PLUNGE at Son of Semele
Terry Morgan – Stage Raw James Joyce in his A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man famously wrote, “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” That sentiment describes a lot of historical fiction, in which the…
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MEANWHILE, BACK AT THE SUPER LAIR at The New American Theatre
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw The world of super heroes can be fun to satirize, and Greg Kalleres’ Meanwhile, Back at the Super Lair, directed by Jack Stehlin, is a potentially entertaining spoof, with enough irony and character-driven humor for an adept…
THE COLOR PURPLE at the Pantages Theatre
Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen How is it possible that a musical based on a book written nearly 40 years ago feels more timely than ever today? The tour of the Tony-winning Broadway revival of The Color Purple just…
WOOD BOY DOG FISH at the Garry Marshall Theatre
Ellen Dostal – BroadwayWorld Puppets and monsters and freaks, oh my. Shoreside has an abundance of them in WOOD BOY DOG FISH and they don’t play well together at all… The story is a spin on Pinocchio but it in…
RIPE FRENZY at Greenway Court Theatre
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw It’s hard to think of a timelier play than Jennifer Barclay’s Ripe Frenzy, about a shooting and mass murder that takes place in a high school in a small town in upstate New York. A rolling…
PROVENANCE at the Little Fish Theatre
Dany Margolies – The Daily Breeze On the surface, Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder’s “Provenance” will seem an unlikely story, even by theatrical standards — it’s too convenient, too cute. In its production at Little Fish in San Pedro through May 24,…
THE LOVE POTION, Long Beach Opera at the Warner Grand Theatre
Dany Margolies – The Daily Breeze If so far you’ve enjoyed about a dozen versions of “The Marriage of Figaro,” or decided you’ve sat through your last “Ring” cycle, or even seen a production or two of Richard Wagner’s “Tristan…
THE TEMPEST at the Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center
Ellen Dostal – BroadwayWorld A gaunt Leon Russom conjures up more pathos than normal as the aged Prospero in the Porters of Hellsgate’s production of THE TEMPEST. Whether it is due to the fact that the actor has been battling pneumonia, which…
SOFT POWER at the Ahmanson Theatre
Ellen Dostal – Musicals in LA It takes an incredible amount of work to create a new musical, and to dream up one that is different from any other musical already written is an even more complicated developmental process. The…
In Memoriam: Shirle Gottlieb
We are sad to report that longtime Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle member Shirle Gottlieb passed away on May 6th. Shirle had been a freelance art and theater writer, reviewer, and critic for over 25 years – ever since she…