COME FROM AWAY at the Ahmanson Theatre
Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen On paper, it feels a bit wrong to call a musical about September 11th, 2001 “uplifting.” It is easy to wonder how that could possibly be true…until seeing Come From Away, a true…
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SHOWPONY at the Victory Theatre
Lovell Estell III — Stage Raw Like so many of our social and/or cultural environments, today’s workplace is radically different from what it was many decades ago when the centers of power were pretty much the sole province of white…
CLEO THEO AND WU at Theatre of NOTE
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Commendable for its support of female empowerment and its flashes of wit, Cleo, Theo and Wu can be a frustrating experience if you’re a theatergoer who prefers a coherent story to a chaotic one.Read more… Now running…
MEASURE FOR MEASURE at The New American Theatre
Terry Morgan – Stage Raw Plays taken out of the context of their own times can be troublesome. For instance, modern theatres have struggled to deal with the racist portrayal of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, to the extent that…
HUGHIE and KRAPP’S LAST TAPE at the Geffen Playhouse
Jonas Schwartz – TheaterMania Brian Dennehy, who won one of his two Tony Awards as iconic Eugene O’Neill protagonist James Tyrone in a 2003 production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, returns to the author’s milieu with the one-act Hughie, another tale…
BLACKTOP HIGHWAY at the Odyssey Theatre
Jenny Lower Beckman – LA Times When actor and performance artist John Fleck steps out of the shadows in the opening moments of “Blacktop Highway,” he could be telling a ghost story around a campfire.Read more… Now running through December …
FINKS at Rogue Machine
Terry Morgan – Talkin’ Broadway The cost of integrity is never cheap, but it varies. Sometimes one can lose relationships with family or friends, lose a job or, in the direst circumstance, lose one’s life. In the early 1950s, the…
CHARLES DICKENS’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Geffen Playhouse
Jonas Schwartz – TheaterMania The world premiere of this new adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol draws out the chills and thrills of this ghostly tale while still conveying the joy inherent in the famous parable about goodwill toward all men.Read…
A BRONX TALE at the Pantages Theatre
Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen “The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices you make will shape your life forever.” A Bronx Tale, a musical based on the play of the same name, opened at the…
BAYOU BLUES at the Bootleg Theatre
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw In Bayou Blues, part of the 2018 Solo Queens Fest at Bootleg Theatre, writer/performer Shaina Lynn mixes storytelling and spoken word to relay her experience as a woman of color from New Orleans.Read more… Now running…