LADCC Critics 
Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites CABARET @ ALTADENA MUSIC THEATRE – 8.1 out of 10! Good Show! LA Theatre Bites Recommended! Read more… Socks Whitmore – Stage Raw Whether you’re a passionate fan of post-Golden Age musicals or you binged Season 5 of Schitt’s Creek during the pandemic, there’s a good chance you’ve heard … Read more
Martίn Hernández – Stage Raw Ah, they don’t write them like that anymore, and if jazz composer and pianist Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller had not passed away in 1943 at the all too early age of thirty-nine, there would be more than the four hundred copyrighted songs in his repertoire for us to savor. Read … Read more
Terry Morgan – Stage Raw There have already been films and other works of art concerning the “Me Too” movement, but No Place Like Gandersheim is the first play I can think of that talks about its aftermath. That isn’t even the main subject of the piece, which concerns the plight of a woman writer … Read more
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw What happens when ethnic identity stops being a gift and starts being a curse? In Nicholas Pilipal’s The Bottoming Process, a gay Filipino American man becomes so obsessed with how his Asian-ness —and his sexuality — is perceived that he torches a mutually loving relationship with someone who, it would … Read more
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way William Shakespeare died in 1616. At that time, there really were no definitive printed versions of any of his three dozen plays. Two of Shakespeare’s fellow King’s Men players gathered and printed what has become known as The First Folio in 1623. If they had not done so at … Read more
Tracey Paleo – Gia On The Move Six wives, six musical powerhouses and six opportunities to vote for your favorite Tudor Queen! As brief as their royal reigns (with the exception of first wife Catherine of Aragon) the story of SIX is a nice bit of feminist reductionism and may in fact be the future … Read more
Dana Martin – Stage Raw Flaco Navaja is more than a badass salsa singer. Latino Theater Company, in association with Chicago’s UrbanTheater Company, presents the West Coast premiere of Evolution of a Sonero, a coming-of-age story written and dynamically performed by Navaja (with a libretto arranged by Carlos Cuevas) chronicling the evolution of Navaja’s life as an artist and human being. Read … Read more
Rob Stevens – Haines His Way Nearly 25 years after the event, the story of Matthew Shepard still resonates like peroxide on an open cut, like fingernails on a blackboard, like a razor slashing a wrist, exposing veins and nerve endings. Read more…
Martίn Hernández – Stage Raw Updated from its original mid-1980s timeframe, playwright William Mastrosimone’s portrait of a militant environmental activist harbors anachronisms given the modern state of the movement. Streamlined from two acts to one, the truncated version attempts to cram Mastrosimone’s provocative message into a shortened format. The result is a thoughtful but scattershot … Read more
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Before a jury held Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll and awarded her $5 million, Trump claimed in a deposition that male “stars” have grabbed and groped women for “millions of years” — “unfortunately or fortunately.” Leaving that unfortunate “fortunately” aside, the musicals that currently … Read more