Patrick Chavis – The Orange Curtain Review The OC premiere of ALMA at the Chance Theater delivers a profoundly authentic and nuanced depiction of a first-generation immigrant Mexican family. The narrative, woven through the intricate bond of a mother and…
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Promising new playwright Laura Stribling employs a fascinating device, seamlessly and innovatively melding history and fiction as two real-life groundbreaking astronomers and author/poet/abolitionist/suffragette Julia Ward Howe are presented as characters interacting with some equally interesting…
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Through the bleakness and hardship, there’s an omnipresent glimmer of hope the threads throughout Conor McPherson’s brilliant Girl from North Country as a stepped-upon group of tyrannized survivors of the Great Depression fight to discover…
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw The power of the storytelling ignites in the performances of Robledo as an angry and impassioned Don Jesus, Monte Escalante as a magical teller of fortunes who can straddle life and death, Brown as the…
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw In American Mariachi, José Cruz González’s new play directed by José Luis Valenzuela, a group of Mexican American women rebel against the macho mindset of their husbands and fathers when they strive to form a…
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA The underlying message of The Hope Theory comes through this worldclass conjuror and raconteur’s skills and, for a brief time, he makes the chaos we all share these days disappear with the ease of his…
Anita W. Harris – LA Theatrix With its combination of political pointedness, humanity and humor, it’s easy to see why “What the Constitution Means to Me” was a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in drama. And the disarmingly expressive…
Terry Morgan – ArtsBeatLA If the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, perhaps the road to freedom is paved with righteous anger? Henrik Ibsen may have thought so when he wrote his proto-feminist play, A Doll’s House, in…
Patrick Chavis – The Orange Curtain Review Galilee, 34, doesn’t explore anything new or controversial about the long and arduous creation of the Bible, which has not been discussed about the best-selling book of all time for decades. Still, Eleanor…
Anita W. Harris – LA Theatrix The play thus offers a compelling master class in Stalin himself, whom Volok embodies intensely and believably throughout. Music certainly figures as well, aided by pianist Nisha Sue Arunasalam offstage. And dialogue on whether…