LADCC Critics 
Edward Hong – The Nerds Of Color Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog/Underdog is a riveting play where its words did much of the heavy lifting in the Pasadena Playhouse production now playing. Despite committed performances, the rich language may need to marinate with the actors a bit more amongst staging and casting issues that can’t be changed. … Read more
Amanda Callas – BroadwayWorld Unconditional is utterly heartbreaking, explosive with tenderness and the irresistible bittersweetness of memory. Read more…
Philip Brandes – Arts Beat LA The possibilities are endless” is a turn of phrase typically used for hyperbolic effect. But for British playwright Nick Payne, it’s the literal premise of his multiverse-hopping love story that eloquently appeals to both the head and heart in a razor-sharp staging. Read more…
Tracey Paleo – Gia On The Move Open Fist Theatre Company has a winner on its hands in, BAT BOY THE MUSICAL, starring (recent NYU graduate) Ben Raanan in the title role, and an all-around stupendously talented cast for this homegrown revival that made it’s debut, once upon a time, right here in Los Angeles. … Read more
Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 9.1 out of 10! Exceptional Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended! Listen more… Edward Hong – The Nerds Of Color John Anthony Loffredo’s Frou-Frou: A Menagerie of Sorts, which just had its world premiere at Boston Court Pasadena, is an extraordinary piece of theatre unlike any other where not … Read more
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Cambodian Rock Band, Fake It Until You Make It, Four Women in Red, Noises Off, Desperate Measures, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Stephen Sondheim’s Close Friends, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,. Barbara Beckley, R.I.P. Read more…
Anita W. Harris – Long Beach Post Written by lyricist Peter Kellogg and composer David Friedman, with lively direction and choreography by Todd Nielsen, “Desperate Measures” is an enjoyable escapade with lovely songs, comic frivolity and yes, a thin plot, but a big heart due to its charming and talented cast. Read more…
Martín Hernández – Stage Raw Horrors notwithstanding, it is a compelling tale commemorating the tenacity of those surviving under unfair and unbearable conditions not of their making. Read more…
Tracey Paleo – Gia On The Move Their current production of TWELFTH NIGHT is Antaeus Theatre Company at its best. And unlike many stagings of a script written by Shakespeare or otherwise, instead of installing cast members who have not “aged out” of the roles, director Armin Shimerman has made “aging in” the spectacular focal … Read more
Tracey Paleo – Gia On The Move Never more so than in this production of Terrance McNally’s, MASTERCLASS, does one realize just how misunderstood Maria Callas was in life and in “play”. At least that is how lead, Joan Almedilla, seems to have decided to enact the role. Read more…