Willy Loman, meet Donald Trump
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Death of a Salesman, The Adding Machine,’ ‘Dragon Mama,’ ‘Sex, Lies and Harold Pinter’ and more… Read more…
Commentary
War! Plus dramas about despots…and couples
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage All My Sons, The Price, Richard III, Here Lies Love, Amadeus, Room by the Sea, Red Harlem, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wool?, God of Carnage, Sylvia Sylvia Sylvia, The Typist, Lifeline, Incitation to the Dance, Luca & Uri, Poetry for the People: the June Jordan Experience, I Love You You’re … Read more
Sweeney Todd…for Valentine’s Day?
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Includes Sweeney Todd, The Notebook, Kid Gloves, The Altruist, Brownstone, More Miracles, Jewish for Dinner, The Circle, What Opa Did, An Inspector Calls, My Son the Playwright, All the Devils Are Here, Izzard Hamlet. Read more…
The top 20 of 2025
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Plus ‘Stereophonic,’ holiday shows, and Rob Reiner’s “Dirty Plays”. Read more…
Tough ‘Suffs’. Ghost plays. A cult starts to crack.
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Suffs, Our Town, Paranormal Activity, Hello, My Name Is…, Passion, Mariology, Table 17, Pointy Scissors, R.I.P. Murray Mednick. Read more…
A Greater LA stage guide, ‘Guac’ and ‘Gone’
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Guac, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, anthropology, Little King of Norwalk, Mascogos, Great Lover, नेहा & Neel, Aaron Play, Cymbeline, Littleboy/Littleman, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, Electrico, Paranormapl Inside, M. Holmes & Ms, Watson, LA Times list of 52 best places to see plays … Read more
Come From Away, grown in Greater LA
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Come From Away, West Side Story, Eureka Day, Right, Am I Roxie?, Adolescent Salvation, Fly Me to the Sun, My Spirits Soar, Dracula Annotated, Otherkin, Night of the Iguana. Read more…
& Juliet & Oedipus & Elvis
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage & Juliet, Oedipus the Jing, Mama! plus Antigone, Achilles in Arcadia, Tune In, Wine in the Wilderness, Just Another Day, In Some Dark Valley, Masala Dabba, Fernandomania, Shucked, The Woolgatherer. Read more…
Some Like’ musicals, others don’t
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals,’ ‘Some Like It Hot,’ ‘A Beautiful Noise,’ ‘The Fantasticks’, “Bridges of Madison County,’ ‘Seagull:Malibu,” ‘The Opposite of Love,’ ‘Berta, Berta,’ ‘Reel to Reel,’ ‘Menage a Quatre’ Read more…
A powerful ‘Parade,’ a hapless ‘Hamlet’
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Parade, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Strife, Reservoir, Nice Girl, Sorry, Wedding Singer, Network, Greenwood 1964, The Angel Next Door. Read more…