Rob Stevens – Haines His Way For the final production of its 2023 season, Long Beach’s International City Theatre has mounted a lively and fun revival. Although the play is very popular, it has rarely been done in the Los Angeles area. Read more…
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way As with every MTG concert this reviewer has seen over the past 25-plus years, the cast of Southern California musical theatre veterans delivered the best sung version I have ever encountered and I have seen over a dozen different productions, many of them twice, since that original one in … Read more
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Playwright Preston Choi turns Asian female stereotypes in pop culture for a loop in his World Premiere comedy This Is Not a True Story at the downtown Los Angeles Theatre Center. Read more…
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way The creators have their hearts in the right place in wanting to tell this story, they just need to refine the result. The Right Is Ours! needs a lot of work before it earns my whole-hearted vote. Read more…
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Cameron Watson has directed with pinpoint clarity and permits his actors to live and breathe their dialogue. Brenneman commands the stage from the opening moments to the closing. Her Bella is an enigma that will never really be solved. Keith matches her scene by scene. They truly form a … Read more
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Graf masterfully weaves together this terrible-family-secrets narrative with, of course, a sideways glance at American gun culture. The result becomes absorbing and ultimately moving in caryn desai’s staging. Read more… Rob Stevens – Haines His Way The entertainment value is high in ICT’s production. The direction by caryn desai is … Read more
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage A Noise Within got a jump on other midsize companies by opening its fall season last Saturday — before Labor Day — with Lydia Diamond’s 2006 adaptation of Toni Morrison’s 1970 novel “The Bluest Eye”. I missed its first LA County production, in Santa Monica in 2011, so I was … Read more
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Often when I see the World Premiere of a play in our local theatres, I will read in the program that the play was the winner of the so and so playwriting award. Then often after sitting through a very dispiriting piece of theatre, I begin to wonder who … Read more
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way As part of the two-show repertory opening its 57th season, Beverly Hills’s Theatre 40 is presenting the World Premiere of Marion J. Zola’s One Moment of Freedom. It’s an interesting snapshot of a little-known incident in American history. Read more…
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Theatre 40, on the campus of Beverly Hills High School, has opened their 57th season with Norm Foster’s Doris and Ivy in The Home. The title gives away the fact that there is some female bonding about to happen in a senior citizen environment. Doris (Diana Angelina) is a … Read more