William Shakespeare

What Fantasy Production Would L.A. Artistic Directors Put On If They Had Unlimited Money?

Romeo and Juliet: Monsters in Love

Stage Raw: Othello

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS (after the jump) NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Merry Wives of Windsor in Topanga Canyon and Griffith ParkBrian HelmOthello​On a care-free, car-free Carmageddon weekend, all of our critics got to their shows. Among the favorites, Lovell Estell III's warm apprai ... More >>

Stage Raw: LA Weekly Fringe Award Winner

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Salome and J.M. Barrie at PRTCuriousjosh.comThe Burning Opera​The Burning Opera: How to Survive the Apocalypse, created by Mark Nicols and Erik Davis, and being performed at Syrup Loft downtown, is among the productions being revie ... More >>

Tempest Without a Body

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Salome and J.M. Barrie at PRTCuriousjosh.comThe Burning Opera​The Burning Opera: How to Survive the Apocalypse, created by Mark Nicols and Erik Davis, and being performed at Syrup Loft downtown, is among the productions being revie ... More >>

The Comedy of Errors

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Salome and J.M. Barrie at PRTCuriousjosh.comThe Burning Opera​The Burning Opera: How to Survive the Apocalypse, created by Mark Nicols and Erik Davis, and being performed at Syrup Loft downtown, is among the productions being revie ... More >>

Theater Reviews; The Comedy of Errors, The Birthday Boys, The Woodpecker

Also A Night at the Oscars, Women in Shorts and more

Stage Raw: Comedy of Errors

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Oedipus the Tyrant and King LearL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO COMEDY OF ERRORS ​Photo by Craig Schwartz A strongman, a ventriloquist, three showgirls and a mimic with 1,000 voices make up just half of the Bu ... More >>

Much Ado About Nothing

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Oedipus the Tyrant and King LearL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO COMEDY OF ERRORS ​Photo by Craig Schwartz A strongman, a ventriloquist, three showgirls and a mimic with 1,000 voices make up just half of the Bu ... More >>

Hamlet, Prince of Puddles

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Oedipus the Tyrant and King LearL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO COMEDY OF ERRORS ​Photo by Craig Schwartz A strongman, a ventriloquist, three showgirls and a mimic with 1,000 voices make up just half of the Bu ... More >>

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 >>

A Wither's Tale

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 Raw: Much Ado

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS STAGE FEATURE on My Penis, In and Out of TroubleNEW REVIEW GO GRIFFITH PARK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING​Photo by Ivy AugustaDon John (Sean Pritchett) is such a bastard. Really. He's the bastard son of Don Pedro (Luis Galindo), pri ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The Rendezvous, Nano Nation, Brooklyn, U.S.A.

Also, Procreation, Phil the Void: The Great Brain Robbery and more

Bloodbaths and Shadows

The Lieutenant of Inishmore and A Tale Told by an Idiot

Nickelodeon Nymphet Baits Indie Crowd With Jeff Buckley Name Drop

Miranda Cosgrove is a Disney Nickelodeon nymphet (of the chaste-looking variety, i.e., a "not-a-Britney"). Many of our readers probably have no idea who she is, unless they're acquainted with children who watch her show iCarly, or are sad pervs who themselves watch her show iCarly. Anyhow. She put ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Wooster Group's "North Atlantic"

 COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWS THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSECHO CHAMBERS Resonances from The Wooster Group's North Atlantic​Ground Control to Major Tom Photo by Paula Court If you drive through the San Gabriel Mountains, where radio reception is already dodgy, set ... More >>

Stage Raw: Pasolini on Stage

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on producer Sir Cameron MackintoshNEW REVIEW T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. ​Photo by Stefan OkolowiczThis riveting production from Poland's TR Warszawa theater troupe, presented as part of the UCLA Live Eighth International Theater Festival, is ada ... More >>

