LOMBARDI – Group Rep at the Lonny Chapman Theatre
Margaret Gray – LA Times Football may be a grandly theatrical sport, but its sweeping, corporeal drama doesn’t easily translate onto the small stage. Read more… Now running through September 6.
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THE FABULOUS LIPITONES at the Colony Theatre
Melinda Schupmann – Arts In LA In an era when most musical groups are helmed by young singers with a broad appeal, barbershop quartets speak to an older demographic and are usually populated by, as the cast reminds us, old…
DATING: ADULTS EMBRACING FAILURE – Broken Hearts Productions at The Hudson Guild Theatre
Neal Weaver – Stage Raw This topical comedy show, written and performed by Joseph Lanzet and Lindy Voeltner, and directed by Andy Eninger, takes a rueful look at the pitfalls of the dating game, and it seems like a date-night…
WILL L.A. ACTORS SUE THEIR UNION?
Steven Leigh Morris – LA Weekly We haven’t been treated fairly, and everybody knows it, says actress Maria Gobetti. She’s objecting to the union’s elimination of L.A.’s 99-Seat Theater Plan, which, for the uninitiated, was in effect for a quarter…
I AM NOT SAM at The Space
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Michael Phillip Edwards’s fiery one-person play is less a drama in the traditional sense than a blistering rumination on identity and race, and the toll racism takes on American men of color. Its urgency erupts…
BENT at the Mark Taper Forum
Jonas Schwartz – Arts In LA Bent, playwright Martin Sherman’s revelatory 1979 play about the gay experience in Nazi concentration camps, receives an arresting production at the Mark Taper Forum. Moisés Kaufman’s direction and his stellar cast will leave audiences breathless.…
THE BISCUITMAKER at the Electric Lodge
Dany Margolies – Arts In LA Whether genetically predisposed or trained well at his granddaddy’s knee, Jim Loucks has the knack for telling stories large and small. In this solo show, Loucks layers recollections from his youth and builds a…
FAILURE: A LOVE STORY at GTC Burbank
Les Spindle – Edge on the Net Prolific Chicago-based playwright, Phillip Dawkins, is back. When his riveting ensemble drama “The Homosexuals” was presented at L.A.’ s Celebration Theater in 2013, it certainly whetted one’s appetite to view more of his…
A NIGHT WITH JANIS JOPLIN at the Pasadena Playhouse
Bob Verini – Arts In LA Members of the opening night audience at Pasadena Playhouse’s A Night With Janis Joplinwere clearly primed for an intimate tête-à-tête with the titular musical legend, and judging by the two hours’ worth of spontaneous outbursts,…
DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA at the Los Angeles Theatre Center
Paul Birchall – Stage Raw Talk about site specific theater: Here’s a production of playwright John Patrick Shanley’s romantic standard that is immersive — literally. Read more… Now running through August 1.