LADCC Critics 
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Skin of Our Teeth plus comments on Civility of Albert Cashier, TH IR DS, Memnon, Cyrano de Berqerac, Duel Reality, Dragon Lady, God Will Do the Rest, Clarkston, Kill Move Paradise. Read more…
Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 7.5 out of 10! Above Average! Listen more… Jonas Schwartz – Theatermania Dragon Lady is a touching, hilarious mixture of karaoke and familial strife as writer and actor Sara Porkalob’s forebearers see two different realities of the immigration experience. Playing multiple characters in her one-person tribute to her … Read more
Philip Brandes – Stage Raw While “achingly beautiful” may be a far-too overused trope nowadays, it’s an entirely apt description for the current pitch-perfect revival presented by Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre Company. For anyone who’s only seen the film, or even another stage production, Once is not enough. Read more…
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA In this mess of a world we try to navigate on a daily basis, there are two universal gifts offered us in our lives that can heal. One is art; the other is love. Samuel D. Hunter’s new play is proof both are what we need to make our tenuous … Read more
F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw Barry’s two-hander consists of six distinct scenes detailing the relationship between Sarah (Meeghan Holaway) and Molly (Andrea Flowers). The gimmick here is, half an hour before each performance, audience members choose the sequence of the scenes — a playing order that varies from night to night. Read more…
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw The 24th Street Theatre almost always impresses with their tech, and Pascal & Julien (tech director Nick Foran) lives up to that reputation. Read more…
Terry Morgan – ArtsBeatLA Thornton Wilder’s 1942 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Skin of Our Teeth, is an assuredly odd duck. It’s eighty-two years old but still seems postmodern with its frequent fourth-wall breaking, playfulness with time and use of characters as symbols. Its main subject is how mankind, represented here by the Antrobus (Greek for … Read more
Jonas Schwartz – Theatermania Martin Crimp’s translation of Edmond Rostand’s classic Cyrano de Bergerac plays fast and loose with Rostand’s original text, but the story of a love triangle built on words and beauty remains the same in the new production at Pasadena Playhouse. Read more…
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA New and basically untried musicals are always scary, especially when the creators are trying to walk the perilously thin line between entertainment and a social conscience. Luckily for Angelenos, the current resident at the Colony Theatre is a perfect example of how to do both. Read more…
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Each summer for the past 18 years, the Getty Villa Museum has presented a classic production, previously offering recreations of works written by fellows with names such as Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus. This time out, however, in a coproduction with the Classical Theatre of Harlem, the Getty offers the world … Read more