ANNA IN THE TROPICS at A Noise Within
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Imagine, if you can, members of the UAW or the United Mine Workers of America hiring a reader to read to them while they labor at their job. And not just any printed material —…
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A PUBLIC READING OF AN UNPRODUCED SCREENPLAY ABOUT THE DEATH OF WALT DISNEY at the Odyssey Theatre
Terry Morgan – Artsbeat LA I have a rule about avant-garde theater: if an artist chooses to deliberately obscure his/her/their meaning via unusual methods or flirts dangerously with pretentiousness, the play had better validate those choices by demonstrating how they…
LITTLE PARTS HUNTS A BABY-DADDY – Echo Theatre Company at Atwater Village Theatre
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw There are times when one’s not quite sure what a theater piece is about, but its presentation is so engaging that it doesn’t matter. Case in point: writer-performer Ann Noble’s solo work, in which the…
CAN’T PAY? DON’T PAY! at the Actors’ Gang
Dana Martin– Stage Raw The Actor’s Gang has balls. Originally co- authored by Italian playwrights Dario Fo and Franca Rame in 1974 with current translation by Cam Deaver, Can’t Pay? Don’t Pay!addresses the effect inflation has on a fed-up, abused and browbeaten working…
THE PLAY YOU WANT at the Road on Magnolia
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw In Bernardo Cubría’s The Play You Want, directed by Michael John Garcés, Bernardo (Peter Pasco), the central character, is a Mexican-American playwright who writes experimental plays about clowns, whom he views as universal symbols of humanity.…
IN THE NEXT ROOM, OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY at Atwater Village Theatre
Terry Morgan – Artsbeat LA When I told people I was going to see a new production of Sarah’s Ruhl’s play, In the Next Room, I received a series of blank stares, but when I included its subtitle, or the vibrator play,…
TRAYF at Geffen Playhouse
Jonas Schwartz-Owen – Theatermania Lindsay Joelle’s dramedy Trayf transports audiences to the structured world of the Hasidim, whose strict laws and customs may be outside the understanding of even some Jewish audience members. Director Maggie Burrows, with deft stage direction and sets,…
THE RAGE FAIRY at the Sherry Theatre
Tracey Paleo – Gia On The Move When they said nothing could stop the Rage Fairy from finding love even if her man du jour is a literal murderer, they weren’t kidding. The absurdist comedy written by playwright Antonia Czinger…
THE LEHMAN TRILOGY at the Ahmanson Theatre
Jonas Schwartz-Owen – Broadway World Three men stand on a stage for over three hours, trekking through 150 years of history in The Lehman Trilogy and it’s the most invigorating evening imaginable. Read more… Now running through April 6
ASSASSINS at East West Players
Jonas Schwartz-Owen – Theatermania The East West Players production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s brilliant, jagged pill of a musical Assassins is thought-provoking and harrowing. Read more… Rob Stevens – Haines His Way The Stephen Sondheim one-act musical Assassins has gotten mixed reviews and…