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…
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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…
BLISS – Moving Arts at Atwater Village Theatre
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Although Bliss (Or Emily Post is Dead!), is set in North Orange, New Jersey in the 1960s, a rudimentary knowledge of Greek mythology is helpful in fathoming the themes of Jami Brandli’s ambitious but muddled satire, directed…
VALLEY OF THE HEART at the Mark Taper Forum
Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen Two immigrant families, one Mexican and one Japanese-American, have lived peacefully as neighbors on a ranch in the Santa Clara Valley for years, working together in the fields. The oldest children from each…
COST OF LIVING at the Fountain Theatre
Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen The actual “cost of living” can take on many forms—physical, emotional, financial. In Cost of Living, Martyna Majok’s 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning play now in its west coast premiere at the Fountain Theatre in Los…
ONE ACT FESTIVAL at SkyPilot Theatre Company
Ellen Dostal – BroadwayWorld New work is the lifeblood of the theatre and it is also the sole focus of LA-based SkyPilot Theatre Company. Going one step further, SkyPilot’s niche is “producing only original plays, created by LA playwrights,” which…
THE WOMAN WHO WENT TO SPACE AS A MAN at Son of Semele
Ellen Dostal – Musicals in LA Maureen Huskey’s new one act play with music takes place wholly in the moment before death. Conceived as a 90 minute suspension of time in which Alice B. Sheldon (Betsy Moore) watches her life pass…
THE LITTLE FOXES at Antaeus Theatre Company
Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen Sometimes, family can bring out the worst in us—especially if your relatives would do anything to get to the top.Read more… Terry Morgan – Talkin’ Broadway Sometimes a play simply works within its…
WINTER SOLSTICE at City Garage
Margaret Gray – LA Times There’s nothing scary, at first, about Rudolph, the elderly gentleman who shows up at Albert and Bettina’s house one Christmas Eve in “Winter Solstice,” a 2013 play by the German writer Roland Schimmelpfennig, translated by…
VIETGONE at East West Players
Terry Morgan – Stage Raw Translating personal experiences or family history into theatre can be a tricky proposition. On the one hand, simply recounting events as they happened doesn’t necessarily create fascinating drama. On the other hand, fictionalizing things too…