IS THIS A BINGO THAT I SEE BEFORE ME?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on producer Sir Cameron MackintoshNEW REVIEW T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. ​Photo by Stefan OkolowiczThis riveting production from Poland's TR Warszawa theater troupe, presented as part of the UCLA Live Eighth International Theater Festival, is ada ... More >>

Stage Raw: Cannibal! The Musical

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS plus the LATEST NEW REVIEWSAlso, this week's STAGE FEATURE on two plays set beyond the end of the word: Henry Murray's Treefall and Eugene Ionesco's The ChairsNEW REVIEW GO CANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL ​Photo by Jami JohnsonHumankind can be said to be divided into two, mutu ... More >>

THEATER REVIEWS: BIG BRO/LIL BRO, HELLZ KITCHEN ABLAZE AND THE NUCLEAR FAMILY

Also, The Pain and the Itch, The Tempest and Terminus Americana and More

THEATER REVIEWS: CARVED IN STONE, THE HOSTAGE, KILL ME DEADLY

Also, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mutiny at Port Chicago, Nevermore, Wife Swappers and more.

Carved in Stone

Also, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mutiny at Port Chicago, Nevermore, Wife Swappers and more.

Theater Reviews: Cymbeline, Oleanna, The Little Foxes

Also, School House Rock Live! Too, Stranger and more

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

I Spy A Chinese-born former Boeing employee will stand trial for economic espionage related to charges he passed on to China documents concerning the space shuttle, Delta IV missiles and Boeing's C-17 transport plane. Long Beach Press-TelegramThis Round's for You Four steel containers holding ammuni ... More >>

Stage Raw: Stick Fly

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS: THE WEEKEND'S NEW THEATER REVIEWS EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS COMING WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSand this week's THEATER FEATURE: an Off-Broadway roundupReviewed this week: the world premiere of Richard Greenberg's Our Mother's Brief Affair at South Coast Rep; the west coast ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The Mystery of Irma Vep, Macbeth, Falling Upward

Also, Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light, Makin' Hay and more

Macbeth

Also, Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light, Makin' Hay and more

Stage Raw: Who Needs Plays?

Also, Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light, Makin' Hay and more

Theater Reviews: Bury the Dead, Coriolanus, Inherit the Wind

Also, Abigail's Party, The Bones of Lesser Men, and more

Coriolanus

Also, Abigail's Party, The Bones of Lesser Men, and more

Stage Raw: It Helps to Be Bi

Also, Abigail's Party, The Bones of Lesser Men, and more

Stage Raw: Cooperation and Dissent

Also, Abigail's Party, The Bones of Lesser Men, and more

A Midsummer Night's Dance

Brockus Project Dance Company brushes up its Shakespeare

Wooster Group's Hamlet; Alex Lyras' The Common Air

All the world's a remix

Fresh Rock: American Hip-Hop

Uprock-77

Theater Reviews: Attempts on Her Life, The Last Schwartz, The Piano Lesson

Also: The History Boys, Love Loves a Pornographer, Bury the Dead

The Chocolate Bar

Also: The History Boys, Love Loves a Pornographer, Bury the Dead

Best Theater Featuring a Chorus of Frogs

Also: The History Boys, Love Loves a Pornographer, Bury the Dead

Booty Call

Also: The History Boys, Love Loves a Pornographer, Bury the Dead

Partying Like It's 1425

Love’s Labor’s Lost at Actors’ Gang, plus Hamlet al fresco

Weekend Theater Reviews

Reviews of Antony and Cleopatra, Bluebonnet Court and Love's Labor's Lost

Theater Reviews

Reviews of Complexity, The Comedy of Errors, Zero Hour and more

Will’s World

In love with Shakespeare

Ashland or Bust

On the road to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Summer Calendar

On the road to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Light

James Welling photographs at MOCA, Emma Kay texts at the Hammer

Hamlet, Inc.

Michael Almereyda’s Great Dane

Star-Crossed and Sweetly Sung

Michael Almereyda’s Great Dane

Engaging in Consexual Text

Sir Peter Hall's rep of Shakespeare's comedies at the Ahmanson