DULCE ROSA at the Broad Stage

  DULCE ROSA - co-written by composer Lee Holdridge and librettist Richard Sparks, based on the short story by Isabel Allende.   Pauline Adamek – ArtsBeatLA A gorgeous new opera made its world premier last Friday at The Broad Stage, in a co-production with LA Opera, conducted by LA Opera’s general director Plácido Domingo. Performed
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THE BALD SOPRANO and THE CHAIRS at the Garage Theatre

  THE BALD SOPRANO and THE CHAIRS by Eugene Ionesco.   Shirle Gottlieb – The Gazette Newspapers Written in 1948 shortly after World War II, “The Bald Soprano” was Eugene Ionesco’s first play. As the transplanted Romanian struggled to write in French (the language of his adopted country), he realized how banal everyday communication had
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JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE at the Mark Taper Forum

  JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE by August Wilson.   Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly For this critic August Wilson has always been eloquent on the page, a bit wordy on the stage. This second in his 10-play chronicle of the African-American experience takes place in 1911, a bare 46 years after the Civil War
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FALLING FOR MAKE BELIEVE at the Colony Theatre

  FALLING FOR MAKE BELIEVE by Mark Saltzman   David Nichols – LA Times Though the late Lorenz Hart stands near-peerless among Broadway lyricists, his tortured private life remains largely untitled. That is, until “Falling for Make Believe” at the Colony Theatre, wherein a grand cast and 21 classic songs propel Mark Saltzman’s musical study
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COPS AND FRIENDS OF COPS at VS. Theatre Company

COPS AND FRIENDS OF COPS by Ron Klier.   Dany Margolies – ArtsInLA Paul stands by the light of a jukebox. The audience is intrigued, wondering who he is and why he’s there. Read more…     Be Sociable, Share! Tweet