Anita W. Harris – LA Theatrix While the play’s focus on teen trauma in a positive spirit is commendable, and its likable cast delivers invested, high-energy performances, the writing relies heavily on cliches, belabors points and leaves some plot elements hanging, reducing the overall emotional impact of the story, despite the cast’s stellar efforts. Read … Read more
Elaine Mura – Splash Magazines Smoothly helmed by Noah Blake with an eye to creating a campy description of a Hollywood that never existed but was lionized in multiple films of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, A KILLER NIGHT IN STUDIO CITY achieves its goal of entertaining and amusing the observer. Read more…
F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw Existence provides ample opportunity for two gifted actors to shine. Veteran director John Perrin Flynn, the former artistic director of Rogue Machine, stages the proceeding with an emotional simplicity that makes the most of his material’s limitations. Read more… Ed Rampell – Hollywood Progressive This is an excellent character … Read more
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Pericles, Enemy of the People, Arsonists, Conscience, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, In the Tomb of Ten Thousand Calendars, Slava Ukraini!, Green Corridors Read more…
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA The ambition, vision, and drive behind this original gothic musical are undeniable. Justin and Melissa Meyer have built an extraordinary creative home to serve LA theatergoers for years to come and this dark fantasy spectacle stands as a grand testament to what dedicated, uncompromised theatrical vision can achieve. Read … Read more
Elaine Mura – Splash Magazines Luis Valenzuela helmed the production with authenticity and artistry as the story reached its tragic conclusion. Projected subtitles assisted in understanding English and Spanish – as well as Nahuatl – but it is likely that the audience would have followed the story even without translation, so powerful were the multiple … Read more
Ed Rampell – Hollywood Progressive In the last couple of years there has been a trend of L.A.’s live stages reviving classics of the Theater of the Absurd: The Geffen Playhouse presented Beckett’s (that valiant veteran of the French anti-Nazi Resistance!) Waiting for Godot; A Noise Within Ionesco’s Exit the King; and The Actors’ … Read more
Terry Morgan – ArtsBeatLA I appreciate that the Pasadena Playhouse has not only given a big production to a play that is almost never staged anymore, but also that they’ve done a terrific job with it. The Visit is thought-provoking and enjoyable theater. Read more… Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Way back in 1956 with … Read more
Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 7.5 out of 10! Above Average! Listen here… Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA The musical identity of this production provides its truest soul. The score is the single finest element of the entire magical production, infused with a rich bluegrass and early roots-Americana that evokes a haunting weather-beaten … Read more
Dana Martin – Stage Raw Altadena Music Theatre’s Little Shop of Horrors is a gem: heartfelt, wonderfully dark, and very silly. It deserves to be seen, and it deserves to be supported. Read more…