ASHES TO ASHES at the Odyssey Theatre
Neal Weaver – Stage Raw Playwright Debbie Bolsky set out to write a classic old-style madcap comedy, but what she produced is a singularly improbable farce.Read more… Now running through January 14
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IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: THE RADIO PLAY at Theater Unleashed
Lovell Estell III — Stage Raw Most of us are familiar with Frank Capra’s much-loved movie about George Bailey (memorialized in the film by Jimmy Stewart), whose life turns so desperately bad on Christmas Eve that he contemplates suicide, but…
NEW YORK WATER at the Pico Playhouse
Neal Weaver – Stage Raw Playwright Sam Bobrick gained much of his early experience in the world of TV sitcoms, and that has left its mark. New York Water is a rather generic example of the genre — with cardboard…
PACIFIC OVERTURES – Chromolume Theatre at the Attic
Neal Weaver – Stage Raw Premiering in 1976, this unique and unusual musical, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by John Weidman, and additional material by Hugh Wheeler, has no love story and no romantic ballads. Instead, it…
MAGIC FRUIT – Cornerstone Theater Company at the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles
Deborah Klugman – Capital & Main Magic Fruit is the latest (and last) offering in the Cornerstone Theater Company’s Hunger Cycle of nine plays exploring “hunger, justice and food equity issues.” It opens with sisters Tami (Cristina Frias) and Kiko…
THE HEART OF ROBIN HOOD at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly Marketed as family fare, The Heart of Robin Hood, David Farr’s feminist twist on the classic legend, is perhaps more suitable for kids than for grown-ups. Co-directed by Icelandic artists Gisli Örn Gardarsson and Selma Björnsdóttir,…
A CHRISTMAS CAROL at A Noise Within
Jonas Schwartz – TheaterMania A Christmas Carol is perfect fare for the holidays. It captures the importance of giving, sharing with loved ones, and reevaluating past choices. A Noise Within‘s co-producing artistic director Geoff Elliott has created his own adaptation, which has…
PANG! at 24th Street Theatre
Terry Morgan – Stage Raw A couple of years ago, looking to do a piece on socioeconomic disparity, Dan Froot & Company conducted a series of interviews with families suffering from food insecurity. From these interviews — in Los Angeles,…
SOMETHING ROTTEN at the Ahmanson Theatre
Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen Just in time for the holidays, the rambunctious, crowd-pleasing national tour of Something Rotten! has opened at Center Theatre Group’s Ahmanson Theatre. This original musical, which ran for nearly two years on Broadway…
THE LATINA CHRISTMAS SPECIAL at L.A.T.C.
Jonas Schwartz – TheaterMania Both a gentle parody of the celebrity Christmas specials that ran on network television in the ’60s and ’70s, and a poignant memory play, is a goofy, spirited, lark running at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.Read more… Now…