William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream and Alcestis Show What Lurks in the Darkness

Joss Whedon's The Avengers Grossed $1.5 Billion. His Next Film? A Shakespeare Play He Shot in His Backyard

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Richard III In Overdrive

Zombie Joe's Underground and director Denise Devin turn Shakespeare's Richard III into an enthralling one-hour redux, says critic Jenny Lower. The production is this week's pick of the week. For all the latest new theater reviews, and comprehensive theater listings, see below. Beauty to be found in ... More >>

Shakespeare's Richard III

Solemn Mockeries, a Solo Show About the Man Who Tried to Forge a Shakespeare Play

Solemn Mockeries

Hamlet

Funny Food Cookbook: Just Imagine The Election Year Breakfast Table Fun

Sure, the intended audience for Funny Food: 365 Fun, Healthy, Silly, Creative Breakfasts, to be released later this month, is a few decades younger than we are. But hey, we could all use a little more food fun in these days of infinite online cassoulet critics, no? And it is pretty funny how those t ... More >>

Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Independent Shakespeare Company: Shakespeare In the Park, This Time With Kids

Steven Leigh MorrisRachel (foreground) with kids, brushing up their Shakespeare in the park.​ On the car ride to Griffith Park, 11-year-old Rachel is in one of her moods. "Can't you just take me back and go yourself? ... I hope it's closed." Rachel, the slender daughter of a Ghanese father a ... More >>

Stage Raw: Bash'd

NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Radar L.A.Sean LambertBash'd, A Gay Rap Opera​A string of recommends comes with this week's theater reviews: Bash'd, A Gay Rap Opera at Celebration Theatre, Blackbird at Rogue Machine, Blood Wedding at the Odyssey, Broadsword at the Back Dahlia, Closet Land at ... More >>

The Play's the Thing, Kids

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Helen Hunt and Lyle Lovett Do Much Ado

Shakespeare, uncorked

THE TEMPEST

Poles Apart

East European lunatics and Glendale's staid classicists

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 >>

Stage Raw: Summer Festivities

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on [title of show] and Dani GirlSUMMER FESTIVITIES Open Fist Theater Company launches its annual Fist Look Festival this weekend, with The Existents, a rock musical by Douglas Crawford and Jason Wooten, music and lyrics by Ty Taylor. T ... More >>

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 >>

Theater Reviews: Thurgood, As the Globe Warms, I'm Not Here Anymore

Also, Othello, Redhead Cuban Hausfrau Husband and more

Othello

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 >>

Equivocation

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

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

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 >>

Theater Reviews: All in the Timing, Hair, Life Could Be a Dream

Also, 7DS, Cannibal! The Musical, Fernando and more

Stage Raw: As You Like It

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedNEW REVIEW GO AS YOU LIKE ITAs You Like It Photo courtesy of Aquila TheatreSummer is in full heat across the Southland, which brings out amphitheater producti ... More >>

Stage Raw: Clowntown City Limits

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK CLOWNTOWN CITY LIMITSPhoto by Ed RachlesImagine a personable, grimy, makeup-smeared, cigar-chomping guy in a tank top, not unlike Tommy Lee Jones, playing cards outdoors on the porch of some tra ... More >>

Cymbeline

Troubadour Theater Company Spins Shakespeare Like a Copper Penny

Political clowning, from Bono to Barack

deLEARious

Hamlet

Casting by Craigslist

Ethos Theatre Company’s unorthodox classicist

Theater Reviews

Including The Marvelous Wondrettes and The Compleat Works of William Shakespare (Abridged)

Weekend Theater Reviews

Reviews of Corpus Christi, Marat/Sade and Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis

Hamburger Hamlets

Dane, thy name is vanity

Who's That Bard?

New book threatens to out the real Shakespeare

Summer Enchanted Evenings

Excess of Evil

Bloody couples and their fatal visions

Aurelito & Shakespeare, Aural Tradition

Guys and Dolls

A revelatory all-male Twelfth Night from London

Shakespeare in the Dark

Two shadowy Bards pay off

Jan Kott Remembered

Shakespeare for Dummies

Much ado about little in Branagh’s Love’s Labour’s Lost

Sound and Fury

A largely pointless compilation of recorded Shakespeare excerpts

In appreciation of the Bard, recorded