ROTTERDAM at the Skylight Theatre
Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen It’s New Year’s Eve in Rotterdam, and Alice (Miranda Wynne) is agonizing over a drafted email she has been meaning to send for a long time—an email in which she finally tells her…
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THE CURIOUS SAVAGE at the Whittier Community Theatre
Frances Baum Nicholson –The Stage Struck Review For the second play of their 96th season, the Whittier Community Theatre has chosen the gently comic “The Curious Savage” by John Patrick. In a time when the battle between decency and avarice…
NAKED IN ALASKA at the Bootleg Theatre
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Twenty-year-old Valerie Hager was down on her luck. She’d split from her boyfriend, lost her job, and owed $3500 in parking tickets which she would need to pay to retrieve her towed car. So when…
UNCOVER THE MOON at Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre
Lovell Estell III — Stage Raw Writer/director Susan Chambers scores a modest success with this short coming-of-age tale that meshes allegory with fairy tale, nature myths, and a dash of feminist esprit.Read more… Now running through November 25
YOHEN at East West Players
Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly Set in 1986, Philip Kan Gotanda’s Yohen depicts the unraveling of a 37-year marriage. Although it tumbles off-track in its final third, the play to that point is an astute portrayal of the dynamics of a failed…
CAUGHT at Think Tank Gallery
Terry Morgan – Stage Raw The subject of deception and the malleability of truth couldn’t be more timely. When the highest levels of government and entire media organizations such as Fox News are openly lying to the populace every day…
THE WONG STREET JOURNAL at Bootleg Theatre
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw American armchair activists receive a solid drubbing in The Wong Street Journal. Kristina Wong’s solo show is not only dynamic, clever and entertaining; it’s also a compelling reminder of the harsh conditions that exist outside the ken…
LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES at Antaeus Theatre Company
Jenny Lower – Stage Raw Antaeus announced Christopher Hampton’s 1987 adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses as the debut of its current season all the way back in June. The director’s note in the program discusses how this pre-revolutionary tale of French aristocratic…
AN ENEMY OF THE PUEBLO at Casa 0101
Deborah Klugman – Capital & Main In An Enemy of the Pueblo, playwright Josefina López appropriates the basic construct of Henrik Ibsen’s classic, tosses in a few large dollops of magical realism, and transforms the lead character from a 19th-century Norwegian…
THE RED DRESS – Argyle Road Productions at the Odyssey Theatre
Neal Weaver – Stage Raw Playwright Tania Wisbar is the daughter of a German father and a Jewish mother, both of whom were prominent members of the German film world in the 1930s. But when she was just six months…