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REDCAT'S New Original Works Festival Shows How Visual Innovation Can Make Theater More Relevant

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including an Ionesco Vaudeville Musical

This week in L.A. theater, Ionescopade, the vaudeville musical based on Eugene Ionesco's plays, was our pick of the week, while Alcestis at the Boston Court also got a "Go." All new theater reviews are below. As Steven Leigh Morris is on vacation this week, our stage feature is a piece on L.A.'s bo ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Watson and Holmes, Together Again

This week in L.A. theater, Jamie Robledo's Watson and the Dark Art of Harry Houdini was our pick of the week, while ModRock at the El Portal also got a "Go." All new theater reviews are below. Our stage feature is an interview with Val Kilmer about his new Mark Twain solo show at the Kirk Douglas T ... More >>

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 >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Riveting Drama About Holocaust-Era Poland

Our critic Deborah Klugman found Tadeusz Slobodzianek's drama, about Polish complicity in the German Nazis' persecution of Polish Jews in the 1940s, and presented by Son of Semele Ensemble at Atwater Village Theatre, to be a model of stagecraft and emotional to watch. For all the lastest new theater ... More >>

Dostoevsky's Notes From the Underground

What Critics -- and Theater Artists -- Are Feeling When Critics Come See a Show

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Japanese War Brides Musical Tea, With Music

A musical about World War II war brides, Tea, With Music, for which the author, Velina Hasu Houston, has added songs and music for this production, is our Pick of the Week. For all new theater reviews, see below. This week's stage fature looks a couple of plays aiming to be light fare: Micha ... More >>

The Fainting Couch

The Para Abnormals

Macbeth Two Ways, in North Hollywood

Summer Shakespeare Smackdown in NoHo: Respectable vs. Radical

Why the works of William Shakespeare should be associated with the summer months is anyone's guess. Beyond having written A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale, there is scant evidence to support any seasonal preference on the Bard's part when it comes to staging his plays. What is certain ... More >>

Antaeus Company double dips The Seagull, and more New Theater Reviews . . .

​Antaeus Company's double-cast production of Chekhov's The Seagull scored this week's Pick of the Week.​ Click here for all of this week's New Theater Reviews, or after the jump. Also, check this week's Stage feature on a mixed reaction to Hollywood's A-List (Clooney, Pitt, Bacon, Sheen) taking ... More >>

Is It OK to Tweet During a Show? CTG's Twitter Experiment Raises the Question

The cellular device is a wonderful technology. But that wonder is tempered every time a John Philip Sousa-like ringtone fanfare blares out, say, during the bloody dagger scene from a live performance of Macbeth. Which, of course, is why mobile phones have been unconditionally banished from the sacre ... More >>

Top 10 Plays We Want to See in 2012

The venerable "best bets for the new year" critic's post always carries with it the uncertain odor of the racetrack tout. Even the seeming sure things -- the NYC-anointed, blue-chip transfers of Broadway hits -- are too often diminished by dispiriting changes in the cast or production design that ca ... More >>

Blood Fruit, Christmastime is Queer, The Many Murders of Kristopher K. Kringle, and more new reviews. . .

Jason Moyer"Gay Apparel" at Space 916​ Yep, it's time for all the holiday play reviews.​ Check 'em all the capsule New Theater Reviews after the jump; posting later tonight: this week's stage features on reactions form the Fountain Theatre family to the conviction of Ben Bradley's killer, and a ... More >>

Hosea Nova, Who's Your Daddy? and More New Theater Reviews

​High praise this week for "Robert Reimer's nutcase of a play," Hosea Nova: A Jealous and Violent Man (this week's Pick of the Week) at Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood, and for writer-performer Johnny O'Callaghan's Who's Your Daddy, at the Victory Theatre Center, in Burbank. ​For all ... More >>

The Cask of Amontillado

Devils Love at Midnight

Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis, Zombie Joe's Devils Love at Midnight and Sandra Bernhard's I Love Being Me, Don't You?

