LA EGOISTA at Skylight Theatre
Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites. West Coast Premiere: La Egoista @ Skylight Theatre – 8.2 out of 10 – Good Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended! More…
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HAROLD AND MAUDE at Group Repertory Theatre
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way. GRT’s production uses projections on the back wall and on smaller screens that come and go from the wings in an attempt to open up the action. Unfortunately, they don’t add much to the…
SNOWHITE at Santa Monica Playhouse
Lara J. Altunian – Stage Raw. When it comes to classic fairy tales, there’s always room for updated adaptations — particularly when it comes to introducing one with antiquated values to a new generation of audiences. Santa Monica Playhouse’s rendition…
MEAN GIRLS at Segerstrom Center for the Arts
Dana Martin – Stage Raw. …Mean Girls is updated from the movie in order to reflect an era of smartphones and selfies but still manages to feel dated. Even the most feared book in school, the almighty Burn Book, loses a…
LOVE AND INFORMATION at Antaeus Theatre Company
Katie Buenneke – Theatre Digest. Through some unlucky combination of script, direction, cast, set design, and video design, this felt more like sitting through a scene study class than a professional play. Somehow, I hadn’t seen a play by Caryl…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MCKENNA at the Hudson Backstage Theatre
Martίn Hernández – Stage Raw. Playwright-director Steven Silverman’s dark yet amiable comedy offers up a multi-ethnic family whose members, despite living or being raised in racially turbulent Chicago, have no apparent animus over each other’s skin colors. No, these folks…
THE SECRET GARDEN at the Ahmanson Theatre
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way. The children’s rhyme “Mary, Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow?” is used several times to taunt young Mary. Unfortunately, her new garden grows quite contrary in this version masterminded by choreographer/director Warren…
FOR THE LOVE OF A GLOVE at the Carl Sagan – Ann Druyan Theatre at the Center For Inquiry West
Martίn Hernández – Stage Raw. Mix a B-movie sci-fi plot with the life story of the “King of Pop,” add some inventive puppetry and a talented and uninhibited ensemble, and the result is a profane, hilarious, and razor-sharp skewering of…
CALVIN BERGER at the Colony Theatre
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way. Edmond Rostand wrote his classic romantic comedy Cyrano de Bergerac in 1897. According to Wikipedia, the original French play has been translated at least 16 times since then… The latest version to play locally is the…
HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE, Collaborative Artists Ensemble at the Sherry Theater
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw. Paula Vogel’s play, How I Learned to Drive, knocked it out of the park for critical acclaim when it opened in 1997. Directed by Mark Brokaw at Manhattan’s Vineyard Theatre, the premiere featured Mary-Louise Parker as…