TURN ME LOOSE at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

October 21, 2017Deborah Klugman – Capital & Main In his powerhouse performance as Dick Gregory, the stand-up comic who rose to fame in the 1960s, Joe Morton tells the following story: He was civil rights organizing in the South with his good friend Medgar Evers, when he received a call informing him that his infant son had
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MICE – Ensemble Studio Theatre at Atwater Village Theatre

October 20, 2017Rob Stevens – Haines His Way If you have a fear/distaste for certain rodents, say mice or their bigger cousin–rats, Mice at Ensemble Studio Theatre might not be your piece of theatrical cheese. Read more… Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Schaeffer Nelson’s Mice is a strange little play in which a man in a mouse
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KAIDAN PROJECT: WALLS GROW THIN at East West Players

October 20, 2017Terry Morgan - Talkin’ Broadway High-end haunted houses seem to be more popular than ever these days. One can see the appeal—a bit more personal of a scare than simply watching a horror movie, a safe Halloween adventure. East West Players and Rogue Artists Ensemble have taken this trope and put their own unique spin
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ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART…/COMB YOUR HAIR (OR YOU’LL LOOK LIKE A SLAVE) at the Arena Stage

October 20, 2017Neal Weaver – Stage Raw Absence Makes the Heart… — written by Abley, and directed by Chrisanne Blankenship-Billings — is a modern take on Hans Christian Anderson’s The Red Shoes, which deals with a dancer driven to her death by the uncontrollable urge to dance. Read more… Now running through October 29

MRS. WARREN’S PROFESSION at A Noise Within

October 20, 2017Katie Buenneke – Stage Raw Though it was written in 1893, George Bernard Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession, now playing at A Noise Within in Pasadena, feels surprisingly contemporary. While Shaw scripted these conversations 124 years ago, the basic arguments the characters engage in have changed little in the intervening years. Read more… Now running
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MR. BURNS, A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY at the Sacred Fools Theater Company

October 20, 2017Terry Morgan - Stage Raw After the recent Equity nonsense, wherein said organization did whatever it could to destroy our beloved 99-seat theatres, there was a general sense that L.A.’s theatrical scene was going to stagger backwards and falter. Read more… Now running through November 18

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center

October 19, 2017Dany Margolies – The Daily Breeze There’s not much difference between creating a monster and creating a monster hit. Take for example “Young Frankenstein,” the musical currently in the hands of 3-D Theatricals. Read more… Hoyt Hilsman - Huffington Post 3D Theatricals offers another solid Broadway revival with Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein… Read more… Now
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The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle was founded in 1969. It is dedicated to excellence in theatrical criticism and to the encouragement and improvement of theatre in Greater Los Angeles.

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