LADCC Critics

THE SNOW GEESE at Independent Shakespeare Co.

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Terry Morgan  –  Stage Raw  Sharr White’s play, The Snow Geese, is clearly inspired by such classics as The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard and is trying to be an American equivalent, which is an admirable undertaking. Unfortunately, naming one’s play after waterfowl doesn’t make one Chekhov. Read more… Now running through April 19

BUILDING THE WALL at the Fountain Theatre

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Neal Weaver  – Stage Raw Robert Schenkkan’s play, set in 2019, is a dystopian vision of what life in Trump-land might be like two years hence. In a prison meeting room, a black woman, Gloria (Judith Moreland) is interviewing Rick (Bo Foxworth), a white prisoner. She offers him a chance to tell his side of … Read more

A WRINKLE IN TIME at the Sierra Madre Playhouse

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Dany Margolies – The Daily Breeze Imaginative direction, striking designs and two vivid performances bring the thrilling journey of Madeleine L’Engle’s science-fantasy novel “A Wrinkle in Time” to life onstage at Sierra Madre Playhouse. Read more… Now running through April 22

AH WILDERNESS at A Noise Within

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Frances Baum Nicholson – The Daily Breeze When one thinks of Eugene O’Neill, one thinks of wrenchingly serious plays, but “Ah, Wilderness” gives him a chance to explore the comparative innocence of a life he wished he could have lived. Read more… Jonas Schwartz –  TheaterMania Ah, Wilderness! is a tender memory piece about a family … Read more

RECIPIENTS OF THE 48TH ANNUAL LADCC AWARDS

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Congratulations to all the recipients of the 48th Annual LADCC Awards. They are as follows: Production McCulloh Award for Revival (plays written between 1920 and 1991) Lead Performance Featured Performance Ensemble Performance Solo Performance  Direction Writing Musical Score Music Direction Choreography Set Design CGI/Video Design Lighting Design Costumes Sound Design Specialty: Fight Choreography Specialty: Wigs, … Read more

FAIRLY TRACEABLE at Native Voices at the Autry

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Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Native rights activist Mary Kathryn Nagle is an attorney as well as a playwright. Her latest work, Fairly Traceable, now premiering at Native Voices at the Autry, is a legal drama that pits a group of environmentalist lawyers representing a Native American tribe against a conglomeration of oil companies whose activities … Read more

PARADISE LOST: RECLAIMING DESTINY at Greenway Court Theatre

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Paul Birchall  – Stage Raw You don’t need to brush up on your Milton to enjoy this splendid adaptation of his great epic Paradise Lost, which tells the story of Satan’s consignment to Hell and Adam and Eve’s fall from Eden. Jones (Welsh) Talmadge, creator of this gorgeous and dynamic shindig, has crafted the work into … Read more

LETTERS FROM GAY YOUNG MEN at Studio C

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Lovell Estell III — Stage Raw The inspiration for this show was drawn from Letters to a Young Poet, the famous tome by the great Austrian romantic poet, Rainer Marie Rilke. Rilke wrote the letters to a young Austrian Army cadet who had sought advice on whether he should pursue a career in the army, or … Read more

AT HOME AT THE ZOO at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

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Neal Weaver  – Stage Raw As the story goes, someone — a friend, a roommate or a lover — said to Mr. Albee, “Edward, you will be thirty years old tomorrow, and you don’t have a damn thing to show for it.” Stung by this comment, Albee sat down and, overnight, wrote a long one-act … Read more