Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA The major problem with this play is that the characters have nowhere to go; they’re as tortured and miserable when they first hit the stage as they are in the final lamentable moments. It takes a certain amount of courage to decide to present this piece and for that I … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA This rule-defying non-verbal solo play is certainly a kind of risky and defiant theatre we usually don’t see presented and it’s breathtaking how much we can learn from the experience and how this one man’s grief affects us personally. Read more…
Anita W. Harris – LA Theatrix Whether or not you are a fan of Charlotte Brontë’s 1847 gothic novel Jane Eyre, you will be smitten by Elizabeth Williamson’s stage adaptation as produced by A Noise Within (ANW) — a stellar rendition in every aspect. Read more… Terry Morgan – ArtsBeatLA As a Literature major in … Read more
Philip Brandes – Stage Raw Linda Purl deftly handles instant transitions between 16 clearly differentiated characters who appear in the course of the narrative, some with only a few lines of dialog. Her finest achievement, however, is in adapting the narrator’s delivery and tone to her stages of life—we feel we’re taking a life journey … Read more
Don Shirley – Angeles Stage Blueberries,’ ‘Unreconciled,’ ‘Bacon,’ ‘Hamlet (Solus)’ and more. Ron Sossi, R.I.P. Read more…
Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw The most impressive element of Joel Daavid’s scenic design is the two giant clocks at the rear of the set, their hands (this is at the top of the play, before the dialogue begins, and a couple of other places as well) moving at an accelerated speed to the tick-tock … Read more
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA As Stephen Laughton’s play flips in a dizzying timewarp back and forth from the year the lovers meet to the year their relationship crumbles due to the increasingly more frightening cultural winds of recent times, we are whisked along on their difficult ride. Read more… Edward Hong – The Nerds … Read more
Patrick Chavis – The Orange Curtain Review This scrappy, somewhat generic Broadway hit from the 1950s reveals deeper introspection. Read more…
Travis Michael Holder – TicketHoldersLA Everything about this presentation is emotionally devastating and so very timely, especially the “What would you have done?” nature of the tale. How Moises Kaufman has brought all the elements together and has orchestrated the mechanics of the projected images and the characters’ interactions with them makes this a mesmerizing, … Read more