TRUE WEST at VS Theatre
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Long before it disappeared, the Old West cast a spell on a certain kind of person — men (although a few were women) who savored the possibility of wide-open country and a better, freer life…
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BAD HAMLET – Coin & Ghost at New American Theatre
Terry Morgan – Stage Raw When I first read that a theater company was asking random members of the public what they knew about Hamlet, then incorporating the answers into their performance, it sounded like a risky ploy — but…
INTO THE WOODS at the Hollywood Bowl
Jonas Schwartz – Arts In LA Dreams can come true. The Hollywood Bowl, under the auspices of Broadway director Robert Longbottom, has collected remarkable talent to present the classic Into the Woods. The actors invest in their roles and treat this…
MISS SAIGON at the Pantages Theatre
Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen Miss Saigon, the musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr., opened this week at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood following a successful Broadway revival in 2017 and 2018. Based on Puccini’s opera Madame…
100 PLANES
Lovell Estell III — Stage Raw Lila Rose Kaplan’s drama arrives in Los Angeles for its West Coast premiere courtesy of Austin’s Filigree Theatre Company. At just over 80 minutes, it blends romance and comedy by way of two mingled…
APPLE SEASON at Atwater Village Theatre
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Perhaps most notable among the many prizes received by playwright E.M. Lewis is the Steinberg Award from the American Theatre Critics Association, garnered for Song of Extinction, produced in 2008 by the L.A. troupe Moving Arts.…
FRIENDS! THE MUSICAL PARODY at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen Fans of the TV show Friends who want a night off from watching reruns on Netflix might be tempted to check out FRIENDS! The Musical Parody, currently in its Los Angeles premiere at…
THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE at the Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center
Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen Set up as a play-within-a-play, the action of Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle, currently playing at Antaeus Theatre Company in Los Angeles, begins in the lobby.Read more… Terry Morgan – Stage Raw One…
THE RUFFIAN ON THE STAIR, Hick Street Productions at the LGBT Center
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Joe Orton was only 34 when he was bludgeoned to death by Kennegth Halliwell, his jealous lover and one-time writing partner. Halliwell envied Orton’s newfound celebrity as an up-and-coming playwright, launched after the BBC aired The…
SCRAPS at the Matrix Theatre
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Geraldine Inoa’s incisive character-rich drama, directed by Stevie Walker-Webb at the Matrix Theatre, examines the impact of institutional racism on a group of young people in the aftermath of their friend’s murder by police. The…