Also: Top Ten Classical Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Classical MusicTop Ten Jazz Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About JazzTop Ten EDM Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Dance MusicTop Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-HopTop Ten Metal Albums ... More >>

War Horse at the Ahmanson Doesn't Live Up to the Hype

See Also: Top Ten Classical Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Classical MusicTop Ten Jazz Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About JazzTop Ten EDM Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Dance MusicTop Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-HopTop Ten Metal Albums ... More >>

Why Clybourne Park Is Overrated

I have a dirty theater secret: I thought Clybourne Park was pretty good. As in merely pretty good. As opposed to the modern classic it's now perceived to be, after its premiere Off-Broadway brought it the Pulitzer Prize, followed by runs at the Mark Taper Forum, a hop to Broadway, and finally, on Su ... More >>

Billy Elliot, In Paris and Waiting for Godot

Dancing off the blues

Green Day Never Sold Out, You Just Got Old and Complacent

One of the most mainstream punk bands since the new millennium, Green Day has faced criticism for selling out ever since releasing 2004's American Idiot -- some would say as far back as after the release of 1994's Dookie. Fuck that. They didn't sell out. In fact, American Idiot and 21st Century Br ... More >>

Stephen Sondheim's New Book Look, I Made a Hat Unloads on Theater Critics With Both Barrels. Here's Where He's Wrong

​ If you thought the week's top story had anything to do with mass protests on the streets of Cairo or the collapse of the deficit-reduction "super committee" in the halls of Congress, consider yourselves members of that misguided majority who inhabit what has wryly been called "the real world ... More >>

Fall in Love With Frank All Over Again

​ If you thought the week's top story had anything to do with mass protests on the streets of Cairo or the collapse of the deficit-reduction "super committee" in the halls of Congress, consider yourselves members of that misguided majority who inhabit what has wryly been called "the real world ... More >>

Falsettos

​ If you thought the week's top story had anything to do with mass protests on the streets of Cairo or the collapse of the deficit-reduction "super committee" in the halls of Congress, consider yourselves members of that misguided majority who inhabit what has wryly been called "the real world ... More >>

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 >>

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Grammer Slammer

bravotv.com​Yesterday morning, our favorite Housewife @KyleRichards18 tweeted "Who is going to watch The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills tonight?? I'm looking forward to this one.... :-)" At first we thought, Wow. Rude, Kyle! You're really looking forward to watching Camille get dumped by her ... More >>

Next to Normal

bravotv.com​Yesterday morning, our favorite Housewife @KyleRichards18 tweeted "Who is going to watch The Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills tonight?? I'm looking forward to this one.... :-)" At first we thought, Wow. Rude, Kyle! You're really looking forward to watching Camille get dumped by her ... More >>

Welcome Black

After conquering Broadway, "little Silver Lake band" the Negro Problem returns to L.A.

RENT GOES HOLLYWOOD

After conquering Broadway, "little Silver Lake band" the Negro Problem returns to L.A.

Tonight: Antibalas, La Roux, Ben Lee, Fitz & the Tantrums, the Heavy, KT Tunstall

Antibalas​Brooklyn-based ensemble Antibalas has been living an enviable double life, for the past two years doing duty at the backing band for the hit musical Fela! (which earned 11 Tony nominations) and, not that rave reviews would go to their head, squeezing in some NYC club dates to keep th ... More >>

Stage Raw: Fringe Citations From the Department of Gossip and Hearay

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGESTATE OF L.A. THEATER PANEL Tomorrow (Sunday) at  p.m. at Fringe Central, I join Harvey Perr (Stage and Cinema), Don Shirley (LA Stage Blog), Geoff Hoff (LA Theatre Review), Colin Mitchell (LA Bitter L ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Habit of Art

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WAYNEW REVIEW GO THE HABIT OF ART By Paul BirchallIf you want to see director Nicholas Hytner's smart and compelling production of Alan Bennett's new drama at the National Theater of Great Britain, you co ... More >>

