Amanda Callas – BroadwayWorld Corktown ’39 is a new play that feels like a classic, the kind of intelligent, thought-provoking drama that you can imagine a playwright like Aaron Sorkin or Henrik Ibsen might have written. Read more… Tracey Paleo…
Tracey Paleo – Gia On The Move School of Night’s, HELLAS, is quite a history lesson. It explores the birth of democracy while adding much more context to the Battle of Thermopylae romanticized in “300.” HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Read more…
Martín Hernández – Stage Raw Playwright Keiko Green’s dramedy is an inventive and head-tripping odyssey into environmental collapse, family trauma, and impending death. Read more… Patrick Chavis – The Orange Curtain Review Let’s talk about this set design from Adam…
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA The major problem with this play is that the characters have nowhere to go; they’re as tortured and miserable when they first hit the stage as they are in the final lamentable moments. It takes…
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA This rule-defying non-verbal solo play is certainly a kind of risky and defiant theatre we usually don’t see presented and it’s breathtaking how much we can learn from the experience and how this one man’s…
Anita W. Harris – LA Theatrix Whether or not you are a fan of Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 gothic novel Jane Eyre, you will be smitten by Elizabeth Williamson’s stage adaptation as produced by A Noise Within (ANW) — a stellar…
Philip Brandes – Stage Raw Linda Purl deftly handles instant transitions between 16 clearly differentiated characters who appear in the course of the narrative, some with only a few lines of dialog. Her finest achievement, however, is in adapting the…
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Blueberries,’ ‘Unreconciled,’ ‘Bacon,’ ‘Hamlet (Solus)’ and more. Ron Sossi, R.I.P. Read more…
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw The most impressive element of Joel Daavid’s scenic design is the two giant clocks at the rear of the set, their hands (this is at the top of the play, before the dialogue begins, and…