THE UNDERSTUDY at Studio Stage
Myron Meisel – Stage Raw Coming a generation earlier than Sheila Callaghan, Theresa Rebeck (Mauritius, Seminar) mapped out a career course for many like her to model. Read more… Now running through April 3.
LADCC Critics
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Winners announced for 47th Annual Awards
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle named the multi-nominated Hit the Wall and Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles as 2015’s Outstanding Productions at the organization’s 47th annual awards event, held on Monday evening, March 14 at the Moss Theatre of New Roads School in…
THE 39 STEPS at the Torrance Theatre Company
Dany Margolies – The Daily Breeze Richard Hannay is world-weary. At 37 years old, returning to prewar London after traveling, he fears there’s nothing left of life. Suddenly remembering the one place that could brighten his outlook, he dashes out…
SUMMER AND SMOKE at the Actors Co-op
David C. Nichols – LA Times Summer and Smoke” may stand a little higher in the Tennessee Williams canon after you see an exceptional Actors Co-op revival of the 1947 drama, one of the best offerings in the company’s storied…
WOMEN LAUGHING ALONE WITH SALAD at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
Margaret Gray – LA Times Is “Women Laughing Alone With Salad” the first play inspired by an Internet meme? In 2011 the feminist website the Hairpin published stock photographs of slender models appearing to exult over forkfuls of mixed greens.…
MINE at the Moth Theatre
Paul Birchall – Stage Raw Playwright Ryan Surratt’s three person chamber piece of need and greed strips motivation and morality down to their minimal essence. Read more… Now running through April 16.
CLOUD 9 at the Antaeus Theatre Company
Terry Morgan – Stage Raw The Antaeus Theatre Company once again demonstrates its immense value to the Los Angeles theatre community, this time with a superb revival of Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9. It’s an ambitious and tricky work, but under…
YOU NEVER CAN TELL at A Noise Within
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw George Bernard Shaw’s’s turn of the 20th century rom-com, had a rocky start. Set to debut in 1897, it failed to make it to the stage that year, as actors struggled with the material and…
SPIES ARE FOREVER at the NoHo Arts Center
Neal Weaver – Stage Raw This slick little musical is a spoof of the James Bond movies, with emphasis on their snazzy-jazzy opening credits. The book is by Tin Can Brothers, a team made up of director Corey Lubowich and…
SEX WITH STRANGERS at the Geffen Playhouse
Margaret Gray – LA Times It could be the setup for a Harlequin romance: A beautiful novelist curls on a couch in a bed-and-breakfast in rural Michigan, proofreading a manuscript, completely alone. Heavy snow has deterred other guests, and even…