LADCC Critics

Lifeline @ ROAD THEATRE COMPANY

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Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Robert Axelrod’s important new play takes place in the multi-purpose room of a suicide hotline center as a group of volunteers begin training to provide a voice willing to listen to one of our troubled society’s most vulnerable and at-risk members: queer teens and young adults who find themselves at … Read more

Brownstone @ OPEN FIST THEATRE COMPANY

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Patrick Chavis  – LA Theatre Bites Podcast  8.5 out of 10! Great Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended! Listen more…   Deborah Klugman  – Stage Raw The plots are predictable, though the drama picks up in the second act as the stakes for each character get higher, and the final scene does carry some poignancy. Read … Read more

Kind Stranger… a memory play @ ZEPHYR THEATRE

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Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA As someone who eagerly admits to being a true Tennessee Williams-o-phile, I was both excited and apprehensive to attend Rick and Steven Simone-Friedland’s new solo “Memory Play” culled word-for-word from Tenn’s proudly and humorously regret-filled 1975 autobiography. And I left still excited… yet somewhat disappointed. Read more…   Patrick Chavis  … Read more

Izzard: The Tragedy of Hamlet @ MONTALBAN THEATRE

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Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA The accessibility of Suzy Eddie Izzard’s performance as Shakespeare’s most notorious prince is unquestionably on display in her jarringly unique delivery of Hamlet’s most well-known speech, the character’s often caricatured third soliloquy, presented simply and with great warmth and humanity instead of spouted in grandly theatrical style filled with rage, … Read more

Kid Gloves @ SKYLIGHT THEATRE

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Katie Buenneke – Stage Raw Kid Gloves’s biggest struggle is that it doesn’t feel like it wants to be a stage show. The plot is comprised of dozens of scenes that switch locations regularly, so the show gets bogged down in scene changes, as we switch from onstage to backstage and back. The scene changes … Read more

An Inspector Calls @ THEATRE 40

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Ed Rampell – Hollywood Progressive British socialist J.B. Priestley’s “An Inspector Calls” is a clever dramatization of the British class system. Especially worth seeing as staged at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills. Read more… Harker Jones – BroadwayWorld A classic of mid-20th-century English theater, Priestley’s script has complexity. He gives each of his characters … Read more

The Notebook @ HOLLYWOOD PANTAGES

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Patrick Chavis  – LA Theatre Bites Podcast  7.9 out of 10! Above Average! Listen here… Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA There’s no tap dancing, no flashy special effects, no Merman-style belt numbers; it’s just a quiet and immensely relatable story with a haunting, gossamer score celebrating the wondrous endurance of true love and its ability … Read more