Steven Leigh Morris

At the opening of Mark Schwartz's Divorce Party: The Musical, a frumpy housefrau named Linda (Janna Cardia) sits amidst small rings of her own fat, in one of the few uncluttered spaces on her living room floor, and howls her despair into a telephone over her broken marriage, between gulps......

Collectively, our theater critics were in a very good mood this week, offering recommendations to the majority of shows reviewed: Complete at the Matrix, Echo Theatre Company's A Family Thing, Sexsting at the Skylight, Shirley Valentine at the Falcon, and this week's Pick of the Week, What May Fall at......

Charles A. Duncombe's new play Caged at Santa Monica's City Garage is a rumination on the oddities of our species via the exhibition of two naked souls in a museum cage. It's also this week's Pick of the Week. Nods, too, for Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical at the Pantages......

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Child-like views delighted our critics this week, with Mike Kenney's Walking the Tightrope at the 24th Street Theatre taking Pick of the Week, and a nod to Albie Selznick's magic show Smoke and Mirrors at the Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood. There's also a recommendation for an adult comedy......