The top tier of 2024. Martin Benson, R.I.P.
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage 20 favorites from 2024, ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ and ‘Emma,’ ‘Home Alone-ly Hearts Club Band,’ ‘Oy!,’ ‘Bob’s Holiday Office Party’. Read more…
Commentary
Musical metamorphoses: ‘Fiddler,’ ‘Pacific,’ ‘Cage,’ ‘Back to the Future’
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Plus ‘Waiting for Godot,’ ‘A Doll’s House Part 2,’ ‘Antíkoni,’ ‘The Goddamn Couple…’ Read more…
Americans Akimbo
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage American Idiot,’ ‘Kimberly Akimbo,’ ‘A Girl Grows Wings,’ ‘Heading Into Night,’ two classics, notes on eight new plays. Read more…
Give Me Some ‘Skin,’ A Noise Within
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Skin of Our Teeth plus comments on Civility of Albert Cashier, TH IR DS, Memnon, Cyrano de Berqerac, Duel Reality, Dragon Lady, God Will Do the Rest, Clarkston, Kill Move Paradise. Read more…
Comparing ‘Company’ and ‘Clue’. Alfresco adventures in LA theaters.
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Tartuffe: Born Again, Wendy’s Peter Pan, Winter’s Tale’ ‘As You Like it’ are the alfresco shows also includes ‘Keely and Du.’ ‘Dido in Idaho.’ Tom Jacobson’s ‘Crevasse’ and ‘Bauhaus Project’. Felder’s ‘Rachmaninoff and the Tsar’. Plus a brief mention of ’39 Steps’. Read more…
New thoughts on Clue at the Ahmanson, and updated thoughts on Company at the Pantages.
Katie Buenneke – Theater Digest Company on tour at the Pantages [LA]. I had seen this production in London in 2018 and really loved it then, but I wasn’t sure how much more it would resonate seeing it 6 years later, as I am much closer to Bobbie’s age in this revival. The answer is—it … Read more
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…
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…