SELL/BUY/DATE at the Geffen Playhouse
Margaret Gray – LA Times The writer and actress Sarah Jones is gorgeous, about 8 feet tall (at least it seems that way) and rail thin, with a wide mane of hair. When she walks onstage at the Geffen Playhouse,…
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THE MADRES at the Skylight Theatre
Neal Weaver – Stage Raw Stephanie Alison Walker’s stirring drama is set in Buenos Aires in the 1980s, when Argentina was ruled by a ruthless military junta. Anyone who spoke out against the regime could be taken into custody and…
BINGO HALL – Native Voices at the Autry Museum
Terry Morgan – Stage Raw One of the nice things about being a theatregoer in Los Angeles is the diversity of theatre one is able to enjoy. On any given weekend, there are shows up at East West Players (which…
STOMACH CONTENTS at Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre
Neal Weaver – Stage Raw These three one-acts by Sharon Yablon are all set in the bleak Mojave Desert, and they share an equally bleak vision, albeit touched with fantasy and surrealism.Read more… Now running through March 25
THE ART COUPLE at the Broadwater Black Box
Lovell Estell III — Stage Raw Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh and Neil Simon: two icons of the brush and canvass, another of the written word and stage, are all cleverly brought together in this striking world premiere by playwright…
THIS IRAQ WAR VETERAN DIDN’T JUST SEE ‘WATER BY THE SPOONFUL.’ HE LIVED IT by Margaret Gray
Margaret Gray – LA Times It’s intermission during Quiara Alegría Hudes’ “Water by the Spoonful,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning centerpiece of her Elliot trilogy of plays portraying the experiences of a Marine during and after the Iraq war. It’s interesting, a…
JACKIE UNVEILED at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Ellen Dostal – BroadwayWorld In Act 1 of JACKIE UNVEILED, Tom Dugan‘s new solo play about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, she repeats a single phrase over and over. “I’m no good alone.” The chain smoking, alcohol indulging former first lady has just learned…
ALLEGIANCE at the Aratani Theatre
Ellen Dostal – Musicals in LA After nearly nine years, Allegiance has come home to Southern California. The co-production by East West Players and the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center opened to a sold out crowd on Wednesday night,…
THE UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY OF JURASSIC PARK at Rockwell Table and Stage
Harker Jones – Edge on the Net The “Unauthorized Musical Parody Of…” series has a recipe that always works: take a beloved film, break it down to its most basic parts, find ways to lovingly exploit them and then loop…
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF A PLAY at the Celebration Theatre
Terry Morgan – Stage Raw There’s little that chills the blood of a theatre critic more than the three words “one-man show.” When these things are bad, they tend to be especially so, and unlike a usual play, there’s nothing…