LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

June 12, 2018Ellen Dostal – Broadway World Halfway through Act I of Eugene O’Neill’s LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT at the Wallis, I was looking at Rob Howell’s see-through set design when it dawned on me. People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. If only the Tyrones had gotten the memo. Read more… Neal Weaver
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LYSISTRATA UNBOUND at the Odyssey Theatre

June 12, 2018Ellen Dostal – Broadway World John Farmanesh-Bocca directs the world premiere of a bracing new version of Eduardo Machado‘s LYSISTRATA UNBOUND, starring Brenda Strong (Supergirl, 13 Reasons Why) as Lysistrata, in a collaboration between Odyssey Theatre Ensemble and Not Man Apart – Physical Theatre Ensemble. Read more… Now running through August 4

HENRY IV at the Japanese Gardens on the West L.A. VA campus

June 11, 2018Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly Tom Hanks as Falstaff, Joe Morton as King Henry IV and a solid supporting ensemble add up to half a dozen good reasons to see director Dan Sullivan’s staging of Henry IV,….Read more… Ellen Dostal – Broadway World Director Daniel Sullivan‘s adaptation of HENRY IV, Parts 1 & 2 may
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BORDERTOWN at the Pasadena Playhouse

June 10, 2018Jonas Schwartz - TheaterMania Twenty years ago, Culture Clash presented Bordertown Now, which took a look at the percolating tension between the US government and undocumented Mexican immigrants crossing the border. Read more… Now running through June 24

HOSTAGE at the Skylight Theatre

June 8, 2018Deborah Klugman – Capital and Main On November 4, 1979, several hundred Iranians, mostly students, stormed the American embassy in Tehran and took 60-odd hostages — 52 of whom were held captive for 444 days. It was a humiliating event for the U.S. government and, in general, a wake-up call for Americans….. Read more… Now
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HER PORTMANTEAU at Boston Court Pasadena

June 7, 2018Neal Weaver – Stage Raw This play by Nigerian-American playwright Mfoniso Udofia is part of a projected cycle of nine plays about the lives of the Ufot family in Nigeria and America. Read more… Now running through June 30

PARADE at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts

June 7, 2018Dany Margolies – The Daily Breeze People apparently must hate another group they barely know, no matter the race, religion or financial bracket. The Judeo-Christian Bible reflects back to us myriad examples of this untethered hatred. Eastern and Western history serializes it. And it fills today’s media. Read more… Now running through June 10

Social Media

Several of the members of the LADCC have an active presence on various social media sites. Below is a list of active links to those members’ pages on Twitter and Instagram, and their respective websites:

LA Drama Critics
@LADramaCC

Katie Buenneke

@kbuenneke

www.katiebuenneke.com

www.facebook.com/kbuenneke

Erin Conley
@Erinsk8
onstageandscreen.com

Ellen Dostal
@musicalsinla
musicalsinla.blogspot.com

Hoyt Hilsman
@HoytHilsman
www.hoythilsman.com

Deborah Klugman
Capital and Main

Jenny Lower
@jennylower

Dany Margolies
@ArtsinLA.com
www.artsinla.com

Terry Morgan
@TerryMorgan45