COYOTE ON A FENCE at Arena Stage
Dany Margolies – Arts In LA Coyotes don’t play fetch and greet us at the door and guard us in our homes. Coyotes are the predator version of our snuggly pups. They are the canines with the need to kill,…
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AUTO PARTS at the Fremont Centre Theatre
Neal Weaver – LA Weekly Writer-director Steve Sajich’s play consists of four tenuously interrelated scenes, centering on the murder of a hooker. For reasons best known to Sajich, the four scenes are juggled in performance, with the audience deciding what…
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM at the Theatricum Botanicum
Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly As Bottom, performer Katherine Griffith may be the best reason to see this amusing but somewhat quotidian presentation of Shakespeare’s seasonal classic. Cast across gender by directors Melora Marshall and Willow Geer, Griffith’s likable blowhard…
WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU: AN EVENING OF ONE ACTS at the Loft Ensemble
Pauline Adamek – LA Weekly Each of two average, kitchen-sink tragedies, with some levity throughout, take as their focus the troubled relationship between adult daughters and their wayward, alcoholic parents. In You’ll Just Love My Dad, written by Stephanie Jones…
A BRIGHT ROOM CALLED DAY at the Lost Studio
Steven Leigh Morris – LA Weekly Tony Kushner’s A Bright Room Called Day was first presented as a workshop in 1985 at New York’s Theatre 22, before receiving its premiere at San Francisco’s Eureka Theatre in 1987, directed by Oskar…
FOOL FOR LOVE at T.U. Studios
Les Spindle – Frontiers L.A. The works of veteran playwright-actor Sam Shepard (True West, The Curse of the Starving Class, A Lie of the Mind) are largely thought of as brooding portraits of severe family dysfunction in America’s heartland. His…
CARRIE THAT TUNE at the Avery Schreiber Playhouse
Les Spindle – Edge on the Net A favorite pastime of Broadway musical fanatics is sharing stories of infamous musical flops. Of course, the perception of a “flop” can reflect a box-office calamity or an artistic failure, or a combination…
RYAN’S HOPE – MUSICAL MONDAYS IN WEHO
Les Spindle – Frontiers L.A. To borrow a lyrical phrase from Annie Get Your Gun, actor-producer Ryan O’Connor (aka Ryan LaConnor) spends his Monday nights doin’ what comes naturally. For O’Connor that doesn’t mean packing a pistol or crooning an…
DAVID BURNHAM: MOSTLY BROADWAY at Rockwell Table and Stage
Les Spindle – Edge on the Net How’re you gonna keep ’em down on the farm once they’ve illuminated the stages of Broadway? Actor-singer David Burnham who has forged an acclaimed and prolific career in such shows as “Wicked,” “Joseph…
FOR THE RECORD: BAZ LUHRMANN at Rockwell: Table & Stage
Pauline Adamek – ArtsBeatLA Dramatic lighting sets the mood at Rockwell Table & Stage, for the latest “For The Record” musical production (previously staged)—this time a tribute to the four feature films of creative Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann. The cabaret-style show…