LADCC Critics

Fake It Until You Make It @ AHMANSON THEATRE

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  Anita W. Harris – LA Theatrix The play thus offers many lenses through which to challenge notions of race and gender—including a hilarious science-based plot twist near the end—successfully inverting what we might think of as true and fixed. It’s a refreshingly lighthearted way of sending up those concepts, though a more substantive story … Read more

Here Comes the Night @ MOVING ARTS

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Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 8.5 out of 10! Great Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended! Listen here… F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw First produced last July for two nights only as part of the She Arts LA Festival, playwright Lisa Kenner Grissom’s two-hander, Here Comes the Night, has been restaged by Moving Arts with a … Read more

The Brothers Abelson Since 1946 @ ELECTRIC LODGE

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F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw There are apparent weaknesses in the play’s structure: The revelation of the shocking “secret” behind Isaac’s recent retirement is anticlimactic, while the family’s eleventh-hour emotional transition is a shade too pat. However, Danziger’s richly believable characters and crackling dialogue make up for those shortcomings. Read more…

Evanston Salt Costs Climbing @ ROGUE MACHINE THEATRE

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Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA I kept thinking during the performance what it must have been like for Guillermo Cienfuegos to read Will Arbery’s densely absurd yet hauntingly topical script for the first time. It would be hard to imagine the idea of directing such an idiosyncratic piece of theatrical indulgence could have been anything … Read more

The Play That Goes Wrong @ LA MIRADA THEATRE

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Anita W. Harris – LA Theatrix Corny, cheesy, metatheatrical – “The Play That Goes Wrong” is all this and more. And more laughs could not be had at the theatre as a result. Catch it now before the Cornley Drama Society starts getting better at staging their mystery and ruins all the fun. Read more… … Read more

Sleeping Giant @ ROAD THEATRE COMPANY

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Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA This is one of the supernaturally-inclined Steve Yockey’s creepiest plays and certainly one of the most unsettling in another near-perfect partnership with director Ann Hearn Toblowsky, who so obviously “gets” him bigtime, and the unstoppably brave folks at the Road Theatre who never flinch attempting something risky. Read me… Tracey … Read more