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…
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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…
Fourth Walls Fall: ‘Life Sucks,’ ‘ Every Briliant Thing,’ ‘Measure STILL.” ‘Tacos’ Tops LAC’s Trio
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Fourth walls are tumbling down. Yes, those invisible barriers between actors and audience are increasingly breached in contemporary theater. Read more…
Enter ‘Exit Wounds’ and ‘Kill Shelter’. Don’t kill the Colony.
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Greater LA is currently the home of two new and complex scripts that examine hot-button life-or-death arenas, from refreshingly unexpected perspectives. Not surprisingly, the LA Times has yet to review either of them. Read more…
What might be on tap at the Taper…in its current meantime?
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage A not-so-funny thing happened on the way to the Mark Taper Forum. Read more…
A cluster of classics – in South Pasadena, Griffith Park, Topanga, Glendale, Boyle Heights Plus ‘Into the Woods,’ Ali meets Fetchit, ‘The Ants,’ ‘Beetlejuice’ musical
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage But this summer’s crop of classics includes a genuine surprise in the usual list of venues. Have you heard of South Pasadena Theatre Workshop? I had not, until a few weeks ago. But last weekend I entered this company’s 60-seat theater, where I was transported to Russia, two turns-of-the-century ago, … Read more