Designs for ‘Living’, for a premie, for making old Hollywood more ‘Chinese.’
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Abe and Mary sing! Bye-bye ‘Planet Earth.’ ‘The Outsider.’ Putin’s plans for playwrights. Read more…
Commentary
Two 100-proof spoofs. A dynamic ‘Doubtfire.’ Two music-man musicals.
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage ‘DurAntony,’ the Montalbán, ‘Reefer,’ ‘Strange Loop,’ ‘Jelly’s Jam,’ ‘Spy…Rehab’. Read more…
A shocking shrinkage of stage reviews at LA Times. CTG’s ‘One’-size season.
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Plus comments on ‘Body’s Midnight,’ ‘Misalliance,’ ‘Hitler’s Tasters,’ ‘Pang Spa,’ LTC season, ‘North Country,’ ‘Topsy Turvy,’ SCR’s premieres. Read more…
‘Ham,’ meet “Hedley.’ Plus plays looking forward, plays looking back
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Ham,’ meet ‘Hedley.’ Plus plays looking forward, plays looking back. Also includes comments on Dinner with Friends, Kairos, High Maintenance, Could I Have This Dance?, Funny Girl, Into the Breeches, Power & Light, Stalin’s Master Class. Read more…
Should plays imitate TV? Bill Bushnell, R.I.P.
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage One of the Good Ones,’ a savory ‘Stew,’ ‘The AllStore,’ and the late LATC leader. Read more…
Noise nabs 15 noms, searches within ‘Sweeney’
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage The importance of A Noise Within, as reflected in the LADCC nominations. Plus ‘Fatherland,’ ‘Black Cypress Bayou,’ ‘Winter’s Tale,’ ‘Marilyn, Mom &’ more. Read more…
LAist should start a “Theater Week”
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage If LAist wants to cover LA’s performing arts with any depth and discernment, the LA stage scene would be a good place to start. Plus reactions to ‘Kate’, ‘POTUS’, a ‘Mystic Pizza’ musical, ‘Sukkot’ ‘Middle of the World’. Read more…
LA Theater’s 2023 roller coaster. A Top 15 list.
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Plus four unusual holiday shows, including the Troubies’ ‘White (Album) Christmas’ Read more…
‘Just for Us’…and Elon Musk? Two sides of the 1920s in ‘Castle’ and ‘Inherit the Wind’.
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Will Musk enter ‘Us’? ‘Castle’, ‘Inherit,’ ‘Spring,’ ‘Freight,’ ‘Radical’. Read more…
A mid-autumn ‘Night’s Dream.’ Daydreams in ‘She.’ An implausible dream at SCR.
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Two concepts of ‘dreams’ are among theater’s most fertile narrative components. Right now, you can see sterling examples of both of these ‘dream’ genres in LA-area theaters. Eight productions are featured in this edition of Angeles Stage. Read more…