F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw Playwright Clara Rodriguez certainly doesn’t hold back in Pointy Scissors, now having its world premiere at Theatre West. Rapid-fire in pace and convoluted, the play is a farce in the truest sense of the…
Martín Hernández – Stage Raw While the play is populated with stereotypical characters and falters in dramatic tension, the show compensates with robust jokes, engaging performances from an excellent cast, and a subtle critique of American culture and politics. Read…
F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw Mark Guirguis’s clever scenic features a series of flats that pivots to reveal the castle’s various rooms. Leigh Allen’s lighting design is effectively murky, sometimes to a fault. However, it is Rubalsky’s magnificent sound…
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Guac, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, anthropology, Little King of Norwalk, Mascogos, Great Lover, नेहा & Neel, Aaron Play, Cymbeline, Littleboy/Littleman, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, Electrico, Paranormapl Inside,…
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Directed by Darin Anthony, the performers do their best, but the format of the script hems them in. Its plethora of brief scenes creates a need for frequent set changes, which disrupts the drama. Read…
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw As Karl, Remez-Cott falls in with the stylized over-the-top presentation suitable for so many other characters in this biting satiric story, expressing Karl’s trepidation and bewilderment with conspicuous hyperbole. But the production might be better…
Martín Hernández – Stage Raw While its many parts do not congeal into a steady whole, thus diminishing its core theme, the play nonetheless serves as a forceful call to pick up torches and pitchforks against global warming. Read more…
Amanda Callas – Discover Hollywood Magazine Hadestown is a must-see modern musical at the Hollywood Pantages through November 2nd. Hadestown is the rare kind of musical that even people who hate musicals will probably love — and to anyone who…
Edward Hong – The Nerds Of Color For better or worse, one of the oldest tropes in Asian American identity stories is often the generational & cultural divide between the immigrant parents and their American-born children. Ankita Raturi‘s नेहा &…
Melinda Schupmann – Showmag For those fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes in particular, Kate Hamill’s wacky offering will upend what you might have expected to see when you arrived at the theater. Instead, it pays little…