Anita W. Harris – LA Theatrix Under the direction of Todd Nielsen, the actors are meticulous both in their deliveries and intricately timed movements, so the audience is always clear as to what’s going on amid the surprising twists…
Terry Morgan – ArtsBeatLA Although new plays can be exciting and are crucial to the continuing vitality of theatre, I’m especially fond of older works, the more obscure the better. It’s cheap time travel, immersing oneself in a long-past culture,…
Martín Hernández – Stage Raw Playwright Kelly McBurnette Andronicos’s muddled world premiere work critiques a patriarchal and class-based society that punishes women for actions that men merely receive a mild reprimand for — or walk away from scot-free. Read more…
Philip Brandes – Stage Raw A rowdy, bawdy, over-the-top production of the Off-Broadway hit spoofing Bram Stoker’s seminal 1897 gothic horror novel. Imagine a theatrical love child between Charles Ludlum’s flamboyant gender-bent, cross-dressing antics and Mel Brooks’s spot-on genre parodies…
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Anyone who’s been privy to my usual grumblings concerning the dated nature of traditional musical comedy as opposed to the innovation of contemporary musical theatre will appreciate my excitement about David Lindsay-Abaire’s multiple-Tony-winning 2021 musical…
F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw As for the production itself, director/choreographer Jeremy Lucas and a vigorous cast remind us of why Rent remains an important theatrical milestone, even after the shadow of AIDS has been largely dispelled by life-saving…
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA As the most important and scary election in our lifetime looms ahead of us, what this British import beautifully delivers in spite of some theatrical shortcomings is a reminder of how urgently we all, like…
Terry Morgan – ArtsBeatLA Message plays are a pillar of western theater. Our entire theatrical ecosystem is unthinkable without works such as Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House or Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, to name but…
Dana Martin – Stage Raw Guys and Dolls lands firmly in the entertainment and nostalgia categories and it a prime example of the golden age of American Musical. First produced on Broadway in 1950, the story and characters are full…
Patrick Chavis – The Orange Curtain Review Right in time for spookiest season of the year, South Coast Repertory’s Little Shop of Horrors brings back the smooth-talking Audrey 2, aka the houseplant with an agenda and puppetry that made this…