Justin DavanzoSarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis presented by City Garage at Track 16/Bergamot Station​ ​ Local theater's looking kinda edgy in the dog days of late August: Paul Birchall had good things to say about City Garage's production of Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis; big nods also for Sandra Ber ... More >>

Sotto Voce

Stage Raw: 100 Saints You Should Know

NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Juan and JohnSven Ellirand100 Saints You Should Know​Robert Reimer's Sotto Voce (Zombie Joe's Underground), Elizabeth Meriwether's The Mistakes Madeline Made (Lounge Theatre)  and Kate Fodor's 100 Saints You Should Know (Elephant Stages) landed on this wee ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Chinese Coffee, Daddy, Love, Sex and the IRS

Also, Fatigued, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Greedy and more

Attack of the Rotting Corpses

THEATER REVIEWS: THE AUTUMN GARDEN, VON BACH, DIVING NORMAL

ALSO, HEAD: THE MUSICAL, THE AUTUMN GARDEN

Stage Raw: Head, The Musical

NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Cornerstone's Making ParadiseNEW REVIEW GO HEAD: THE MUSICAL ​Photo by Irene HoveyComposer-lyricist Kevin Fry's delightfully campy horror musical, based on Roger Corman's 1962 gore-fest The Brain That Wouldn't Die, is not only enjoyable on the level of Midnigh ... More >>

Stage Raw: Loveland

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on La Razon Blindada and A Wolf Inside the Fence and NEW REVIEW GO LOVELAND ​Photo by Leland Auslender What a rare experience it is, when a character that's as maniacal, sexually overheated and as transparently off the rails as a ... More >>

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: Circle X and Bootleg Hook Up to Read Plays

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on John StepplingCIRCLE X AND BOOTLEG HOOK UP TO READ PLAYS Circle X Theatre Company and Bootleg are joining forces to present a series of Monday night readings of new works, starting September 13, at the Bootleg venue. Playwrights s ... More >>

Theater Reviews: A Wither's Tale, All My Sons,Karma the Musical

Also, Chess in Concert, On the Verge (Or the Geography of Yearning) and 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 >>

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 >>

Stage Raw: How Do Actors Do It?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on My Penis, In and Out of TroubleHOW DO ACTORS DO IT? As told by Alan Mandell, who was among a dozen or so actors auditioning for the movie This Must Be the Place, starring Sean Penn. The role was for a man 94-years old. Mandell, being ... More >>

Witch Ball

The Birth and Death of Words

The Good Book of Pedantry and Wonder and Urban Death

Stage Raw: Bones

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on [title of show] and Dani GirlNEW REVIEW GO BONES ​Photo by Craig Schwartz Childhood sexual abuse may no longer be the unmentionable topic it once was, but that hasn't lessened its horror or salved the terrible scars borne by its v ... 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 >>

Stage Raw: Lease Subsidy Program Gets Another Lease

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT FEATURE ON BORN TO BE ALIVE and THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACELEASE SUBSIDY PROGRAM GETS ANOTHER LEASE A recommendation by L.A.'s Chief Administrative Officer Miguel Santana to restructure (eliminate) the city's Lease Subsidy Program for non- ... More >>

Stage Raw: Dirty Pooh

NEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE BOYS IN THE BAND AND SURVIVAL EXERCISENEW REVIEW GO DIRTY POOH​Photo courtesy of Zombie Joe's UndergroundHow does Zombie Joe's Underground make A.A. Milne's short story, "In Which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets Into a Tight Place," NSFW? When Winnie-the ... More >>

Blood and Guts: Rampages in The Night Is a Child and Not to Be

Theater Reviews: Land of the Tigers, The Projectionist

Also, The Devil With Boobs, Clown Show for Bruno and more

Stage Raw: Land of the Tigers

CLICK HERE FOR COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLAND OF THE TIGERS IS THIS WEEK'S PICKLand of the Tigers Photo by Jon Beauregard Noises OnCool Cats and Hot ActorsAct 1 of the Burglars of Hamm's hilarious and thought provoking comedy, Land of the Tigers, outlandishly crosses Cats with Planet of the Ape ... More >>

Stories From the Bible

Theater Reviews: Shel Silverstein Uncensored, Songs From an Unmade Bed

Also, Shame, A Very Brady Musical, and more

Through the Looking Glass

Unorthodox views in Modern Orthodox and Alice in Wonderland

Theater Reviews: Wicked, Trying, Monsieur Chopin

Theater Reviews

Including Corpus Christi and Marat/Sade

Weekend Theater Reviews

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

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Two Russian classics get L.A.’d

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