ADLER & GIBB at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
Dany Margolies – The Daily Breeze Something is strangely fascinating about “Adler & Gibb,” the latest from the strangely fascinating theatermaker Tim Crouch. Read more…
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PLASTICITY at the Hudson Guild Theatre
Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen The human brain is a powerful and fascinating thing. In Plasticity, a world premiere play written by Alex Lyras and Robert McCaskill, a man in a coma struggles to become conscious again, all while…
ZANNA DON’T! at Chromolume Theatre at the Attic
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw There’s a lot of singing about love in Tim Acito’s musical fantasy, Zanna, Don’t! which is set in a high school in the Midwest (Heartsville High), where homosexuality is the norm and being hetero prompts wrinkled noses…
BECKETT5 at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble
Neal Weaver – Stage Raw The late playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett did not make things easy for his audiences. He was first of all an arch-minimalist, reducing his works to the barest possible form. He often eschewed plot, multiple…
ALL THE STREET’S A STAGE AND SACK LUNCH ‘FELLOWSHIP’ by Don Shirley
Don Shirley – LA Observed January 21 was a great day for immersive theater in Los Angeles. I’m referring to one event you probably know about, the Women’s March. But I’m also writing about “fellowship” – which you probably don’t know…
NICE IRANIAN GIRL at the Whitefire Theatre
Katie Buenneke – Stage Raw Nice Iranian Girl, Layla Rumi (a.k.a. Layla Kaleigh)’s one-woman show at the Whitefire Theatre, feels half-baked. The 50-minute monologue, which plays weekly in Sherman Oaks as part of Whitefire’s Solofest, follows Rumi from her early…
GRIMLY HANDSOME at City Garage
Paul Birchall – Stage Raw I am taking an online class from my old college about comparative fairy tales – not the cutesy Disney stuff, but the darker, more horrifying tales of little children falling into wells and drowning, or…
THE FOUND DOG RIVER DANCE at the Atwater Village Theatre
Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen In the opening scene of The Found Dog Ribbon Dance, a world premiere play by Dominic Finocchiaro currently being presented by the Echo Theater Company, a man wearing a Lucha mask uses a webcam…
BEE-LUTHER-HATCHEE at the Sierra Madre Playhouse
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw In 1985 police dropped a bomb on a predominantly black middle-class neighborhood in Philadelphia. They were targeting MOVE, a strange radical group known for staging vociferous profanity-laden demonstrations against the Establishment. Read more… Now running through…
13 THINGS ABOUT ED CARPOLOTTI at the Broad Stage
Jonas Schwartz – TheaterMania finds Virginia (Penny Fuller) alone in her home for the first time after her husband, Ed (they were childhood sweethearts), passes away. Worse, she discovers that Ed’s business has been failing for years. As president of…