WE HAVE OTHERS at a private residence
Paul Birchall – Stage Raw My Uber driver was concerned for my safety when I told her where I was going for the play I was reviewing this week. Of course I am used to going to some dodgy places…
Month October 2015
Read MoreWE HAVE OTHERS at a private residence
GET. THAT. SNITCH. at Atwater Village Theatre
Jenny Lower – Stage Raw Like most of the gangsters it features in its slick, style-obsessed production at the Atwater Village Theatre, Get. That. Snitch., the debut effort of Great Minds Creative Productions, talks a big game. But like the “very…
HOMEFREE at the Road on Magnolia
Bob Verini – Stage Raw Lisa Loomer writes Issue Plays. She may not set out to do so quite so baldly, but there it is. Her works tend to be identifiable, and tend to last in the memory, as copiously…
SOMETHING TRULY MONSTROUS at the Blank Theatre
Jonas Schwartz – Arts In LA Rarely are the words zany and film noir in the same sentence. However, Something Truly Monstrous is a madcap send-up of 1940 murky melodramas like High Sierra, Johnny Eager, and The Maltese Falcon—taking a longstanding rumor and twisting the backstory to involve…
A BRIGHT NEW BOISE – Chance Theater at the Bette Aitken Theater Arts Center
Margaret Gray – LA Times Some of us try to jury-rig meaningful lives using the disheartening fragments at our disposal; others dream of wiping the slate clean and starting anew. Both approaches prove painfully unsatisfying to the lonely characters in…