Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story @ MUSICAL THEATRE WEST
Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 7.8 out of 10! Above Average! Listen here…
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Yankee Dawg You Die @ EAST WEST PLAYERS
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Philip Kan Gotanda’s groundbreaking play, now in an electrically charged revival at East West Players chosen to honor the company’s prestigious 60th anniversary, was first performed at Berkeley Rep in 1988 before being brought to…
Sister Act @ THE MORGAN-WIXSON THEATRE
F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw Sister Act, which premiered at the Pasadena Playhouse in 2006 and went on to a healthy run on Broadway, is one of those cash-grab enterprises that exploited fool-proof source material —namely, the popular 1992…
Ada and the Engine @ LONG BEACH PLAYHOUSE
Anita W. Harris – Long Beach Post In the final weekend of its run at Long Beach Playhouse, “Ada and the Engine” may offer a quiet respite from all the July 4 pyrotechnics. Read more…
#HFF25: ST. NICHOLAS @ THE BROADWATER
Tracey Paleo – Gia On The Move Actor Andrew Hart’s journey in ST. NICHOLAS (by Conor McPherson) is an utter, moral compromise rabbit hole. It is definitely one of the more interesting spine-tinglers at Fringe this season. Read more…
A powerful ‘Parade,’ a hapless ‘Hamlet’
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Parade, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Strife, Reservoir, Nice Girl, Sorry, Wedding Singer, Network, Greenwood 1964, The Angel Next Door. Read more…
The Reservoir @ THE GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA This world premiere heralds the auspicious professional playwrighting debut of Jake Brasch, someone with a unique ability to reveal more autobiographical shit about himself than even Jonathan Safran Foer could call forth—and who with this…
#HFF25: EGGS! @ THE MADNANI THEATER
Tracey Paleo – Gia On The Move There is much talk about eggs, in EGGS. That isn’t the point of this 2025 Hollywood Fringe Festival Scholarship Winner however. Still, it takes some time to figure that out. Read more…
Sorry @ MOVING ARTS THEATRE
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Sorry, written by Melissa R. Randel and co-directed by Randel and Larry Biederman, opens on a bizarre, rather unsettling image: three women, not young, dressed in varying undergarments (costumes by Rosalida Medina), stand on their…
Parade @ AHMANSON
Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 7.9 out of 10! Above Average! Listen Here… Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA This thrilling new materialization–and the sheer brilliance and import of the classic musical Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown gifted…