Stage Raw: Holy Ghost

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD and THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO NEW REVIEW GO HOLY GHOST ​ Photo by Darrett Sanders The ghosts in Jon Tuttle's play  -- in a glorious production at Theatre of NOTE, directed by Michael Roth ... More >>

Chicago

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD and THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO NEW REVIEW GO HOLY GHOST ​ Photo by Darrett Sanders The ghosts in Jon Tuttle's play  -- in a glorious production at Theatre of NOTE, directed by Michael Roth ... 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 >>

Proof

 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 >>

TOM HULCE’S FINEST WORK SINCE ANIMAL HOUSE

 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 >>

Nine: So You Think You Can Direct

Rob Marshall tries to connect the dance numbers

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 >>

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 >>

The River Niger

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 >>

THIS IS THRILLER

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 >>

August: Osage County

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 >>

Theater Reviews: Friends Like These, The Crossing, Peace, Somebody’s Somebody

Also, F*ucking Men, The Kingdom Come, The Golden Gays and more

The Diminished Returns of August: Osage County

When drowning oneself seems like a good option

Stage Raw: August: Osage County

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, see the current NEW REVIEWS and this week's STAGE FEATURE on The Night Is a Child at the Pasadena Playhouse, and Not to Be, at ZJUNEW REVIEW GO AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY ​Photo by Robert SafersteinTracy Lett's 2007 Great American Family Drama, or so we'd believe from ... More >>

Hair in the O.C.: Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Sassy cast draws sellout crowds in Anaheim

Stage Raw: Mr Merkin to be a Tony Award Voter!

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSMR. MERKIN BECOMES TONY AWARD VOTER! Mr. Merkin's father, also named Mr. Merkin, ruminating upon why his son is such an idiot. His dog, Scrapper, feels exactly the same way. Our guest blogger-critic Mr. Merkin reports ... More >>

Stage Raw: Labor Theater

This week's NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded within the current COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; Also,  see this THEATER FEATURE on the principal creators of the Wooster Group's sci-fi opera, La Didone coming to REDCATIN CASE YOU'VE BEEN SLEEPING AT THE BACK OF THE CLASSThe Tony Awards are th ... More >>

The Musical Stylings of Mr. STEPHEN LYNCH

This week's NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded within the current COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; Also,  see this THEATER FEATURE on the principal creators of the Wooster Group's sci-fi opera, La Didone coming to REDCATIN CASE YOU'VE BEEN SLEEPING AT THE BACK OF THE CLASSThe Tony Awards are th ... More >>

A Skull in Connemara

This week's NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded within the current COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; Also,  see this THEATER FEATURE on the principal creators of the Wooster Group's sci-fi opera, La Didone coming to REDCATIN CASE YOU'VE BEEN SLEEPING AT THE BACK OF THE CLASSThe Tony Awards are th ... More >>

The Sun'll Come Out . . . (you know the rest)

This week's NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded within the current COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; Also,  see this THEATER FEATURE on the principal creators of the Wooster Group's sci-fi opera, La Didone coming to REDCATIN CASE YOU'VE BEEN SLEEPING AT THE BACK OF THE CLASSThe Tony Awards are th ... More >>

THE GREAT WHITE PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY

This week's NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded within the current COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; Also,  see this THEATER FEATURE on the principal creators of the Wooster Group's sci-fi opera, La Didone coming to REDCATIN CASE YOU'VE BEEN SLEEPING AT THE BACK OF THE CLASSThe Tony Awards are th ... More >>

Deadline Hollywood: Shameful Oscar Overspending

Mo' money, more Hugh, less Jerry

An Early Frost, and Nixon

Mo' money, more Hugh, less Jerry

Shooting the Fourth Wall

Mo' money, more Hugh, less Jerry

Ace Comedy Jam

Mo' money, more Hugh, less Jerry

Sweet Nothing in My Ear: Jeff Daniels and Marlee Matlin play out the sound and fury

Mo' money, more Hugh, less Jerry

Secrets of the Trade

Mo' money, more Hugh, less Jerry

Across an Alternate Universe

A Beatles cover-music movie needs straitjackets for all involved