Katie Buenneke

Hair, as a show, even at its best moments, is incoherent. But with the right director, the musical rises above its flaws to become an immersive experience, a fantastic trip back to the Vietnam War and an age of counterculture. Unfortunately, Adam Shankman, who directed the star-studded cast of this......

It's bachelorette party season, and after hours of (terribly unpleasant) research, our staff has come up with a list of great places for a night out on the town with your girlfriends. Cheers to that!10. Yamashiro Hollywood Where it is: 1999 Sycamore Ave., Hollywood, yamashirohollywood.com What is it: Historic Yamashiro restaurant......

We Will Rock You, now playing at the Ahmanson, is proof positive that great songs do not necessarily make for a great rock musical. Unlike the much better The Who’s Tommy before it, and Green Day’s American Idiot after it, the Queen jukebox piece flounders around, hampered by one of......

Often there is an onus on theater to be great, important, and full of meaning. The national tour of Ghost: The Musical, now playing at the Pantages in Hollywood, is none of those things. It's certainly not a good musical: The songs are forgettable, the lead actors aren't always quite......

A new show at the upcoming Hollywood Fringe Festival is a three hour baseball game - with no actual baseball. The idea to play a pre-planned, totally scripted, imaginary game of baseball came to the creators of Brimmer Street Theatre Company's The Perfect Game when they were studying at Emerson University in Boston......

Derek Hughes might insult your mother during his magic show Insomnia, which he performs at the Hotel Casa Del Mar in Santa Monica. Assuming you bring your mother to the show, there's a distinct possibility that he will pick her out of the audience and (lovingly) mock her, as he......

This Friday sees the release of Neighbors, another movie about frats and sororities hoping to be the next Animal House. It's a fun movie, mixing the humor of Judd Apatow's disciples with everyone's favorite punching bag, Greek life. As a woman in a sorority at USC, one of the country's top party......

Romeo and Juliet would have been better as a comedy. Sure, it's probably sacrilege to criticize Shakespeare, especially so soon after his 450th birthday, but it's true. Just imagine, a comedy making fun of bumbling teenagers, fumbling around as they try to sort out their pubescent emotions, ending with a......