The top 20 of 2025
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Plus ‘Stereophonic,’ holiday shows, and Rob Reiner’s “Dirty Plays”. Read more…
Commentary
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…
Mad kings breed dismay, in DC and LA
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Trump’s NEA cuts, “Lear Redux,” “Doll’s House Part 2,” “Glass Menagerie,” “A Man of No Importance,” “Tasty Little Rabbit,” “Life of Pi,” Califas plays, “The Chinese Lady,” “Flashes of Light, “Becky’s New Car” “Fostered” Read more…
Penn plays: pop this ‘Cork…’, payne’s lane
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Corktown ’39, The Violin Maker, Furlough’s Paradise, You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World, Secret Comedy of Women, 3 plays at LATC. Read more…
Chills in ‘Cabaret’ X 2, fun in ‘frou-frou’
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Blueberries,’ ‘Unreconciled,’ ‘Bacon,’ ‘Hamlet (Solus)’ and more. Ron Sossi, R.I.P. Read more…