SOLIDARITY, FOREVER
Steven Leigh Morris – LA Weekly “If you want to give it away, get out of the union!” I’ve heard that cry, all the way from the East Coast. I teach for Cal State University and I belong to a…
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CLOSER THAN EVER at the Hollywood Piano Store
Bob Verini – Arts In LA Book musicals and musical revues are two different animals, and it’s a rare theater songwriter or team that can crank out both. Many of the very best— Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Stephen…
FINDING NICK at the Zephr Theatre
Paul Birchall – Stage and Cinema In his solo show, playwright Nicholas Guest describes his life and travels around the world. He’s accompanied by Hillary Smith on the cello and by Tony Carafone on the guitar (in the play, not…
OFF THE RAILS at the Autry National Center Of The American West
Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly Off the Rails, Randy Reinholz’s engaging adaptation of Measure for Measure, interweaves strands of American history, chiefly the Native American struggle to preserve tribal identity, with the themes and cadences of Shakespearean comedy. The play is…
THE PRICE at the Mark Taper Forum
Jonas Schwartz – TheaterMania A revival of Arthur Miller’s 1967 The Price, in which a room full of furniture triggers a catharsis between a frustrated man, his wife, and his estranged brother, is now running at the Mark Taper Forum. Old wounds…
THE OTHER PLACE at The Road on Magnolia
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Like many plays that deal with our mortality, those about dementia can be extraordinarily affecting. They speak to a loss of self nearly as complete and devastating as our physical demise. Read more… David C. Nichols…
UNCLE VANYA – Chalk Repertory Theatre at the Neutra Institute Museum
Bob Verini – Stage Raw On a stage — and as often as not, in everyday life, but certainly on a stage — when a character announces, “I’m dying of boredom,” there’s always something else, something deeper going on. With…
END OF THE RAINBOW at International City Theatre
Neal Weaver – Stage Raw Some years before Judy Garland’s death, she appeared at a star-studded benefit for the Actors Studio in New York, alongside Carole Channing, Ava Gardner, Shelley Winters and Josephine Premice — and Judy’s children, including Liza…
A STATEMENT CONCERNING THE PROPOSED EQUITY CHANGES TO LOS ANGELES THEATER
The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle views the impending changes of policy concerning the small theaters of the greater Los Angeles area with alarm. We are concerned that the inevitable result of such changes will be a drastic reduction in…
THE THREEPENNY OPERA at A NOISE WITHIN
Sharon Perlmutter – Talkin’ Broadway There are two things that doom A Noise Within’s production of The Threepenny Opera. The first is enunciation. The cast seems so concerned with keeping up their British accents throughout the proceedings, they don’t go a…