PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES at the Sierra Madre Playhouse

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Ellen Dostal – BroadwayWorld One thing’s for sure – country musicals are an awful lot of fun. There aren’t very many of them and, if you can name one at all, it’s most likely THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS or THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM. But there is another rarely produced gem that is just as … Read more

MUTT HOUSE at the Kirk Douglas Theatre

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Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen Have you ever wondered what it would be like if you could talk to dogs? For Eddie (Ryan McCartan), the main character in Mutt House, a new musical now in its world premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, this is his reality.   Read more… Ellen Dostal … Read more

CRY IT OUT at Atwater Village Theatre

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Terry Morgan  –  Stage Raw  Caring for an infant is an important part of life, yet its difficulties are rarely depicted in the arts. While there is no lack of stories about pregnancy and birth, once the child is born, the drama seems to be considered less interesting. Playwright Molly Smith Metzler begs to differ…….Read … Read more

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE at the Fountain Theatre

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Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen Sometimes it’s the most seemingly random interactions that go on to have the greatest impact on our lives. This is the topic explored in Arrival & Departure, a play written and directed by Stephen Sachs and inspired by the 1945 film Brief Encounter. Read more… Ellen Dostal – Broadway … Read more

THREE DAYS IN THE COUNTRY at the Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center

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Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen Love has a tendency to make fools out of people, and that is certainly the case in Three Days in the Country, Patrick Marber’s condensed adaptation of Ivan Turgenev’s A Month in the Country, now in its west coast premiere at Antaeus Theatre Company in Los Angeles.Read more… … Read more

ON YOUR FEET at the Pantages Theatre

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Erin Conley – On Stage & Screen On Your Feet, the jukebox musical based on the lives and tunes of Gloria and Emilio Estefan, opened at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre last night in colorful, vibrant fashion—but it was not one of Ms. Estefan’s hit songs that drew the loudest applause of the evening.Read more… Ellen … Read more

THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN – Kingsmen Shakespeare Company on the campus of California Lutheran University

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Ellen Dostal – BroadwayWorld It contains possibly the last words William Shakespeare ever wrote and chances are you’ve never seen a production of it. THE TWO NOBLE KINSMAN was written around 1613 but not published until 1634, and is attributed to both Shakespeare and John Fletcher, the man who would succeed him as resident playwright for the King’s Men (named … Read more

RUMORS at The Lonny Chapman Theatre

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Neal Weaver  – Stage Raw Prolific playwright Neil Simon made his name with a long and successful series of character- driven comedies, including The Odd Couple, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, and Plaza Suite — but with this play he felt the need for a change of pace, and set out to produce a zany, … Read more

OUR VERY OWN CARLIN MCCULLOUGH at the Geffen Playhouse

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Deborah Klugman – LA Weekly Our Very Own Carlin McCullough is about a mother and a daughter and the tennis coach who comes into their lives and transforms them.Read more… Jonas Schwartz –  TheaterMania Parenting is a daunting task, one that comes with no rule book. Even when a parent, particularly a single one, desires the … Read more