LADCC Critics 
Tracey Paleo – Gia On The Move Sometimes there is just too much to take in, in this everything-but-the-kitchen-sink solo show. Aria Gillespie is a black British immigrant, a singer, an OBIE award-winning actor and a psychic. Read more…
Tracey Paleo – BroadwayWorld Even if it wouldn’t have been great, it was already getting a pass. It’s Tina Turner. The music legend, the feminist heroine, the Warrior Goddess, and Queen of Rock & Roll. Read more… Patrick Chavis – The Orange Curtain Review (Segerstrom Center for the Arts) A biographical play is a dramatic … Read more
Jonas Schwartz – Theatermania The Geffen production of Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop, a fantasia about the final hours of Martin Luther King Jr., benefits from a stellar cast. Jon Michael Hill personifies the icon most audiences have only seen on the television and sets the stage for a great man’s evaluation of his ordinariness. But … Read more
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw A party in a bar on the eve of an apocalyptic event becomes the foundation for one woman’s investigation of events 500 years in her past in The Catastrophe Club, Devin Burnam’s intellectually ambitious but underdeveloped drama. Read more…
Martίn Hernández – Stage Raw Arthur Miller’s 1949 classic challenged the USA’s post-World War II optimism, serving as a pungent indictment of the country’s drive for economic success and the toll it took on working class people in their scramble for The American Dream. Almost seventy-five years since its Broadway debut, Miller’s seminal work is … Read more
Dana Martin – Stage Raw Rebecca O’Brien is determined to survive. Getting There, written and performed by O’Brien and directed by Cameron Watson, is a story that circles the biggest battle of her life: breast cancer. The one-hour solo show is part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival and is now playing at the Hudson Guild … Read more
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw “Religion isn’t really that bad on its own,” observes Dan Prevette in Missionary Positions, his poignant yet entertaining account of growing up first within — and then away from — the strictures of a worldwide evangelical church. Read more…
A Statement from Center Theatre Group: Center Theatre Group (CTG)—along with arts organizations across the country—continues to feel the aftereffects of the pandemic and has been struggling to balance ever-increasing production costs with significantly reduced ticket revenue and donations that remain behind 2019 levels. We are still facing a crisis unlike any other in our … Read more
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Johnny Cassidy has adapted his young adult novel The Consequences of Victoria Grey into an hour-long musical at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. His “futuristic novel with unimaginable plot twists” had to be a really difficult task to translate to the stage while adding 11 songs with lyrics by Cassidy … Read more
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way A worldwide outbreak of a brain virus has created zombies that attack their fellow humans. It even reaches the small Midwest town of Sidie Hollow in the new musical Losing Your Humanity at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Read more…