F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw As for the production itself, director/choreographer Jeremy Lucas and a vigorous cast remind us of why Rent remains an important theatrical milestone, even after the shadow of AIDS has been largely dispelled by life-saving medical advances. Read more… Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA To discover that the Taper would … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Just in time for Halloween, this gothic rock “popera” has taken over the ground floor of the historic space adjacent to the Bourbon Room on Hollywood Boulevard and transformed it into a mad gothic nightclub. It’s the quintessential place to give revelers past the trick or treating and school carnival … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA What makes Sam Morrison’s adventures so haunting is his ability to dig incredibly deep and share both what’s intensely personal—something especially viable because he is one of the funniest people on the planet—and to possess the transformative capacity to swivel his audience from shocked to accepting of who he is … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Five years before he won his Pulitzer, James Ijames’ prophetically in-your-face earlier play cries out to us about the horrendous epidemic of brutality perpetrated against innocent and unarmed African-American men and women.This play made it clear the kind of urban poet Ijames was about to become but doesn’t have the … Read more
F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw Whether you are a Jane Austen devotee or not, Theatre 40’s current production of Jane Austen in 89 Minutes has considerable charm and entertainment value, even for the uninitiated. Read more…
Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 7.9 out of 10! Above Average! Listen more… Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Any actor who’s spent a large block of time perfecting their craft participating in scene study workshops, entering the intimate Davidson/Valentini Theatre at the Center and stepping into the world of Rajiv Joseph’s 2009 overlooked … Read more
Patrick Chavis – LA Theatre Bites Podcast 7.5 out of 10! Above Average! Listen more… Jonas Schwartz – Theatermania Dragon Lady is a touching, hilarious mixture of karaoke and familial strife as writer and actor Sara Porkalob’s forebearers see two different realities of the immigration experience. Playing multiple characters in her one-person tribute to her … Read more
Philip Brandes – Stage Raw While “achingly beautiful” may be a far-too overused trope nowadays, it’s an entirely apt description for the current pitch-perfect revival presented by Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre Company. For anyone who’s only seen the film, or even another stage production, Once is not enough. Read more…
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA In this mess of a world we try to navigate on a daily basis, there are two universal gifts offered us in our lives that can heal. One is art; the other is love. Samuel D. Hunter’s new play is proof both are what we need to make our tenuous … Read more
F. Kathleen Foley – Stage Raw Barry’s two-hander consists of six distinct scenes detailing the relationship between Sarah (Meeghan Holaway) and Molly (Andrea Flowers). The gimmick here is, half an hour before each performance, audience members choose the sequence of the scenes — a playing order that varies from night to night. Read more…