ARGONAUTIKA at A Noise Within

April 17, 2019Ellen Dostal – Broadway World The best way to characterize Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation of the mythical tale of Jason and the Argonauts is as a playground for adults in which theatre artists use every storytelling trick in the book to bring gods, monsters, mortals, and kings to life. Read more… Now running through May 5

JULIUS CAESAR – Independent Shakespeare Co at Atwater Crossing Arts + Innovation Complex

April 16, 2019Ellen Dostal – Broadway World Taking its cue from Orson Welles‘ 1937 Mercury Theatre production of JULIUS CAESAR, Independent Shakespeare Co. exercises its exceptional ability to adapt one of Shakespeare’s massive works for an intimate indoor setting without giving up any of the play’s scope or impact. Read more… Now running through May 11

THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE at 24th Street theatre

April 16, 2019Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Children’s author Kate DiCamillo won the 2006 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for fiction for The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, about a pretentious porcelain rabbit and the misadventures that befall him before he learns about humility and love. Read more… Now running through May 19

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN – Musical Theatre West at Carpenter Performing Arts Center

April 13, 2019Jonas Schwartz - Arts In LA Catch Me If You Can, based on the hit Steven Spielberg movie, is a swingin’ ’60s musical by the composers that brought Hairspray to the stage. At Musical Theatre West, director Larry Raben captures the energy of ’60s television variety specials…….Read more… Now running through April 14

ACTORS’ GANG ONE ACT FESTIVAL at the Actors’ Gang

April 5, 2019Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw This program of original work in the Actors’ Gang One Act Festival illustrates how a misguided directorial choice can undermine a strong piece of writing, while a sketchier script can be illuminated by a gifted performance. Read more… Now running through April 20

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY at the Pantages Theatre

March 30, 2019Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen Believe it or not, the characters in the musical version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory do not actually enter the titular chocolate factory until the very end of act one. That’s right, over an hour in to this perplexing adaptation there is nary an Oompa Loompa in sight.
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THE MOTHER OF HENRY at the Los Angeles Theatre Center

March 30, 2019Deborah Klugman – Capital & Main Evelina Fernández’s world premiere play, The Mother of Henry, is set within Los Angeles’ Eastside barrio, Boyle Heights, in 1968. It was a watershed year. Although change was in the wind — the anti-war protests, civil rights marches, the farmworkers’ strikes — the murders of MLK and Bobby Kennedy,
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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