Sarah Taylor Ellis

'I Am Not Drinking Any Fucking Merlot!' Sideways Becomes a Stage Play

Sarah Taylor EllisMay 18, 2012

Rex Pickett's excitement has superseded his exhaustion during the final weeks of rehearsal for his new play Sideways, opening this weekend at Ruskin Group Theatre in Santa Monica. Having adapted the play from his own novel, Pickett is busy making final tweaks to the script and participating in post-show talkbacks,......

Follies

Sarah Taylor EllisMay 17, 2012

The fantastical "Loveland" sequence in Act 2 — showcasing Gregg Barnes' glittering array of costumes and Warren Carlyle's playful pastiche choreography — revivifies a Golden Age of musical theater with nostalgic longing. Tuesdays-Fridays, 8 p.m.; Saturdays, 2 & 8 p.m.; Sundays, 1 & 6:30 p.m. Starts: May 9. Continues through......

Lord of the Rings Parody Musical Fellowship! Returns to L.A., With Superfans

Sarah Taylor EllisApril 30, 2012

You might say that Fellowship! The Musical Parody of The Fellowship of the Ring has gone there and back again. After originating at NoHo's El Portal Theatre in 2004 and winning L.A. Weekly Theater Awards for Best Comedy Ensemble and Best Musical of 2005, Fellowship! played to great acclaim in......

Audience Spills Oil on Actors and Loads Them Into Body Bags, in a New Play About the BP Oil Spill. Really.

Sarah Taylor EllisMarch 28, 2012

When the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in 2010, most Angelenos experienced the oil spill's devastation secondhand through TV news reports, newspaper articles and online photos and videos of the damage. In L.A.'s site-specific production of Caridad Svich's The Way of Water, Opera del Espacio is making the disaster tangible......

Kimberly Akimbo

Sarah Taylor EllisMarch 15, 2012

Time is warped for teenage misfit Kimberly Levaco, who suffers from a disease that causes her to age 4.5 times faster than her high school peers. In a zippy production of David Lindsay-Abaire's dysfunctional family comedy at Malibu Stage Company, Katharine Ross (The Graduate) sometimes lacks the physical and vocal......

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Sarah Taylor Ellis

'I Am Not Drinking Any Fucking Merlot!' Sideways Becomes a Stage Play

Follies

Lord of the Rings Parody Musical Fellowship! Returns to L.A., With Superfans

Audience Spills Oil on Actors and Loads Them Into Body Bags, in a New Play About the BP Oil Spill. Really.

Kimberly Akimbo

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