ONCE at South Coast Repertory
Katie Buenneke – Stage Raw Mounting the first regional production of a show that recently played on Broadway puts the creative team between a rock and a hard place: Is it better to do a new take on the material,…
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‘SCANDAL’ ACTOR JOE MORTON ON CHARLOTTESVILLE, BIGOTRY AND REVIVING THE ACTIVISM OF DICK GREGORY
Margaret Gray – LA Times Joe Morton, best known these days as Rowan “Papa” Pope, Olivia Pope’s fiercely protective father on the ABC series “Scandal,” is in the posh Founders Room of the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts…
A TALE OF TWO CITIES at A Noise Within
Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens has been a staple of western literature since its publication in 1859, and…
IPHIGENIA AT AULIS at the Getty Villa
Hoyt Hilsman – Huffington Post There can be no doubt that the amphitheater at the Getty Villa is a spectacular venue for the presentation of any play, but most especially a play by one of the ancient Greeks.Read more… Dany…
AMERICAN HOME at Fremont Center Theatre
Deborah Klugman – Capital & Main The 2007-08 financial crisis and the collapse of the housing bubble created lots of heartache for lots of people. Playwright Stephanie Alison Walker was among the one in 54 homeowners nationwide to receive a…
MADNESS, MAYHEM AND OTHER STIMULANTS…WHEN WOMEN WRITE at the Brickhouse Theatre
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw This program of one acts by Linda L. Rand is part of Write Act Repertory’s summer playwrights lab festival. This year the festival features plays by women in the company.Read more… Now running through October…
PTERODACTYLS at the Commissary at The Culver Studios
Terry Morgan – Stage Raw A frequent complaint heard over the years is that the film and TV industry doesn’t do anything to help support the L.A. theatre community. From personal experience, I can testify that this is true, although…
ALTERNATIVE ACTS at Theatre of NOTE
Lovell Estell III – Stage Raw Aside from its pleasantly eccentric quality, one of the more entertaining components of this slate of one-acts is Bill Robens’ Transitions, where cast members skillfully perform an imaginative string of mime tableaus to segue…
NEVERTHELESS, SHE PERSISTED – The Echo Theater Company at Atwater Village Theatre
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw A workshop production whose aim is to showcase the talents of the Echo Theatre Company’s apprentice members, Nevertheless, She Persisted presents a mixed bag of one-acts that includes one dark ironic farce of considerable note and four…
EMILIE: LA MARQUISE DU CHÂTELET DEFENDS HER LIFE TONIGHT at Greenway Court Theatre
Terry Morgan – Stage Raw One of the positive uses of art is to shine a light on historical figures that might otherwise have remained obscure — to give someone the credit he or she deserved but didn’t receive in…